Patent Document ID: 8239216
Application ID: 12351288

Base Claim:
1. One or more non-transitory computer-storage media having computer executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed by a computer perform a method of finding information in an electronic medical record, the method comprising: receiving a search query from a user to search the electronic medical record, wherein the electronic medical record is associated with a patient, and wherein the electronic medical record includes a plurality of electronic documents that describe a medical history for the patient and is stored on the computer-storage media; identifying one or more components of the electronic medical record that contain text that matches the search query, wherein each of the one or more components is a section of text within the electronic medical record that includes one or more words; determining a query-responsiveness score for each of the one or more components that match the search query, wherein the query-responsiveness score indicates how responsive an individual component is to the search query, wherein determining the query-responsiveness score of each of the one or more components further comprises: determining a patient-subject status for each particular-clinical concept recited in the one or more components, wherein the patient-subject status indicates whether the patient is an object of a particular-clinical concept recited in a particular component of the one or more components; determining a truth status for said each particular-clinical concept recited in the one or more components, wherein the truth status indicates whether said each particular-clinical concept was expressed positively, negatively, ambiguously, or unknown; determining a clinical-usage context for each particular-clinical concept recited in the one or more components, wherein the clinical-usage context describes how the clinical concept was used in the component; determining a document-importance factor for each particular-clinical concept recited in the one or more components, wherein the document-importance factor measures the relevance of the particular-clinical concept to the main subject of a particular document by analyzing other clinical concepts that are used in the particular document with the particular-clinical concept; determining a specificity factor for each particular-clinical concept recited in the one or more components based on a degree of narrowness for a scope of said each particular-clinical concept; and presenting search results that communicate information describing each of the one or more components, wherein the search results are displayed ordered according to the query-responsiveness score assigned to each of the one or more components.

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Claim 6:
6. The media of claim 1 , wherein the method further includes: expanding one or more primary clinical concepts recited in the search query to additional related clinical concepts, thereby generating a plurality of expanded clinical concepts to match with a particular one of the one or more components of the electronic medical record; assigning a boost factor to each combination of an expanded clinical concept and the particular matching component of the electronic medical record, wherein the boost factor is higher when the expanded clinical concept is close to the one or more primary clinical concepts on a clinical-concept ontology and lower when the expanded clinical concept is remote from the one or more primary clinical concepts; and wherein the boost factor is used to calculate the query-responsiveness score for said each combination of the expanded clinical concept and the particular-clinical concepts contained within the matching component.