Patent Document ID: 10037409
Application ID: 14192817

Base Claim:
1. An automated system to reduce improper disclosure of documents containing a plurality of image pages of image information for a patient, comprising: an optical character recognition (OCR) processing tool that passes each document through an OCR module that converts a predetermined number of pages of the document image information into text information, wherein the predetermined number of OCR'ed pages is less than all the pages for at least one sampled document; and an automated quality control (QC) process tool that uses the text information to perform a review for patient demographic matching conditions in the documents, wherein the automated QC process tool determines whether a predetermined number of pages of each document can be positively identified with the patient, if the document exceeds a predetermined threshold of positively identified pages, then the document is released to deliver to a requester of the document; a QC assist process tool that receives documents that fail the QC process tool test for review and validation by a document reviewer, the QC assist process tool comprises a “heat map” for each failed document, a visual representation of each page of the failed document is displayed and each page of the failed document is visually coded based on an amount of matches of patient demographic information received from a requester of the documents to patient demographic matching conditions in the text information for that page which facilitates the reviewer to quickly view only failed documents and validate documents containing a sufficient number of matches for release to deliver to the requester.

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Claim 2:
2. The automated system to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 1 , wherein if each page of the document is not positively identified, then the QC process tool scans for improper patient identifiers that do not match the patient's identifiers, if found the QC process is terminated.