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Method for generating structured medical text through user selection of displayed text and rules
Assignee: Cerner Innovation Inc
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Filing: 1994-06-20
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Granted: 1998-02-03
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Expires: 2014-06-20
Abstract
Abstract A message originator is presented with a tree of phrase choices organized from broad to specific categories, with the selections in more specific categories directed by the originator's selections in the broader categories. In a specific embodiment, the selections relate to a patient's medical condition and observations of a health care provider, with broader categories indicating general body systems and narrower categories indicating specific items, including values for properties of an item described by other selections on the path. The text of the message is also presented to the originator, who can then edit the message as text. The text is derivable from the tree structure selections, or path, taken from the originator and the interspersed free form text. At any time in an editing process, or a viewing process after the message has been fixed, an editor or viewer can reselect the path on the tree which generated the text. The system also allows for editing of notes, and will integrate a path of a note into another path where new paths are added. When a path is integrated, generating naturally worded text representations is simpler.
Inventors
- 👤 Richard M. Peters, Jr.
- 👤 Edmund Billings, Jr.
- 👤 Steven Dakin
- 👤 James Mackraz
- 👤 Richard M. Peters, Sr.
- 👤 John Robison
- 👤 Russell Selph
- 👤 Joyce Abrams
- 👤 Ron Burback
Bibliographic Details
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2026-11-09 23:04
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F40/00; G06F40/10; G06F40/12; G06F40/166; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S707/00; Y10S707/99941; Y10S707/99943
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
206 words
A method for generating structured text, comprising the steps of: generating a browser tree which defines nodes for each of a plurality of phrases; prompting a user to select nodes from an upper level of said browser tree; accepting said selection of said upper level node; displaying nodes from a lower level of said browser tree in a first display portion, where said nodes are nodes which are linked to said upper level node thus forming a path; repeating said process of displaying, prompting and accepting until a node is reached which is at a lowest level, wherein a lowest level node is one which does not have a required link to any other node of a lower level; and displaying text, separate from said displayed nodes and selections, wherein said text is generated according to emitted text strings and emission rules maintained in said browser tree for each node, said emitted text strings being null strings or longer strings containing displayable text, wherein the emission rules describe relations between the path and the structured text; and wherein said browser tree nodes represent elements of a patient's medical condition, said text forms a note in said patient's patient chart, and a health care provider provides input.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
206 words
A method for generating structured text, comprising the steps of: generating a browser tree which defines nodes for each of a plurality of phrases; prompting a user to select nodes from an upper level of said browser tree; accepting said selection of said upper level node; displaying nodes from a lower level of said browser tree in a first display portion, where said nodes are nodes which are linked to said upper level node thus forming a path; repeating said process of displaying, prompting and accepting until a node is reached which is at a lowest level, wherein a lowest level node is one which does not have a required link to any other node of a lower level; and displaying text, separate from said displayed nodes and selections, wherein said text is generated according to emitted text strings and emission rules maintained in said browser tree for each node, said emitted text strings being null strings or longer strings containing displayable text, wherein the emission rules describe relations between the path and the structured text; and wherein said browser tree nodes represent elements of a patient's medical condition, said text forms a note in said patient's patient chart, and a health care provider provides input.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
67 words
The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: accepting a selection of text displayed in said step of displaying text; automatically generating paths through said browser tree which are equivalent to paths originally used to generate said displayed text; displaying said selections and nodes in said first display portion as if said selections had been made manually; and prompting a user to modify said paths.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
43 words
The method of claim 2, further comprising the steps of: accepting modifications to said paths through said browser tree; combining multiple paths with common nodes, if any multiple paths occur; and displaying text generated from said combined multiple paths and other modified paths.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
35 words
The method of claim 1, wherein said note in said patient chart is fixed such that the words of the note are not changed after being fixed even if said browser tree is subsequently altered.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: accepting free-form text and attaching said free-form text to a node; and incorporating said free-form text into said displayed text.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
33 words
The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: accepting a value in response to the selection of a node of a value-related type; and incorporating said value into said displayed text.
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