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20140337044 | Detecting and Identifying Erroneous Medical Abstracting and Coding and Clinical Documentation Omissions - A method and computer program product for implementing a clinical documentation, code and abstract errors and omissions detector and characterizer (the “code error detector”) are disclosed. Concepts represented in the linguistic surface forms of clinical text data source documents are mapped onto an ontology being indexed as component codes and reference codes where component codes index primitive concepts and reference codes index fully-defined concepts that are produced as linguistic cognitive grammar compositions of the primitive concepts that are indexed by the component codes. Fully-defined concepts indexed by some codes and representing either some standard for required clinical document content or an externally derived mapping of the document content to fully-defined concepts in the ontology are mapped to the ontology as source codes. The fully-defined concepts indexed by the source codes are decomposed, in the ontology, to their primitive concepts. Using measures of compositionality, semantic distance and entailment, the fitness of the concepts indexed by the source codes as proxies for the fully-defined concepts indexed by the reference codes is determined. Further, the distance between the concepts indexed by the source codes and the concepts indexed by the reference codes is characterized in terms of the distances of individual primitive concepts as indexed by component codes. In this manner a measure of fitness is further characterized in terms of particular primitive concepts. The method disclosed may be implemented using a variety of ontology specification and reasoning methods, but it is here described as an implementation using a novel modification to L-space ontology whereby concepts are represented in L-space as data types and the saliences of data types are represented as continuous real values greater than 0 and less than 1 such that the integral or summation of the saliences of all data types in a domain equals 1. Given the mapping of some data type indexed by reference code and the mapping of some data type indexed by source code on the same ontology, the code error detector determines the semantic distance between the reference code data type and any source code data type with respect to component code data types. The distance, as a measure of the fitness of the source code data type as a proxy for the reference code data type with respect to the component code data type(s), is stored and reported. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337355 | Indexed Natural Language Processing - A method and computer program product for implementing indexed natural language processing are disclosed. Source document features including but not limited to terms, punctuation, parts-of-speech, phrases (including the syntactic types of the phrases), dependent clauses (including the syntactic types of the dependent clauses), independent clauses (including the syntactic types of the independent clauses), sentences, paragraphs, labeled document sections and document type and cognitive grammar constraints on the scope of influence and binding for the same are entered into an index by their begin and end byte offsets (or some alternative indexing method). Queries against the source documents are implemented as nested constructs that specify queries as sets that have terms or other sets as set elements and where sets may be constructed according to: 1) ordering (or the lack thereof); 2) boolean relations; 3) fuzzy relations; and 4) scoping according to: a) proximity; b) phrase inclusion; c) clause inclusion; d) sentence inclusion; e) paragraph inclusion; f) section inclusion; g) document type; and cognitive grammar constraints. Further, terms that are the components of a query are divided into sets according to the expected cognitive grammar relations between those terms as they would appear as surface forms in the source documents. As an aid to constructing queries in this manner, in some implementations, a surface form ontology is implemented in which the surface forms from which desired concepts can be expressed are represented according to their cognitive grammar compositions. Using these methods, queries can be composed that analyze the source documents via the intermediary of an index at a level of detail that has heretofore been possible only by application of standard Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques directly to the source document. This novel application combining the strengths of cognitive grammar, surface form ontology and indexing results in information retrieval (IR) with significantly improved levels of recall and precision and information extraction (IE) with significantly improved flexibility and processing speeds over very large sets of data. | 11-13-2014 |
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20140257842 | AUDITING THE CODING AND ABSTRACTING OF DOCUMENTS - Techniques for implementing Quality Assurance of the process of coding medical documents are disclosed. An audit of a coding process for a medical document is initiated by selecting and setting audit parameters. Using the selected parameters, a sample batch of coded documents is obtained from a universe of coded documents. The sample batch of coded documents is presented to auditor(s), and the auditor(s) provide corrections, which are recorded, and a score for each correction is calculated. A sample score, based on the corrections, is calculated in a manner that tracks to subjective auditor assessments of the process quality as being acceptable, marginally acceptable, or unacceptable, and which sample score accounts for the individual auditor subjectivity and an error. | 09-11-2014 |
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20140054327 | Rodless Dispenser - A dispenser for viscous, extrudable materials uses a sprocket-driven push chain that is drawn from a chain magazine responsive to actuation of a user trigger. The sprocket for the chain is driven by a toothed wheel, which is driven by a first, ratcheting drive pawl, which is actuated by the trigger. A second ratcheting locking pawl prevents the toothed wheel and hence the chain sprocket from rotating backward when the trigger is released. A single “button” or actuator can be actuated by one hand of a user while the user's other hand grasps a chain retractor to pull an extended chain back to a starting position whereat the dispenser can be reloaded. | 02-27-2014 |
20150053724 | Rodless Dispenser - A dispenser for viscous, extrudable materials uses a sprocket-driven push chain that is drawn from a chain magazine responsive to actuation of a user trigger. The sprocket for the chain is driven by a toothed wheel, which is driven by a first, ratcheting drive pawl, which is actuated by the trigger. A second ratcheting locking pawl prevents the toothed wheel and hence the chain sprocket from rotating backward when the trigger is released. A single “button” or actuator can be actuated by one hand of a user while the user's other hand grasps a chain retractor to pull an extended chain back to a starting position whereat the dispenser can be reloaded. | 02-26-2015 |