EFFICIENT METHOD AND PROCESS TO SEARCH STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED PATIENT DATA TO MATCH PATIENTS TO CLINICAL DRUG/DEVICE TRIALS

摘要

A method and system that automatically matches patients to clinical drug and device trials with: a database component operative to maintain a hospital/RHIO/medical practice patient database and their corresponding medical records, and a medical practice database and their corresponding plurality of specialties, and a clinical studies database component and their corresponding plurality of clinical studies a communications component to receive changes to the database component and a processor programmed to: periodically match compatible patients and clinical studies and generate reports to matched medical practices in the medical practice database having matched patients. The processor may be programmed to more efficiently function by selecting key rare criteria first in order to search free text keywords and phrases last.