Business methods and systems for providing healthcare management and decision support services using structured clinical information extracted from healthcare provider data

摘要

Business methods and systems that are provided use knowledge-based expert systems for mining (extracting) highly structured clinical information from various structured and unstructured sources of healthcare provider data. In one business method for on-line healthcare management and decision support, a service provider maintaining a collection of structured clinical data, the structured clinical data comprising information automatically mined from various structured and unstructured sources of healthcare provider data from one or more different healthcare providers. The service provider provides a customer on-line access to structured clinical data in the collection, or providing an on-line service to the customer using structured clinical data in the collection, based on a service agreement between the customer and the service provider.