What is a pattern? How do we come to recognize patterns never seen before? Quantifying
the notion of pattern and formalizing the process of pattern discovery go right to the heart of …

The invention includes a medical document handling system and method and automated
coding systems and methods for assigning predetermined medical codes to medical docu …

(22) Filed: Feb. 18, 2011 ion of a pati provided by a clinician. Th plurality of clinical facts may
include a first fact and a second (65) Prior Publication Data fact. The first fact may be …

Computational mechanics quantifies structure in a stochastic process via its causal states,
leading to the process's minimal, optimal predictor—the ϵ-machine ϵ-machine. We extend …

An original text that is a representation of a narration of a patient encounterprovided by a
clinician may be received and re-formatted to produce a formatted text. One or more clinical …

US PATENT DOCUMENTS sifications for the generation of patient bills. Alternatively, a
method may include receiving an input stream of data and processing the input stream of …

NEAREST NEGORACH RocSSNs text. Normalization may be performed with a three-stage
algorithm including a literal match processing stage, an approximation match processing …

US PATENT DOCUMENTS 6,360,215 B1 3, 2002 Judd et al. 6.405, 165 B1 6, 2002 Blum et
al. 6,434,547 B1 8, 2002 Mishelevich et al. 6,438,533 B1 8/2002 Spackman et al. 7,233,938 …

Based on a free-form narration of a patient encounter pro vided by a clinician, it may be
determined that one or more clinical facts could possibly be ascertained from the patient …

(57) ABSTRACT A set of one or more clinical facts may be collected from a clinician's
encounter with a patient. It may be determined that an unspecified diagnosis not included in …