Patents by Inventor Christopher S. Finn

Christopher S. Finn has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11901048
    Abstract: A stateless, on-demand semantic indexing and search service for a health information exchange is provided that anticipatorily fetches data from one or more external sources, extracts semantic concepts from textual documents, and serves an in-memory semantic search index to users to ease finding of relevant patient data across a set of distributed health record data sources. Clinicians may search for not only text, but for semantic concepts, and the search index is able to return relevant results regardless of whether the source information is located inside or outside the local electronic health record. Predictive algorithms may be incorporated to pre-fetch, semantically process and index data for patients likely to be searched in an upcoming time window. Activity indicators for clinicians and patients may be utilized to pre-fetch, semantically process, and index data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: David P. McCallie, Jr., Christopher S. Finn, Margaret Cushing Kolm
  • Patent number: 11749397
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and user interfaces infer data organization for display. An inference system learns patterns of how various healthcare items are typically grouped on a display so data can be aggregated and displayed in appropriate groupings to a clinician user. From a user perspective, it appears as though the display has been manually edited or a mapping has been created so that items are displayed in appropriate groups, even though neither editing nor mapping has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Margaret Cushing Kolm, Christopher S. Finn, David P. McCallie, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20220405619
    Abstract: Particular embodiments can update a deployed machine learning model with actual entity data depending on anomalies detected in stream data, which can be stored to a computer object, such as a journal. Various embodiments map particular subsets of a larger pool of raw input data to the particular models that need the input data and store the raw input data to computer objects so that the corresponding machine learning models can make predictions according to any suitable policy or triggering event on any of the data located in the computer objects. Such mapping allows each machine learning model to continuously make predictions based on the data it needs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Uttam B. Ramamurthy, David Dellsperger, Christopher S. Finn, Brandon Davis, James Gritter, Stephen Patel, Maulik Gandhi, Adam Sabaliauskas
  • Patent number: 11526508
    Abstract: In some examples, a word embedding is received. A word embedding includes a plurality of vectors in vector space. Each vector of the plurality of vectors represents a natural language word or other character sequence. Each vector is oriented in vector space based on a semantic similarity between each of the natural language word or other character sequence. A first distance is determined between a first vector and a second vector. A second distance is determined between a third vector and the second vector. Based at least in part on the first distance between the first vector and the second vector and the second distance between the third vector and the second vector, the third vector is moved closer or further away from the second vector. The moving is indicative of introducing a bias or removing a bias between the third vector and the second vector. This introducing or removing of bias supports more accurate and inclusive results from an application such as search of healthcare data, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: David P. McCallie, Jr., Margaret Cushing Kolm, Christopher S. Finn
  • Patent number: 11250956
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided to detect similarities between two or more clinical documents. It is determined that a clinician is currently inputting data into a first clinical document that is associated with a patient. A selectable option is provided on a user interface into which the clinician is currently inputting the data. An indication is received that the selectable option has been selected by the clinician. An algorithm is applied to identify the second clinical document from a plurality of clinical documents. At least a portion of the inputted data in the first clinical document and at least a portion of data in the second clinical document are transformed to generate a new representation of the first clinical document that indicates the similarities that are potentially inaccurate or inappropriate between the first clinical document and the second clinical document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Margaret C. Kolm, David J. O'Larte, Steven S. Crooks, Thomas C. Gifford, J D Tyler
  • Publication number: 20220005564
    Abstract: A stateless, on-demand semantic indexing and search service for a health information exchange is provided that anticipatorily fetches data from one or more external sources, extracts semantic concepts from textual documents, and serves an in-memory semantic search index to users to ease finding of relevant patient data across a set of distributed health record data sources. Clinicians may search for not only text, but for semantic concepts, and the search index is able to return relevant results regardless of whether the source information is located inside or outside the local electronic health record. Predictive algorithms may be incorporated to pre-fetch, semantically process and index data for patients likely to be searched in an upcoming time window. Activity indicators for clinicians and patients may be utilized to pre-fetch, semantically process, and index data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: DAVID P. MCCALLIE, JR., CHRISTOPHER S. FINN, MARGARET CUSHING KOLM
  • Patent number: 11144714
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system. A clinical transformation session is opened at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document. Sequences of operations on the clinical document are stored at a memory accessible by the server. At least a portion of the clinical document is analyzed in real-time to provide annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server. Parallel annotations or modifications are resolved and a synchronized view of the clinical document is maintained based on operational transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Steven S. Crooks, David P. McCallie, Jr., Margaret Cushing Kolm, David J. O'Larte
  • Patent number: 11133090
    Abstract: A stateless, on-demand semantic indexing and search service for a health information exchange is provided that anticipatorily fetches data from one or more external sources, extracts semantic concepts from textual documents, and serves an in-memory semantic search index to users to ease finding of relevant patient data across a set of distributed health record data sources. Clinicians may search for not only text, but for semantic concepts, and the search index is able to return relevant results regardless of whether the source information is located inside or outside the local electronic health record. Predictive algorithms may be incorporated to pre-fetch, semantically process and index data for patients likely to be searched in an upcoming time window. Activity indicators for clinicians and patients may be utilized to pre-fetch, semantically process, and index data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: David P. McCallie, Jr., Christopher S. Finn, Margaret Cushing Kolm
  • Patent number: 11062263
    Abstract: Methods are provided for sharing patient information by way of an online collaboration system. A requesting clinician, through an online networking system, identifies one or more clinicians with whom the requesting clinician wishes to collaborate by sending at least one patient-focused clinical data element. For the clinicians who have been identified as not being authorized to access patient-identifying data, the at least one patient-focused clinical data element is de-identified such that it no longer includes any patient-identifying data. The de-identified patient-focused clinical data element is then communicated to the clinicians not allowed access to the patient-identifying information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: David P. McCallie, Christopher S. Finn
  • Publication number: 20200327280
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system. A clinical transformation session is opened at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document. Sequences of operations on the clinical document are stored at a memory accessible by the server. At least a portion of the clinical document is analyzed in real-time to provide annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server. Parallel annotations or modifications are resolved and a synchronized view of the clinical document is maintained based on operational transformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Steven S. Crooks, David P. McCallie, JR., Margaret Cushing Kolm, David J. O'Larte
  • Patent number: 10755038
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system. A clinical transformation session is opened at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document. Sequences of operations on the clinical document are stored at a memory accessible by the server. At least a portion of the clinical document is analyzed in real-time to provide annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server. Parallel annotations or modifications are resolved and a synchronized view of the clinical document is maintained based on operational transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Steven S. Crooks, David P. McCallie, Jr., Margaret Cushing Kolm, David J. O'Larte
  • Patent number: 10741272
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for converting a source in a first terminology to a target in a different terminology. A source in a first terminology may be converted to a target in a second terminology using cross maps that map sources to all possible matching targets, probability data derived from frequency data illustrating a frequency of selection for targets in relation to specific sources, lexical matching algorithms indicating targets with highest lexical matches for specific sources, or a combination thereof. Any one, or a combination, of the data above may be used to identify a probabilistically most relevant target in a desired terminology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Savitha Venkat, Thomas C. Gifford, Christopher S. Finn, Margaret C. Kolm, Chad A. Cole
  • Publication number: 20190317987
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system. A clinical transformation session is opened at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document. Sequences of operations on the clinical document are stored at a memory accessible by the server. At least a portion of the clinical document is analyzed in real-time to provide annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server. Parallel annotations or modifications are resolved and a synchronized view of the clinical document is maintained based on operational transformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER S. FINN, STEVEN S. CROOKS, DAVID P. MCCALLIE, MARGARET CUSHING KOLM, DAVID J. O'LARTE
  • Patent number: 10417322
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system. A clinical transformation session is opened at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document. Sequences of operations on the clinical document are stored at a memory accessible by the server. At least a portion of the clinical document is analyzed in real-time to provide annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server. Parallel annotations or modifications are resolved and a synchronized view of the clinical document is maintained based on operational transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Steven S. Crooks, David P. McCallie, Jr., Margaret Cushing Kolm, David J. O'Larte
  • Publication number: 20190198154
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and user interfaces infer data organization for display. An inference system learns patterns of how various healthcare items are typically grouped on a display so data can be aggregated and displayed in appropriate groupings to a clinician user. From a user perspective, it appears as though the display has been manually edited or a mapping has been created so that items are displayed in appropriate groups, even though neither editing nor mapping has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: MARGARET CUSHING KOLM, Christopher S. Finn, DAVID P. MCCALLIE, JR.
  • Publication number: 20190130072
    Abstract: Loosely-structured or unstructured threaded conversations are captured from at least one clinician. Based on a semantic analysis of the loosely-structured or unstructured threaded conversations from the at least one clinician, an issue corresponding to a clinical concern is identified. Upon the at least one virtual consultant accepting an invitation to collaborate on the issue, the at least one virtual consultant is provided the loosely-structured or unstructured threaded conversations from the at least one clinician. The at least one virtual consultant is further enabled to add contributions to the issue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: DAVID P. MCCALLIE, JR., CHRISTOPHER S. FINN, MARGARET CUSHING KOLM
  • Publication number: 20190095581
    Abstract: A stateless, on-demand semantic indexing and search service for a health information exchange is provided that anticipatorily fetches data from one or more external sources, extracts semantic concepts from textual documents, and serves an in-memory semantic search index to users to ease finding of relevant patient data across a set of distributed health record data sources. Clinicians may search for not only text, but for semantic concepts, and the search index is able to return relevant results regardless of whether the source information is located inside or outside the local electronic health record. Predictive algorithms may be incorporated to pre-fetch, semantically process and index data for patients likely to be searched in an upcoming time window. Activity indicators for clinicians and patients may be utilized to pre-fetch, semantically process, and index data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: DAVID P. MCCALLIE, JR., CHRISTOPHER S. FINN, MARGARET CUSHING KOLM
  • Patent number: 10007407
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided to detect incremental changes in clinical documents associated with a patient. A user selection is received indicating that a user wants to compare two or more clinical documents that are associated with the patient or authored by the same clinician, enabling the user to become up-to-date on the patient's care. A first clinical document and a second clinical document are identified. For the first clinical document and the second clinical document, differences are algorithmically determined. The first clinical document is transformed into a new representation of the first clinical document. Further, the second clinical document is transformed into a new representation of the second clinical document. One or more of the new representations of the first and the second clinical documents are displayed, assisting the user to quickly find and understand the differences between the documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Gifford, Chad A. Cole, J D Tyler, Savitha Venkat, Michael A. Ash, Tonja McCord, Anubha Garg, Steven S. Crooks, Christopher S. Finn, Margaret C. Kolm, David J. O'Larte, David P. McCallie, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9921731
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided to detect similarities in clinical documents that might be inaccurate or inappropriate. A first clinical document and a second clinical document that are to be compared are identified. This identification of the documents is based on times associated with the first and second clinical documents, an identity of clinicians who authored the first and second clinical documents, an identity of patients associated with the first and second clinical documents, a type of the first and second clinical documents, or contents of the first and second clinical documents. The first clinical document is compared to a portion of the second clinical document. A report is automatically generated, where the report indicates the similarities between the portion of the first clinical document and the portion of the second clinical document that are potentially inaccurate or inappropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Margaret C. Kolm, David J. O'Larte, Steven S. Crooks
  • Publication number: 20170322919
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system. A clinical transformation session is opened at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document. Sequences of operations on the clinical document are stored at a memory accessible by the server. At least a portion of the clinical document is analyzed in real-time to provide annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server. Parallel annotations or modifications are resolved and a synchronized view of the clinical document is maintained based on operational transformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER S. FINN, STEVEN S. CROOKS, DAVID P. MCCALLIE, JR., MARGARET CUSHING KOLM, DAVID J. O'LARTE