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).
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Patent number: 11901048Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventors: David P. McCallie, Jr., Christopher S. Finn, Margaret Cushing Kolm
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Patent number: 11749397Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventors: Margaret Cushing Kolm, Christopher S. Finn, David P. McCallie, Jr.
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Publication number: 20220405619Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Uttam B. Ramamurthy, David Dellsperger, Christopher S. Finn, Brandon Davis, James Gritter, Stephen Patel, Maulik Gandhi, Adam Sabaliauskas
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Patent number: 11526508Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventors: David P. McCallie, Jr., Margaret Cushing Kolm, Christopher S. Finn
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Patent number: 11250956Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 31, 2014Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Margaret C. Kolm, David J. O'Larte, Steven S. Crooks, Thomas C. Gifford, J D Tyler
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Publication number: 20220005564Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: DAVID P. MCCALLIE, JR., CHRISTOPHER S. FINN, MARGARET CUSHING KOLM
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Patent number: 11144714Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Steven S. Crooks, David P. McCallie, Jr., Margaret Cushing Kolm, David J. O'Larte
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Patent number: 11133090Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.Inventors: David P. McCallie, Jr., Christopher S. Finn, Margaret Cushing Kolm
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Patent number: 11062263Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventors: David P. McCallie, Christopher S. Finn
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Publication number: 20200327280Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Steven S. Crooks, David P. McCallie, JR., Margaret Cushing Kolm, David J. O'Larte
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Patent number: 10755038Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Steven S. Crooks, David P. McCallie, Jr., Margaret Cushing Kolm, David J. O'Larte
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Patent number: 10741272Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventors: Savitha Venkat, Thomas C. Gifford, Christopher S. Finn, Margaret C. Kolm, Chad A. Cole
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Publication number: 20190317987Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: CHRISTOPHER S. FINN, STEVEN S. CROOKS, DAVID P. MCCALLIE, MARGARET CUSHING KOLM, DAVID J. O'LARTE
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Patent number: 10417322Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Steven S. Crooks, David P. McCallie, Jr., Margaret Cushing Kolm, David J. O'Larte
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Publication number: 20190198154Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: MARGARET CUSHING KOLM, Christopher S. Finn, DAVID P. MCCALLIE, JR.
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Publication number: 20190130072Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: DAVID P. MCCALLIE, JR., CHRISTOPHER S. FINN, MARGARET CUSHING KOLM
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Publication number: 20190095581Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: DAVID P. MCCALLIE, JR., CHRISTOPHER S. FINN, MARGARET CUSHING KOLM
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Patent number: 10007407Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 31, 2014Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: 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.
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Patent number: 9921731Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 31, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Margaret C. Kolm, David J. O'Larte, Steven S. Crooks
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Publication number: 20170322919Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2016Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: CHRISTOPHER S. FINN, STEVEN S. CROOKS, DAVID P. MCCALLIE, JR., MARGARET CUSHING KOLM, DAVID J. O'LARTE