Patents by Inventor Lee Min Lau

Lee Min Lau 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).

  • Publication number: 20020198739
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mapping and matching laboratory results and tests. Laboratory results provided by legacy systems are not usually in a format that is compatible with LOINC, which defines laboratory results and tests using six attributes. Known LOINC codes are placed in a health data dictionary using relationship tables. At the health data dictionary, attributes corresponding to LOINC definitions are derived from the laboratory data provided by legacy systems and is placed in relationship tables that correspond to the relationship tables previously created and placed in the health data dictionary. The laboratory data from the legacy system is then compared with the standard data of the health data dictionary in order to match the legacy data to a standard value. This laboratory data from the legacy system, because it is matched, is thereby standardized and may be stored in a CPR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Lee Min Lau, Kent Monson, Kate Johnson, Pam Banning, Shaun C. Shakib, Elva Knight, Edward M. Cassin
  • Publication number: 20020129031
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for managing health data dictionary relationships. The relationships between concepts in the health data dictionary are very complex. The relationship manager searches for relationships, adds new relationships to the health data dictionary, updates existing relationships, discovers missing, duplicated or inappropriate relationships, checks the relationships for completeness and redundancy, and fixes errors in the relationships. The relationship manager ensures that the content of the health data dictionary is more complete and more accurate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Lee Min Lau, Kate Johnson, Pam Banning, Shaun C. Shakib, Elva Knight, Kent Monson, Edward M. Cassin, Patricia S. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20020128861
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for mapping clinical data including insurance data and pharmaceutical data with a health data dictionary. The health data dictionary provides a vocabulary that identifies insurance companies and pharmaceutical compounds including drugs in a normalized and standard form. The clinical data generated at a legacy system is compared with standard clinical data stored in the health data dictionary. Based on this comparison a partial or exact match is identified for the clinical data. After a match is selected, the normalized clinical data can be stored in a data repository. For unmatched clinical data, new concepts can be created and added to the health data dictionary for future use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Lee Min Lau, Joni D. Endo, Steve Karren, Michelle Willis, Susan Harada, Shane Beeney, Brian J. Larsen, Edward M. Cassin, Martha Gerard
  • Publication number: 20020128862
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing physical location data and representation data in a health data dictionary. Clinical data is represented in a health data dictionary using a vocabulary that includes concepts and representations. Each concept is a unique item or idea and each concept can be associated with multiple representations. The default representations are difficult to use because most legacy systems are already accustomed to other terms or identifiers. The present invention allows the representations in the health data dictionary to be changed, altered, or modified according to the desires, of the legacy systems. The representation to be changed is identified by the legacy system and changed in accordance with instructions received from the legacy systems. The instructions may be to update, change, add, delete or otherwise modify a representation. The location manager is used to modify physical location data including representations, contexts, and concepts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Lee Min Lau, Brian J. Larsen, Shane Beeney, Joni D. Endo, Matt Landheim, Patricia S. Wilson, Eric C. Lie, Susan Harada, Martha J. Gerard, Edward M. Cassin, Jerry Pay