Patents by Inventor Rick Spates

Rick Spates 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: 20160063047
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to provide framework for evaluation of expressions on data sets. An example of the method includes generating a first framework object from a set of input data. The first framework object includes a first set of data values and a set of structure data defining at least one dimension for formatting the first set of data values. The first framework object is associated with a set of functions for manipulating the first set of data values. The method also includes determining an expression to be performed on the first framework object. The expression includes at least one operator. The method also includes selecting at least one of the set of functions based on the at least one operator, and evaluating the expression using the selected at least one of the set of functions to manipulate the first set of data values to produce an expression result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Rick Spates
  • Publication number: 20150066536
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are therefore provided for generating health quality measurements. In this regard, the method, apparatus, and computer program product may implement a health quality measurement by receiving one or more health quality measurement definitions. Each health quality measurement may include markup language definitions defining one or more calculation parameters for a health quality metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: McKesson Financial Holdings
    Inventor: Rick Spates
  • Publication number: 20130006865
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for providing network-accessible patient health records. A method may include generating a patient health record document. The method may further include obtaining a set of one or more symmetric keys from a health record trust entity. The method may additionally include encrypting at least a portion of the patient health record document with the obtained set of symmetric keys. The method may also include causing the encrypted patient health record document to be published to a location on a network. The published encrypted patient health record document may have a resource identifier enabling the published encrypted patient health record document to be accessed over the network. Corresponding systems, apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventor: Rick Spates
  • Publication number: 20120124080
    Abstract: A method for providing a patient quality monitor may include transforming patient data from a plurality of sources associated with different healthcare entities into a standard representation using a mapping to tag each piece of patient data to a common ontology, mapping the standard representation to corresponding Java class implementations, and mapping the corresponding Java class implementations to a relational database. A corresponding computer program product and apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Keith Willard, Rick Spates, Michael Altmann
  • Publication number: 20110071851
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for facilitating patient progression toward discharge. Once a plurality of progression steps to be completed prior to discharge of a patient have been identified, the plurality of progression steps are displayed along with an indication of a status of a respective progression step that indicates whether the respective progression step has been satisfied or remains unsatisfied. The selection of a progression step is then received and, in response, information regarding the selected progression step is displayed. Input data regarding at least one progression step may also be received such that the indication of the status of the at least one progression step may be correspondingly updated. Further, an updated discharge date may be determined based upon the plurality of progression steps and the respective status of the plurality of progression steps as updated based upon the input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: McKesson Financial Holdings Limited
    Inventors: John Alden, Mike Myers, Rick Spates, Keith Willard