Apple has been granted a patent (quantity US 11636931 B2) for “era of private well being care ontologies.”
Ontology, within the subject of drugs, describes the ideas of medical terminologies and the relation between them, thus, enabling the sharing of medical data. Ontology-based analyses are related to a danger that errors in modeling could deteriorate the outcomes’ high quality.
In regards to the patent
Within the patent Apple notes that customers sometimes go to multiple well being establishment (e.g., medical suppliers) to acquire medical remedy. For instance, a consumer could periodically go to a neighborhood clinic for annual bodily evaluations and for minor medical procedures.
The neighborhood clinic could keep an occasion of the consumer’s digital well being file (EHR) (e.g., a computer-stored and transferrable copy of a consumer’s bodily well being file) utilizing an EHR system, generally known as an digital medical file (EMR) system. When the consumer visits the neighborhood clinic, a medical skilled could replace the digital well being file (e.g., file important indicators, determine prescriptions, order and file lab outcomes, determine a analysis, and many others.). Nonetheless, Apple notes that different situations of the consumer’s digital well being file could also be maintained by different well being establishments which are unaffiliated with the neighborhood clinic. These different well being establishments could use completely different variations of the identical EHR system or could even use fully completely different EHR programs (e.g., developed by completely different firms).
Which means that situations of the consumer’s digital well being file could also be distributed amongst a number of well being establishments. And, relying on which kind and model of EHR programs utilized by the well being establishments in addition to supplier preferences for recording well being file information, well being file information inside every occasion could also be formatted, coded, and/or saved in another way. Apple desires to alleviate this downside.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “A pc system could generate a curated well being ontology. The curated well being ontology could also be utilized by a requesting system. The curated well being ontology generated from on a set of normal well being codes mixed with augmentation info, which dietary supplements and/or in any other case adjustments the usual well being codes. As soon as generated, the curated well being ontology could also be transmitted to the requesting system.”
