Systems and Methods for Clinical Curation of Crowdsourced Data

• Main Authors: Brown, Michael, Ahrens, Jillian Christine, Weingardt, Kenneth R, Kersanske, Brent Paul
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.11.2020
• Subjects: ALARM SYSTEMS; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; PHYSICS; SIGNALLING; SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS

A method comprises obtaining input data from a patient device associated with a patient, the input data including free text data generated by the patient. The input data is analyzed to determine whether the input data meets predetermined relevancy criteria. The input data is compared to clinical data in a clinically curated database to generate comparison data. Based on the comparison data, the method comprises performing at least one of the following curation operations: (i) adding the input data to the clinically curated database when the input data meets predetermined relevancy criteria and when the comparison data indicates that the input data is sufficiently different from the clinical data; (ii) merging the input data with the clinical data when the input data meets predetermined relevancy criteria and when the comparison data indicates that the input data is sufficiently similar to the clinical data; and (iii) taking no action when it is determined that the input data does not meet predetermined relevancy criteria.