System and Process for Concept Tagging and Content Retrieval

摘要

A system and process for tagging electronic documents or other electronic content with concepts mentioned, contained, or otherwise described in that content. Once tagged, the content may be searchable, indexable, and retrievable in order to provide that content to an end user or another recipient. The system may be configured to handle a considerable number of asset files and a large number of users, workflows, and access applications simultaneously. The system may auto-tag the content and also may include a user interface for confirming and updating those tags and for manually creating new or additional tags. Content may include documents such as medical documents relating to procedures, diagnoses, medications or other domains. Alternatively, the content may include information about various care providers, in order to allow a user to locate a physician meeting one or more desired criteria.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented process for digital content and workflow management, comprising:
populating a database with a plurality of concepts and a unique concept identifier for each of the concepts; and populating a database with a plurality of descriptions and a unique description identifier for each of the descriptions;
wherein each concept resides hierarchically under a domain and further is unique within a given domain,wherein a description is an alternative way to express an associated concept, andwherein the descriptions have a many-to-one relationship with each of the plurality of concepts, such that each description has a concept and each concept has at least one description; relating each description to a respective concept to generate a plurality of description-concept pairs; populating a database with the description-concept pairs; identifying portions of the content that relate to one or more of the descriptions on the basis of a satisfactory match to the one or more of the descriptions; and creating a tag for each portion of the content that is identified from the satisfactory description match, the tag including the unique description identifier relating to the satisfactory description match, an identifier of the content being tagged, and a reference to a location of the identified portion within the content.