SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUNDLING DIGITIZED ELECTRONIC RECORDS

摘要

A system and method for organizing batches or groups of hard-copy documents into related sets of electronic documents is disclosed. An automatic digitizing unit can accept multiple physical documents and digitize those documents to generate electronic documents that includes electronic copies of the physical document. Machine encoded text may be generated from the electronic copy corresponding to the readable characters in the electronic document. The machine encoded text may be searched to determine whether the document is of the type to be included in a given set of electronic documents. Batches of hard-copy documents may be separated by separator documents defining the start and/or end of a group of documents. Document sets may be automatically separated into one or more sets after digitizing based on patient, physician, or other information in the documents. The electronic sets of documents may then be stored in a knowledge base for later retrieval as a single document.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
using the one or more processors to accept input defining at least one target document to include in a set of electronic documents, wherein the at least one target document is defined by a target document type associated with the target document; controlling an automatic digitizing unit to automatically digitize multiple physical documents using one or more processors, wherein the digitizing unit is configured to generate multiple electronic documents that include digital copies of the multiple physical documents; using the one or more processors to recognize symbols representing document data encoded in the digital copies of the physical documents, wherein the one or more processors are configured to generate machine encoded text corresponding to the symbols, and wherein the document data includes the document type associated with that individual document; using the one or more processors to control the knowledge base to store the multiple electronic documents in the knowledge base as separate electronic records, wherein the separate electronic records correspond to the individual electronic documents of the multiple electronic documents, wherein the separate electronic records are identified by individual knowledge base identifiers, and wherein the document type included in the document data is associated with the individual electronic records in the knowledge base; comparing the document type of individual electronic documents of the multiple electronic documents to the at least one target document type using the one or more processors, wherein target documents from the multiple electronic documents matching the at least one target document type are added to the set of electronic documents associated with an individual patient; using the one or more processors to control the knowledge base to store the set of electronic documents associated with an individual patient in a knowledge base as a single electronic record, the single electronic record identifiable by an identifier that is different than the individual knowledge base identifiers associated with the multiple electronic documents; and using the one or more processors to accept input identifying a set of electronic documents associated with an individual patient, wherein the one or more processors controls the knowledge base to retrieve the set of electronic documents.