GENERATING AND/OR EMPLOYING FINDING UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS

摘要

Described herein are a system(s) and/or a method(s) that associate results of medical procedures for a particular medical finding over a lifetime of the finding. A method includes tagging, with a same finding unique identifier tag (FUID), electronic formatted medical results from different events for a same finding of a patient, storing the electronic formatted medical results along with the FUID, wherein the stored tagged different electronic formatted medical results provide a longitudinal record for the finding from discovery of the finding through a last event for the finding. A system includes a FUID repository that stores a single FUID for each different finding for each different patient, and a new FUID generator that generates a new FUID for a new finding. The FUIDs in the FUID repository are accessible to a plurality of medical facilities which tag electronic data for a same finding with a same FUID.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
tagging, with a same finding unique identifier FUID, electronic formatted medical results from different events for a same finding of a patient; storing the electronic formatted medical results along with the finding unique identifier tag, wherein the stored tagged different electronic formatted medical results provide a longitudinal record for the finding from discovery of the finding through a last event for the finding, and wherein the FUID includes an identification of a facility at which the finding was discovered, an identification of the patient, and a unique alphanumeric character for the finding.