Term Object Management for Medical Document Standardization
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Solution Overview
Problem
In medical document creation, fluctuating terms and attributes make statistical processing difficult, and existing controlled vocabularies are insufficient for precise recording and maintenance, leading to inefficiencies in searching and updating clinical pathways.
Innovation Solution
A document creation system that converts terms and attributes into objects, manages these objects, and creates reference links, allowing for semi-automatic indexing and script execution to enhance readability, maintainability, and safety, while reducing recording capacity through a parent-child tree structure and plain text conversion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If free-style terms are used to describe patient state, then document readability is improved, but statistical processing becomes difficult due to term fluctuation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments terms into structured components by creating term objects that separate the term identifier from its attributes. This allows free-style natural language to be parsed into standardized elements (term + attributes), enabling both readability preservation and precise statistical processing through consistent term object structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms fluctuating term descriptions into fixed-parameter term objects with standardized attributes. By converting unstructured term variations into structured objects with defined parameters (term identifier, attributes, reference links), the system maintains readability while enabling precise statistical analysis through consistent parameter structures.
2Measurement precision
If controlled vocabulary is used to limit terms, then term standardization is improved, but maintenance work increases enormously when changes are needed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates parent term objects that serve multiple child term objects with common attributes. This universal structure allows a single parent term object to manage multiple related terms, so changes to common attributes automatically propagate to all children, reducing maintenance work while preserving term standardization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a hierarchical term object structure where parent term objects contain or manage child term objects. This nesting allows common attributes to be defined at the parent level and inherited by children, enabling standardized term management with reduced maintenance effort through automatic inheritance.
3Loss of information
If all attributes are repeatedly recorded for terms with common attributes, then complete information is preserved, but recording capacity increases and maintenance becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses inheritance copying where child term objects automatically copy common attributes from parent term objects. This eliminates the need to repeatedly record identical information for each term, reducing recording capacity requirements while preserving complete information through automatic attribute inheritance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal parent term object structure that stores common attributes once and makes them available to multiple child term objects. This universal approach preserves complete information for all terms while minimizing recording capacity by storing common attributes in a single location that serves multiple purposes.
4Adaptability or versatility
If term objects with integrated attributes are used, then document functionality is improved, but recording capacity enormously increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts common attributes from individual term objects and places them in separate parent term objects. This extraction reduces the recording capacity of individual term objects while maintaining complete document functionality through the hierarchical structure that allows children to inherit from parents.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the term object structure into parent and child components with distinct responsibilities. Parent objects store common attributes to reduce redundancy, while child objects store specific variations. This segmentation maintains full document functionality while reducing overall recording capacity through elimination of repeated information.
5Adaptability or versatility
If clinical pathways are updated manually, then flexibility is maintained, but mistakes occur frequently and maintenance is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements automated feedback mechanisms where changes to parent term objects automatically propagate to child term objects and clinical pathways. This feedback system ensures that updates are consistently applied throughout the system, maintaining flexibility while eliminating manual errors through automatic synchronization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary actions by establishing the parent-child term object hierarchy and inheritance relationships in advance. This preliminary structuring enables automatic update propagation when changes are made, maintaining flexibility while improving reliability by preventing manual errors through pre-configured automated update mechanisms.
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AI summary
A document creation system includes a term object creation configured to create term objects in which terms and attributes thereof are integrated, a term object management configured to record and manage the created term objects, a term object selection configured to select a necessary term object from among the term objects managed in the term object management, and a term object placement configured to place the selected term object in a document being edited.