Patent Issued for Context-sensitive health outcome surveillance and signal detection (USPTO 11869671).

Cerner Innovation Inc. has been issued a patent for a system that automatically discovers and validates safety signals in electronic medical record repositories. The system uses healthcare claims databases to identify groups of patients who have received certain drugs and extracts medical events experienced by these groups. It then compares these events to determine statistically significant differences in occurrences. This system can be used to identify and quantify the probability of medical events occurring in patients exposed to specific drugs or combinations of drugs. The patent describes a computer-based method for determining unsafe combinations of therapeutic interventions for human patients, using algorithms to match patient data and generate safety signals for caregivers. [Extracted from the article]