Kim Culp

US Patent:

58324500, Nov 3, 1998

Filed:

May 5, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/841778

Inventors:

Dennis Lee Myers - Temple TX
Kim Steven Culp - Temple TX

Assignee:

Scott & White Memorial Hospital - Temple TX

International Classification:

G06F15900

US Classification:

705 3

Abstract:

An electronic medical record system stores data about patient encounters arising from a content generator in free-form text. A header for each encounter record also uses text to store context information for each encounter record. Each header comprises a plurality of attributes embodied as a field descriptor and a value, bound together as a text object. By binding the field descriptors to the values, each encounter record is complete in itself, without reference to database keys, thereby providing a self-validating record storage system.