METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLY, TRANSPORT AND DISPLAY OF CLINICAL DATA

1 . A method for distributing shared medical information relating to a patient, the method comprising the steps of:

obtaining a medical document processed through a natural language processing system, said document having corresponding associated medical facts related to said patient;

obtaining an healthcare information system data set;

extracting a set of data elements from said document and its corresponding associated medical facts and from said healthcare information system data set according to a first pre-defined standard;

formatting said medical document into a second predefined standard;

formatting said extracted data elements according to the first predefined standard;

converting said formatted medical document and said formatted extracted data elements into a predefined application format;

obtaining additional documents related to said patient;

merging said additional documents with said application format;

encrypting said additional documents and application format; and

distributing said additional documents and application format.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein said first predefined standard is a CCR standard.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein said second predefined standard is a CDR standard.

4 . A method for distributing a set of documents related to a patient bundled with associated facts to a user, the method comprising the steps of:

selecting a document transcribed from an audio file created by said user;

determining associated facts corresponding to said document:

defining a single format suitable for packaging said document and the associated facts;

encapsulating said document and the associated facts in said single format;

obtaining additional documents related to said patient;

merging said additional documents with said encapsulated document and the associated facts into a set of documents;

transporting said set of documents to said user;

collecting and storing sets of document packages in a repository;

searching said repository;

generating reports from the results of said search;

adding metadata to the results of said searches; and

encapsulating, encrypting, and distributing said sets of document package.