Healthcare object recognition, systems and methods
Healthcare object (HCO) discriminator systems and methods are presented. Systems can obtain a digital representation of a scene via a sensor interface. An HCO discriminator platform analyzes the digital representation to discriminate objects within the scene as being associated with a type of HCO or as being unrelated to a type of HCO. Once the HCO recognition platform determines that a type of HCO is relevant, it instantiates an actual HCO. The HCO can be routed to one or more destinations based on routing rules generated from a template or based on the manner in which the objects in the scene were discriminated.
1. A computer-based method of routing healthcare objects, the method comprising:
receiving, by at least one processor from at least one sensor, a digital representation of a scene;
deriving, by the at least one processor, a set of discriminator characteristics via execution of one or more discriminator algorithms on the digital representation according to data modalities within the digital representation, the set of discriminator characteristics comprises a vector of discriminator characteristics, the vector of discriminator characteristics comprises multiple vector members, and each vector member corresponds to a different modality of data;
discriminating, by the at least one processor, objects in the scene by recognizing an object as a healthcare object type based on the set of discriminator characteristics;
instantiating, by the at least one processor, a healthcare object from the recognized object according to the healthcare object type;
routing, by the at least one processor, the healthcare object to a destination device according to routing rules associated with the healthcare object; and
causing, by the at least one processor, the destination device to enable rendering of a user interface on a display in response to receiving the healthcare object.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface is rendered on a cell phone.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface is rendered on a browser device.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising requesting, via the at least one processor, additional medically-relevant information via the user interface.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein instantiating the healthcare object includes provisioning the healthcare object with destination attributes.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the destination attributes include the routing rules.
7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the destination attributes comprise at least one destination address.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the at least one destination address comprises a document object identifier.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the modality of data comprises one of the following: image features, audio features, and OCRed text.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of discriminator characteristics comprises an N-tuple of characteristics.
11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the N-tuple of characteristics comprises attribute names along with one or more corresponding values.
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more discriminator algorithms include at least one of the following: SIFT, BRISK, GLOW, SURF, SLAM, vSLAM, a hidden markov model, optical character recognition, a support vector machine, and dynamic time warping.
13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising recognizing objects in the scene as non-healthcare objects.
14. The method of claim 1 , wherein instantiating the healthcare object includes populating fields of a healthcare object template.
15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the fields of the healthcare object template include required fields or optional fields.
16. The method of claim 1 , wherein instantiating the healthcare object includes causing a mechanical turk computer system to construct a mechanical turk task.
17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising populating fields of the healthcare object based on information resulting from the mechanical turk task.
18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising encrypting, by the at least one processor, the healthcare object.