ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,505, issued on Aug. 19.
"Electronic health record interoperability tool" was invented by Richard R. Selvaggi (Commerce, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed principles permit exchange of patient information between disparate Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems by identifying a source standard medical record (SMR), breaking the SMR into elemental record parts without data or patient information, labeling each SMR elemental part with a Field Indicator Code (FIC), and concatenating the FIC labeled elemental parts. The concatenated FIC labeled elemental parts are used as a guide by disparate EHR systems to break down their E...