US Patent Issued to Cerner Innovation on Feb. 25 for "Discovering context-specific complexity and utilization trajectories" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,057, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Discovering context-specific complexity and utilization trajectories" was invented by Douglas S. McNair (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for patient case and care complexity characterization, and detecting matches of an individual patient's record with collections of other patients' records, based on serial, longitudinal patterns, for facilitating efficient health services utilization, implementing programs to reduce complexity, preventive medicine, and risk management in health care. I...