US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on June 24 for "Incremental clustering and hierarchy formation system for clinical decision support (CDS) system development and method of operation thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,873, issued on June 24, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Incremental clustering and hierarchy formation system for clinical decision support (CDS) system development and method of operation thereof" was invented by Ali Akbar Ahmad Samadani (Cambridge, Mass.), Taiyao Wang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Cornelis van Zon (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CDS system including a controller extracting EHRs of an IHG and selecting SMs to form a target patient database, capturing a time interval between each subsequent record for each of the measurements defined by the SMs, computing hospital level...