US Patent Issued to UnitedHealth Group on Dec. 30 for "Automated electronic medical record (EMR) analysis via point of care computing systems" (Minnesota, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,197, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to UnitedHealth Group Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Automated electronic medical record (EMR) analysis via point of care computing systems" was invented by Kimberly Hansen (Maple Grove, Minn.), Sagran Moodley (Boston), Jeff Bishop (Southbury, Conn.), George Bier (St. Paul, Minn.) and Anupam Goel (Clarendon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A care estimate module operating on a central computing entity receives a trigger indication (a) comprising patient identifying information and (b) that identifies a service; extracts the patient identifying information from the trigger indication; determi...