ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,655, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Healthcare Value Analytics Inc. (Brentwood, Tenn.).

"Optimizing data flow and display in an electronic medical records (EMR) system" was invented by George Fidone (Lufkin, Texas), G. Edward Powell (Nashville, Tenn.), N. Edward White (Austin, Texas), Van Marshall (Sunnyvale, Texas), Mark Lane (Franklin, Tenn.), Brett M. Rader (Round Rock, Texas) and Justin Fidone (West Linn, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Health Value Analytics (HVA) system includes an electronic medical record (EMR)/HVA access device in the form of comprising machine instructions for facilitating a physician's workflow. ...