US Patent Issued to Optum on July 14 for "Methods, systems, and computer program products for selecting criteria subsets for performing a medical necessity review with automatic evidence highlighting" (Washington, Missouri, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,026, issued on July 14, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Methods, systems, and computer program products for selecting criteria subsets for performing a medical necessity review with automatic evidence highlighting" was invented by Fan Zhou (Redmond, Wash.), Carol Cheng (Seattle), Ian Gilbert (Arlington, Mass.), Jaimee Hill (Smithville, Mo.) and Feili Yu (Shoreline, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving input information associated with a health record of a patient, the input information comprising a plurality of input variable tokens; embedding the plurality of input variable tokens to gene...