| CPC G16H 50/70 (2018.01) [G16H 10/60 (2018.01)] | 30 Claims |

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1. A computer system for encoding patient data for a plurality of patients into a respective ordered collection of features representing the medical facts for each patient in the plurality of patients, for input to a computational model, the computer system comprising:
a processing system comprising a processing device and memory, wherein the processing device processes computer program instructions to perform operations;
computer storage connected to the processing system and storing at least:
a. patient data comprising data representing a respective plurality of medical events for each of a plurality of patients, wherein data representing a medical event comprises at least one field and a respective value for each field, and
b. a library of medical instance definitions, wherein each medical instance definition comprises a respective mapping of data representing one or more medical events into data representing a respective medical instance, wherein the respective medical instance is a more general, less granular, more generic, or less specific representation of a medical fact about a patient than the one or more medical events; and
computer program instructions which, when processed by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations to:
access a data structure specifying, for each dimension of an N-dimensional vector, a respective medical instance definition from the library:
for each patient in the plurality of patients, convert the data representing a respective plurality of medical events for the patient into a respective N-dimensional vector of medical instances for the patient, by, for each dimension of the N-dimensional vector, applying the respective medical instance definition specified by the data structure to the data representing medical events for the patient to generate a respective medical instance for the dimension; and
transmitting the respective N-dimensional vectors for the patients as the ordered collection of features representing the patients to the computational model for training or classification.
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