US 12,443,896 B2
System and method for detecting drug adverse effects in social media and mobile applications data
Sivakumar Nadarajah, Bridgewater, NJ (US); Sanmugam Aravinthan, Lake Hiawatha, NJ (US); and Kannan Ramamoorthy, Edison, NJ (US)
Assigned to IQVIA Inc., Parsippany, NJ (US)
Filed by IQVIA Inc., Durham, NC (US)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/130,878.
Application 18/130,878 is a continuation of application No. 13/974,756, filed on Aug. 23, 2013, granted, now 11,651,294.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/692,697, filed on Aug. 23, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2023/0245005 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/00 (2023.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); G16H 70/40 (2018.01)
CPC G06Q 10/00 (2013.01) [G16H 20/10 (2018.01); G16H 70/40 (2018.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
performing, by a processor, a metasearch query on a plurality of on-line databases for electronic postings relating to a healthcare product, the plurality of on-line databases comprising a plurality of on-line communities;
aggregating, by an interface, the electronic postings from the plurality of on-line databases into a log of postings in response to the metasearch query;
receiving healthcare taxonomy data from one or more taxonomy databases;
identifying, by a text mining engine, textual content present within the electronic postings in the log of postings and analyzing the textual content present within the electronic postings based on the healthcare taxonomy data and according to load balancing tactics of or more computing systems, the load balancing tactics comprising factoring a proximity of each of the one or more computing systems to stored data representing the electronic postings and a likelihood of hits when searching a particular portion of data representing the electronic postings;
assigning, by a scoring engine, a score to each electronic posting in the log of postings based on the analyzed textual content of that electronic posting;
comparing, by the processor, the assigned score of each electronic posting in the log of postings to a scoring threshold to identify if the scoring threshold has been exceeded;
identifying, by the processor, an electronic posting in the log of postings as relating to an adverse effect resulting from consuming the healthcare product based on the scoring threshold being exceeded;
updating, by the processor and based on the score assigned to one or more electronic postings in the log of postings, the healthcare taxonomy data to include one or more new terms associated with the healthcare product; and
determining, by the processor and based on the score assigned to one or more electronic postings in the log of postings, that one or more additional terms in the healthcare taxonomy data are obsolete,
wherein the updating of the healthcare taxonomy data further includes removing the one or more additional terms from the healthcare taxonomy data.