FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention refers to event correlation systems. A health care facility network contains a number of electronically stored patient records comprising electronically searchable data, a base event list consisting of a number of base event definitions, a related event list consisting of a number of related event definitions that can be correlated with the base events, and a correlation processor that uses the base event definition and at least one related event definition to relate the events and scans the patient records to search a pre-assigned correlation.
EFFECT: enhancing the collection and correlation of the events providing better follow-up and clinical results in a patient managed by a doctor.
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