Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings
DATABASE REDUCTION BASED ON GEOGRAPHICALLY CLUSTERED DATA TO PROVIDE RECORD SELECTION FOR CLINICAL TRIALS

Abstract:

Aspects and features relate to computationally reducing the size or complexity of a database in order to improve the speed and efficiency with which such a database is processed by a computing system in order to identify investigators for clinical trials. In some aspects, a processing device performs operations including identifying data sources for geographically clustered data containing corresponding descriptors for database records. The operations further include formatting the corresponding descriptors to produce standardized, corresponding descriptors, and matching each standardized, corresponding descriptor to produce a record score for the descriptor. The record scores can be combined to produce an overall score for each database record and the database record can be selected and written to the data store based on the overall score.