Method and apparatus for automated identification of health risks for a patient
First Claim
1. A method for automated identification of health risks for a patient, comprising the steps of:
- obtaining health-related patient data, as accumulated patient data, for a patient and storing said accumulated data in an electronic data bank;
providing an expert system which is operable on said accumulated data, using a stored medical rule system, to identify a health risk for said patient;
obtaining new health-related data for said patient and entering said new data into said electronic data bank for storage together with said accumulated data;
upon every entry of new data into said electronic data bank, simultaneously playing said new data together with said accumulated data in said expert system with said expert system being started upon each entry of new data to operate on said accumulated data together with said new data to produce a modified health risk evaluation; and
making said modified health risk evaluation available from said expert system to at least one of the patient and an attending physician.
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Abstract
In a method and an apparatus for the automated discovery of health risks for a patient, an electronic data bank for patient data supplies data to an expert system that can, using implemented medical rules, derive a suspect diagnosis or an increased risk of disease from a combination of data. As a result of every entry of new data into the data bank, the new data are simultaneously played together with all data already stored for this patient for the expert system that is thereby simultaneously started. Given a modified risk evaluation, the expert system outputs a message to the patient or to the attending physician, for example at the data input location.
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1. A method for automated identification of health risks for a patient, comprising the steps of:
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obtaining health-related patient data, as accumulated patient data, for a patient and storing said accumulated data in an electronic data bank;
providing an expert system which is operable on said accumulated data, using a stored medical rule system, to identify a health risk for said patient;
obtaining new health-related data for said patient and entering said new data into said electronic data bank for storage together with said accumulated data;
upon every entry of new data into said electronic data bank, simultaneously playing said new data together with said accumulated data in said expert system with said expert system being started upon each entry of new data to operate on said accumulated data together with said new data to produce a modified health risk evaluation; and
making said modified health risk evaluation available from said expert system to at least one of the patient and an attending physician. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An apparatus for automated identification of health risks for a patient, comprising:
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an electronic data bank containing accumulated health-related patient data for a patient;
an input terminal connected to said electronic bank for entering new patient data for said patient into said electronic data bank;
an expert system having access to said accumulated patient data and said new data in said electronic data bank, said expert system having predetermined medical rules stored therein; and
a linkage connecting said input terminal and said expert system for automatically starting said expert system upon each entry of new data into said electronic data bank via said input terminal, for causing said expert system to operate on said new patient data and said accumulated data, in combination, using said medical rules to produce a risk evaluation for said patient. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7)
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