Drug advice expert
First Claim
1. A method for providing expert drug advice, comprising:
- representing drugs as nodes in a graph in a computer display window; and
graphically representing a property associated with a first represented drug.
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Abstract
A user-interactive computer program provides drug advice. Drugs are grouped according to their clinical and chemical characteristics in a supporting data base. For each drug, a drug database contains detailed information on pharmacokinetics, pharmaco-dynamics and drug-specific details. In response to user interaction with areas displayed on the screen, the computer program obtains pertinent drug interaction information from the database. With the obtained information, the computer program supports display of graphical screen views. Contents of the screen views include symbols for indicating respective drugs, geometrically distinguishing lines for indicating interaction between drugs, and text descriptions of drug information. Further included in the screen views are respective symbols for indicating drug warnings for pregnant or lactating women and sportspersons. Color coding may also be employed in the screen views to indicate degree of effect or warning.
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87 Claims
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1. A method for providing expert drug advice, comprising:
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representing drugs as nodes in a graph in a computer display window; and
graphically representing a property associated with a first represented drug. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. Computer apparatus comprising:
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a database containing drug information;
a digital processor coupled to the database; and
a driver executing on the digital processor which accesses the database, represents drugs as nodes in a graph in a display window, and graphically represents a property associated with a first represented drug based on the drug information. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85)
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86. Computer apparatus comprising:
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means for representing drugs as nodes in a graph in a display window; and
means for graphically representing a property associated with a first represented drug.
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87. A drug advice expert computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable code thereon, including program code which:
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represents drugs as nodes in a graph in a display window; and
graphically represents a property associated with a first represented drug.
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