Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system
First Claim
1. A computerized system for use in medical diagnosis, the system comprising:
- a data structure configured to be accessed by a plurality of attributes representative of a medical condition of a patient and providing one or more selected medical diagnoses for the patient, wherein a first attribute corresponds to a cause of disease and a second attribute corresponds to an anatomic system of the patient affected by the medical condition, wherein the provided data is identified as being located within the data structure based on the plurality of attributes, and wherein the data structure is stored in a memory.
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Abstract
A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over a telephone network. Two new authoring languages, interactive voice response and speech recognition are used to enable expert and general practitioner knowledge to be encoded for access by the public. “Meta” functions for time-density analysis of a number of factors regarding the number of medical complaints per unit of time are an integral part of the system. A semantic discrepancy evaluator routine along with a mental status examination are used to detect the consciousness level of a user of the system. A re-enter feature monitors the user'"'"'s changing condition over time. A symptom severity analysis helps to respond to the changing conditions. System sensitivity factors may be changed at a global level or other levels to adjust the system advice as necessary.
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30 Claims
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1. A computerized system for use in medical diagnosis, the system comprising:
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a data structure configured to be accessed by a plurality of attributes representative of a medical condition of a patient and providing one or more selected medical diagnoses for the patient, wherein a first attribute corresponds to a cause of disease and a second attribute corresponds to an anatomic system of the patient affected by the medical condition, wherein the provided data is identified as being located within the data structure based on the plurality of attributes, and wherein the data structure is stored in a memory. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computerized method used in medical diagnosis, the method comprising:
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ascertaining a plurality of attributes representative of a medical condition of a patient;
accessing a data structure based on the plurality of attributes; and
identifying one or more selected medical diagnoses associated with a diagnosis of the patient based on the accessing. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for performing a computerized process used in medical diagnosis, the computer readable code comprising instructions for:
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ascertaining a plurality of attributes representative of a medical condition of a patient;
accessing a data structure based on the plurality of attributes; and
identifying one or more selected medical diagnoses associated with a diagnosis of the patient based on the accessing. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30)
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