System and method for guideline-based, rules assisted medical and disability management

• US 20040030584A1
• Filed: 08/12/2002
• Published: 02/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jeffrey Saul Harris
• Original Assignee: Jeffrey Saul Harris
• Inventors: Harris, Jeffrey Saul
• Application Number:
  US10/216,251
• Publication Number:
  US 20040030584A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A method for managing medical care and disability which collects patient data and creates or appends a record, assigns health problems to homogeneous groups, retrieves rules, applies the rules to the data, reviews results generated from applying the rules to the data and generates at least one message.

Claims

1. A method for managing medical care and disability comprising:

collecting patient data and creating or appending a record;

retrieving rules;

applying the rules to the data;

reviewing results generated from applying the rules to the data;

generating at least one message.

2. The method for managing medical care and disability of claim 1 wherein the patient data further comprises;

data from a patient.

3. The method for managing medical care and disability of claim 2 wherein the patient data further comprises;

demographic data.

4. The method for managing medical care and disability of claim 3 wherein the patient data further comprises;

data from a health care provider.

5. The method for managing medical care and disability of claim 4 wherein the patient data further comprises;

data from a employer.

6. A method for managing medical care and disability comprising:

collecting patient data and creating or appending a record;

assigning health problems to homogeneous groups;

retrieving rules;

applying the rules to the data;

reviewing results generated from applying the rules to the data;

generating at least one message.

7. The method for managing medical care and disability of claim 6 wherein the method further comprises;

assigning planned or used medical resources to homogeneous groups.

8. The method for managing medical care and disability of claim 7 wherein the method further comprises;

storing results of rules application for comparative analysis.

9. The method for managing medical care and disability of claim 8 wherein the method further comprises;

generating comparative reports.