Online medical evaluation system
First Claim
1. A medical diagnostic system comprising:
- a server configured to present to a patient through a browser interface at a remote location a list of symptoms and risk factors and to retrieve through said interface found symptoms and found risk factors that the patient has selected from said list;
the server being further configured to calculate from said found symptoms and said found risk factors a likelihood that the patient has said ailment; and
the server being further configured to enable a designated authority to set, through a browser interface at a remote location, which symptoms and risk factors the server will present to the patient and to set parameters that the server will use in calculating said likelihood that the patient has the ailment.
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Abstract
An online medical evaluation and treatment system includes a patient interface, a physician interface and diagnostic tools to gather and sort information sent from the patient and automatically generate candidate diagnoses. A patient enters information about a medical condition through the patient interface. The diagnostic tools evaluate the information provided by the patient, generate further questions, and create a list of possible diagnoses known as a differential diagnosis. A physician enters the physician interface to review a patient file and diagnose the medical condition of the patient. Importantly, the physician does not have to be present as the data is gathered from the patient, thus saving the physician time. The information gathered from the patient may also be exported to external databases for processing by a third party.
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19 Claims
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1. A medical diagnostic system comprising:
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a server configured to present to a patient through a browser interface at a remote location a list of symptoms and risk factors and to retrieve through said interface found symptoms and found risk factors that the patient has selected from said list;
the server being further configured to calculate from said found symptoms and said found risk factors a likelihood that the patient has said ailment; and
the server being further configured to enable a designated authority to set, through a browser interface at a remote location, which symptoms and risk factors the server will present to the patient and to set parameters that the server will use in calculating said likelihood that the patient has the ailment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A process comprising:
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compiling a list of symptoms related to an ailment;
compiling a list of discrete possible importance values;
assigning, to each of said symptoms, one of said possible importance values that correlates said symptom to said ailment;
presenting said list of symptoms to a patient;
receiving from the patient found symptoms that the patient has selected from said list;
generating a distribution of the number of found symptoms having each possible importance value; and
determining a suspicion index as a function of said distribution. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A process comprising:
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presenting a list of symptoms to a patient that are related to a specific ailment;
receiving from the patient found symptoms that the patient has selected from said list;
calculating a suspicion index for said ailment from said found symptoms;
presenting a list of risk factors to the patient that are related to said ailment;
receiving from the patient found risk factors that the patient has selected from said list; and
calculating an overall risk index for said ailment from said found risk factors;
said second presenting step being performed only if and only after determining that said suspicion index meets or exceeds a threshold value. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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