Diagnostic and treatment planning calculator

• US 20060281977A1
• Filed: 05/26/2006
• Published: 12/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael Soppet
• Original Assignee: Michael Soppet
• Inventors: Soppet, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/442,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20060281977A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Methods and apparatus are provided to help medical personnel receives and input a first interface that receives patient-specific information, a second interface that displays a plurality of treatment options, a processor that executes software that projects clinical outcomes for at least first and second ones of the treatment options as a function of historic data and the patient-specific information. and a third interface that displays at least the first and second ones of the treatment options.

Claims

11-1. The device of claim 1, further comprising a fourth interface that displays a plurality of diagnostic possibilities.

21. A method of advising a patient, comprising:

entering into the device clinical information specific to the patient;

retrieving from the device a comparison of treatment options and clinical outcomes that have historically been associated with change of a value within the clinical information; and

relating at least a portion of the comparison to the patient.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the clinical outcomes include at least one of a change in severity, frequency, or duration of a symptom.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the value comprises a laboratory test result.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the clinical outcomes include a monetary cost.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein the step of retrieving a comparison from the device comprising a user of the device viewing a display that displays at least a portion of the comparison.

26. The method of claim 21, wherein the step of retrieving a comparison from the device comprising printing at least a portion of the comparison.

27. The method of claim 21, further comprising entering into the device a diagnosis that is specific to the patient.

28. The method of claim 21, further comprising a medical professional using the comparison as a basis from which to discuss at least some of the treatment options and at least some of the clinical outcomes with the patient.

29. The method of claim 21, wherein the device has sufficient processing power and memory such that the device does not need to communicate with an external source to produce the comparison.

30. The method of claim 21, further comprising an interface through which the device communicates to an external source to produce the comparison.