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Method for the construction and utilization of a medical records system

  • US 20080319800A1
  • Filed: 07/08/2008
  • Published: 12/25/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for the construction and utilization of a medical records system, comprising:

  • collecting prior epidemiological information of persons previously having symptoms of a disease, the prior epidemiological information including a record of a plurality of different types of pathogens known for causing the disease, antimicrobials used for treating the disease, and treatment efficacy of the antimicrobials;

    entering and storing the collected prior epidemiological information in an electronic database;

    creating an automated knowledge discovery system including organizing the prior epidemiological information in the electronic database to make the prior epidemiological information amenable to data mining;

    receiving patient epidemiological information of a patient into a query function of the database;

    automatically predicting a pathogen causing a disease of the patient from the plurality of different types of pathogens known for causing the disease by data mining the organized epidemiological information as a function of similarities of the patient epidemiological information with the organized epidemiological information and without first performing a diagnostic test on a sample from the patient; and

    prescribing a course of treatment to the patient based on the prediction of the data mining.

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