ANIMAL HEALTH DIAGNOSTICS
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Abstract
A physical blood sample of animal is sent to a satellite laboratory facility. The blood sample is pre-processed into sub-samples of the sample and the sub-samples are coded. The coded blood sub-samples are physically carried to the main laboratory for analysis. The satellite facility electronically inputs a request for a laboratory analysis by a main laboratory. The request is electronically transmitted to the main laboratory, and the main laboratory coordinates the electronically received input from the satellite facility with the physical blood sub-samples. A computer report of the analysis from the laboratory is obtained for the satellite facility. A clinical pathologist with data of physical characteristics of the animal makes a diagnosis. A menu on a computer permits the generation of a supplemental report to support the diagnosis. An integrated computer report having the laboratory analysis, supplemental report, and a pathologist-enhanced report is electronically communicated to the client.
14 Citations
37 Claims
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1-24. -24. (canceled)
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25. :
- A method of obtaining and electronically delivering a diagnosis of the health of a dog through a combination of computerized data and human interpretation related to the dog comprising;
obtaining data relating to the physical characteristics of the dog, the data being obtained from at least one of a physical inspection, family or breed history of the dog, and submitting the data to a clinical pathologist, securing a physical blood sample from the dog, and submitting the blood sample for laboratory analysis of the total T4, total T3, free T4, free T3, T3 autoantibody, T4 autoantibody and thyroglobulin autoantibody, and selectively endogenous TSH; generating a computer report of the laboratory analysis;
reporting the analysis to the satellite facility through a network to the clinical pathologist wherein the clinical pathologist has the patient record containing the data relating to the physical characteristics and the clinical pathologist thereby makes a preliminary diagnosis of the dog'"'"'s health;generating from a menu on a computer screen a supplemental diagnostic report based on the laboratory data and the patient data, the supplemental diagnostic report including the laboratory data to support the preliminary diagnosis wherein the laboratory analytical report is reported in a first computer program and the menu is in a second computer program; transferring the data from the first computer program to the second computer program;
configuring the second computer program to permit supplementation of the data from the first computer program, wherein the menu includes selectable icons defining predetermined supplemental report characteristics, the characteristics of the selectable icons being such as to be representative of the textual content of the supplementary report, and different selectable icons being individually related to animal characteristics of age and animal grouping;wherein supplementation of data comprises selection of selectable icons by the clinical pathologist, including selecting the selectable icons for animal characteristics dependant on age and on animal grouping, and selecting the selectable icons for groupings of adult, puppy-adolescent, geriatric, or large breed dog and selecting selectable icons for a disease state, being thyroid disease, the selectable icons being representative of being normal relative to thyroid disease, or abnormal relative to thyroid disease; establishing optimal levels for thyroid disease analysis, the levels being defined by a range different from a laboratory reference range as presented in the laboratory report, and wherein the adult optimal level of free T3 (FT3) is less than 8 pg/mL and of free T4 (FT4) is less than 3 ng/dL; assessing thyroid function as part of the preliminary analysis by comparison to the optimal levels to thereby obtain a supplemental report;
selectively enhancing the supplemental report by a further input from the pathologist through data entry based on interpretive analysis of the patient record, laboratory analysis and animal characteristics, to obtain an enhanced diagnostic report in the computer;obtaining an integrated computer report having the laboratory analysis, supplemental diagnostic report, and a selectively enhanced diagnostic report; and communicating the integrated computer report indicating thyroid function to a remotely located client, such communicating being electronic. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
- A method of obtaining and electronically delivering a diagnosis of the health of a dog through a combination of computerized data and human interpretation related to the dog comprising;
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31. :
- A method of obtaining and electronically delivering a diagnosis of the health of a dog through a combination of computerized data and human interpretation related to the dog comprising;
obtaining data relating to the physical characteristics of the dog, the data being obtained from at least one of a physical inspection, family or breed history of the dog, and submitting the data to a clinical pathologist, securing a physical blood sample from the dog, and submitting the blood sample for laboratory analysis of thyroid function; generating a computer report of the laboratory analysis;
reporting the analysis to the satellite facility through a network to the clinical pathologist wherein the clinical pathologist has the patient record containing the data relating to the physical characteristics and the clinical pathologist thereby makes a preliminary diagnosis of the dog'"'"'s health;generating from a menu on a computer screen a supplemental diagnostic report based on the laboratory data and the patient data, the supplemental diagnostic report including the laboratory data to support the preliminary diagnosis wherein the laboratory analytical report is reported in a first computer program and the menu is in a second computer program; transferring the data from the first computer program to the second computer program; configuring the second computer program to permit supplementation of the data from the first computer program, establishing optimal levels for thyroid disease analysis, the levels being defined by a range different from a laboratory reference range as presented in the laboratory report, and wherein the adult optimal level of free T3 (FT3) is less than 8 pg/mL and of free T4 (FT4) is less than 3 ng/dL; assessing thyroid function as part of the preliminary analysis by comparison to the optimal levels to thereby obtain a supplemental report;
selectively enhancing the supplemental report by a further input from the pathologist through data entry based on interpretive analysis of the patient record, laboratory analysis and animal characteristics, to obtain an enhanced diagnostic report in the computer;obtaining an integrated computer report having the laboratory analysis, supplemental diagnostic report, and a selectively enhanced diagnostic report; and communicating the integrated computer report indicating thyroid function to a remotely located client, such communicating being electronic.
- A method of obtaining and electronically delivering a diagnosis of the health of a dog through a combination of computerized data and human interpretation related to the dog comprising;
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32. :
- A method of obtaining and electronically delivering a diagnosis of the health of a dog through a combination of computerized data and human interpretation related to the animal comprising;
obtaining data relating to the physical characteristics of the dog, the data being obtained from a physical inspection, family or breed history of the animal, and submitting the data to a clinical pathologist; securing a blood sample from the dog and submitting the blood sample for laboratory analysis of thyroid function; generating a computer report of the laboratory analysis; reporting the analysis through a network to the clinical pathologist wherein the clinical pathologist has the data relating to the physical characteristics thereby making a preliminary diagnosis of the animal health; generating from a menu on a computer screen a supplemental diagnostic report in combination with the laboratory data to support the preliminary diagnosis;
reporting the laboratory analytical is reported in a first computer program and wherein the menu is in a second computer program;transferring the data from the first computer program to the second computer program;
configuring the second computer program to permit supplementation of the data from the first computer program,establishing for thyroid disease analysis optimal levels, the levels being defined by a range different to a laboratory reference range as presented in the laboratory report, there being at least one category of the adequate optimal levels, therapeutic response optimal levels, the minimal expectations optimal levels;
or the optimal levels for confirming autoimmune thyroiditis;assessing thyroid function as part of the preliminary analysis by determining the correct category, and an analysis based on the laboratory report as applied in the correct category to thereby obtain a supplemental report;
selectively enhancing the supplemental report by a further input from the pathologist into the computer;establishing optimal levels for thyroid disease analysis, the levels being defined by a range different from a laboratory reference range as presented in the laboratory report, and wherein the adult optimal level of free T3 (FT3) is less than 8 pg/mL and of free T4 (FT4) is less than 3 ng/dL; generating an integrated computer report having the laboratory analysis, supplemental report, and selectively an enhanced report; and communicating the integrated or enhanced report to a remotely located client, such communicating being electronic. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
- A method of obtaining and electronically delivering a diagnosis of the health of a dog through a combination of computerized data and human interpretation related to the animal comprising;
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