DIAGNOSTICIAN CUSTOMIZED MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS USING A DIGITAL LIBRARY
First Claim
1. A physician operated medical data analysis system for assisting a physician in identifying ailments and conditions which correlate to anomalies identified in a set of patient medical data relating to an identified patient, comprising:
- a Digital Library for providing access to a plurality of published literature which relate to interpreting patient medical data and possible ailments associated with patient medical data;
a control database which contains a plurality of sets of medical data indicative of measurements indicative of characteristics of control subjects;
a data characterization module for calculating control variations of a set of patient medical data, collected from and about an identified patient, from at least one of said plurality of sets of medical data in said control database to identify anomalies in said set of patient medical data;
a characterization module relating to said set of patient medical data for searching the Digital Library for published literature relating to at least one of the set of patient medical data and interpretations of the identified anomalies calculated by said data characterization module; and
an information access module for providing an authorized physician with access to physician selected published literature identified by the characterization module.
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Abstract
The Customized Medical Diagnostic Apparatus operates under the control of a physician to implement a patient-specific instance of the apparatus by identifying medical information sources, retrieved from a Digital Library, which correlate to anomalies identified in a set of patient medical data relating to an identified patient or identified class of patient. The system includes a Digital Library for providing access to a plurality of information sources which relate to interpreting patient medical data and possible ailments associated with the patient medical data. A data characterization module calculates control variations of a set of patient medical data to identify anomalies. Based upon this statistical analysis, a Digital Library interface module searches the Digital Library for information sources relating to the set of patient medical data and interpretations of the identified anomalies.
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26 Claims
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1. A physician operated medical data analysis system for assisting a physician in identifying ailments and conditions which correlate to anomalies identified in a set of patient medical data relating to an identified patient, comprising:
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a Digital Library for providing access to a plurality of published literature which relate to interpreting patient medical data and possible ailments associated with patient medical data; a control database which contains a plurality of sets of medical data indicative of measurements indicative of characteristics of control subjects; a data characterization module for calculating control variations of a set of patient medical data, collected from and about an identified patient, from at least one of said plurality of sets of medical data in said control database to identify anomalies in said set of patient medical data; a characterization module relating to said set of patient medical data for searching the Digital Library for published literature relating to at least one of the set of patient medical data and interpretations of the identified anomalies calculated by said data characterization module; and an information access module for providing an authorized physician with access to physician selected published literature identified by the characterization module. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of operating a physician directed medical data analysis system for assisting a physician in identifying ailments and conditions which correlate to anomalies identified in a set of patient medical data relating to an identified patient, comprising:
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providing access to a Digital Library which contains a plurality of published literature which relate to interpreting patient medical data and possible ailments associated with patient medical data; calculating control variations of a set of patient medical data collected from and about an identified patient with patient medical data of a base set of control data to identify anomalies in said set of patient medical data; searching the Digital Library for published literature relating to at least one of the set of patient medical data and interpretations of the identified anomalies calculated by said step of calculating control variations; and providing information access to an authorized physician with access to the published literature identified by the step of searching the Digital Library. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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