MEDICAL SUPPORT SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A medical support system including:
- a processor connected to a memory, wherein the processor is programmed to implement the system comprising;
a medical support process to access a plurality of data sources to retrieve a patient'"'"'s medical record and medical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions according to medical professional guidelines, the medical support process to utilize data from the patient'"'"'s medical record and medical guidelines to identify a recommendation of at least one of a diagnosis and a treatment for the patient in support of a medical practitioner user;
an interactive dialogue between the medical support process and the user to provide guidance to the user, based on the identified recommendation, in performing the medical support process according to the guidelines and dependent upon user input, the patient'"'"'s medical record, and the medical guidelines, wherein the guidance provided to the user can be overridden by the user, and wherein the interactive dialogue requests input from the user upon user override of the guidance, the requested input including a reason for the user'"'"'s override of the guidance.
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Abstract
A medical support system and method for performing at least one medical support process relating to diagnosis and treatment of a medical condition and that includes or employs medical records relating to patients and medical support databases including medical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of a medical condition. A medical support process includes one or more process phases, which may include a data phase, a diagnostic phase and a therapy/treatment recommendation phase. Each process phase includes one or more process operations wherein each of the process operations of a process phase includes one or more process forms providing interfaces between a user and the process operations. Each process form includes fields for passing user inputs to the process operations and for displaying the results of the process operations to the user and the support processes are responsive to user inputs, the medical records and the guidelines to execute an interactive dialogue between the medical support process and the user to provide guidance to the user in performing the medical support process according to the guidelines and dependent upon the user inputs and the medical record.
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20 Claims
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1. A medical support system including:
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a processor connected to a memory, wherein the processor is programmed to implement the system comprising; a medical support process to access a plurality of data sources to retrieve a patient'"'"'s medical record and medical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions according to medical professional guidelines, the medical support process to utilize data from the patient'"'"'s medical record and medical guidelines to identify a recommendation of at least one of a diagnosis and a treatment for the patient in support of a medical practitioner user; an interactive dialogue between the medical support process and the user to provide guidance to the user, based on the identified recommendation, in performing the medical support process according to the guidelines and dependent upon user input, the patient'"'"'s medical record, and the medical guidelines, wherein the guidance provided to the user can be overridden by the user, and wherein the interactive dialogue requests input from the user upon user override of the guidance, the requested input including a reason for the user'"'"'s override of the guidance. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A computer-implemented method to provide support for a medical practitioner performing at least one of diagnosis and treatment of a patient'"'"'s medical condition, the method comprising:
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accessing a plurality of data sources, using a processor, to retrieve a patient'"'"'s medical record and medical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions according to medical professional guidelines; automatically identifying, using the processor, a recommendation of at least one of a diagnosis and a treatment for the patient, utilizing data from the patient'"'"'s medical record and medical guidelines, in support of the medical practitioner; providing, using the processor, an interactive dialogue between the medical support process and the medical practitioner to provide guidance to the medical practitioner, based on the identified recommendation, in performing the medical support process according to the guidelines and dependent upon input from the medical practitioner, the patient'"'"'s medical record, and the medical guidelines; accepting an override of the guidance provided to the medical practitioner; requesting, via the interactive dialogue, input from the medical practitioner upon an override of the guidance by the medical practitioner, the requested input including a reason for the override of the guidance. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A tangible computer-readable storage medium having a set of instructions stored thereon which, when executed, instruct a processor to implement a method to provide support for a medical practitioner performing at least one of diagnosis and treatment of a patient'"'"'s medical condition, the method comprising:
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accessing a plurality of data sources to retrieve a patient'"'"'s medical record and medical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions according to medical professional guidelines; automatically identifying a recommendation of at least one of a diagnosis and a treatment for the patient, utilizing data from the patient'"'"'s medical record and medical guidelines, in support of the medical practitioner; providing an interactive dialogue between the medical support process and the medical practitioner to provide guidance to the medical practitioner, based on the identified recommendation, in performing the medical support process according to the guidelines and dependent upon input from the medical practitioner, the patient'"'"'s medical record, and the medical guidelines; accepting an override of the guidance provided to the medical practitioner; requesting, via the interactive dialogue, input from the medical practitioner upon an override of the guidance by the medical practitioner, the requested input including a reason for the override of the guidance. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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