Diagnostic System and Method

• US 20130238647A1
• Filed: 04/19/2011
• Published: 09/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc. (Otsuka Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc. (Otsuka Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Thompson, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US13/641,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20130238647A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

Disclosed are an apparatus and system for providing diagnosis information to a requestor. A request module receives information related to a request from the requestor for diagnosis and to facilitate communication to at least one expert resource. A receive module receives at least one response to the request for diagnoses from the at least one expert resource. A select module in communication with the receive module analyzes the at least one response and, based on the analysis, communicates information to at least one predetermined destination. A method is disclosed where a request module receives a request, a receive module receives a plurality of responses to the request and from the plurality of responses, a select module selects a subset of responses and communicates the subset of responses to a predetermined destination.

Claims

1. A system for providing diagnosis information to a requestor, comprising:

a request module to receive information related to a request from the requestor for diagnosis and to facilitate communication to at least one expert resource;

a receive module to receive at least one response to the request for diagnoses from the at least one expert resource; and

a select module in communication with the receive module to analyze the at least one response and, based on the analysis, communicate information to at least one predetermined destination.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising an expert system to receive the request from the request module and generate the at least one response to the request.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the expert system comprises at least one of a directory of expert resources, a listing of diagnoses and treatments, and a disease and symptom taxonomy.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the receive module and the select module are implemented as a single unit.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the request module comprises at least one of:

an aggregate module to aggregate data associated with the request;

a correlate module to correlate data associated with the request; and

an analyze module to analyze data associated with the request.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the select module comprises at least one of:

a pass through module; and

an analysis module.

7. A method, comprising:

receiving a request by a request module;

receiving a plurality of responses to the request by a receive module;

from the plurality of responses, selecting a subset of responses by a select module; and

communicating the subset of responses to a predetermined destination by the select module.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

updating an expert system with information related to the request by the request module.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

updating an expert system with information related to the subset of responses by the select module.

10. An apparatus, comprising:

a request module to receive information related to a request from a requestor for diagnosis and to facilitate communication to at least one expert resource;

wherein the request module is configured to receive the information in a plurality of communication modalities from a plurality of data sources; and

wherein the request module is configured to send the request to the at least one expert resource.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the request module is configured to transmit the request to at least one expert system.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the request module further comprises:

an aggregate module to aggregate data associated with the request;

a correlate module to correlate data associated with the request; and

an analyze module to analyze data associated with the request.

13. An apparatus, comprising:

a receive module in communication with a select module, the receive module to receive at least one response to a request for diagnoses from at least one expert resource and to provide diagnostic information to the select module.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the receive module is configured to receive the at least one response to the request generated by the at least one expert system.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the receive module is configured to receive the at least one response to the request from at least one of a directory of expert resources, a listing of diagnoses and treatments, and a disease and symptom taxonomy of the at least one expert system.

16. An apparatus, comprising:

a select module in communication with a receive module, the select module to analyze at least one response received by the receive module and, based on the analysis, communicate information to at least one predetermined destination.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising:

a pass through module; and

an analysis module in communication with the pass through module.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the pass through module communicates the at least one response directly to a requestor without determination of an appropriate subset of responses.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the analysis module performs analysis of the at least one response according to a predetermined scheme to narrow the selection of the at least one response to a selected subgroup of responses.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the select module comprises a receive module, the receive module to receive the at least one response to a request for diagnoses from at least one expert resource and to provide diagnostic information to the select module.