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Method using central epidemiological database

  • US 5,911,132 A
  • Filed: 10/14/1997
  • Issued: 06/08/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/26/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An epidemiological database computer method comprising the steps ofreceiving, and storing in a memory, epidemiological transaction record information received over a predetermined recent timeframe in a multiplicity of first electronic data communications, said epidemiological transaction records each including epidemiological information about a respective patient, a description of medical symptoms exhibited by that patient, and a diagnosis of a medical condition of that patient,receiving an incoming second electronic data communication having symptom information and epidemiological information about an individual patient, andtransmitting to the source of said second electronic data communication an electronic data communication which describes at least one diagnosis which is the same as the diagnosis contained in at least one of said epidemiological transaction records, said at least one epidemiological transaction record including symptoms and epidemiological information which correspond to those included in said second electronic data communication.

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