Tailoring medication to individual characteristics
First Claim
1. A medical outcome prediction tool encoded with instructions in a tangible computer readable medium for predicting an individual'"'"'s medical outcomes from at least one computer database storing electronic medical data for a patient population, wherein execution of the instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the steps comprising:
- a. identifying patients within a patient population having a same disease from electronic health records in at least one computer database;
b. selecting a set of characteristics from the electronic health records that is unique to an individual among the identified patients;
c. determining the similarities between the individual and other cases among the identified patients by;
i. calculating the number of matches between the individual and the cases over the set of characteristics; and
ii. using the result of the calculated matches to determine a similarity score; and
d. calculating an expected outcome for the individual by;
i. generating a result by summing the product between the similarity score and a weighted sum of outcomes; and
ii. dividing the result by the sum of the similarity score.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a medical outcome prediction tool that predicts an individual patient'"'"'s medical outcomes by identifying patients having a same disease; selecting a set of characteristics unique to an individual; determining the similarities between the individual and other cases; and calculating the expected outcome for the individual that is proportional to a weighted sum of outcomes of similar cases. The similarities can be determined by calculating the number of matches between the individual and cases over the set of characteristics, and using that result to determine a similarity score.
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10 Claims
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1. A medical outcome prediction tool encoded with instructions in a tangible computer readable medium for predicting an individual'"'"'s medical outcomes from at least one computer database storing electronic medical data for a patient population, wherein execution of the instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the steps comprising:
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a. identifying patients within a patient population having a same disease from electronic health records in at least one computer database; b. selecting a set of characteristics from the electronic health records that is unique to an individual among the identified patients; c. determining the similarities between the individual and other cases among the identified patients by; i. calculating the number of matches between the individual and the cases over the set of characteristics; and ii. using the result of the calculated matches to determine a similarity score; and d. calculating an expected outcome for the individual by; i. generating a result by summing the product between the similarity score and a weighted sum of outcomes; and ii. dividing the result by the sum of the similarity score. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A medical outcome prediction method for predicting an individual patient'"'"'s medical outcomes, the method comprising:
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a. identifying patients within a patient population having a same disease from electronic health records in at least one computer database; b. selecting a set of characteristics from the electronic health records that is unique to an individual among the identified patients; c. determining the similarities between the individual and other cases among the identified patients by; i. calculating the number of matches between the individual and the cases over the set of characteristics; and ii. using the result of the calculated matches to determine a similarity score; and d. calculating an expected outcome for the individual by; i. generating a result by summing the product between the similarity score and a weighted sum of outcomes; and ii. dividing the result by the sum of the similarity score. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6)
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7. A system for predicting an individual patient'"'"'s medical outcomes, the system comprising:
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a. a patient-disease identifier, configured for identifying patients within a patient population having a same disease from electronic health records in at least one computer database; b. a characteristics identifier, configured for selecting a set of characteristics from the electronic health records that is unique to an individual among the identified patients; c. a similarities determiner, configured for determining the similarities between the individual and other cases among the identified patients by; i. a matcher, configured for calculating the number of matches between the individual and the cases over the set of characteristics; and ii. a similarity scorer, configured for determining a similarity score by using the result of the calculated matches; and d. an expected outcome generator, configured for calculating an expected outcome for the individual by; i. generating a result by summing the product between the similarity score and a weighted sum of outcomes; and ii. dividing the result by the sum of the similarity score. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
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