Method and system for providing information to physicians

• US 8,670,994 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2011
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deborah L. Darazs
• Original Assignee: Deborah L. Darazs
• Inventors: Darazs, Deborah L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Najarian, Lena
• Application Number:
  US13/282,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20120101844A1
• Time in Patent Office: 867 Days
• Field of Search: 705 2- 3, 600/300
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

A group of medical specialists reviews an up-to-date body of medical knowledge and, based on its review, selects a subset of that knowledge as being important enough to merit prompt dissemination to the medical community. The selected subset of medical knowledge is then input into a computer system where it can then be accessed by physicians over a computer network. A physician may, for example, access the system before, during or after a patients visit so that he/she can have the most up-to-date information regarding how to best advise the patient. In effect, the group of medical specialists acts as a single voice of authority on which the medical community can rely.

Claims

1. A method for assisting physicians and their licensed supervised healthcare workers in assessment and treatment of a patient'"'"'s medical condition, the method being executed via a medical information platform that stores and processes medical information, the method comprising:

receiving, from a physician or licensed supervised healthcare worker at a first web server from a client computer over a computer network, an input of at least one or more symptoms of the patient;

receiving at a diagnostic server computer the one or more symptoms, as well as information from a database server computer linked to the diagnostic server computer and providing current medical information from a plurality of informational databases, the informational databases including at least a first informational database providing new research information, wherein the new research information is selected by a medical board from a plurality of sources including a government institution, a university, a hospital and a corporation, a second informational database providing general medical information, a third informational database providing diagnostic information and a fourth informational database providing patient lab information, the diagnostic server computer further being in communication with a second web server gathering medical information from a new input database;

the diagnostic sever computer analyzing the received information by comparing the one or more input symptoms to symptom information found in the first, second, third and fourth informational databases to generate a patient diagnosis consistent with the new research information, general medical information, diagnostic information and patient lab information; and

sending from the diagnostic server computer to the physician or licensed supervised healthcare worker at the client computer over the computer network, a recommendation regarding how to diagnose the patient.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising updating the plurality of medical information databases using a subset of medical knowledge regarding the diagnosis and treatment of patients selected by a plurality of medical specialists representing a plurality of respective medical specialties and/or subspecialties.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving, analyzing and sending steps are performed real-time in an interactive communication session with the health care worker.