Patent ID: 11966397
Assignee: BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An outbreak management apparatus comprising:
a node processor;
an outbreak tracking graph database for a particular disease including an outbreak node connected to a definition node via a ‘defined as’ link, the definition node specifying disease parameters of the disease including conditions for disease classification including a ‘possible’ classification for the disease, a ‘probable’ classification for the disease, and a ‘confirmed’ classification for the disease; and
a memory device storing machine-readable instructions, which when executed by the node processor, cause the node processor to:
receive, via an interface, patient data related to a patient,
determine whether the patient should be associated with the outbreak node that corresponds to the disease by comparing the patient data to the disease parameters of the definition node, wherein
the ‘possible’ classification is selected when at least some of the patient data matches at least some clinical criteria specifying at least one symptom,
the ‘probable’ classification is selected when at least some of the patient data matches
at least some of the clinical criteria specifying at least one symptom, and
the patient has an epidemiological link to a known host of the outbreak tracking graph database for the disease, and

the ‘confirmed’ classification is selected when at least some of the patient data matches
at least some of the clinical criteria specifying at least one symptom, and
at least some laboratory criteria for diagnosis specifying at least one of isolation, detection, identification, or an antibody response related to the disease, and

when at least one of the ‘possible’, ‘probable’, or ‘confirmed’ classification is determined for the patient, add the patient to the outbreak tracking graph database for the disease.