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

Claim 12:
13. An outbreak management method comprising:
storing 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 and a ‘confirmed’ classification for the disease;
receiving, in a server, patient data related to a patient;
determining, via the server, whether the patient should be associated with the outbreak node associated with 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, 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’ or ‘confirmed’ classification is determined for the patient, adding, via the server, the patient to the outbreak tracking graph database for the disease.