Patent ID: 7130835
Filing Date: 2006-10-31
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A system that provides a predictive outcome for a proposed therapeutic ophthalmic correction, comprising: a collecting and transmitting station for collecting a prospective, therapeutic-outcome-influencing, new information metric relating to at least one of a patient, a practitioner, a diagnostic measurement, a therapeutic condition, and an environmental condition, and for transmitting said plurality of new information to a computing station, wherein said computing station includes means for a) receiving said new information metric, b) storing a plurality of optimized historical therapeutic-outcome information derived from an optimization analysis of prospective therapeutic-outcome-influencing, historical information relating to at least one of a patient, a practitioner, a diagnostic measurement, a therapeutic condition, and an environmental condition, and c) providing an output comprising a predictive best instruction that is derived from an analysis of the new information in conjunction with the optimized historical information to facilitate an improved therapeutic ophthalmic correction.