Patent ID: 8560342
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: G06F,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of creating a suggested diagnostic test selection, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors, a current description of a current patient, wherein the current description comprises a current medical complaint of the current patient, a medical history of the current patient, and a current physical examination result for the current patient; defining, by one or more processors, a cohort for the current patient, wherein the cohort comprises persons who have had a same medical complaint, medical history, and physical examination result as the current patient; identifying, by one or more processors, past diagnostic test sets used to make correct medical diagnoses for persons in the cohort, wherein the past diagnostic test sets are stored in a cohort diagnostic test database; sorting, by one or more processors, the past diagnostic test sets based on increasing levels of a detrimental effect posed by each of the past diagnostic test sets, wherein at least two of sorted past diagnostic test sets are sets of multiple sequential diagnostic tests for a same disease; selecting, by one or more processors, two of the sets of multiple sequential diagnostic tests that have a same initial diagnostic test; determining, by one or more processors, which of the two sets of multiple sequential diagnostic tests is a less detrimental set of multiple sequential diagnostic tests to the current patient; transmitting, by one or more processors, a recommendation to execute the initial diagnostic test on the current patient at an initial time; transmitting, by one or more processors, a recommendation to execute the less detrimental set of multiple sequential diagnostic tests at a subsequent time that is after the initial time; and presenting, by one or more processors, the sorted past diagnostic test sets to a health care provider for the current patient.