Patent ID: 7809585
Filing Date: 2010-10-05
Classification: A61B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for developing an effective medical treatment/therapy regimen for a patient, the method comprising: establishing, on a computer, a clinically relevant diagnosis for the patient, the diagnosis relevant to the patient's chief complaint; querying, using the computer, a database for a set of recommended intervention action established on the basis of the clinically relevant diagnosis of the patient; receiving, on the computer, the set of recommended intervention actions based on the database query, the actions ranked in order of preference for treatment of a condition indicated by the clinically relevant diagnosis of the patient; analyzing, on the computer, the set of recommended intervention actions in accordance with one or more clinical decision support dimensions, wherein the clinical decision support dimensions further comprise a surgical history dimension, a current medications dimension, a current allergies dimension, a social history dimension, a demographic/family history dimension, a diagnostic test findings dimension, a vital signs dimension, a physical examination findings dimension, and a diagnostic possibility dimension, wherein analyzing the set of recommended intervention actions further comprises analyzing a recommended action using a rule that determines a relationship between the one or more clinical decision support dimensions; classifying an interaction of each recommended intervention into a contraindication category; and adjusting, on the computer, the ranking and a total number of recommended intervention actions in the set of recommended intervention actions in order of preference for treatment of the condition indicated by the clinically relevant diagnosis, based on the rule and the contraindication category.