Patent ID: 8880457
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a processor, a medical test result, having a numeric value and representing a measured observation of a portion of a patient's body using a first medical testing modality; receiving, by the processor, at least one background parameter of the patient representing a pre-existing status of the patient; identifying a potential recommendation for a medical course of action; accessing, by the processor, a decision-making model comprising a plurality of thresholds, where each of the thresholds represents at least one background parameter and a level at which a majority of historic patients in a given set of historic patients was recommended for the medical course of action based on correlated test results for the given set of historic patients from both the first medical testing modality measuring a first determinant that affects an outcome of a disease with an unknown state and a second medical testing modality measuring a second determinant that affects the outcome of the disease, where the second medical testing modality is different than the first medical testing modality and the second determinant is the same as the first determinant; selecting, by the processor, a threshold that corresponds to the background parameter of the patient; comparing, by the processor, the numeric value of the medical test result to the selected threshold; determining, by the processor, that the numeric value of the medical test result equals or exceeds the selected threshold; and in response to the determining, recommending, by the processor, the medical course of action.