Patent ID: 8121862
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A medical support system including: a processor connected to a memory, wherein the processor is programmed to implement the system comprising: a medical support process to access a plurality of data sources to retrieve a patient's medical record and medical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions according to medical professional guidelines, the medical support process to utilize data from the patient's medical record and medical guidelines to identify a recommendation of at least one of a diagnosis and a treatment for the patient in support of a medical practitioner user; an interactive dialogue between the medical support process and the user to provide guidance to the user, based on the identified recommendation, in performing the medical support process according to the guidelines and dependent upon user input, the patient's medical record, and the medical guidelines, wherein the guidance provided to the user can be overridden by the user, and wherein the interactive dialogue requests input from the user upon user override of the guidance, the requested input including a reason for the user's override of the guidance; and a bi-directional dialect translator to receive and translate between preferred dialect medical terms entered by a user and corresponding equivalent but different standard medical terms employed in the medical support process operation and, conversely, to bi-directionally translate the standard medical terms employed by the medical process support operation into the preferred dialect medical terms originally entered and used by the user for display to the user.