Patent ID: 8145664
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for case-specific information retrieval from a medical database system, the information comprising at least two categories, clinical guidelines related information and patient related information, the method comprising: (a) accessing a rules database for retrieval of the clinical guidelines related information, wherein the clinical guidelines related information comprises structured rules representing medical or clinical knowledge as antecedent/consequent pairs, wherein the antecedent represents at least one of a disease, a condition, or lab data, and the corresponding consequent represents medical actions are taken when conditions of the antecedent are fulfilled; (b) accessing a database for retrieval of the patient related information stored as electronic data files; (c) matching the patient related information for a specific patient and the clinical guidelines related information via a pattern matcher using comparative data operations, wherein the patient related information further includes current patient data comprising symptoms or lab data for the specific patient; (d) displaying and integrated view comprising a first subpanel showing the accessed clinical guidelines related information, a second subpanel showing the accessed patient related information, and one or more disease subpanels showing disease specific information, wherein matched values are displayed in a highlighted manner in the subpanels to establish how the medical or clinical knowledge applies to the patient related information and other unmatched values remain in regular type; and (e) detecting updates in the rules database and re-accessing the rules database for retrieval of the clinical guidelines related information and repeating the matching step and displaying step to incorporate any updates therein.