Patent ID: 7197492
Filing Date: 2007-03-27
Classification: G06Q,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computerized medical chart system for improving the medical care of patients by communicating with a health care professional preparing a medical record in connection with preparing or recording diagnoses, symptoms, treatment or other patient information, and including important elements of the patient's medical condition, comprising: a medical risk database containing medical care information regarding a plurality of illnesses, diseases and/or injuries, and further at least containing information regarding increased risks of missed diagnoses; means for prompting the health care professional to record symptoms, or other patient information relevant to the increased risks; means for comparing the recorded symptoms or other patient information with, the medical care information stored in the medical risk database to determine the existence of at least one increased risk of a missed diagnosis based on the symptoms recorded; means for associating said recorded symptoms or other patient information with the relevant medical care information related to the increased risk of missed diagnoses with respect to the recorded symptoms or patient information; means for providing medical care information to the health care professional so as to reduce the risk of the health care professional missing at least one diagnosis from the plurality of illnesses, diseases or injuries based on the symptoms or other patient information regarding the patient; means for automatically prompting the health care professional to take particular actions or record additional important items of said diagnosis, symptoms, treatment or other patient information in said medical record, in an interactive fashiom so as to provide the health care professional with an opportunity to avoid a missed diagnosis and to adequately record the action taken; and means for alerting the health care professional to consider one or more medical conditions leading toward possible diagnoses based upon input of information correlating with said increased risk information in said database.