Patent ID: 7797145
Filing Date: 2010-09-14
Classification: A61B,G16B,G16H,Y02A

Abstract:
1. A method of obtaining and electronically delivering a diagnosis of the health of a dog through a combination of computerized data and human interpretation related to the dog comprising: obtaining data relating to the physical characteristics of the dog, the data being obtained from at least one of a physical inspection, family or breed history of the dog, and submitting the obtained data to a clinical pathologist; securing a physical blood sample from the dog, and submitting the blood sample for laboratory analysis of the total T4, total T3, free T4, free T3, T3 autoantibody, T4 autoantibody and thyroglobulin autoantibody; generating a computer report of the laboratory analysis; reporting the analysis to the clinical pathologist wherein the clinical pathologist has the patient record containing the data relating to the physical characteristics, and the clinical pathologist thereby makes a preliminary diagnosis of the dog's health; generating from a menu on a computer screen a supplemental diagnostic report based on the laboratory analysis and the patient record, the supplemental diagnostic report including the laboratory analysis to support the preliminary diagnosis, and wherein the laboratory analysis is reported in a first computer program and the menu is in a second computer program; transferring the data from the first computer program to the second computer program; configuring the second computer program to permit supplementation of the data from the first computer program, wherein the menu includes selectable icons defining predetermined supplemental report characteristics, the characteristics of the selectable icons representing the textual content of the supplementary report, and different selectable icons being individually related to animal characteristics of age and animal grouping; selecting the selectable icons for animal characteristics dependant on age and on animal grouping, the groupings being of adult, puppy-adolescent, geriatric, or large breed dog and selecting selectable icons for thyroid disease, the selectable icons representing normal relative to thyroid disease, or abnormal relative to thyroid disease; establishing optimal levels for thyroid disease analysis, the levels being defined by a range different from a laboratory reference range as presented in the laboratory report, and wherein the adult optimal level of free T3 (FT3) is less than 8 pg/mL and the adult optimal level of free T4 (FT4) is less than 3 ng/dL; assessing thyroid function as part of the laboratory analysis and comparing the laboratory analysis to the optimal levels to thereby obtain a supplemental report; generating an integrated computer report having the laboratory analysis and the supplemental diagnostic report; and communicating the integrated computer report indicating thyroid function to a remotely located client, such communicating being electronic.