Patent ID: 7716065
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A medical information processing method, comprising: providing a data processing system accessible to a plurality of users via a communications network, the data processing system including a computer program effective to execute the steps of (a) receiving at the data processing system and from a remote user location via the communications network a request for medical information associated with a patient; (b) obtaining medication specific data representing physical conditions associated with the patient, the medication specific data comprising (c) identifying within the data processing system one or more probable disease/drug contra-indications based upon relationships between the one or more medications and the physical conditions, said contra-indications further identified as significant or non-significant; (d) generating within the data processing system a list of physical conditions comprising only the physical conditions that are not associated with said contra-indications and the physical conditions that are associated with said non-significant contra-indications; (e) identifying within the data processing system consequential information associated with the medications currently in use by the patient, said consequential information including significant and non-significant side effects that are probable, significant and non-significant drug-drug interactions that are probable; and therapeutic classes; (f) outputting from the data processing system to a remote user location via the communications network the generated list of physical conditions and the identified consequential information.