Patent ID: 7630911

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of assisting medical evidence collection for adjudication of a medical disability request, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer and from a claimants at least one claim of a medical condition; generating, by a computer, a plurality of medical evidence queries based on and limited by the at least one claim and based on and limited by a disability rating rules collection; displaying the generated medical evidence queries in at least one data collection protocol; receiving medical evidence data collected responsive to the generated medical evidence queries; determining, by a computer, a degree of disability based on the collected medical evidence data and the disability rating rules collection; and generating a report comprising the degree of disability; wherein the plurality of medical evidence queries is claim-type specific and is selected from a predetermined set of medical evidence queries, the set containing a greater number of queries than the number of queries in the plurality of queries; and wherein the selected plurality of medical evidence queries excludes queries, from the predetermined set of medical evidence queries, that are, based on the disability rating rules collection, not specific to the claim or claim type.