Patent ID: 7577573

Claim:
a medical support system including a memory for storing at least one medical support process relating to diagnosis and treatment of a medical condition, a processor responsive to the medical support process and to user inputs for performing the medical support process, an input device for user inputs relating to the medical support process and an output device for displaying the results of the medical support process to a user, comprising: at least one medical record relating to a patient; at least one medical support database including medical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of the medical condition; a bi-directional dialect translator for receiving and translating between preferred dialect medical terms entered by an individual user and corresponding equivalent but different standard medical terms employed in the support operations, conversely bi-directionally translating the standard medical terms employed by the support operations into the preferred dialect medical terms originally entered and used by the individual user for display to the user; and a medical support process including at least one process phase each process phase including one or more process operations; each of the process operations of a process phase including: at least one process form providing an interface between a user and the process operations of the process phase, each process form including fields for passing user inputs to the process operations and for displaying the results of the process operations to the user; and at least one support process responsive to user inputs, the medical record and the guidelines for performing the process operations, wherein: the support processes execute an interactive dialogue between the medical support process and the user to provide guidance to the user in performing the medical support process according to the guidelines and dependent upon the user inputs and the medical record, wherein the guidance provided to the user is capable of being overridden by the user and wherein the overridden guidelines are dynamically updated with a patient based guideline for the individual patient based on user input and the medical record for the individual patient.