Patent ID: 8924230

Claim:
A physician operated medical data analysis system for assisting a physician in identifying ailments and conditions relating to an identified patient, comprising: a memory for storing: a plurality of sets of patient medical data relating to an identified patient, which patient medical data comprises a plurality of measurements of biomarkers that correspond to a biological property of one or more organisms in the patient, a plurality of sets of ailment-specific biomarkers, each of which correspond to a set of characteristic biological properties that can be detected and measured in a patient, and each of which are indicative that an organism is afflicted with a predetermined ailment, and a plurality of data manipulation modules, each defining at least one process for transforming patient medical data pursuant to a predefined schema to produce a set of biomarkers that are indicative of selected biological properties of at least one organism in the patient; a patient medical data processor, responsive to a physician selecting one of said plurality of stored sets of patient medical data, a plurality of the stored data manipulation modules and an order of applying the selected plurality of stored data manipulation modules to the selected stored set of patient medical data, for processing the selected patient medical data using the selected data manipulation modules in the selected order to produce an output set of patient-specific biomarkers that are indicative of biological properties of at least one organism in the patient; a patient data manipulation module, responsive to the physician selecting a plurality of sets of ailment-specific biomarkers via the physician terminal device, configured to identify said patient-specific biomarkers in said output set of patient-specific biomarkers that correlate with each of the biomarkers in each of the selected sets of ailment-specific biomarkers; and a display device for displaying on a physician terminal device for visual comparison, a visualization of each of the plurality of sets of ailment-specific biomarkers selected by the physician and a visualization of the identified patient-specific biomarkers.