Patent ID: 7447643

Claim:
In a medical decision-support system, a method for delivering decision-supported patient data from a decision-support module to a mobile user module in a controlled and repeatable manner, the method comprising the steps of: (a) upon identifying at least one patient which a clinician will treat during a time period and for which the clinician is to receive decision-supported patient data to assist the clinician in the medical care of the at least one patient, accessing patient data for the at least one patient from a patient storage module; (b) accessing updateable rules and parameters corresponding to one or more medical conditions and which are usable at the decision-support module for diagnosing medical conditions of the at least one patient, the accessed updateable rules and parameters being accessed from a medical knowledge module to assist in at least identifying the one or more medical conditions in the at least one patient; (c) generating decision-supported patient data for the at least one patient by evaluating, at the decision-support module remote from the mobile user module, the accessed patient data and any newly collected patient data for the at least one patient delivered to the patient storage using said updateable rules and parameters, the decision-supported patient data including one or more potential medical conditions for the at least one patient and one or more recommendations for medical care for the at least one patient; and (d) transferring the generated decision-supported patient data to the mobile user module, the clinician being presented with the generated decision-supported patient data for the at least one patient which the clinician will treat in the time period in a configuration to assist the clinician in treating the at least one patient, the configuration of the generated decision-supported patient data being selected from a default configuration associated with the mobile user module or a customized configuration selected by the clinician.