Patent ID: 7739123

Claim:
A method for generating a document relating to a patient's medical diagnosis, comprising: employing a processor to execute computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium to implement the following acts: establishing one or more diagnostic codes, wherein each diagnostic code identifies a medical condition; storing one or more concepts associated with each diagnostic code, wherein each concept represents a different definition for the medical condition identified by the corresponding diagnostic code; storing one or more contexts associated with each diagnostic code, wherein each context represents corresponding contextual information for the medical condition identified by the corresponding diagnostic code; generating a set of queries for each of the one or more diagnostic codes using at least one of a subset of the one or more stored concepts or a subset of the one or more stored contexts as search criteria; submitting the set of queries to one or more databases; retrieving a list of links to content in the one or more databases that satisfy the search criteria, the retrieved list of links stored in a memory component; associating each link in the list with the diagnostic code and context used in the query that retrieved the respective link; receiving information about a patient, the information about the patient including diagnosis information based on a diagnosis of the patient; matching the information about the patient to at least one matching diagnostic code and at least one context associated with the at least one matching diagnostic code; pre-selecting a subset of the links associated with the at least one matching diagnostic code and the at least one matching context, the subset of links automatically pre-selected from the retrieved list of links independent of a query provided by a user for the subset of links; and generating at least one new document, wherein the at least one new document comprises the pre-selected subset of links and at least a portion of the information received about the patient.