Patent ID: 8337409

Claim:
A computerized medical diagnostic method, comprising: a) storing a list of diseases in a data storage in a computer, wherein each disease is associated with a list of symptoms, and wherein each symptom is associated with a list of questions; b) obtaining medical information from a user through an interface connected to the computer; c) selecting, with a processor in the computer, a disease from the list of diseases based on the obtained medical information; d) selecting, with the processor in the computer, a symptom from the list of symptoms associated with the selected disease; e) asking, through an interface connected to the computer, at least one question from the list of questions associated with the selected symptom to obtain additional medical information from the user; f) determining, with a processor in the computer, whether or not a patient is to be diagnosed with the selected disease based upon the obtained medical information; and g) providing, through an interface connected to the computer, the results of the determining to the user.