Patent ID: 7213009

Claim:
In a decision-support system having a decision-support module, having a knowledge base of medical conditions, diagnostic criteria, and treatments, that communicates with at least one client module adapted to aid with collecting patient data from a patient, a method for delivering decision-supported patient data to a clinician to aid the clinician with the diagnosis and treatment of a medical condition, the method comprising the steps of: (a) at a client module remote from a decision-support module, presenting a patient with a plurality of questions generated by the decision-support module and gathering patient data indicative of a plurality of responses to the plurality of questions from the patient, wherein each question presented to the patient is based upon the prior questions presented to and the patient data gathered from the patient; (b) upon receiving the patient data from the client module, evaluating the patient data at the decision-support module to generate decision-supported patient data, the decision-supported patient data comprising a medical condition diagnosis of the patient, pertinent medical parameters associated with the medical condition, and one or more medical care recommendations for the medical condition; and (c) at either the client module or another client module specific to the clinician, presenting the clinician with the decision-supported patient data specific to the patient in either a standardized format associated with a progress note or a format selected by the clinician that assists the clinician in treating the patient.