Patent ID: 8234129

Claim:
A computerized method of assessing the immunological status of one or more individuals in a population, comprising: (a) establishing a database comprising a plurality of records of information, each representative of the immune status of an individual in the population, each of said records including (1) current information from one or more assays for the presence of a biochemical, including at least one antibody, and (2) individual-specific information comprising one or more of said—individual's medical history, said individual's doctors' observations and/or historical, demographic, lifestyle, and familial information relating to said individual; (b) processing the information in said database to find trends or patterns relating to the immune status of individuals in said population; and (c) using the said trends or patterns found in (b) as part of a health care related decision making process, wherein said processing the information in said database includes: automatically generating a list of statistical correlations between variables or fields in the database; and for each correlation in the list: automatically generating a set of hypotheses that may explain said statistical correlation; as to each hypothesis in the set, automatically refuting, supporting or stating that there is insufficient data to analyze said hypothesis by further processing of the database; and reporting the correlations, their associated hypotheses and the refutation, support, or determination of insufficient data to refute or support, to a user, and wherein said processing the information is performed using a data processor.