Patent ID: 7685001

Claim:
A method for providing clinical knowledge from a provider to a medical user, comprising the steps of: providing a clinical knowledge communication server with an associated knowledge data base of said provider; said user having a user interface for communicating with said communication server of said provider; providing an authentication, authorization, and encryption device associated with said user interface and providing an authentication, authorization, and encryption device associated with said communication server; said user obtaining patient symptoms for a specific patient; said user creating a plurality of diagnostic questions based on said patient symptoms representing a plurality of potential diagnoses for a medical problem causing said symptoms in said patient; said user sending said plurality of diagnostic questions along with said patient symptoms to said server; with the server conducting an initial examination of the plurality of diagnostic questions and patient symptoms; with the server associating for each of the diagnostic questions a corresponding set of examination steps to create a corresponding sequence of examination steps for each of the diagnostic questions, at least one of said sequences comprising use of a medical imaging machine, and providing a respective examination protocol for said imaging machine including sequences, and a post-processing software for use with an image created by said imaging machine; and encrypting and then sending said sequence of examination steps for each of said diagnostic questions to said medical user interface where they are decrypted.