Patent ID: 7707046

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of assisting medical evidence collection for adjudication of a medical disability request, the method comprising: receiving from a claimant at least one claim of a medical condition; generating a plurality of medical evidence queries based on and limited by the at least one claim and based on and limited by a disability rating rules collection; displaying the generated medical evidence queries in a data collection protocol; receiving medical evidence data responsive to the generated medical evidence queries from an electronic data storage; determining, by a computer, a degree of disability based on the collected medical evidence data and on the disability rating rules collection; and generating, by a computer, a report comprising the degree of disability; wherein the plurality of medical evidence queries is claim-type specific and is selected from a predetermined set of medical evidence queries, the set containing a greater number of queries than the number of queries in the plurality of queries; and wherein the generating the plurality of medical evidence queries comprises excluding queries, from the predetermined set of medical evidence queries, that are, based on the disability rating rules collection, not specific to the claim or claim type.