Patent ID: 7716065

Claim:
A medical information processing method, comprising: providing a data processing system accessible to a plurality of users via a communications network, the data processing system including a computer program effective to execute the steps of (a) receiving at the data processing system and from a remote user location via the communications network a request for medical information associated with a patient; (b) obtaining medication specific data representing physical conditions associated with the patient, the medication specific data comprising names of one or more medications of a patient as recorded by a medical history of the patient, as determined from one or more sources independent of the patient, the medications further comprising discontinued medications and current medications, and names of all physical conditions that are medically known to be treated by the medications, as determined from one or more predetermined information databases; (c) identifying within the data processing system one or more probable disease/drug contra-indications based upon relationships between the one or more medications and the physical conditions, said contra-indications further identified as significant or non-significant; (d) generating within the data processing system a list of physical conditions comprising only the physical conditions that are not associated with said contra-indications and the physical conditions that are associated with said non-significant contra-indications; (e) identifying within the data processing system consequential information associated with the medications currently in use by the patient, said consequential information including significant and non-significant side effects that are probable, significant and non-significant drug-drug interactions that are probable; and therapeutic classes; (f) outputting from the data processing system to a remote user location via the communications network the generated list of physical conditions and the identified consequential information.