Patent ID: 7716070

Claim:
A method of determining a medical triage disposition for a person, comprising: providing, by a computer to a triage operator, a plurality of triage categories comprising body parts, injury types, symptoms, or a combination thereof, wherein each of the plurality of triage categories comprises questions grouped into a plurality of tiers ranked according to urgency, and wherein each of the plurality of tiers corresponds to one of a set of triage dispositions; providing, by the computer to the triage operator, a selection of at least a first relevant triage category from the plurality of triage categories based on answers received from the person in response to an initial inquiry into a medical condition of the person; providing, by the computer to the triage operator within a computer screen layout, access to questions of the selected at least first relevant triage category; and providing, by the triage operator with access to the computer, triage to the person remotely, away from a treatment center, without medical equipment and without need of a trained medical person, through a form of remote communication, wherein providing triage comprises: (a) identifying from the selected at least first relevant triage category a highest urgency tier that has at least one unasked question; (b) asking the person one of the at least one unasked question of the highest urgency tier; (c) receiving a response from the person to the at least one unasked question; (d) identifying during triage within the at least first relevant triage category at least a second relevant triage category; (e) selecting the at least second relevant triage category while performing triage in the at least first relevant triage category; and (f) repeating (a) through (c) for the selected at least first and second relevant triage categories until the triage disposition is determined, wherein the triage operator is provided simultaneous access through the computer screen layout to the questions of the at least first and second selected relevant triage categories.