Patent ID: 7979373

Claim:
A computer readable medium containing computer readable instructions for analyzing the risks of adverse effects resulting from the use of at least one substance of interest, said computer readable instructions comprising instructions for: prompting a user to select on a computing device at least one substance of interest; displaying on said computing device information relating to effects of the substance of interest following administration to a patient; presenting on said computing device one or more filter parameters for selection by the user; and submitting said substance of interest and selected filter parameters to at least one data mining engine selected from the group consisting of a correlator engine, a proportional analyzer engine, and a comparator engine; wherein the correlator engine measures degrees of associations among pairs of values using multidimensional vector analysis; wherein the proportional analyzer engine analyzes the frequency of reactions to a substance of interest compared to the frequency of similar reactions to other substances; wherein the comparator engine measures the similarities and differences between pre-market reactions to substance of interest and post-market reactions to said substance of interest; displaying on said computing device the analytic results from the data mining engine.