Patent ID: 8190450

Claim:
A method of managing a quality of delivery of healthcare to a patient, the method comprising: creating a medical record via a processor that includes the at least one symptom data of the patient; creating a database having a plurality of templates, each template comprising at least one keyword associated with one of a plurality of medical conditions and a respective protocol to diagnose or treat each of the plurality of medical conditions, each protocol comprising a plurality of tasks for execution to complete the protocol according to a schedule associated with the protocol; parsing the medical record via the processor for the at least one symptom data to compare to the keyword in each of the plurality of templates; outputting via the processor the plurality of candidate hypothesis each associated to different disease templates and a confidence level in each candidate hypothesis; acquiring an instruction of a selection of one of the plurality of candidate hypothesis; automatically outputting via the processor the protocol associated with the selected candidate hypothesis for illustration at the output device; tracking completion of a portion of a protocol associated with one of a plurality of candidate hypotheses to deliver healthcare to the patient, wherein tracking completion of a portion of a protocol includes tracking completion of tasks executed according to the schedule associated with the protocol; tracking a change in a quality of care metric directed to the patient with completion of a portion the protocol, the quality of care metric including at least one of a time to rate of reduction in a health risk to the patient and a time to or rate of reduction in symptom or abnormal biometric data of the patient; outputting an alert via the processor in response to the quality of care metric exceeding a threshold; and decreasing confidence in the selected candidate hypothesis and increasing confidence in one or more of the other plurality of candidate hypotheses via the processor triggered by acquiring the at least one quality of care metric exceeding the threshold.