Patent ID: 7306560

Claim:
A medical diagnostic system comprising: a computing environment arranged to receive patient information, comprising a server computer connected to a communications network; a client processor connected to the network and in data communication with the server computer via the network; an input device, connected to the client, to receive patient information; an output device, connected to the client, to provide information indicative of a diagnosed medical condition, wherein the environment executes a program for diagnosing by scoring a medical condition based on the patient information and communicating the diagnosed medical condition via the output device, and wherein the program comprises at least one medical diagnostic code portion selectively executed based on at least a portion of the received information, wherein the medical diagnostic code portion scores at least a portion of the received information and diagnoses a medical condition associated with the executed medical diagnostic code portion if the score reaches or passes a threshold; and wherein the program is arranged to read data from, and write data to, a medical history file stored in association with the client processor or the server computer, and wherein the scoring by the medical diagnostic code portion is affected by the data read from the medical history file.