Patent ID: 7315784

Claim:
A method for analyzing medical data comprising the steps of: obtaining a plurality of samples respectively from a plurality of patients and storing the samples respectively in a plurality of disposable biochips, each biochip being sensitive for multiple biomolecular markers; providing a plurality of point of care test devices respectively at a plurality of point of care sites; respectively receiving said biochips in said point of care test devices, each as a tested biochip, and in each point of care test device performing diagnostic testing on the sample in the tested biochip to obtain raw point of care data; entering the raw point of care data as an input to an expert system and producing a diagnostic result with said expert system using an expert rule that identifies a medical condition of the patient from a known correlation of at least one of said multiple biomolecular markers with said medical condition; providing a remote server at a location remote from said point of care sites; supplying the raw point of care data and an identification of said expert rule from all of the point of care sites, and the follow-up diagnostic data, to said remote server; and at said remote server, using all of said point of care data and all of said follow-up diagnostic data as a training data set to identify a previously unknown correlation of at least one further biomolecular marker, among said multiple biomolecular markers, other than said at least one of said multiple biomolecular markers having said known correlation with said medical condition, with a different medical condition represented in said follow-up diagnostic data.