Patent ID: 7783503

Claim:
A medical support system including: a memory for storing at least one medical support process relating to diagnosis and treatment of a medical condition; a processor responsive to the medical support process and to user inputs for performing the medical support process; an input device for user inputs relating to the medical support process; an output device for displaying the results of the medical support process to a user; and a bi-directional dialect translator receiving and translating between preferred dialect medical terms entered by a user and corresponding equivalent but different standard medical terms employed in the support process operation, and, conversely, bi-directionally translating the standard medical terms employed by the medical process support operation into the preferred dialect medical terms originally entered and used by the user for display to the user; wherein the medical support process includes: at least one process form providing an interface between a user and the process operations of the process phase, each process form including fields for passing user inputs to the process operations and for displaying the results of the process operations to the user; and at least one support process responsive to user input, the medical record data, and guidelines for performing the process operations, wherein the at least support process executes an interactive dialogue between the medical support process and the user to provide guidance to the user in performing the medical support process according to the guidelines and dependent upon the user inputs and the medical record using the bi-directional translator; wherein the guidance provided to the user is capable of being overridden by the user and wherein the overridden guidelines are dynamically updated with a patient based guideline for the individual patient based on user input of the patient based guideline for the individual patient.