Patent Document ID: 20110238443
Application ID: 13157502
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method in a healthcare information technology system for providing inferred genetic findings for a person, the method comprising: receiving a request issued by a user for genetic test results for a subject gene for a person; incident to receiving the request, accessing a first data store to discover whether there exists the genetic test results for the person; and when the genetic test results of the person are undiscovered, automatically inferring one or more genetic findings, wherein the process of inferring comprises: (a) identifying a mode of inheritance associated with the subject gene; (b) determining a traversal pattern of the subject gene within a family of the person as a function of the identified mode of inheritance; (c) employing the traversal pattern to target at least one member of the family of the person that potentially carries the subject gene; (d) accessing a second data store to discover whether there exists genetic test results for the at least one targeted member of the person's family; and (e) when the genetic test results of the at least one targeted member of the person's family are discovered, calculating a probability that the person exhibits a mutated form of the subject gene using the genetic test results of the at least one targeted member of the person's family.