David F Eardley

US Patent:

7213009, May 1, 2007

Filed:

Sep 9, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/658998

Inventors:

Stanley L. Pestotnik - Sandy UT, US
Jonathan B. Olson - Salt Lake City UT, US
Matthew H. Samore - Salt Lake City UT, US
R. Scott Evans - North Salt Lake UT, US
Barry M. Stults - Salt Lake City UT, US
Michael A. Rubin - Salt Lake City UT, US
William H. Tettelbach - Salt Lake City UT, US
Richard J. Boekweg - Tooele UT, US
Bo Lu - Salt Lake City UT, US
David D. Eardley - Salt Lake City UT, US
Michael E. Baza - West Bountiful UT, US
Mark H. Skolnick - Salt Lake City UT, US
Merle A. Sande - Salt Lake City UT, US

Assignee:

Theradoc, Inc. - Salt Lake City UT

International Classification:

G06N 5/00

US Classification:

706 46, 706 45

Abstract:

Disclosed is a method for delivering decision-supported patient data to a clinician to aid the clinician with the diagnosis and treatment of a medical condition. The method including presenting a patient with questions generated by a decision-support module and gathering patient data indicative of the responses to the questions. Each question presented to the patient is based upon the prior questions presented to and the patient data gathered from the patient. Upon receiving the patient data from the client module, evaluating the patient data at the module to generate decision-supported patient data, this supported patient data includes medical condition diagnoses, pertinent medical parameters for the medical condition, and medical care recommendations for the medical condition. At the client module or a clinician's client module, presenting the clinician with this patient data in either a standardized format associated with a progress note or a format selected by the clinician.