Computerized medical diagnostic system including re-enter function and sensitivity factors
Patent 5594638 Issued on January 14, 1997. Estimated Expiration Date: January 14, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
705/3, Patient record management128/925, Neural network379/38, Personal monitoring (e.g., for the ill or infirm)379/88.01, Voice activation or recognition379/88.24, By generated tone705/30, Accounting706/45, KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING SYSTEM706/48Having specific pattern matching or control technique
A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over a telephone network. Two new authoring languages, interactive voice response and speech recognition are used to enable expert and general practitioner knowledge to be encoded for access by the public. "Meta" functions for time-density analysis of a number of factors regarding the number of medical complaints per unit of time are an integral part of the system. A semantic discrepancy evaluator routine along with a mental status examination are used to detect the consciousness level of a user of the system. A re-enter feature monitors the user's changing condition over time. A symptom severity analysis helps to respond to the changing conditions. System sensitivity factors may be changed at a global level or other levels to adjust the system advice as necessary.
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