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Systems, methods and computer program products for guiding the selection of therapeutic treatment regimens

Patent 6081786 Issued on June 27, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject April 1, 2019. 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.

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Application

No. 283702 filed on 04/01/1999

US Classes:

705/3, Patient record management705/2, Health care management (e.g., record management, ICDA billing)706/45, KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING SYSTEM706/46, Knowledge representation and reasoning technique706/47, Ruled-based reasoning system706/924Medical

Examiners

Primary: Voeltz, Emanuel T.
Assistant: Hayes, John W.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G06F 017/60

Abstract

Systems, methods and computer program products for guiding selection of a therapeutic treatment regimen for a known disease such as HIV infection are disclosed. The method comprises (a) providing patient information to a computing device (the computer device comprising: a first knowledge base comprising a plurality of different therapeutic treatment regimens for the disease; a second knowledge base comprising a plurality of expert rules for selecting a therapeutic treatment regimen for the disease; and a third knowledge base comprising advisory information useful for the treatment of a patient with different constituents of the different therapeutic treatment regimens; and (b) generating in the computing device a listing (preferably a ranked listing) of therapeutic treatment regimens for the patient; and (c) generating in the computing device advisory information for one or more treatment regimens in the listing based on the patient information and the expert rules.

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