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US Patent 6188988 - Systems, methods and computer program products for guiding the selection of therapeutic treatment regimens

US Patent Issued on February 13, 2001
Estimated Patent Expiration Date: Icon_subject March 10, 2020Estimated 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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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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Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 523532 filed on 03/10/2000

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

Field of Search

705/2, Health care management (e.g., record management, ICDA billing)705/3, Patient record management705/1, AUTOMATED ELECTRICAL FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS PRACTICE OR MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENT706/45, KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING SYSTEM706/46, Knowledge representation and reasoning technique706/47, Ruled-based reasoning system706/10, PLURAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS706/61, Knowledge acquisition by a knowledge processing system706/924Medical

Examiners

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

Attorney, Agent or Firm

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Foreign Patent References

  • WO 97/29447 WO. 08/09/1997

International Class

G06F 017/60

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