AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL CARE SELECTION

• Main Author: BRONN, DONALD G
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 31.07.2008
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Provided herein is a computerized method of managing medical care through communication between a Digital Board of Medical Experts (DBME), a physicia n, a health insurance carrier, one or more medical facilities, and a patient and providing a diagnostic and/or therapeutic recommendation, comprising: i ) providing a DBME core comprised of modules and algorithms for processing m edical data; ii) providing a Physician Action Module (PAM) whereby a physici an provides a clinical index of suspicion (CIS) through a clinical index of suspicion selection algorithm (CISSA) of the PAM to the DBME; and iii) proce ssing through the DBME information from the CISSA and providing a diagnostic recommendation from the diagnostic recommendation algorithm (DRA) of the Di agnostic Module (DM) of the DBME for hi tech diagnostic studies and/or a the rapeutic recommendation from the therapeutic recommendation algorithm (TRA) of the Therapeutic Module (TM) of the DBME for treatment.