System and method for real time clinical questions presentation and management

A clinical decision support method, comprising:

• receiving, by a computer, a patient record comprising at least a patient diagnosis and data from one or more tests performed on the patient;
• automatically determining, by the computer based on the received patient diagnosis and received data from the one or more tests, a plurality of clinical questions relating to the patient, wherein output can be generated by the computer for some of the automatically determined plurality of clinical questions relating to the patient based on the received patient diagnosis and received data from the one or more tests, and wherein output cannot be generated by the computer for some of the automatically determined plurality of clinical questions relating to the patient based on the received patient diagnosis and received data from the one or more tests;
• computing, by the computer, outputs for the patient of a plurality of computer implemented analytical modules associated with the plurality of automatically determined clinical questions by a clinical question-module (CQ-M) matrix having one of rows and columns representing the clinical questions and the other of rows and columns representing the computer implemented analytical modules, wherein a different CQ-M matrix is generated for each different stage of a care cycle, and wherein the clinical questions of the CQ-M matrix include at least one prognosis or diagnosis clinical question, at least one therapy selection clinical question, and at least one therapy response clinical question;
• displaying a list of the clinical questions including the at least one prognosis or diagnosis clinical question, the at least one therapy selection clinical question, and the at least one therapy response clinical question;
• receiving a selection of a listed clinical question via the computer;
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• displaying information for the patient pertaining to the selected clinical question comprising outputs computed for the patient of one or more computer implemented analytical modules associated with the selected clinical question, and further displaying information about the plurality of clinical questions for which no output can be generated from the received patient diagnosis and received data from the one or more tests.

A clinical decision support method, comprising:

• receiving a patient record comprising at least a patient diagnosis and data from one or more tests performed on the patient;
• automatically determining, by a computer based on the received patient diagnosis and received data from the one or more tests, a plurality of clinical questions relating to the patient, wherein output can be generated by the computer for some of the automatically determined plurality of clinical questions relating to the patient based on the received patient diagnosis and received data from the one or more tests, and wherein output cannot be generated by the computer for some of the automatically determined plurality of clinical questions relating to the patient based on the received patient diagnosis and received data from the one or more tests;
• computing outputs by the computer for the patient of a plurality of computer implemented analytical modules associated with the automatically determined clinical questions including at least one therapy selection clinical question;
• generating a clinical question module (CQ-M) data structure for the patient having one of rows and columns representing the clinical questions and the other of rows and columns representing the computer implemented analytical modules, wherein the CQ-M data structure associates the computer implemented analytical modules with the clinical questions to be answered using the associated analytical modules including the at least one therapy selection clinical question, and wherein a different CQ-M data structure is generated for each different stage of a care cycle;
• displaying a list of the clinical questions;
• receiving a selection of a listed clinical question;
• and
• displaying information for the patient pertaining to the selected clinical question comprising outputs computed for the patient of one or more computer implemented analytical modules associated with the selected clinical question, wherein the displaying of information for the patient pertaining to the selected clinical question includes identifying the one or more computer implemented analytical modules associated with the selected clinical question using the CQ-M data structure for the patient, and further displaying information about the plurality of clinical questions for which no output can be generated from the received patient diagnosis and received data from the one or more tests.