Knowledge-based disease management system to coordinate and improve patient care

A knowledge-based disease management system to coordinate and improve patient care, comprising the steps of:

• providing a first or reference level which includes a knowledge base of published data concerning:
• a disease condition in question;
• drugs and agents available for said disease condition;
• metrics of assessing effectiveness, toxicity and adverse effects of said drugs and agents;
• progression of said disease condition;
• potential need for adjuvants, rescue therapies, and dose adjustment of said drugs and agents;
• an inherent assessment and review mechanism to acquire new options or technologies or discard ineffective options on a monthly basis;
• providing a secondary level concerning delivery of active services on a managed schedule;
• providing a third level concerning active assessment of interventions to measure effectiveness of said interventions, patient compliance, and progression of said disease condition, and to report results of said active assessment of said interventions in relation to acceptable standards as defined in said first or reference level;
• providing a fourth level to modify said interventions based on findings of said third level to optimize a desired therapeutic effect and manage any toxic response;
• providing a fifth level to implement said modified interventions;
• repeating said third, fourth and fifth levels;
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• providing a sixth level as a repository of accumulated knowledge and experience of said system from which outcome data are reported and compared.