US 2016/0111020 A1Published application

Healthcare Education Content Authoring Assistant with Interactive Suggestion Interface Based on Patient and Clinical research Data

Assigneei-Human Patients, Inc.

InventorsCraig Knoche, Anne Knoche

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Abstract

A healthcare content authoring software platform incorporates a healthcare education content authoring assistant software with interactive suggestion interface to assist a healthcare education content author in creating computerized healthcare education contents. The interactive suggestion interface in the healthcare education content authoring assistant software provides at least one of a symptom selection interface, a symptom characterization and medial exam description entry interface, a pivotal concept definition interface, a results group configuration interface, a disease summary interface, a disease epidemiology interface, an etiology task exploration interface, and a tests diagnostics strategy and pitfalls interface, wherein one or more of these interfaces empower the healthcare education content author to create, update, and manage a plurality of diagnostic reasoning pathways that encourage students and healthcare industry trainees to nurture basic linear DDx reasoning skills, dynamic DDx reasoning skills, and other clinically-empirical reasoning skills in a simulated patient diagnostic environment with a virtual patient.

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A healthcare education content authoring assistant system with an interactive suggestion interface based on patient and clinical research data, the system comprising:

a symptom selection interface module that generates a list of diagnostic reasoning symptoms and prompts a healthcare education content author to select a symptom of educational interest;
a component definition interface module that defines and configures symptom characteristics, mandatory physical exams, and diagnostic reasoning concepts for the symptom of educational interest;
a pivotal concept definition interface module that defines a pivotal concept, a pivotal concept task, and an association among the pivotal concept, the pivotal concept task, and a results group;
a pivotal concept rule for results group interface module that defines and describes a result of the pivotal concept task and a pivotal concept rule, wherein the pivotal concept rule associates or disassociates the result of the pivotal concept task with the pivotal concept;
a differential diagnosis (DDx) group and disease summary interface module that displays a symptom-to-diagnosis reasoning path that shows links among the symptom of educational interest, the pivotal concept, the pivotal concept task, the result of the pivotal concept task, the pivotal concept rule, and one or more diseases, wherein the symptom-to-diagnosis reasoning path is additionally flagged as typical or atypical for a DDx group;
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a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory unit of a computer system or another electronic device, wherein the CPU and the memory unit execute at least one of the symptom selection interface module, the component definition interface module, the pivotal concept definition interface module, the pivotal concept rule for results group interface module, and the differential diagnosis (DDx) group and disease summary interface module.

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A method of operating a healthcare education content authoring assistant software executed on a CPU and a memory unit of a computer system or another electronic device, the method comprising the steps of:

selecting a symptom of educational interest from a list of available diagnostic reasoning symptoms displayed on a symptom selection interface, which is part of the healthcare education content authoring assistant software executed on the CPU and the memory unit of the computer system or another electronic device;
entering definitions and descriptions for at least one of symptom characteristics, mandatory physical exams, and diagnostic reasoning concepts for the symptom of educational interest to the healthcare education content authoring assistant software through a component definition interface, which is part of the healthcare education content authoring assistant software executed on the CPU and the memory unit of the computer system or another electronic device;
generating a pivotal concept, a pivotal concept task, and an association among the pivotal concept, the pivotal concept task, and a results group through a pivotal concept definition interface, which is part of the healthcare education content authoring assistant software executed on the CPU and the memory unit of the computer system or another electronic device;
entering definitions and descriptions for a result of the pivotal concept task;
composing a pivotal concept rule that associates or disassociates the result of the pivotal concept task with the pivotal concept;
associating the pivotal concept, the pivotal concept task, the result of the pivotal concept task, and the pivotal concept rule to one or more diseases;
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generating one or more symptom-to-diagnosis reasoning path names and displaying one or more symptom-to-diagnosis reasoning paths through a differential diagnosis (DDx) group and summary interface, wherein each symptom-to-diagnosis reasoning path shows links among the symptom of educational interest, the pivotal concept, the pivotal concept task, the result of the pivotal concept task, the pivotal concept rule, and the one or more diseases, and wherein the differential diagnosis (DDx) group and summary interface is part of the healthcare education content authoring assistant software executed on the CPU and the memory unit of the computer system or another electronic device.

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