Automated Systems and Methods for Obtaining, Storing, Processing and Utilizing Immunologic Information of an Individual or Population for Various Uses

A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein, the computer readable program code means in said computer program product comprising means for causing a computer to:

• examine the individual's immune status;
• identify diseases that the insured may be susceptible to;
• calculate the risk of contraction for each disease;
• identify all prophylactic therapies that could prevent each identified disease;
• calculate, for all possible combinations of diseases and prophylactic therapies,
• expected costs of treatment and costs of associated prophylactic therapies;
• and
• require prophylactic therapies optimized for overall cost,
• wherein at least one of said examine immune status and identify diseases that the individual may be susceptible to includes:
• (a) establishing a database comprising a plurality of records of information each representative of the immune status of an individual in the population, to one or more vaccine-preventable diseases, each of said records including
• (1) current information from one or more assays to determine the immunity of said individual to one or more vaccine-preventable diseases, and
• (2) patient-specific information comprising one or more of said patient's medical history, said patient's doctors observations and/or demographic information relating to said patient;
• (b) processing the information in said database to find trends or patterns relating to the immune status of individuals in said patient population;
• and
• (c) using the said trends or patterns found in (b) in deciding whether or not to vaccinate an individual.
• wherein said processing the information in said database includes:
• generating a list of correlations between variables or fields in the database;
• for each correlation in the list:
• generating a set of hypotheses that may explain said correlation;
• and
• as to each hypothesis in the set, automatically refuting, supporting or stating that there is insufficient data to analyze said hypothesis by further processing of the database.