System and method for assessing medical risk

A system for assessing a medical risk of a given outcome for a patient, the system comprising:

• data input means receptive of test data from a given patient corresponding to at least one test marker for predicting the medical risk of a given outcome and at least one variable relating to the given patient;
• means for transforming the test data with the variable to produce transformed data for each test marker;
• means storing a database of transformed data from other medical risk assessment systems for previously assessed patients;
• means for determining mean and standard deviation values from the database in accordance with an actual occurrence of the given outcome for previously assessed patients;
• means for comparing the transformed data with the mean and standard deviation values to assess a likelihood of the given outcome for the given patient;
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• means for locally updating the database of said system with the actual occurrence for the given patient;
• wherein the means for determining mean and standard deviation values includes means for locally adjusting determined mean and standard deviation values of said system for the locally updated database, whereby adjusted mean and standard deviation values for said system are adjusted for a particular patient population assessed by said system relative to mean and standard deviation values determined from the database from other medical risk assessment systems.