US 8,930,218 B1Granted

Systems and methods for building medical diagnostic apparatus using a digital library

AssigneeWAVi

InventorsDavid Oakley, Michael Hickey

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Abstract

The medical data analysis system automatically identifies medical information sources which correlate to anomalies identified in a set of patient medical data relating to an identified patient. The system includes a digital library for providing access to a plurality of information sources which relate to interpreting patient medical data and possible diseases associated with the patient medical data. A data characterization module calculates normative variations of a set of patient medical data to identify anomalies. Based upon this statistical analysis, a digital library interface module searches the digital library for information sources relating to the set of patient medical data and interpretations of the identified anomalies. There is also an information access module which provides an authorized user, such as a physician, with access to the information sources returned by the digital library interface module and relating to this set of patient medical data.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A medical data analysis system for providing a physician with access to medical information sources which correlate to anomalies identified in patient-specific medical data, comprising:

a physician terminal device for providing a physician with a user interface;
a memory for storing at least one set of patient-specific medical data relating to an identified patient, which patient medical data comprises a plurality of measurements of biomarkers that correspond to a biological property of one or more organisms in the patient;
a server, communicatively connected to the physician terminal device, comprising:
a digital library for providing access to a plurality of information sources which relate to interpreting patient medical data and diseases associated with the patient medical data;
and
a control database which contains a plurality of sets of ailment-specific biomarkers, each of which correspond to a set of characteristic biological properties that can be detected and measured in a patient, and each of which are indicative that an organism is afflicted with a predetermined ailment;
a physician application, executing on the physician terminal device, for enabling the physician to select a plurality of sets of ailment-specific biomarkers via the physician terminal device;
wherein the server further comprises:
a data characterization module for calculating, using the physician selected sets of ailment-specific biomarkers, normative variations in the patient-specific medical data, when compared to the sets of ailment-specific biomarkers, to identify anomalies in the patient-specific medical data;
a digital library interface module, responsive to receipt of the patient-specific medical data collected from and about the identified patient and identified anomalies calculated by the data characterization module, for automatically searching the digital library to identify information sources relating to interpretations of the identified patient medical data of the identified patient that correlates with each of the biomarkers in each of the selected sets of ailment specific biomarkers to enable the physician to identify at least one possible ailment associated with the patient medical data;
and
an information access module for providing the physician with access to the information sources identified by the digital library interface module.

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A method of operating a medical data analysis system for providing a physician with access to medical information sources which correlate to anomalies identified in patient-specific medical data relating to an identified patient, comprising:

storing in a memory at least one set of patient-specific medical data relating to an identified patient, which patient medical data comprises a plurality of measurements of biomarkers that correspond to a biological property of one or more organisms in the patient;
providing access to a digital library, resident on a server, which contains a plurality of information sources which relate to interpreting patient-specific medical data and possible diseases associated with the patient medical data;
executing a physician application on a physician terminal device to provide the physician with access to a control database which contains medical data indicative of measurements taken on control subjects;
enabling the physician to select a plurality of sets of ailment-specific biomarkers via the physician terminal device;
identifying patient medical data of the identified patient that correlates with each of the biomarkers in each of the selected sets of ailment-specific biomarkers;
calculating, using the physician selected sets of ailment-specific biomarkers, normative variations in the patient-specific medical data, when compared to the sets of ailment-specific biomarkers, to identify anomalies in the patient-specific medical data;
providing a digital library interface, in response to receipt of the patient-specific medical data relating to the identified patient collected from and about the identified patient and identified anomalies calculated by the step of calculating normative variations, for automatically searching the digital library to identify information sources relating to interpretations of the identified patient medical data of the identified patient that correlates with each of the biomarkers in each of the selected sets of ailment-specific biomarkers to enable the physician to identify at least one possible disease associated with the patient medical data using the interpretations of the identified anomalies;
and
providing information access to the physician with access to the information sources identified by the digital library interface module.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/505,185Filed 17 Jul 2009 · us provisional application
Priority: 18 Jul 2008
Granted: 6 Jan 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

G16H 50/20
ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis, medical simulation or medical data mining; ICT specially adapted for detecting, monitoring or…: for…
G16H 70/60
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references: relating to pathologies
G16H
Healthcare informatics, i.e. information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for the