A MULTI-PHASE ANCHOR-BASED DIAGNOSTIC DECISION-SUPPORT METHOD AND SYSTEM

摘要

A medical diagnosis decision support system for assisting a healthprofessional todiagnose a medical condition. The system is first provided with an anchorconditionthat can be a symptom, a sign, a laboratory test result, or an imaging testresults orany combination thereof. The system then guides users in a series ofpredeterminedphases regarding abstract or concrete diagnosis groups that should beconsideredand appropriate data that should be collected during the clinicalinvestigationprocess. The system suggests history and physical examination clinical dataitems,laboratory, and imaging tests that should be collected in order todifferentiateamong alternative diagnoses. In each phase, possible diagnoses are listed andranked.