Animal health decision support system and methods
a decision support system and animal health technology, applied in knowledge representation, instruments, computing models, etc., can solve the problems of increasing the cost of pet ownership, and reducing the number of pet owners. the effect of reducing the overall network traffi
Active Publication Date: 2022-05-12
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This system reduces unnecessary veterinary visits, improves pet health monitoring, and enhances decision-making by providing accurate and up-to-date recommendations, thus improving pet care efficiency and reducing anxiety for both pets and owners.
Problems solved by technology
If the situation occurs after hours, the options are more limited and costly.
In addition, access to a Veterinary Emergency Clinic is often limited by geography (clinics can be hundreds of miles away).
At the same time, the pet owner likely does not have sufficient knowledge to fully appreciate the mildness or severity of the pet's condition, so the owner may not know whether the pet's malady is serious enough as to require immediate attention or whether it is something that may be monitored and managed without professional intervention.
While the owner has the pet's best interests in mind, these frequent visits to a DVM in non-emergency situations may become expensive and inconvenient for the pet owner.
This is also an inefficient use of DVM resources and may delay care for animals in immediate need of DVM care.
In addition, a common issue for dogs and cats is anxiety, which is exacerbated by a visit to a vet; as a result, unnecessary veterinary visits can have adverse health impact on the pet.
Cats in particular are prone to severe anxiety when transported in a car and taken away from their familiar environment.
This is difficult on the application developer as they must have knowledge of the code to know what to change and must take care to avoid causing errors in other aspects of the code.
Additionally, this may require approval from a third party for the new application, such as on mobile phone app stores, to release the latest tutorial, which can lead to delays.
If a user does not update the application, she may be accessing an out-of-date or incorrect tutorial.
This approach also suffers drawbacks however, such as requiring a constant internet connection.
If at any point in the tutorial, a user loses an internet connection, their place in the tutorial is lost and they will be required to restart the tutorial, requiring more time and computer resources.
Moreover, none of the above-mentioned systems incorporate the specifics of each individual pet into the algorithm so that the answers are general and may not accurately reflect the necessary information for a specific pet.
They don't capture the full day-to-day issues that a pet may have.
Those smaller problems can, over time, become larger issues—often to the lower quality of life for the pet.
In addition, the transmission of a complete question set reduces overall network traffic and technical problems arising from network disruptions among other technical benefits.
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[0045]Furthermore, although specific components of the communications architecture will be described, methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the decision support sys...
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The invention relates generally to a system and method for animal health decision support, and more specifically to a non-human animal health decision support system that is configured to collect animal information, determine a health topic, and transmit a question set corresponding to the health topic. The system may analyze answers associated with the question set to determine a course of action. The course of action may be a recommendation, such as contacting a veterinarian, obtaining a relevant product, making an appointment with a veterinarian, watching for change in symptoms in the non-human animal, and transporting the non-human animal to a clinic. Advantageously, the system is configured to provide decision support and transmit that information to a client device.
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PRIORITY[0001]This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 16 / 811,606 filed Mar. 6, 2020, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 15 / 359,033 filed Nov. 22, 2016 (now U.S. Pat. No. 10,629,304), which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 14 / 011,538 filed Aug. 27, 2013, each of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION[0002]The claims in the instant application are different than those of the parent application or other related applications. The Applicant therefore rescinds any disclaimer of claim scope made in the parent application or any predecessor application in relation to the instant application. Any such previous disclaimer and any cited references may need to be revisited. Further, any disclaimer made in the instant application should not be read into or against the parent application.TECHNICAL FIELD[0003]The invention relates generally to a system and method for integrating pet h...
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IPC IPC(8): G16H50/30G16H10/60
CPCG16H50/30G06N20/10G16H10/60G06N20/20G06N5/02G06N5/041G06N3/08G06N5/01G16H50/20G16H50/50
InventorLEON, DEBRAPAGE, TREVORCARBONE, GUNNISON
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