Oriental Medicine Diagnosis and Prescription via Disease-Protocol Inquiry
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Solution Overview
Problem
Korean medicine doctors lack specialized knowledge and clinical experience with herbal medicines, leading to a reliance on acupuncture and simple symptom-based herbal prescriptions, which are often ineffective due to the complexity of traditional prescriptions and the need for personalized and standardized treatment criteria.
Innovation Solution
An oriental medicine diagnosis and prescription apparatus and method that automatically provides personalized prescriptions based on patient symptoms, using an identification unit, medical inquiry units, and a prescription candidate group derivation unit to derive standardized and quantified herbal medicine preparations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional herbal medicine prescriptions are used, then treatment coverage is comprehensive, but application difficulty increases due to complex Chinese characters and lack of clinical experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of doctors interpreting traditional Chinese herbal prescriptions with an AI-based automated system. The system uses natural language processing and pattern recognition algorithms to automatically generate herbal prescriptions based on patient symptoms, eliminating the need for doctors to manually interpret complex traditional texts and making the prescription process accessible to practitioners regardless of their specialized knowledge level.
2Ease of operation
If simple symptom-based prescriptions are used, then ease of prescription increases, but treatment effectiveness decreases due to lack of personalization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-establishing a comprehensive knowledge base of traditional herbal medicine prescriptions, their indications, contraindications, and synergistic combinations. The AI system leverages this pre-processed information to quickly generate personalized prescriptions based on patient symptoms, combining the simplicity of automated generation with the effectiveness of traditional personalized medicine approaches.
3Device complexity
If manual prescription searching is used, then system complexity is low, but productivity decreases due to time-consuming manual input of search conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling the system to automatically extract patient symptoms from medical records or user input and generate appropriate herbal prescriptions without requiring manual configuration of search parameters. The AI system autonomously performs symptom analysis, pattern matching, and prescription generation, dramatically improving productivity while maintaining system accessibility.
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AI summary
Disclosed is an oriental medicine diagnosis and prescription apparatus comprising: an identification unit that receives patient login information and identifies the patient based on the patient's login information; a first medical inquiry execution unit that makes requests to the user terminal on information about the disease or condition; an inquiry selection unit that selects one of multiple inquiry contents matching multiple disease protocols; a second medical inquiry execution unit that transmits the selected inquiry content to the user terminal; a prescription candidate group derivation unit that extracts oriental medicine herbs considering the disease protocol matching the patient's response, and derives a prescription candidate group of at least one oriental medicine preparation; and a prescription provision unit that lists the prescription candidate group and provides it to the user terminal or the corresponding Korean medicine doctor's terminal.