Panel Diagnostic System Parallel Strategy Reconciliation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computerized medical diagnostic systems lack the ability to run multiple diagnostic processes in parallel, limiting their capability to provide comprehensive and timely diagnoses.
Innovation Solution
A computerized medical diagnostic system with a panel module that enables multiple diagnostic strategy processes to operate concurrently, comparing and reconciling their differential diagnoses to provide a more accurate and probabilistic diagnosis, with a moderator to coordinate and weight the results based on patient health items and disease timelines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a single diagnostic process is used, then the system is simple to operate, but diagnostic accuracy and comprehensiveness are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The diagnostic system is segmented into multiple independent diagnostic strategy processes (e.g., hypothesis-driven, data-driven, pattern recognition processes), each operating autonomously to generate differential diagnoses. This segmentation allows each process to specialize in specific diagnostic approaches while collectively providing comprehensive and accurate diagnosis through their coordinated results.
2Measurement precision
If multiple diagnostic processes operate in parallel, then diagnostic accuracy improves, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple diagnostic strategy processes operate continuously and concurrently throughout the diagnostic session, analyzing patient information simultaneously rather than sequentially. This continuous parallel processing eliminates idle time between different diagnostic approaches and maintains productive analysis across all processes throughout the entire consultation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary diagnostic analysis by having multiple strategy processes independently evaluate patient information and generate preliminary differential diagnoses before final reconciliation. This preliminary action allows each process to prepare its findings in advance, enabling faster integration and final diagnosis determination without time loss during the reconciliation phase.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple diagnostic strategy processes are used, then diagnostic comprehensiveness improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A moderator process serves as an intermediary that receives, coordinates, and reconciles the differential diagnoses from multiple independent strategy processes. This intermediary manages the complexity by systematically integrating results from various processes, resolving conflicts, and synthesizing a unified comprehensive diagnosis, thereby shielding users from the underlying system complexity while maintaining diagnostic versatility.
4Reliability
If dynamic weighting is applied to reconcile diagnoses, then diagnostic reliability improves, but computational complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs dynamic weighting factors that adjust the influence of each diagnostic strategy process based on real-time performance metrics, patient-specific factors, and disease characteristics. This dynamics allows the reconciliation process to adaptively prioritize more reliable or relevant diagnostic approaches for each specific case, improving overall diagnostic reliability while the modular structure keeps computational complexity manageable through systematic weight application.
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AI summary
A method and system for computerized medical diagnostics is disclosed. Beginning with interacting with a patient or a healthcare professional via a diagnostic module to obtain patient health items, the system automatically obtains an initial differential diagnosis and multiple strategy differential diagnoses based on the patient health items. In one embodiment, each strategy differential diagnosis is obtained with different analysis criteria of the patient health items. At least a portion of the strategy differential diagnoses are compared and a panel differential diagnosis based on the compared differential diagnoses is determined. The initial diagnosis and the panel differential diagnosis are reconciled so as to recommend an action or provide a diagnosis to the patient or the healthcare professional.