| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus for helping health care professionals create clinical protocols or assist in direct entry of medical finding into a chart by intelligently prompting a health care professional with medical findings associated with at least one medical finding which has already been entered in the protocol, is disclosed (fig. 2). First of all, at least one medical finding for a patient is inputted into the system (10) wherein each findings is assigned a point of value for each diagnosis within a knowledge base (22) . A total number of points for each diagnosis is then totalled for all the findings which have been entered into the system (10). The possible diagnose s are then ranked in descending point total and predetermined plurality of the highest ranked diagnoses are selected. Once the higher ranked diagnoses have been selected, the health care professional is prompted with additional findings associated with the selected diagnoses which have not yet been inputted into the clinical protocol.
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