creator Schaeffer, Anthony J. creator Frieder, Ophir A method for the construction and utilization of a medical records system capable of providing a continuous data stream of epidemiological data to the records system via kits provided to the symptomatic population to obtain and record an epidemiological profile in a searchable database by applying data mining or automated intelligence techniques whereby, when a valid epidemiological profile is established in the database, automated diagnosis and prescription of treatment may be had for patients presenting similar symptoms. Knowledge discovery techniques may further operate on the database to provide suggested courses of treatment for a virtual class of patients, epidemic threat awareness, and knowledge of drug resistance mutations by a pathogen without direct query of the database. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-03-20T17:50:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 7627489.pdf: 131278 bytes, checksum: 2e5bbd776a19cbe13e499acb27fc4bb7 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-20T17:50:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7627489.pdf: 131278 bytes, checksum: 2e5bbd776a19cbe13e499acb27fc4bb7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-12-01 Illinois Institute of Technology and Northwestern University 2012-03-20 2009-12-01 7,627,489 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2673 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access