A global physician-oriented medical information system

TL;DR

This paper introduces a global, internet-based medical information system designed to assist physicians with diagnosis and treatment, while enabling researchers to analyze large-scale health data for improved medical insights.

Contribution

It presents a novel physician-oriented system integrating diagnosis support, treatment optimization, and research data analysis in a unified platform.

Findings

Enhanced diagnostic accuracy through expert system assistance

Optimized treatment recommendations based on outcome data

Facilitated large-scale medical research and drug comparison

Abstract

We propose to improve medical decision making and reduce global health care costs by employing a free Internet-based medical information system with two main target groups: practicing physicians and medical researchers. After acquiring patients' consent, physicians enter medical histories, physiological data and symptoms or disorders into the system; an integrated expert system can then assist in diagnosis and statistical software provides a list of the most promising treatment options and medications, tailored to the patient. Physicians later enter information about the outcomes of the chosen treatments, data the system uses to optimize future treatment recommendations. Medical researchers can analyze the aggregate data to compare various drugs or treatments in defined patient populations on a large scale.