Abstract: A method and system use a processor, video display and relational database to format, define, generate, maintain, distribute and analyze sets of related documents. The process stores document-specific data in a relational database. A computer-controlled video display guides the document author through the creation and maintenance of the documents, while enforcing the document structure and dependency rules. The creation of documents that relate to activities that require multiple actions at specified time points is driven by a time/action electronic matrix that serves as a central control mechanism for each document set; an example is a document set for use in clinical research studies of drugs.

Abstract: A method and a system for evaluation of a human disease by recording body sounds for extended periods of time by a microphone placed in contact with the body of the patient and using computer processing of body sound data to provide frequency domain and time domain sound amplitudes. A computer reads out a converted measurement of a sound taken by the microphone and places the data on the computer data bus for further processing. The method and system provide a diagnostic information on diseases, such as certain diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract and the heart, which generate abnormal body sounds and provide assessment of patient progress during treatment of such disease entities.