Abstract: A system (10) for personalization of patient pathways and treatment options includes a patient information database (32) which stores patient data relating to a patient's medical records. A patient personalization system (12) receives the patient's life-style values and preferences and evaluates choices of pathways and treatments and a clinical decision support system (18) generates choices of pathways and treatments from the patient data and the patient's lifestyle values and preferences.

Abstract: A system (10) for assessing the health of a patient includes one or more sensors (32) which generate medical data representing a patient's oxygen saturation and a health assessment system (12) which determines a recovery response from an oxygen desaturation event detected from the medical data and generates a health assessment based on the patient's recovery response. The recovery response being determined by at least one of determining a time period from a detection of the oxygenation desaturation event to the patient reaching predetermined oxygen saturation, determining an increase in the oxygen saturation after a fixed amount of time after detection of the oxygenation desaturation event, and determining a rate of an increase in the oxygen saturation.

Abstract: A decision support apparatus (100) includes a subject record database (102), a temporally dependent relationship identifier (104), an event predictor (130), a coded subject record database (106), a decision support system processor (108), and a user interface (110). The temporally dependent relationship identifier processes the data in the subject record database (102) to identify temporally dependent relationships in the data. Information indicative of the identified relationships is processed by the processor (108) and presented to a user via the user interface (110).

Abstract: A method of retrieving similar patient cases from a medical database includes matching a current patient case against a plurality of clinical profiles resulting in a set of matching clinical profiles. The method further includes determining a degree of membership of the current patient case in each clinical profile from the set of matching clinical profiles based upon a degree of match between the current patient case and the clinical profile. For at least one clinical profile from the set of matching clinical profiles, the method includes retrieving those similar patient cases from the medical database that have a substantially corresponding degree of membership as the current patient case.