Abstract: A method for risk evaluation, determining treatment options, and the assessment of tested treatment options is implemented by the use of specialized computing device. Reducing likelihood that the inventive method will not be implemented on account of the difficulty of introducing a computer into a typical physician-patient clinical setting is mediated by implementation on a handheld device which can unobtrusively be used by the physician in the presence of the patient and with ease, and without being so obvious to disturb the patient into believing that judgments are being made by a computer. Treatment options are provided in suggestion form in order to avoid automatic implementation of suggestions without the necessary input of physician judgment. The above advantages are achieved without the inherent unreliability of personal computing systems by use of a dedicated computing device. Costs are controlled by a minimally sized display and input keypad.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a method for establishing an electronic convention comprising providing a central server programmed with convention software adapted to register participants to a convention over a publicly accessible or privately accessible computer network, make available over the publicly accessible or privately accessible computer network information of interest to the participants to the convention, and receive information from the participants over the publicly accessible or privately accessible computer network. A plurality of screens are provided to participants from the central server, at least one of the screens including a hyperlink which may be clicked on to transfer traffic to a second server other than the central server, the second server performing at least one convention function.