Abstract: Diagnostic enhancement procedures involve identifying a complete or substantially complete diagnosis code for a patient in response to receiving a query related to a search for a patient diagnosis code followed by entry of patient clinical criteria by a user, such as a clinician. The query may include entry of a procedure and/or procedure code the results of which the user suspects will result in a complete diagnosis and/or diagnosis code. The complete or substantially complete diagnosis code is used in combination with the patient's clinical criteria selections to generate a procedure recommendation and corresponding procedure code. A parent or child diagnosis code is identified and used to select an appropriate procedure recommendation decision tree, where branches of the decision tree are assigned a particular parent or child code, and patient clinical criteria selections are used to narrow the diagnostic recommendation to a specific procedure and corresponding code.

Abstract: A medical diagnostic enhancement method and system for determining diagnostic tasks to fine-tune a patient diagnosis based upon a possible diagnosis and acquired data for the patient. With this method, a presenting problem is received. Responsive to the presenting problem, particular patient data is then collected. Next, based on predetermined criteria, a plurality of possible diagnoses are presented for selection by a user. The user is then provided with a recommended diagnostic task based on the selected possible diagnosis. The system is a repository of the results of the diagnostic task or it can continue to process the patient data for other suspected diagnoses.