It all starts with the first form.

To illustrate the possibilities of knowledge synthesis, we will talk about the nursing care form at the entrance of a hospital complex in Porto Alegre. This schema shows part of the universe of mapped concepts related to patients in the care and diagnosis process. The complete mapped flow of information linked to patient care goes from the entrance, through outpatient care, and on to pre- and post-surgical neurology. Information on how to access the knowledge base can be found at graph.md.

The function of the model developed by graph md is to store the behavior of the action generated by the reasoning of the specialist doctor to arrive at a diagnosis defined through maps and also to relate information about the patient's symptoms to those existing in the maps. The knowledge synthesis technology defines a computational model to index the concepts and store the diagnoses. Patient information is entered through dynamic electronic forms and directly related to each respective symptom. In this process, the patient information is associated with the instance of a concept related to a map. Subsequently, the association with the concepts existing in the diagnoses is verified.

The concepts in the maps do not contain values but rather rules to validate the patient's information and relate it to the concepts in the diagnostic maps. For example: information is 10 years old, rule age between 8 and 12, in which case the verification is considered true. The system provides lists of patients related to the concepts saved in the consultations, in addition to enabling statistical analysis of the services performed and allowing the improvement of the existing maps, identifying more intelligent lines of reasoning.

The proposed architecture enables the creation of the execution environment for intelligent agents to assist in the medical diagnosis process. The graph.md platform defines the access standards for the basic components of the system (data layer) and interaction with users (presentation layer) with the provision of plugins. Thus, the result of the development of the CAD system is in the application layer. The knowledge base is designed in such a way that it allows integration with the database model of a hospital system. It is also important to highlight that the graph md electronic medical record system works independently of the intelligent model. The processes of this model can be “invisible” to the user if so desired. [analysis e1 audiobook]