John H. Frenster, M.D., FACP
Physicians' Educational Series, 247 Stockbridge Avenue, Atherton, California, 94027-5446, USA.

E-mail:  frenster@euchromatin.net
Phone:   +1 650 367 6483
Fax:   +1 650 364 1773

The clinical care of a patient consists of preventing disease, diagnosing disease, staging disease, treating the patient, and rehabilitating the patient. These phases of care are often fragmented and distributed over time to different clinical groups.

Articial Intelligence techniques encompass these complex phases, and provide optimal analyses and interventions within such complex systems. The mathematical aspects of analysis and decision can be emphasized by these computer programs, and can be used to teach physicians to think mathematically about each of their patients' problems. A series of 5 interactive artificial intelligence programs for IBM-PC, DOS 2.0 or higher, Physicians' 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 has been developed to analyse the phases of clinical prevention, clinical diagnosis, clinical staging, clinical therapy, and clinical rehabilitation of individual patients, utilizing up to 10 physician consultants per case. These 5 computer programs give the original physician an opportunity for data input, data analysis, and outcome formulation (Nature 207: 1139 (1965). During the program run, they teach the original physician and each consulting physician to consider the mathematical aspects of presentation, data analysis, and  outcome in each of the 5 programs for each phase of the patient's illness and recovery.

These 5 microcomputer programs are available individually or as ordered in groups, and special versions of each program allow up to 200 physicians to participate as consultants or students during instructional class use.

References:

1. Saaty TL, and Alexander JM, "Thinking with Models. Mathematical Models in the Physical, Biological, and Social Sciences", Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1981.

2. Frenster JH, "Analysis of Queueing and Renewal within Human Systems", Nature 207: 1139-1140 (1965).

3. Saaty TL, "A Scaling Method for Priorities in Hierarchical Structures", J. Math. Psychol. 15: 234-281 (1977).

4. Schwartz WB, Patil RS, and Szolovits P, "Artificial intelligence in Medicine", New Eng. J. Med. 316: 685-688 (1987).

5. Shortliffe EH, "Computer Programs to Support Clinical Decision Making", J. Am. Med. Assoc. 258: 61-66, (1987).

6. Frenster JH, "Artificial Intelligence Programs for Physicians", J. Am. Med. Assoc. 258: 286 (July 10, 1987).

Introductory Offer:  Program 2 (Clinical Diagnosis) Offerred FREE on Request.

1. "Medical Systems Analysis in Health and Disease". (1960-Present).

2. Frenster JH, "Medicine 275: Systems Analysis of Latent Disease. A seminar series analyzing the concepts, methods, and results which permit the early detection of disease in asymptomatic patients".
Stanford University School of Medicine Catalog, 1972.

3. Frenster JH, "Medical Grand Rounds: Computer-Assisted Medical Diagnosis", Dec. 1987.

4. Frenster JH, "Expert Systems and Open Systems in Medical Artificial Intelligence", 1989.

5. Frenster JH, "Matrix Cognition in Medical Decision-Making", 1989.

6. Frenster JH, "Medical Grand Rounds: Matrix Cognition in Clinical Medicine", Sept. 1989.

7. Frenster JH, "Tensor Analysis of Matrix Cognition During Medical Decision-Making", 1993.

8. Frenster JH, "Clinical Freedom WebSite", 1996-Present.

9. Frenster JH, "The Educational Role of the Chromatin and Euchromatin Networks", 2000.