How to Identify Rheumatic Diseases by General Physicians

Project

This project is a field investigation, applied to medical area on the Rheumatology specialty related with Clinical Semiology and the Information Technology. It is in itself, an automated medical tool to identify joints affections, based on an Intelligent Agent from Artificial Intelligence specialty, based on the heuristic compilation of the tacit knowledge of rheumatologists. This study tries to associate the factors than relate the support process on Information Technology on a General Doctor, towards a modern tool as didactic software, which facilitates the most common rheumatic’s affections identification.

This identify tool has a section of rheumatic inflammatory conditions and a section of rheumatic non-inflammatory conditions. Inflammatory conditions referred to joint. In the section of inflammatory conditions the user will find windows that include the different aspects of the joint disease that must be considered in diagnosis such as kind of onset, number and size of involved joints, topography of the arthropathy and symmetry of involvement. The section of non-inflammatory conditions considers only localized, regional and generalized involvement. Both sections follow a reasonable and logic algorism that allows reaching diagnosis of the rheumatic conditions included in the diagnostic tool.