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We just read in article 1 about the very extensive biochemical makeup of the human organism, and how it relates to clinical laboratory science. Now let’s see how clinical laboratory science takes advantage of that biochemical makeup with many almost unbelievable breakthroughs and what those breakthroughs could mean to you. Some of the recent breakthroughs made in clinical laboratory science can be viewed by clicking on the link at the end of this article.

When we observe the direct relationships of enzymes to all our major organs and body functions, it gives us some idea of the enormous insight these clinical laboratory tests can provide into the function of the human organism. And, this involves not only the enzymes, but also the hormones, antibodies and the many other special proteins as well. This is an enormous amount of vital health data that needs to be fully exploited for the benefit of the public.

It was very surprising as to the amount of advanced analytical data found available during research. It was found to be very exciting because, under the right conditions, of the great potential that such developments could provide in terms of health care. When one looks closely at the availability of this very extensive and highly advanced analytical data on one hand, and the high levels of chronic disease and suffering on the other, it becomes obvious that what is needed is some means of harnessing these analytical elements and relating them directly to human health on a broad scale basis, for the purpose of reducing chronic disease and raising the level of wellness. So how can the public possibly hope to capitalize of such massive amount of such vital health related information? Obviously an electronic processing system of some sort would be required to process the data and relate it to human health and wellness.

Such a system would take clinical laboratory science to a new and different level of application. In addition to its limited use in testing a patient for a disease or lack thereof (which is primarily what clinical laboratory science is used for today) it would also be applied to individuals, on a broader scale, for the purpose of analyzing a state of wellness. Such an application would not in any way interfere with its present use on the disease level.

Basically, instead of using clinical laboratory science for one, or even several tests, to evaluate a disease condition, there would be a very broad application of highly selected blood tests, given to a person in a state of apparent wellness. This would include up to 100 separate blood tests called constituents which would be processed from one blood sample drawn from the individual (likely even more than 100 tests would eventually be used). For maximum effectiveness, the tests selected, and even the exact quantity, would be determined by the clinical laboratory scientists and other medical experts. They would carefully select the most ideal 100 blood tests for this type of application. This overall set of tests is called a profile. Once the profile is applied to an individual (or patient), that individual’s test results are referred to as a profile pattern.

If we were to use 100 tests for example, each of the 100 tests would reflect a reading at one of a number of possible output levels. For discussion purposes we will use 5 possible levels. The actual number of graduations would no doubt vary somewhat. Significantly, even though we have 100 individual bits of information, as significant as each of those special test results would be, the amount of available information is not limited to those 100 individual bits of data. This is a major consideration in the design of this type of system.

The 100 test profile pattern would be analyzed by the computers by reading the test result level of each individual test, and then relating each of those test results to one another and thus establishing a specific combination. At only 5 possible levels for each test, we end up with literally trillions of possible combinations, each of which could be significant in terms of vital health information.

But, before even the design of such a computer system is discussed, another issue needs to be discussed, the careful consideration of confidential patient information especially as it relates to the use of large computer systems. The confidentiality of medical records is of course very important to everyoneespecially so in this information agethe public would not allow it to be compromised.

Great care must be exercised in avoiding any such exposures in the design of a large computer system, or even the implied threat of any such exposures. However, on the other side of the coin, it would be very sad indeed if, for whatever reason we were blocked from taking full advantage of our most powerful technology, the computer, in assisting us with our most precious asset, our health.

Fortunately, such a system can be designed to completely avoid the confidentiality issue. No confidential patient medical data would need to be either, transmitted to, or stored in, any of the large computer systems. All confidential patient data would be completely contained in the physician’s office, same as the current policy. This is a system that would provide for the full use of the supercomputer power that we do so desperately need. Computers are used for many types of applications today, as most of us are aware, this application would be taking advantage of the assimilative and correlative powers of the machine.

In addition to the above special computer processing design features to prevent the possible exposure of confidential patient data, an added feature could also be easily designed into the overall system that would greatly improve the confidentiality of medical records even stored in the doctor’s office.

The underlying the (core) strength, of the new revolutionary medical system–the best of two worlds. A new application of Clinical Laboratory Science.

-Link to pages 43-47 http://vibranthealthplus.com/pages43-47

W D Wood author of book and article. An electronic engineer with a background in large computer system design and research–Link to author http://vibranthealthplus.com/aboutauthor

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Please observe hand-out A. To view handout A see link at end of article

This article is about a discussion of the new sophisticated health care system suggested in article 2.
I am going to intentionally jump right into the middle of how the profile pattern such a system would be applied, so don’t be concerned if you are unable to fit all the pieces of the system together immediately.

Hopefully this block diagram in handout A will help bring the 100 test profile pattern of health information more into perspective to give you a better idea as to the extreme breadth and depth of the information gathering capacity of this system. I might add here that the same laboratory (100 test) profile is used thorough-out the system–at both the national research center and the state diagnostic centers.

The top block diagram represents the 100 separate tests at five graduations each–approximately 100 dots across with five lines of dots representing the 5 possible test levels for each test.

Below this block, on the left side of page, you see the two block diagrams that represent the individual’s health as well as environment. We know that any blood test taken reflects directly on our health and indirectly on our environment. This is represented on the far left with the dotted lines and arrows, showing that the blood tests reflect on both.

The vertical line extending from the bottom of the large 100-test block represents connection of the output of the 100 test profile pattern to both the research center (lower right) and the state diagnostic center.

In addition to the profile pattern test result information, the new medical research information system also needs to know just what the individual’s actual physical environment and present health conditions are. In other words, just what is it physically that those 100 blood tests are actually representing, what are they testing? We will be discussing environmental issues shortly and we will come back and explain the environmental report data. As for the health data output, shown here, that will be information provided by the physician as the result of a physical examination, including patient and family health histories.

All of the data fed into the State Diagnostic Center
and the National Research Center are provided by the physician’s officeincluding the results of the blood tests, the environmental report, and the patient’s physical examination report.

Please note that this information, being all from one individual, is referred to as case #1 where it enters the National Research Center on the lower right hand section of the chart. The same information is fed into the state diagnostic center, but for now we will skip over that, and concentrate on the Research Center. Please note that on the bottom of the Research Center block diagram, there is also a line that represents a reflection of tens of millions of other cases of input. All of the above input information would be repeated tens of millions of times from tens of millions of individuals (The motivation needed for use of the system by individuals and patients is fully discussed in the book. There would be very strong motivation even in the early stages of the system).

Now, if you would, please refer to the far lower left-hand corner of the handout for a minute, in order to better understand why (and how) the 100 individual tests provide far more information than the 100 individual bits of data. Let’s take a look at a situation that most of us are very familiar with. Among other considerations, common tests by our doctor during an office visit are body temperature and two blood pressure measurements. I have these three tests shown, drawn in at one of ten possible levels.

As an example let’s say your body temperature was very high, at 106. Now that in itself would of course be very significant, but it would obviously not provide the doctor with enough information for an accurate diagnosis. Say we now bring the blood pressure tests into the picture, the doctor would also of course need to know what those specific test level results were. Now there are three test result levels involved and if the results of any one of the three vary significantly it could obviously affect the diagnosisof what our physical condition is. Most of us realize how important these test level results are. So, the diagnosis is, in effect, limited to the relationship of the individual test results to each other, which will be referred to for simplification as the “combination of the test results”. We can see that each combination of test the level results would represent a certain health related condition, — especially with the use of more tests.

Also, to illustrate the rapid buildup of test result data, it’s difficult to believe, that mathematically we actually have 1000 possible combinations involved in this limited three test example. These are combinations that could be read by a computer for possible meaningful results. All 1000 combinations would not likely provide meaningful information and of course could be eliminated where it was shown that those particular combinations were of little or no value. However, one could expect a large percentage to be of significance, especially so if the computer were used to also correlate all of the possible results directly to human health conditions.

Above we can see the enormous information correlating capacityof the proposed system and how that capacity could provide dramatic health related results. It also compares that type of information evaluation directly to a typical doctor’s office visit.

W D Wood author of book and article. An electronic engineer with a successful background in large computer system design and researchfor more information on author please link to http://vibranthealthplus/aboutauthor

To view handout A click on this link http://vibranthealthplus.com/handouta

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