illness index online with Winfy

We have hosted the application illness index in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about illness index:

A computer scientist has attempted to program a textbook of British general practice (primary care) medicine, that is, Hodgkin K (1978) "Towards Earlier Diagnosis.", 4th Edition, Churchill Livingstone.

If a patient types presenting findings (such as headache, cough), the program prompts the user for expansion/denial of appropriate findings, in order to construct a list of patient findings. The program also calculates a list of likely diseases, which the user can use the web to find out more about.

The program has about 600 diseases and 1000 findings.

Keywords - disease, health, healthcare, illnesses, illnessindex, illness_index.

Features:

• Patient mode - the user chooses findings - symptoms/signs - and the computer prompts for other appropriate findings and then provides a list of possible diseases.
• Student mode - the program constructs a "paper patient", and the user chooses questions to ask the computer and then suggests a list of possible diseases. The computer comments.
• Demonstration mode - the computer carries out both tasks (1) and (2), so that the user can simply watch the work up.
• Future work. More diseases need adding. The file med.pl needs reviewing or rewriting by a medical doctor. The program needs a much better user interface.

User interface: Command-line.
Programming Language: Prolog.
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