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A Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy (PT / OT) system, method, and environment using game embodiments is disclosed. The game embodiments are created by qualified astute and assertive game developers, and thus are games first and foremost. This results in the games having a higher level of entertainment value, yet still providing important PT / OT functionality. The embodiments transform standard PT / OT exercises into fun and immersive virtual reality games which increases efficacy, patient retention, and value to physical therapists. The embodiments also enhance patient experience, ultimately resulting in better patient outcomes. Consequently, the embodiments drive up patient retention and reduce cancellations / no shows while stabilizing clinic cash flow.

A mobile position information based medical doctor-seeing reservation method and system are disclosed. Previously, a doctor-seeing time period of a medical institution is divided into a plurality of reservation units; each reservation unit has a vacancy state, a reservation state, a completion state and a temporary state; for the reservation unit in the temporary state, that candidate objects are temporarily adjusted is judged; a server sends an in-advance doctor-seeing inquiry to all the temporarily adjusted candidate objects; when a reply message, corresponding to the in-advance doctor-seeing inquiry, received by the server is agreement, according to a sequential order in a reservation sequence, the first temporarily adjusted candidate object is preferentially selected and directly adjusted to the reservation unit in the temporary state, and the reservation unit in the temporary state is switched to be in the reservation state from the temporary state; when all reply messages, corresponding to the in-advance doctor-seeing inquiry, received by the server are disagreements, or no reply exists, the server switches the reservation unit in the temporary state to be in the vacancy state from the temporary state.

The invention relates to a system with the support of the mobile payment of a social security card. The system comprises a hospital network service system, a third party payment platform and a medicalinsurance platform. The hospital network service system comprises an HIS hospital information management system and a mobile medical platform. The system can be conveniently and quickly connected tothe medical insurance of a mobile terminal, the real-time card-free settlement of medical insurance costs is achieved, and the payment of medical insurance reimbursable funds is not needed. At the same time, the development of a dedicated payment platform is not needed, the security of payment transactions can be ensured, the safety of each transaction is ensured to ensure the property security and information security of a user, and thus the user experience is improved at the greatest extent.

A method and apparatus providing orthodontic tooth movement (OTM) using a removable aligner, by providing a shaped removable aligner formed of a thermoplastic and moulded to an OTM fitting shape relative to the teeth of a patient; applying a layer of a gel to an inner surface of a teeth-receiving cavity of the thermoplastic aligner; locating the shaped removable aligner with the applied gel layer in a required OTM fitting position on the teeth of the patient to provide an effective OTM force on the teeth; wherein the gel layer substantially separates and spaces the aligner from the teeth while providing a force transfer mechanism from the aligner to the teeth.

A system and method for controlling and selecting sources in a room on a network. The system allows a remote viewer to create a virtual presence within the room by providing the available displays, corresponding to the sources, to the remote viewer. The system includes a standardizing technique for improving the communication and overall switching of data for streaming on a network. The system can include a recording server for performing dual recording of the video files in each of a local database and a remote database. A graphical user interface (GUI) display is provided to guide a local user through a medical procedure in the standardized system.

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes control and analysis circuitry having programming to acquire magnetic resonance (MR) data using coil elements of the MRI system, analyze the MR data, and reconstruct the MR data into MR sub-images. The system also includes a trained neural network associated with the control and analysis circuitry to transform the MR sub-images into a prediction relating to a presence and extent of motion corruption in the MR sub-images. The programming of the control and analysis circuitry includes instructions to control operations of the MRI system based at least in part on the prediction of the trained neural network.

A collimation system for a medical apparatus includes a collimation component having a laser emitting device, at least one photographing device, and a computing device. The laser emitting device is configured to the emit a laser beam to irradiate on a landmark on a body surface of a patient, the at least one photographing device is configured to take a photograph of a laser irradiation spot, and the computing device is configured to obtain a position of the laser irradiation spot by performing computation on images obtained by the at least one photographing device. The system further includes a moving component provided on the medical apparatus and configured to move to a target position for performing diagnosis or treatment. The medical apparatus automatically is configured to locate the moving component based on the position of the irradiation spot obtained from the computation.

The invention provides an online credit payment system and a payment method based on medical insurance real-time credit granting, so as to solve the technical problems of multiple payment times and long doctor seeing time when a user sees a doctor in the prior art. The payment system comprises a mobile terminal, a payment platform, a medical insurance center information management system and a hospital information system, wherein the mobile terminal provides identity information of the user for the payment platform; the payment platform requests a credit line based on the medical insurance card balance of the user to the medical insurance center information management system, and the amount corresponding to the credit line of the medical insurance card of the user is locked; the payment platform indicates the user to open credit payment to the hospital information system and the credit line of the user is indicated; according to a medical order, the hospital information system checks whether the credit line meets medical order execution requirements; and the hospital information system executes the medical order for the user. The system and the method are used for fee payment when the user sees a doctor.

A system and method for controlling and selecting sources in a room on a network. The system allows a remote viewer to create a virtual presence within the room by providing the available displays, corresponding to the sources, to the remote viewer. The system includes a standardizing technique for improving the communication and overall switching of data for streaming on a network. The system can include a recording server for performing dual recording of the video files in each of a local database and a remote database. A graphical user interface (GUI) display is provided to guide a local user through a medical procedure in the standardized system.

A system and method for detecting, timing, and adapting to patient motion during an MR scan includes using the inconsistencies between calculated images from different coil-array elements to detect the presence of patient motion and, together with the k-space scan-order information, determine the timing of the motion during the scan. Once the timing is known, various actions may be taken, including restarting the scan, reacquiring those portions of k-space acquired before the movement, or correcting for the motion using the existing data and reconstructing a motion-corrected image from the data.

The invention discloses a medical technology multimedia hospital guide system, which comprises a digital hospital information system, a hospital guide system, a hospital server and a patient mobile terminal, wherein the digital hospital information system is used for storing information and examination item information of a patient, the hospital guide system comprises a propaganda and education module, an indoor navigation module, a scheduling module and an administrator module, and is used for acquiring the information and the examination items of the patient, analyzing and processing the data of the examination item information and the examination room state and uploading the data to the hospital server to obtain hospital guide information, the hospital server is used for pushing hospital guide information to the patient mobile terminal, and the patient mobile terminal is used for receiving the hospital guide information, so that the medical technology multimedia hospital guide system can effectively shorten the waiting time of the current patient, popularize examination knowledge and improve the working efficiency of a medical technology department and the doctor-seeing experience of the patient.

The invention discloses a radiation diagnosis and treatment unit with a waiting room and a using method thereof. The radiation diagnosis and treatment unit comprises a waiting area, a diagnosis and treatment area and a medical care working area, wherein a diagnosis and treatment room and a radiation examination room are arranged in the diagnosis and treatment area, and the waiting room is arrangedoutside the diagnosis and treatment room and the radiation examination room; the waiting room is provided with a first entrance door and a second exit door communicating with an aisle; a second entrance door is arranged between the waiting room and the diagnosis and treatment room; a third entrance door is arranged between the diagnosis and treatment room and the radiation examination room; a first exit door is arranged between the radiation examination room and the waiting room; and an operation control system is arranged in the diagnosis and treatment room, identity recognition opening andclosing devices are arranged at the first entrance door, the second entrance door, the third entrance door, the first exit door and the second exit door correspondingly. The radiation examination workof the r radiation diagnosis and treatment unit cannot be disturbed, the privacy of a patient is protected, the working efficiency of the radiation examination process is improved, and the doctor-seeing experience of the patient is improved.

The invention provides a method and device of an abnormal attribute queuing rule reprogramming system for eye disease outpatient service. Patients who do physical examination returning, referral patients, consultation patients and triage patients are classified into queues of abnormal attribute queuing, and numbers of normal attribute visiting queues and abnormal attribute returning queues are arrayed into a current visiting sequence array according to a rule, so that the problems of out-of-order queuing in a visiting process of the patients, unbalanced working amount of doctors, noisy visiting environment and the like are effectively solved; the patients can know the visiting time; impatient mood caused by crowded queuing is avoided, a diagnosis awaiting field is ordered and the visitingexperience is good; the problem that existing first-visit patients and patients of the abnormal attribute queuing are crowded around the doctors in a consulting room is solved.

An ultrasound transmitter device for treating a patient is provided. The ultrasound transmitter device includes an imaging probe; an imaging array; and a therapeutic ultrasound device, wherein the imaging probe is configured to guide the therapeutic ultrasound device to the patients treatment site by use of ultrasound imaging with the imaging array, wherein the therapeutic ultrasound device is configured to produce a controlled intensity of ultrasound energy for treating the patients treatment site, and wherein the imaging probe and the therapeutic ultrasound device are configured to work in conjunction with one another to apply therapeutic ultrasound to tissue or bone graft sites in the patient.

Apparatus for a nuclear resonance imaging (MRI) machine that includes plasma elements. The MRI machine includes gradient coils that generate time-dependent gradient magnetic fields, transmitting elements that excite target molecules with RF energy, and receiving elements responsive to RF energy emitted by the excited molecules. The gradient coils include plasma conductors in which the plasma is ignited by an exciter. The plasma conductors are electrically connected to a gradient amplifier that outputs a signal to produce the gradient fields. The transmitting elements are plasma devices configured to emit RF energy. The receiving elements are plasma devices responsive to emitted RF energy. An RF exciter selectively and alternatingly ignites said plasma devices to avoid coupling and interference between them.

The invention discloses a breast X-ray photographic system with a temperature control function, comprising a body; the body comprises a main part and a photographic device mounted on the main part; the photographic device comprises a ray source for irradiating with X-ray, a compression plate for compressing an object under irradiation, a support plate for bearing the object under irradiation, andan imaging plate for outputting an image; both the temperature of the compression plate and the temperature of the support plate are adjustable. From the aspect of service-seeking experience of a patient and from considering the detail about differences between the temperatures of the support plate and compression plate and the temperature of a human body, the temperatures of the support plate andcompression plate are adjusted near to the temperature of the human body so as to provide improved service-seeking experience of the patient; therefore, the system is more humanized in design.

A system and method for controlling and selecting sources in a room on a network. The system allows a remote viewer to create a virtual presence within the room by providing the available displays, corresponding to the sources, to the remote viewer. The system includes a standardizing technique for improving the communication and overall switching of data for streaming on a network. The system can include a recording server for performing dual recording of the video files in each of a local database and a remote database. A graphical user interface (GUI) display is provided to guide a local user through a medical procedure in the standardized system.

The invention belongs to the field of hospital waiting-for-treatment, and provides a hospital waiting-for-treatment queue jumping prevention method and system. The hospital waiting-for-treatment queuejumping prevention method comprises the steps that a positioner, an inductor and a server are combined to judge whether the situation that a queue jumping person sees a doctor exists or not, and a prompting device gives different responses according to different situations so that one or more of a doctor-seeing patient queuing outside, a current diagnosis and treatment doctor and a related supervisor can obtain corresponding prompting messages. According to the hospital waiting-for-treatment queue jumping prevention method and system, the queue jumping phenomenon can be effectively reminded and prevented, meanwhile, the doctor-seeing waiting time of the patient is shortened, the doctor-seeing experience of the waiting-for-treatment patient is improved, and the service quality and efficiency of a hospital are improved.

A system and method for detecting, timing, and adapting to patient motion during an MR scan includes using the inconsistencies between calculated images from different coil-array elements to detect the presence of patient motion and, together with the k-space scan-order information, determine the timing of the motion during the scan. Once the timing is known, various actions may be taken, including restarting the scan, reacquiring those portions of k-space acquired before the movement, or correcting for the motion using the existing data and reconstructing a motion-corrected image from the data.

A collimation system for a medical apparatus includes a collimation component having a laser emitting device, at least one photographing device, and a computing device. The laser emitting device is configured to the emit a laser beam to irradiate on a landmark on a body surface of a patient, the at least one photographing device is configured to take a photograph of a laser irradiation spot, and the computing device is configured to obtain a position of the laser irradiation spot by performing computation on images obtained by the at least one photographing device. The system further includes a moving component provided on the medical apparatus and configured to move to a target position for performing diagnosis or treatment. The medical apparatus automatically is configured to locate the moving component based on the position of the irradiation spot obtained from the computation.

The invention provides a portable biopsy sampling gastroscope. The portable biopsy sampling gastroscope comprises a display mechanism and a gastroscope tube communicated with the display mechanism; amucus sampling mechanism is installed at the end, away from the display mechanism, of the gastroscope tube; the mucus sampling mechanism comprises a limiting cylinder, several sampling pieces and a driving assembly; the several sampling pieces are arranged in the circumferential direction of the limiting cylinder and used for sticking mucus; the driving assembly is used for driving the sampling pieces to move in the radial direction towards or away from the axis of the limiting cylinder; and each sampling piece comprises a sampling plate and several sampling bristles distributed on the sampling plate in an array mode. According to the portable biopsy sampling gastroscope disclosed by the invention, the problems that an existing biopsy sampling device for the digestive system department islong in sampling time, difficult to sample and poor in effect are solved; medical staff can conveniently complete biopsy sampling on the digestive tract of a patient in a short time; the biopsy sampling efficiency is improved; and the doctor-seeing experience degree of the patient is improved.

A computer-implemented system and method to improve patient care throughout the hospital continuum by creating a complete and accurate list of a patient's past and current medications and other treatment-related information are disclosed. The present system can be employed to review and compare the past and present medication records of the patients to provide them better care and treatment. The system includes a server running a medical reconciliation application having a number of modules including clinical and pharmacy information management modules for managing clinical and medication information of the patients. The system further includes a number of electronic devices in communication with the server for allowing the users to access the clinical and medication information of the patients. The present system provides a standardized comprehensive clinical and medication reconciliation process for the patients through an interactive user interface of the medical reconciliation application accessible through the electronic devices.

Example embodiments provide real time quality monitoring of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. Data associated with an MRI scan of a particular patient is received. The data is sequential MRI data associated with various times. A rate of change of the sequential data is determined with reference to the various times. It is determined whether the rate of change of the sequential data meets a first configurable threshold. It is determined whether the rate of change of the sequential data meets a second configurable threshold. The sequential data is classified based on whether the rate of change of the sequential data meets the first and second configurable thresholds.

Shielding devices can be used during medical procedures. For example, this document describes drape-like devices that can be attached to an endoscope shaft, to a primary drape, or directly to the patient. The drape-like devices promote patient privacy during procedures that access the patient's body orifices. Garments are also described that promote patient privacy and patient protection during procedures, examinations, medical events like childbirth that involve access the patient's body orifices such as urogenital and anal orifices.

A representative embodiment of a hospital bed caddy is disclosed, comprising: a housing having a base panel with a first opening and one or more side panels coupled to the base panel to form a plurality of compartments, including first and second compartments; a bed rail attachment; a plurality of electrical interfaces arranged in the second compartment; a plurality of electrical cables arranged in the first opening, with each electrical cable coupled within the second compartment to a corresponding electrical interface; and a cable harness or sheath coupled around the plurality of electrical cables. A cover panel may be included, with the cover panel separating the second compartment from the first compartment, and with the electrical interfaces being user-accessible from within the first compartment. Various embodiments may also include one or more slots in the various panels and a moveable extension arm with a mobile device mount.

The invention discloses a method for digitally and accurately manufacturing dental restorations. At the clinical end, resins with suitable strength, color, toughness, and hardness, resin-based ceramic composite materials, high-strength wax, and other materials that are easy to mill and grind are used to quickly manufacture crown substitutes. ;Using each patient's own gums as the articulator, through the communication and inspection between the clinician and the patient, and using the clinically fine-tuned digitally produced crown as the medium, to establish the correct geometry, color, edge tightness, adjacency and occlusion of the restoration relationship and the shape required for the early healing of the gingiva, etc., to achieve temporary restoration--protection, maintenance and stability; the doctor will then conduct a second accurate scan of the crown that has adjusted the shape, occlusion and adjacency relationship, The second scan data is fused with the previously designed digital wax-up data to obtain an accurate digital design of the dental restoration, accurately replicating a bionic zirconia denture, and achieving zero grinding and precise restoration at the doctor's end.

A locking device is disclosed for use with a resilient flexible endostomal tracheostoma button. Commonly used trachostoma buttons include a retaining lip situated at one end of a cylindrical portion that is insertable into the stoma of the patient and serves to retain the button in position in the stoma. The locking device invention is a hollow cylindrical tube that is removably inserted into the tracheostoma button after insertion of the tracheostoma button into the patient's stoma. One end of the locking device includes an insertion stop radial protrusion for proper positioning of the locking device within the button. The locking device internally supports the walls and retaining lip of the tracheostoma button and substantially increases the retaining force of the lip, thereby reducing awkward ejection of the tracheostoma tube, such as during patient coughing.

The invention discloses a hospital patient treatment assisting system which is composed of an RFID tag device, an RFID read-write device, a data collector and a server, the RFID tag device is used for recording identity information of a patient, and the RFID read-write device is used for reading the identity information of the patient stored in the RFID tag device; according to the invention, the area where the patient is located can be rapidly identified, the people flow rate of the area can be automatically counted, when the people flow rate of a certain area is too large, a hospital guide person is automatically reminded to intervene for guidance, and whether the area where the patient is located has registration information or settlement information or arrearage information can be rapidly identified; if yes, the patient is automatically queued, the patient does not need to manually take a number for queuing, especially the old patient or the patient with difficulty in moving is facilitated, the queuing efficiency is effectively improved, meanwhile, the risk of cross infection does not occur, and the patient has good doctor-seeing experience.

The invention discloses an intelligent assistance method and system for medical treatment, intelligent equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: presetting a plurality of medical treatment nodes arranged in sequence; acquiring a doctor-seeing request of a user, and receiving online information corresponding to each doctor-seeing node in a doctor-seeing hospital in real time; according to the doctor seeing request, the online information and the plurality of doctor seeing nodes, generating and displaying doctor seeing information corresponding to each doctor seeing node; and receiving diagnosis completion information in the online information corresponding to the previous doctor-seeing node, and generating and displaying guide information corresponding to the current doctor-seeing node according to the doctor-seeing information corresponding to the current doctor-seeing node. According to the invention, decision cost and time cost of medical treatment of the user can be reduced, and medical treatment efficiency of the user is improved.