192 results about "Clinical care" patented technology

A system and method relates to the field of building and administrating a patient management and health care management database containing data relevant to the clinical care of patients, to the management of the practices to which the patients belong, and to outcomes of that health care and practice management. The disclosed system encompasses (i) designing and administering paper and pen and hand held computer survey instruments; (ii) administering and collecting completed surveys (iii) building and managing a database of information collected from the surveys; (iv) analyzing data collected from the surveys; (v) and providing clinical practices with summary information. Summary information may be used to improve patient care, health outcomes, and the management of physician practices.

A system and method for accurately and reliably determining and recording the time, date and location where a medication is used, and a system and method for transmitting, collecting, and using that data to improve clinical care, disease management, and public health surveillance. The device allows information concerning drug usage, including the time, date and location of use, to be transmitted to a remote network computer system so that the data can be evaluated to determine current impairment and future risk, and to identify changes in the frequency, timing, or location of medication usage indicative of change in disease control or management, and to examine spatial, temporal or demographic patterns of medication use or absence of use among individuals and groups. In addition, the device may further be configured to transmit signals indicative of its status, condition or other results to the remote network computer system.

The present invention describes a method that is operative within a clinical environment in which real-time locations of personnel and resources are tracked. The method begins in association with entry of a patient into the clinical environment, such as when a patient is in transit, or has been admitted, to an emergency room or to a hospital. In response, a given care guideline is identified. Using the care guideline, a set of one or more process rules, and information associated with at least one “encounter,” the system generates a patient-specific care protocol; the protocol includes a set of steps through which the patient is expected to proceed while in the clinical environment. An encounter occurs when two or more of objects (e.g., the patient, clinical personnel, and a clinical resource) are in a given physical proximity for a given time period at determined by the at least one process rule. According to the method, at least one event that occurs during at least a first step of the patient-specific care protocol is then monitored. Using information generated by the monitoring step and at least one process rule, the system then determines whether the patient moves to a next step in the patient-specific care protocol.

The use of a medical software platform to collect, normalize, and aggregate clinical data. Supports clinical care and provides research and clinical tools for institutions, healthcare providers, researchers, and patients. The invention provides a graphical interface to customize searches in the database for specified subsets of conditions, treatments or outcomes. The invention also provides a system and method for searching through clinical databases for desired terms which may provide additional information to a physician regarding patient care. Furthermore, this invention facilitates personalized medicine-based practices as relationships between genetics, personal heath data from multiple sources, disease risk and drug response can be more easily visualized and utilized for patient care and research.

Improved systems and methods for collecting Protected Health Information (PHI) with or without the assistance of a physician scribe are described. Documenting a patient encounter utilizing a template-based charting system (either electronic or paper-based), and the tracking of this document status and patient clinical status throughout the encounter, for purposes of managing multiple patients and multiple patients' documents, as well as improved communication between providers and assistants. The systems and methods of this invention generally comprise an electronic records system for creating and maintaining information in electronic records; patient tracking system (either computerized or not) for managing tasks specific to provider documentation of specific clinical care actions and patient clinical status; complimentary utilization of medical history questionnaires which are designed to correlate with template-based charting tools; methods of communication between provider assistants (including physician assistants, nurses, secretaries, scribes, patients, or other assistants) to convey the status of the collection and management of the PHI, including patient history, patient examination, testing results, medical decision making, patient disposition plan, follow-up information and other elements of provider charting of PHI; sequence of patient tracking indicators that represent steps in the care of the patient, status of the document, and clinical or documentation-related tasks for completion by providers or provider assistants; improvements on a real-time compliance system for identifying the specific stage or status of each electronic record, and allowing providers and assistants to track this completion status, thereby streamlining documentation and compliance workflows.

A system and user friendly display interface supports creation and modification of a flexible and comprehensive organization structure model able to support provision of clinical care, patient tracking, billing and administration. A method provides a user interface for maintaining organization related information in support of organization operation. The method involves receiving search criteria for use in identifying organization characteristic information. The search criteria is employed in searching a profile comprising information identifying an encompassing organization structure including information identifying multiple constituent organizations and associated organization type and user determinable organization role. Search result information is processed in providing organization characteristic information suitable for presentation to a user via a displayed image in response to user command. A user interface menu supports modification of information representing the encompassing organization structure by adding, removing or moving an organization in the encompassing organization structure and updating a database to incorporate the modifications.

A system and method for accurately and reliably determining and recording the time, date and location where a medication is used, and a system and method for transmitting, collecting, and using that data to improve clinical care, disease management, and public health surveillance. The device allows information concerning drug usage, including the time, date and location of use, to be transmitted to a remote network computer system so that the data can be evaluated to determine current impairment and future risk, and to identify changes in the frequency, timing, or location of medication usage indicative of change in disease control or management, and to examine spatial, temporal or demographic patterns of medication use or absence of use among individuals and groups. In addition, the device may further be configured to transmit signals indicative of its status, condition or other results to the remote network computer system.

An improved tracheostomy tube providing a decreased tendency to produce rubbing, pressure necrosis, ulceration and scarring of the tracheal mucosa. The tube typically includes a rigid proximal section, a flexible intermediate section, a rigid distal section, and a beveled distal tip. The flexible intermediate section has a smooth surface and bends easily in response to pressure asserted by the tracheal walls, allowing the distal rigid section of the tube to remain in a parallel orientation relative to the tracheal lumen, The distal tip of the tube is beveled to provide a greater cross-sectional area at the tube's distal section. This beveled distal tip prevents the distal section of the tube from becoming obstructed by the back wall of the trachea or causing erosion of the tracheal mucosa. The distal tip also has a beaded or rounded edge, which further minimizes the risk of damage to the tracheal mucosa and provides a guide to the clinical care specialist during suctioning.

An integrated collaborative platform which allows for data sharing, data analysis, knowledge creation and sharing, problem solving, trading, and accelerated scientific discovery by collaborating teams which may be formed on an ad-hoc basis among users of the system is disclosed. The platform is designed to accelerate research and improve clinical care of chronic conditions. It provides a central place to facilitate interactions between the many different groups that participate in these activities. The central features of the system can be tailored to best suit each chronic condition.

The present invention offers a comprehensive solution to care management which aggregates, integrates and stores clinical information from disparate sources. The system finds at-risk individuals before they experience preventable, high-cost medical events and stratifies high risk populations according to clinical criteria, which can include severity of disease states and co-morbidities. The system also compares the actual care an individual is receiving to established standards of clinical excellence and, if necessary, suggests pertinent medical care considerations to improve the care of medically mismanaged individuals. Another feature of the present invention may include a secure, patient-specific Web page which is automatically populated with a patient's own clinical information and can be personalized with customized, relevant healthcare information. The system allows users to design, facilitate and monitor clinical care plans and increase communications among physicians, nurses and patients. The system also predicts and analyzes the outcome of disease or case management for populations and individual patients.

A change in viral tropism occurs in many HIV positive individuals over time and can be indicated by a shift in coreceptor use from CCR5 to CXCR4. The shift in coreceptor use to CXCR4 has been shown to correlate with increased disease progression. In patients undergoing HAART, the predominant populations of virus can be shifted back to CCR5-mediated entry after the CXCR4-specific strains have emerged. The present invention relates to a diagnostic method to monitor coreceptor use in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The present invention further relates to a diagnostic method applied to HIV-positive individuals undergoing HAART to monitor the suppression of CXCR4 specific strains. The diagnostic methods can be used to assist in selecting antiretroviral therapy and to improve predictions of disease prognosis over time.

The invention discloses a multi-purpose three-way connector for clinical care and a use method thereof. The multi-purpose three-way connector is characterized in that a valve core is installed on a T-shaped three-way valve body; a T-shaped channel is formed in the valve core; a T-shaped convex mark corresponding to the T-shaped channel is arranged on the top surface of the valve core; and a conical plug matched with a stomach tube horn mouth, a conical jack matched with the conical plug of a nasal feeding needle and a cylindrical jack matched with an infusion tube head are respectively arranged on three outlets of the three-way valve body. The multi-purpose three-way connector can be used for patient nasal feeding, urethral catheterization and bladder irrigation, thereby not only providing convenience for the operation of medical personnel, but also solving the pain of a patient.

A set of applications can access a specific patient's real-time or historical physiological data from a clinical care unit and calculate new disease specific physiological indicators or be a virtual physiological monitor for that patient. The applications are run on a remote server and push the resulting data to an endpoint device.

Electronic to-do lists are provided in a computerized healthcare environment for managing and documenting events during clinical care processes. A to-do list includes events that may need to be completed and, in some cases, documented during a clinical care process. As events are completed by clinicians during the process, the to-do list may be used to document the completion of the event. As such, clinicians may readily identify events that have been performed, as well as events that have yet to be performed. A to-do list may include timer functionality for timing events in the to-do list. Additionally, a to-do list may include reminder / alert functionality allowing clinicians to set reminders / alerts for events in the to-do list.

The invention is a method for making a three-dimensional visualization model of the internal structure of bone. In the method, a dry bone specimen is embedded and fixed by transparent polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) to form a model specimen, and then the cross-section of the specimen is ground layer by layer, two-dimensional grayscale images and true color images are scanned and recorded layer by layer, and then three-dimensional medical reconstruction software is used to obtain high-precision three-dimensional visual model of a proximal bone structure. The invention can be applied to three-dimensional reconstruction of bones of human bodies and animals, thereby obtaining the high-precision three-dimensional visual model which can objectively, truly and completely reflect the proximal bone structure. The method can carry out certain evaluation on the structural form of bone trabecula as well as the connectivity of three-dimensional bone trabecular, and can determine the structural parameters of bone trabecular, thus providing scientific basis for medical research and clinical care.

A system and related techniques generate and maintain a set of compliance-qualified data schemas or templates for deployment in a hospital or other clinical setting. According to conventional implementations, the clinical data required by regulatory reporting bodies such as CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) or other government or private bodies may not be systematically captured or track, so that compliance officers and other managers are left to reconstruct compliance data after the face, for instance from patient accounting systems or other platforms not designed to filter or store regulatory data. Platforms and methods according to the invention, in contrast, may access regulatory or compliance criteria and generate a data capture or documented care template, according to which various clinical measures and other information which are required by compliance bodies are automatically captured, at the point of care. Thus patient labs, tests, outcomes and other clinically related data may be conditioned to include that information demanded by regulatory standards, including lab ratios and others, and that data may be automatically recorded, stored, and in embodiments, transmitted to regulatory bodies or agencies, electronically. The regulatory data store that results may likewise in embodiments be accessed by analytic tools to model various compliance and clinical scenarios.

The present disclosure describes a system and method for updating and managing clinical care pathways for a healthcare institution. The system can create actions and protocols for care providers using a disease-specific database of recommended interventions. Further, the system can address gaps in care and stratify patient populations to project costs of healthcare services to a healthcare institution.

The invention discloses an anti-ageing medicine or health care food composition. The composition comprises the following components in percent by weight: 0-42% of resveratrol, 0-65% of anthocyanin, 20-98% of quercitin and 0.9-11% of vitamin C. All the components of the composition disclosed by the invention have a synergistic effect, the composition can cause drug efficiency to be improved in theaspects of antioxidation, ageing resistance and treatment on heart cerebrovascular diseases and the drug efficiency of the composition is better than the drug efficiency of a single component in the formula of the composition, and the effective rate of clinical care can be obviously improved. The dosage of each single component is relatively reduced by adopting the composition disclosed by the invention, thus an adverse effect caused by the way that one single component of the composition disclosed by the invention is used can be alleviated or reduced. The composition disclosed by the invention has the advantages of definite curative effect, no toxic or side effect, convenience during applications and low cost.

The invention discloses a wound cleaning and sterilizing device for clinical care in the technical field of medical instruments. The device comprises a base, a lifting rod, a tank body and a water collecting plate; the limbs of a patient are placed on the water collecting plate, a placing platform and a fixing platform are adjusted to the two sides of a wound, the cleaning and sterilizing range isreduced, the limbs are fixed through the fixing platform and a fixing bolt, and a waste liquid enters a waste liquid box to be collected through a water collecting tank so as to avoid cleaning of a sickbed; branch tubes communicated with a main pipe are switched through a rotary disc, thereby replacing flushing liquids for cleaning and sterilizing; a connecting cover drives a gear shaft and a driving gear to rotate, so that a driven gear drives a threaded rod to rotate, thereby making a lifting rod move, so that the tank body is located above the branch tubes and the main pipe all the time, thereby providing convenience for water to flow out; the connecting cover moves toward the inner side, and a bar-shaped magnet and an annular magnet attract each other, so that a rotating cover is fixed with the gear shaft, and the gear shaft is prevented from accidentally rotating. The wound cleaning and sterilizing device for the clinical care has the advantages that the structure is reasonable,the use is convenient, and the cleaning and sterilizing effect is good.

The invention belongs to the medical material technical field, in particular to a calcium alginate-chitosan composite membrane medical dressing and a preparation method thereof; the preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing and stirring calcium alginate solution and chitosan acetic acid water solution containing glycerol fully, preparing films, and drying the films to obtain the dried calcium alginate-chitosan composite membrane medical dressing of the invention. The composite membrane medical dressing prepared by the method has excellent functions of hemostasis and antibiosis, wounds healing and has good mechanical strength and flexibility without toxic and side effect. The medical dressing can be used as biomedical material for clinical care, thus promoting the hemostasis of wounds, reducing the probability of wound infection and promoting the healing of wounds. Skin disinfectant or water soluble antibacterial drug can be used as admixture in the composite medical dressing prepared by the invention to improve the antibacterial and disinfect ability thereof, thus being applicable to the therapy of various surfaces of trauma or burn wounds.

A system supports creation and modification of a flexible and comprehensive organization structure model able to support provision of clinical care, patient tracking, billing and administration via a user friendly display interface. A method maintains organization related information for use in supporting organization operation. The method involves establishing a profile comprising information identifying an encompassing organization structure including information identifying a plurality of constituent organizations. The profile incorporates attributes for constituent individual organizations including, a constituent organization type identifier, and a user determinable role identifier. The role identifier indicates a role of a constituent organization in the encompassing organization structure. The method also involves employing the profile in providing a user with information concerning a constituent organization in response to user command.

A computer implemented system facilities the submission of clinical events data to a reviewing agency by prompting for data needed to authorize the appropriateness of the event. The system directs an appropriate submission to authorize the event. The system further stores the patient clinical event data and presents the data for review. The system confirms that the clinical event is appropriate by referring to the input data and predetermined validation rules.

An evaluation system and method are provided for simulating clinical care of a virtual patient. A database of electronic medical records (EMRs) is established, with at least one EMR including a plurality of EMR items collectively profiling the virtual patient. A simulation management unit coupled to the database includes a plurality of selectively executable control modules. At least one control module defines a simulation scenario; and, at least one other control module generates a duplicate EMR of the virtual patient for each of a plurality of simulation participants. At least one evaluator station establishes interactive interface for an evaluator. A plurality of participant stations establish interactive access for the simulation participants to a corresponding one of the duplicate EMRs during a simulated clinical encounter with the virtual patient. The simulation management unit independently updates the duplicate EMRs for the simulation participants responsive to clinical actions respectively taken by those participants.

Systems and methods for data analysis include constructing patient traces as a set of medical events for each patient of a patient population, the patient population being segmented based on patient outcomes. Medical events in one or more of the patient traces are reduced to provide processed patient traces. The processed patient traces are clustered to identify a cluster of patient traces. A process model is mined, using a processor, representing an aggregation of treatment pathways in the patient traces from the cluster. Patterns from patient traces are identified that are discriminative of patient outcomes. At least one of the patterns is represented with respect to the process model to identify treatment pathways correlated with the patient outcomes.

The invention discloses a wound cleaning and disinfection device for clinical nursing in the technical field of clinical nursing. A nursing medicine bottle is installed on the top right side of the telescopic rod through a support rod, and a support frame is installed on the bottom outer wall of the nursing medicine bottle. The left and right sides of the bottom of the support frame are respectively equipped with a placement tank and a liquid separation box, and the top of the liquid separation box is communicated with the nursing medicine bottle through a water pipe, and the bottom of the liquid separation box is connected with a micro water pump through a water pipe, and the micro water pump The liquid outlet is provided with an infusion hose, the other end of the infusion hose is plugged with a handle of the central control, and the right end of the handle is equipped with a cleaning head through a connecting piece. The device has a simple structure and is easy to operate. The setting of the adjustable bracket facilitates the movement of the device, and at the same time facilitates the adjustment of the height of the device to adapt to the operation of the nursing staff, avoiding some other complications caused by washing the wound in the cold season because the temperature of the liquid is too low.

The invention relates to a dressing changing device for clinical nursing of limbs. The base plate is covered with a cover box, and the two ends of the cover box are respectively provided with limb protection sleeves and hole slots; the front of the cover box is provided with a visual window, and the top is provided with an operation window; An air jet valve is installed on one side of the opening of the operation window, and a slider a is installed on the other side. The upper groove of the slider a is connected with the bottom surface of the L-shaped chute, and the side of the L-shaped chute is connected with the slider b; A chute is fixed on the back of slider b, and the chute is connected with slider c; the present invention adopts the method of spraying in the cover box, which can effectively avoid the problem of medicine splashing around or its active ingredients being diluted; multi-axis control The way of clamping parts can enable the bandage to be bandaged on the wound at a very accurate position; the use of a one-time replaceable limb protector sleeve not only facilitates bandaging by medical staff, but also ensures the purpose of sterility.

An informatics platform provides an architecture to integrate information from relevant patient information systems. The informatics platform may include: a workflow tool that can be used to prepare and review information at multi-disciplinary board meetings; a visual timeline of patient events; a search engine to search for patients with specific attributes; a graphing tool that can display disparate clinical variables in a single chart; a virtual Pin Board for users to identify relevant patient information for board meetings; an image viewing application that can provide for comparison of images from different information systems; structured reporting functionality that incorporates system aggregated patient information and board recommendations; an application interface that integratesclinically relevant tools to provide patient specific references; a collaboration interface that facilitates communication of patient specific information and documents the discussion threads as independent reference points; and a default display of relevant patient information customized for each clinical specialty.

The use of a medical software platform to collect, normalize, and aggregate clinical data. Supports clinical care and provides research and clinical tools for institutions, healthcare providers, researchers, and patients. The invention provides a graphical interface to customize searches in the database for specified subsets of conditions, treatments or outcomes. The invention also provides a system and method for searching through clinical databases for desired terms which may provide additional information to a physician regarding patient care. Furthermore, this invention facilitates personalized medicine-based practices as relationships between genetics, personal heath data from multiple sources, disease risk and drug response can be more easily visualized and utilized for patient care and research.