1002 results about "Diagnosis laboratory" patented technology

The system described herein enables clinicians and researchers to use aggregated genetic and phenotypic data from clinical trials and medical records to make the safest, most effective treatment decisions for each patient. This involves (i) the creation of a standardized ontology for genetic, phenotypic, clinical, pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and other data sets, (ii) the creation of a translation engine to integrate heterogeneous data sets into a database using the standardized ontology, and (iii) the development of statistical methods to perform data validation and outcome prediction with the integrated data. The system is designed to interface with patient electronic medical records (EMRs) in hospitals and laboratories to extract a particular patient's relevant data. The system may also be used in the context of generating phenotypic predictions and enhanced medical laboratory reports for treating clinicians. The system may also be used in the context of leveraging the huge amount of data created in medical and pharmaceutical clinical trials. The ontology and validation rules are designed to be flexible so as to accommodate a disparate set of clients. The system is also designed to be flexible so that it can change to accommodate scientific progress and remain optimally configured.

A device that provides for both the collection of saliva and detection of at least one analyte therein, e.g., a drug, is provided. This device provides for rapid analysis of saliva samples, while also providing a convenient assay method that does not require the addition of extraneous reagents, or other materials. Thereby, this device can be used by non-laboratory personnel without risk of user introduced errors.

Systems and methods are provided for collecting, preparing, and / or analyzing a biological sample. A sample collection site may be utilized with one or more sample processing device. The sample processing device may be configured to accept a sample from a subject. The sample processing device may perform one or more sample preparation step and / or chemical reaction involving the sample. Data related to the sample may be sent from the device to a laboratory. The laboratory may be a certified laboratory that may generate a report that is transmitted to a health care professional. The health care professional may rely on the report for diagnosing, treating, and / or preventing a disease in the subject.

A method and apparatus for determining the progressive potential of a disease is disclosed. The forward to backward propagating second harmonic generation signal derived from a second harmonic generation instrument is used to assess the collagen microstructure of imaged body tissue by way of numerical values that are in turn used to determine the progressive or metastatic potential of the disease. The disease may, for example, be a cancer such as breast cancer, lung fibrosis, colorectal adenocarcinoma, or the like. The apparatus may include in vivo instruments or laboratory diagnostic instruments with methods disclosed herein.

A system identifies multiple medical conditions, observations, and laboratory test results using active sensors and predetermined rules to identify infected patients. An infection control and workflow management system includes a repository of worker information identifying healthcare workers for performing infection control tasks as well as worker associated communication data for use in informing healthcare workers of infection control tasks to be performed. A detection processor automatically detects infection in patients from multiple different sources including from at least one of, (a) a medical record evaluated upon admission of a patient to a hospital and (b) a laboratory test result. A workflow processor uses the worker information for automatically communicating a message to inform a healthcare worker of a task to be performed to initiate infection control tasks using communication data in response to detection of an infected patient.

A home test for measuring glycated albumin levels in saliva. The saliva sample is collected at home using a standardized saliva collection kit and mailed to a testing laboratory that performs the test and reports the result directly back to the customer via the internet. The home test can be used to monitor glucose control in diabetics and in healthy individuals. It may also be used as a diagnostic aid in identifying individuals with diabetes, or who are at risk of developing diabetes.

Devices and methods for performing a point of care blood, cell, and / or pathogen count or a similar blood test. Disclosed herein are systems that can be used to provide rapid, accurate, affordable laboratory-quality testing at the point of care. The systems described herein are capable of imaging and counting individual cells in a prepared cell sample (e.g., a peripheral blood smear or a blood sample prepared in a microfluidic device) or another prepared cell-containing sample without the need for a microscope or other expensive and cumbersome optics. The systems described herein are designed to eliminate or replace expensive, centralized clinical testing equipment and technical personnel. Such systems may include automated data reporting and decision support.

A method of facilitating patient examinations in a medical office includes the following steps performed via a handheld device: identifying an examination location of a patient; identifying one or more medical procedures to be performed, wherein the one or more medical procedures are selected from the group consisting of: laboratory analysis of biological samples obtained from the patient, diagnostic tests on the patient, patient vaccinations and / or injections, and preparing a medical prescription; displaying a patient examination summary, wherein the displayed summary includes patient identification information, patient location information, patient health status information, and a list of identified medical procedures; and communicating wirelessly the patient examination summary to a nurse station computer within the medical office.

The invention discloses a benzothiazole-cyanophenyl compound serving as a hydrazine fluorescence probe. The benzothiazole-cyanophenyl compound has a structural formula as shown in (I); the compound is prepared by performing cyclodehydration with bromobenzaldehyde and 2-amino-4-chloro thiophenol serving as the raw materials, then performing coupled reaction in order to connect with a bromobenzaldehyde derivate, and finally performing Knoevenagel reaction with malononitrile. The benzothiazole-cyanophenyl compound has the advantages that the raw materials are low in price and easy to gain, the synthetic route is simple, and the yield is relatively high; rigid structures such as benzothiazole and phenylacetylene groups are introduced into such a fluorescence probe, thus high fluorescence quantum efficiency is realized, and relatively high thermal stability and dissolubility are brought. The probe adopts the photoinduced charge transfer mechanism and the conjugate passivation mechanism, therefore, a response range respect to hydrazine can be expanded; the probe has the characteristics of being fast in response, high in sensitivity and high in selectivity, is suitable for being applied to safety detection of foods as well as safety detection of a laboratory, in particular applied to industrial wastewater monitor; and the probe has a wide application prospect in environment monitoring, ecological protection, disease diagnosis, industrial production and pollution discharge inspection.

Systems and methods are provided for collecting, preparing, and / or analyzing a biological sample. A sample collection site may be utilized with one or more sample processing device. The sample processing device may be configured to accept a sample from a subject. The sample processing device may perform one or more sample preparation step and / or chemical reaction involving the sample. Data related to the sample may be sent from the device to a laboratory. The laboratory may be a certified laboratory that may generate a report that is transmitted to a health care professional. The health care professional may rely on the report for diagnosing, treating, and / or preventing a disease in the subject.

Provided herein are flexible, microfluidic epidermal systems and methods useful in the analysis of biofluids for biomarkers corresponding to a variety of conditions and methods of use. The provided systems configured to create conformal contact with the skin to allow for medical testing or screening, either in situ or later external laboratory testing. The described devices and methods may be used for cystic fibrosis screening, glucose monitoring, drug and / or alcohol testing, creatinine monitoring, urea monitoring, pH measurement and dialysis treatment efficacy testing.