76 results about "Health facility" patented technology

A system and method for evaluating hand decontamination compliance in a medical care facility includes a plurality of patient stations; a plurality of hand hygiene stations; personnel tags for personnel in the medical care facility; readers at the patient stations and at the hand hygiene stations capable of detecting the presence of personnel tags; and a controller for detecting whether a personnel tag accessed a hand decontamination station before presence at one of the patient stations. In an alternate embodiment, personnel tags of healthcare workers and patients are tracked in space within the facility to indicate contacts between the healthcare workers and the patients and whether the healthcare workers accessed hand hygiene prior to the contact. Hand hygiene stations include hand washing stations and antimicrobial hand rub dispensers.

A patient care monitoring system and method employ active RFID devices integrated with digital processing, memory and timing circuitry for patient identification, care giver identification and for identification of each prescribed treatment, procedure, medication and general and / or special care action. At the point-of-care, each care action identity device will match directly with the targeted patient identity device or issue an error warning to prevent mistakes. The patient identity device will also interact with an associated sensor network to proactively prompt care givers to provide general care actions, such as altering a patient's laying position, changing bed pan / clothing / bed sheet, etc. for invalid patients. Also the patient identity tag will furnish periodic records of every care action, mistakes, remedies, care givers' identities and time and date for a central processor of a healthcare facility to monitor the quality of patient care. Such record can also be potentially accessed via the Internet by the responsible regulatory agencies, accreditation associations, insurance firms and even patients' families to ensure patient care is meeting the standards as well as medical billing accuracy.

The present invention provides a system for collecting, anonymizing, and communicating information collected from medical pumps without the need for additional effort by medical care professionals. The pump / multi-pump derived information can be aggregated between hospitals and across healthcare institutions to provide global overviews of pump performance and drug use information. This information can assist with the delivery of healthcare by providing automatic guidance warnings, for example, deviating from established ranges for common delivery rates; trend monitoring to anticipate needs of the health care community based upon global health trends; and allocation of healthcare equipment by monitoring the total operating time and lifecycles of the pumps. Knowledge derived from this pump / multi-pump derived information can be used in an administrative capacity and to develop evolving advisory protocols for users of pumps comparing real-time pump protocols to those appropriate for a given drug.

A system and method for a comprehensive interactive graphical representation of a health care facility for managing patient care and health care facility resources. The system comprises an integrated enterprise health care information system including at least one data repository for storing data and at least one graphical user interface for accessing data. The graphical user interface comprises a display area for displaying a graphical representation of all areas of the at least one health care facility. The graphical representation is preferably an interactive map of the at least one health care facility stored in the data repository. Because the graphical representation of the at least one health care facility is integrated within the enterprise health care information system, it allows a user access patient data and health care facility resource data, perform actions on the displayed patients and health care facility resources, and manage patient care and health care facility resources.

This invention deals with an enhanced medical treatment system which seeks input from the patient and the physician about the medical problems faced by the patient. It analyzes this information and seeks to guide physicians to a correct diagnosis of the complaint. It also seeks to educate the patient about his / her medical problems and provides information about the problem. It is able to store all this information, so that a continues record of the patient's visits and problems is kept on file and the physician is able to utilize the medical history to solve the patient's current problems. With this system in place the medical establishment will be able to improve health care delivery to the patients and be able to better manage the process of the providing health care. Furthermore, this system will also lower the cost of providing health care without compromising on the quality of health care.

A method for transmitting personal health information from a databank to a health facility. An individual's health information is stored in a database, and the information is sent to authorized users as needed. The information is stored in the database by coding an individual's private file with a unique identifying number. The individual is provided with an electronically readable identifier (ERI) that corresponds to the unique identifying number. The ERI can be scanned by medical personnel with the appropriate scanner. The scanner is authenticated by the database, and the information corresponding to that individual is sent back to the scanner for use by the emergency medical personnel. The health information can also be sent to a hospital. The entire process requires authentication of the medical personnel and validation of the ERI for security purposes.

A system and method for control of prescription drug packaging and dispensing machines located in an in-patient health care facility including centralized control and enhanced communication between system components. Delay and errors in processing item data in the prescription dispensing system are reduced by using concise ID data incorporated into each canister memory chip and storing canister contents data elsewhere. Canisters are configured in a pharmacy using interchangeable parts. Data being processed is synchronized by a combination of user tokens (who), data identifiers (what), and unique Ids for the entities in the system (where). The foregoing combination enables substantial efficiency improvements and error reduction.

A method and apparatus of detecting a bio-emergency, including receiving patient health information at a plurality of health care facilities. The patient health information, preferably triage data, is transmitted simultaneously with the receiving step to a bio-surveillance network for pooling and further analysis. In particular, the patient health information is then compiled to create, for example, volumetric health data. The information preferably is transmitted over a multi-level network including a number of local health care facilities such as hospital emergency rooms, a number of regional repositories such as regional health departments, and a centralized recipient such as the CDC. The local health care facilities communicate vertically with the regional repositories that, in turn, communicate vertically with the centralized recipient and possibly horizontally with other regional repositories. The centralized recipient can then transmit related information such as a health warning to the other members of the network and / or to other authorities.

A universally functional biomedical electrode is disclosed, where the electrode has a resistive element that reduces edge effect by a redistribution of current within the electrode and in mammalian tissue contacting the electrode. In one embodiment, the electrode has at its perimeter in one layer the resistive element that provides a cross-sectional area to reduce edge effect regardless of the type of biomedical instrumentation connected thereto. With the construction of other layers suitable for multifunctional electrode usage, this electrode can serve as a single item in inventory at health facilities.

A method for transmitting personal health information from a databank to a health facility. An individual's health information is stored in a database, and the information is sent to authorized users as needed. The information is stored in the database by coding an individual's private file with a unique identifying number or alpha-numeric sequence. The individual is provided with an electronically readable identifier (ERI) that corresponds to the unique identifying number or alpha-numeric sequence. The ERI can be scanned by medical personnel with the appropriate scanner. The scanner is authenticated by the database, and the information corresponding to that individual is sent back to the scanner for use by the emergency medical personnel. The health information can also be sent to a hospital. The entire process requires authentication of the medical personnel and validation of the ERI for security purposes.

Disclosed is a computerized method and system for estimating treatment costs for a health care product and / or service for a health care patient. The estimate of health care costs is calculated before the patient is discharged from the facility providing the health care product or service. The estimate of health care costs may also be performed prior to any treatment or admission to the health care facility of the health care patient. The estimate of treatment costs may include a patient payable amount that estimates the cost of the health care product / service that will be the patient's responsibility. The health care patient may be billed for the health care product or service prior to discharging the health care patient and / or prior to providing the health care product or service to the health care patient. If desired, a loan for the estimated patient payable amount may be arranged and / or provided to the health care patient to pay for the patient's portion of the cost for the health care product and / or service.

A method, system, computer program product and apparatus related to managing and disseminating information in a health care facility is disclosed. The system may comprise a plurality of input devices, a processor connected to the input devices and a plurality of electronic output devices connected to the processor. The output devices may include a master patient information display, an electronic patient room information display, a master precaution display, a patient hourly rounding display and an individual room precaution display. The method may comprise receiving from at least one input device data associated with a plurality of patients, and displaying for each patient the information, based on the data received, that is associated with each patient, and then updating on each output device the information when it changes.

A monitoring apparatus and method for a hospital or other health care facility includes a plurality of sensors for determining operating states of a plurality of devices, respectively. The devices may include a refrigerator for storing blood, medicine, foods or other substances requiring close monitoring, as well as a lock box drug cabinet, for example. Each sensor provides operating state information to a transceiver, which outputs it to an access point. The access point provides the received information to a server, which determines, based on the received information, whether or not personnel at the hospital need to be notified in order to correct a problem with one or more of the devices being monitored.

The present invention, defined as MEGICS (Medical+Logics), has been developed in order to improve quality of care and enhance the efficiency of operation of healthcare facilities and providers. When front-line healthcare doctors and nurses make various clinical decisions, MEGICS management system can provide them with relevant clinical knowledge in a timely manner. MEGICS management system can, therefore, increase the level of user satisfaction and provide patients with better quality of healthcare services. The Inventor believes that the present invention, MEGICS, can penetrate a new market and be easily adopted by healthcare facilities, due to its flexible system structure, experience-based approach, and user-friendly features.

A method for connecting a patient to a plurality of healthcare facilities in proximity to the patient includes providing a web-based interface portal for medical professionals of each of the plurality of healthcare facilities and providing a mobile application for the patient on a mobile device, the mobile application communicating with a medical information storage database for storing patient health information. The method further includes enabling the patient to conduct a search for the plurality of healthcare facilities in proximity to the patient, in real-time, to create a location-based directory of the plurality of healthcare facilities and displaying the plurality of healthcare facilities in a prioritized manner based on a combination of estimated travel times to each of the plurality of healthcare facilities and estimated current wait times at each of the plurality of healthcare facilities. The patient then selects a healthcare facility of the plurality of healthcare facilities.

A system and method for managing blood product inventory, acquisition, transport and tracking. Blood centers can collect blood and other biologics and place supply information on a virtual market where hospitals and other healthcare institutions can see available quantities and types, select the amount and type needed, and make a purchase. The system and method enables distribution of blood and other biologics to institutions like hospitals and other healthcare institutions to be more efficient and more consistent in terms of quality and cost.

The invention provides a health record browsing system. The health record browsing system is characterized by comprising a center-end data checking and converting module, a residential-identity integrating module, a display-system home-page catalogue extracting module, a display-system home-page abstract extracting module and an EHR browser. According to the health record browsing system, integrated residential health information including diagnosis and treatment data, disease control data, all public-health line data and the like is shown; in this way, when a patient is diagnosed and treated, the patient authorizes an in-treatment doctor to loop up a health record and history diagnosis and treatment information of the patient, and therefore the in-treatment doctor better serves for the patient; as treatment safety warning application, drug allergy warning application and the like in the health record can be consulted in hospital, medical negligence is effectively reduced, unnecessary testing / unnecessary checking is reminded, the medical service quality and the medical service efficiency of a medical establishment are improved, medical cost is reduced, and high medical treatment cost is effectively reduced.

A record and billing service system and method for use in health care offices. The system allows a health care agent to generate a visit form for a patient that keeps a record of the patient's health history and treatment records received at a healthcare facility. The visit form includes procedure and / or diagnoses information that is particular to a given health care provider or facility. Thus, the system generates the visit form, which shows the types of procedures, diagnosis, inventory, and the like normally provided in the health care office by the health care provider. The application can be customized to reflect specialties provided in that office or by that provider. The system also converts the types of procedures, diagnosis and inventory matters listed in the application into accurate billing records.

The present invention relates to a system for personalized data collection in the field of physical training, wellness and fitness comprising at least mobile device to measure and monitor the quality of the movements, a wireless network and an interconnected set of RFID readers and tags placed strategically on equipment with data transmitted and stored using a custom RFID reader and interactions with users using developed applications for smart phones and tablets.

A system and method for scheduling healthcare workers that includes a healthcare worker database containing information obtained from healthcare worker registries, healthcare facility databases, instructions to search for available healthcare workers from the healthcare worker database to fill an open work shift of a healthcare facility based on the facility's preferences, instructions to display information relating to the healthcare workers available to fill the unfilled healthcare facility shift, an automated response system for automatically contacting an available healthcare worker or workers with details of the unfilled shift, and instructions to obtain a response from the available healthcare worker or workers either accepting or rejecting the unfilled shift.

The invention discloses an off-site regulation method used for medicine circulation. The method includes: by application of the computer information processing technology and the internet technology, enterprise related information of medicine manufacturers is collected, and the collected information is transmitted and stored to a data server; in the logistics transport link of medicines, transport condition information of the medicines is collected in real time, and the information is transmitted and stored to the data server; medicine wholesale and retail mechanisms or medical mechanisms carry out data and video collection and storage on goods examination information of the medicines; a medicine supervisory organization carries out real-time tracking and early warning on the above information; the medicine supervisory organization establishes a corresponding medicine enterprise credit or credit standing platform; and general public users can carry out inquiry and complaint operation. The off-site regulation method used for the medicine circulation effectively solves the problems that medicine supervisors are shorthanded, and investigation and evidence collection are difficult, provides related information and rigorous evidences and bases for medicine tracking and plays an active role in ensuring medication safety of the general public masses.

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.

A system and process for disinfecting rooms such as health care facility rooms with an oxygen / ozone mixture is described, which is effective to combat “superbugs” such as Clostridium difficile (C. difficile); E. coli; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE). In preferred embodiments, hydrogen peroxide is additionally used. The system and process is effective to destroy bacteria deposited on surfaces as biofilm, and, accompanied by physical agitation such as jet nozzle outlets, is effective to disinfect carpet, drapery and similar absorbent and porous surfaces.

A system for providing transportation services in a health care facility includes a communication network, a transportation services management system, one or more dispatcher devices, and one or more transport responder mobile devices. The transportation services management system stores and retrieves information relating to dispatches of transportation services jobs at one or more health care facilities. The dispatch devices exchange, with the transportation services management system, information relating to the transportation services jobs and display information to a transportation dispatch manager. The transport responder mobile devices exchange, with the transportation services management system, information relating to the transportation services jobs and display information to transport responders.