33 results about "Level of care" patented technology

A system and method for processing patient data permits physicians and other medical staff personnel to record, accurately and precisely, historical patient care information. An objective measure of a physician's rendered level of care, as described by a clinical status code, is automatically generated. Data elements used in the determination of the generated clinical status code include a level of history of the patient, a level of examination of the patient, a decision-making process of the physician treating the patient, and a "time influence factor." The quantity and quality of care information for a particular patient is enhanced allowing future care decisions for that patient to be based on a more complete medical history. Enhanced care information can be used in outcome studies to track the efficacy of specific treatment protocols. Archiving of patient information is done in a manner which allows reconstruction of the qualitative aspects of provided medical services. The medical care data can be recorded, saved, and transferred from a portable system to a larger stationary information or database system. Considerable physician and staff time are saved and precision and accuracy are significantly enhanced, by generating these clinical status codes automatically (at the point of service by the care-provider without any intermediary steps) from information recorded simultaneously with the provision of services.

A mobile home care logistics and quality assurance system to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, accountability, and overall level of care for nurses visiting patients in their home. The system has a patient home health communication interface to establish a communication between a patient and a central server to receive instructions from and to transmit collected data / information to a remote server. The remote server generates various reports including a home visit prioritization report and a routing report based on the collected and stored data. The information and reports are used for billing, performance reviews, and patient data for assessment of each homecare nurse's in-field assignments.

A system and method for processing patient data permits physicians and other medical staff personnel to record, accurately and precisely, historical patient care information. An objective measure of a physician's rendered level of care, as described by a clinical status code, is automatically generated. Data elements used in the determination of the generated clinical status code include a level of history of the patient, a level of examination of the patient, a decision-making process of the physician treating the patient, and a "time influence factor." The quantity and quality of care information for a particular patient is enhanced allowing future care decisions for that patient to be based on a more complete medical history. Enhanced care information can be used in outcome studies to track the efficacy of specific treatment protocols. Archiving of patient information is done in a manner which allows reconstruction of the qualitative aspects of provided medical services. The medical care data can be recorded, saved, and transferred from a portable system to a larger stationary information or database system. Considerable physician and staff time are saved and precision and accuracy are significantly enhanced, by generating these clinical status codes automatically (at the point of service by the care-provider without any intermediary steps) from information recorded simultaneously with the provision of services.

A method of obtaining and processing patient data and patient treatment data to provide a prognosis parameter related to a patient's disease state is provided. The method identifies and calculates coefficients related to appropriate predictor variables which are then used by the prediction model to calculate the prognosis parameter. The prediction model may be a logistic regression model. The method may also be used to assess the level of care being provided to patients, as well as providing a way of assessing the outcome of the patient's condition as a function of treatment. A method of calculating a harm index reflective of the risk of treatment is also provided.

A computer-based method and apparatus to facilitate the exchange of pathology studies for the purpose of providing a primary or secondary pathological diagnosis. A study consists of one or more lower-resolution images, the references to the corresponding higher-resolution images, associated image metadata, study metadata and patient metadata. The studies are exchanged from one organization (hospital, practice, or individual physician) to another organization through a set of interconnected dispatcher services. In a cloud model, a plurality of dispatchers may be connected through a Global Dispatcher, both facilitating the addition of new organizations to the cloud and allowing for the addressing of studies from any organization in the cloud to any organization, group or individual in the cloud. By this means, the originating organization may obtain the desired level of care through the selection of recipient organizations, groups and individuals according to the organization's existing criteria. Efficiency in diagnosis is improved through the addressing of a study to a plurality of qualified recipients, as the first recipient with an appropriate, available resource may review and provide a diagnosis for the study.

A system incorporates inpatient and outpatient clinical status information in a display image using layout and graphic symbols to graphically indicate a change in patient care setting and change in a level of care required for the patient. A system for providing patient status and care setting information to a healthcare worker includes a repository incorporating data representing multiple different graphical symbols associated with corresponding different transitions in patient care setting. An acquisition processor acquires data indicating clinical status of a particular patient in a care setting following a transition in care setting. A display processor initiates generation of data representing at least one display image incorporating the data indicating clinical status of the particular patient in the care setting following the transition in care setting and an associated graphical symbol derived from the repository identifying a type of the transition in care setting.

A mobile home care logistics and quality assurance system to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, accountability, and overall level of care for nurses visiting patients in their home. The system has a patient home health communication interface to establish a communication between a patient and a central server to receive instructions from and to transmit collected data / information to a remote server. The remote server generates various reports including a home visit prioritization report and a routing report based on the collected and stored data. The information and reports are used for billing, performance reviews, and patient data for assessment of each homecare nurse's in-field assignments.

An apparatus is provided for determining a change in a level of care for a patient(s). The apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor configured to determine that at least one of an admission of a patient to a health care facility, a discharge of the patient from the health care facility, or a transfer of the patient within the health care facility triggered a level of care change event associated with the patient. The processor is also configured to identify a care event(s) for the patient in response to determining that the level of care change event was triggered. The processor is also configured to generate a notification(s) to perform a task(s) associated with the care event(s) for the patient and associate the care event(s) and a task(s) with the triggered level of care change event. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided.

Methods for determining a post-acute level of care for a patient are provided. A template is provided, the template including categories indicating issues relating to a condition, such as a neurological event, a wound injury, or an orthopedic injury. Each category includes several levels, each level representing a severity of the category. A numerical rating is assigned to a level selected for each category, and a total score is calculated. Using the template and the score, a care facility is recommended for the patient.

A robot apparatus, method and computer program storage device use a memory that stores cueing point information and user information to assist a user in an external environment. The cueing points are distributed within an environmental map held by the robot apparatus, and when the user is detected by the robot apparatus as approaching a predetermined region within the external environment classified as a cueing point, the robot apparatus reacts by providing a cue to the user. The cue may user-specific, or optionally provided based on a level of care required by the user.

This disclosure provides an efficient, hands-free system and method for capturing and recording patient data in critical care environments. The systems and methods described herein enables clinicians to record and transcribe patient information onto a disposable medical record tag (akin to a military ID tags), which accompanies the patient throughout initial stabilization and presentation to a treatment center. A Pre-Hospital Treatment & Triage (PHT) guidance system, visible in the HMD, can guide caregivers and / or first responders through treating the patient and documenting a patient's medical condition and treatment status, and triaging patients to the appropriate level of care. The head-mounted display can wirelessly transfer the patient's treatment data to a lightweight disposable data tag, referred to as an electronic TCCC (E-TC3) that is affixed to the patient. The data tag digitally stores a patient's health status, and displays a specific color based on a patient's degree of injury.

The present invention discloses substantially more efficient and effective methods for delivering healthcare whereby patient care can be coordinated effectively and efficiently through changes in different physical settings and levels of care. Coordinated care helps ensure that patients seeking healthcare, and in particular chronically ill patients, with comorbidities get timely care to avoid unnecessary ER visits and admissions. Through risk and disease stratification, member profiling, inter disciplinary team follow-up and patient education, the methods of the present invention are operative to effectively allocate available resources, formulate and execute individualized care plans and successfully manage high risk members.

An integrated electronic medical records and health care management system includes a managing application for receiving and storing member data associated with at least one member of a health plan. A risk assessment application coupled to the managing application generates a level of care for the member based upon the member data. A member safety knowledge database stores medication interaction data, and a clinical protocols knowledge database stores treatment data relating to the treatment of a plurality of health-related conditions. The managing application generates a plan of care for the member based upon the member data and member's level of care, the medication interaction data, and the treatment data. The managing application also monitors implementation of the member's plan of care and updates the plan of care based upon the implementation of the member's plan of care. The managing application may further generate coverage data indicating whether costs associated with a health-related service selected for the member are covered by the member's health insurance policy. The system may also include remote access server for enabling communication between the managing application and one or more remote terminals to enable automatic updating of data stored in the managing application and data collected and stored by the remote terminals.

The present invention provides a system and methods for enabling care partners (120) to collaborate and assess the level of care needed by a care recipient (11) for whom they are responsible. The system provides a computer application accessible using a computing device (150) that accesses a SaaS application over the Internet. The level of abilities and needs of the care recipient are assessed by one or more care partners and an overall level of care is determined in response to the assessment determined by the care partners and input into the computer application. Historical data and trends can be monitored over time. In addition, frailty and mood factors can be taken into consideration as well for adjusting the level of care needed by the care recipient.

The invention provides a general practice clinical data display and consultation platform and relates to the field of computer software. The general practice clinical data display and consultation platform comprises a data capture module, a data transmission module, a data display module, an online chat and video module and a consultation service initiation module. According to the platform, general practice clinical data of medical institutions is displayed and consultation services are initiated by use of the Internet, data interconnection between a lower-level medical institution and an upper-level medical institution can be realized, and the services of medical counseling and consultation initiation are performed in real time by use of the online chat and video function.

The present invention discloses substantially more efficient and effective methods for delivering healthcare whereby patient care can be coordinated effectively and efficiently through changes in different physical settings and levels of care. Coordinated care helps ensure that patients seeking healthcare, and in particular chronically ill patients, with comorbidities get timely care to avoid unnecessary emergency room visits and admissions. Through risk and disease stratification, member profiling, inter disciplinary team follow-up and patient education, the methods of the present invention are operative to effectively allocate available resources, formulate and execute individualized care plans and successfully manage high risk members.

The present invention discloses substantially more efficient and effective methods for delivering healthcare whereby patient care can be coordinated effectively and efficiently through changes in different physical settings and levels of care. Coordinated care helps ensure that patients seeking healthcare, and in particular chronically ill patients, with comorbidities get timely care to avoid unnecessary ER visits and admissions. Through risk and disease stratification, member profiling, inter disciplinary team follow-up and patient education, the methods of the present invention are operative to effectively allocate available resources, formulate and execute individualized care plans and successfully manage high risk members.

An infant simulator capable of emulating the care requirements of an infant and recording the quality ot care and responsiveness of a person caring for the infant simulator and / or signaling the person caring for the infant simulator when care is required. The infant simulator is capable of sensing the unacceptable environmental conditions of exposure to direct sunlight and exposure to temperature extremes and to which the infant simulator is subjected. The infant simulator is also programmed with the ancillary features of multiple behavior modes based upon the historic level of care experienced by the infant, and / or the health of the infant, and perceptibly different demand and distress signals for each type of environmental event.

The invention belongs to the field of medical assistance equipment, and relates to a full-automatic nursing box for medical assistance. The full-automatic nursing box for the medical assistance comprises a box body, a cover, a left supporting rod, a right supporting rod, a control system, a switch, a battery, an electronic watch, a handheld handle, a thermometer clamping sleeve, a nursing detecting tool storing area, a disinfecting piece storing area, a record book storing area and a pen clamping sleeve. The full-automatic nursing box for the medical assistance is high in automation degree, and convenient to carry and position; the phenomenon that no special device is provided to nursing people to carry and store normal nursing articles and the nursing articles carried around are easily lost and damaged can be overcome; the nursing work can be standardized, and the nursing level can be improved.

The invention discloses a comprehensive nursing device for improving working efficiency of internal medicine nursing personnel. The comprehensive nursing device is characterized in that the comprehensive nursing device comprises a nursing server, a nursing terminal and a ward bed terminal; the nursing terminal and the ward bed terminal are connected with the nursing server; the data interface of the nursing server is connected with a hospital comprehensive information system, a nursing information system and section office examination information systems and is used for inputting a patient nursing standard, forming a nursing program, acquiring basic information, medicine taking information and doctor's advice information of an assigned patient, and transmitting to the corresponding nursingterminal and the ward bed terminal. The comprehensive nursing device ensures no restriction of the examination data of the patient by section offices and realizes use of the examination data among the section offices, thereby realizing no limitation by professional contents and real-time patient information sharing. The medical personnel can quickly make a treatment plan in time, thereby reducingworking intensity of the nursing personnel, improving nursing quality and improving nursing level.

A portable alert communication system for use in a health care facility comprising a local display device for use by a healthcare administrator, with the local display device having a level-of-care mechanism, a display screen, and an acknowledgment indicator; and a remote display device for use by a healthcare provider, with the remote display device having a level-of-care indicator and an acknowledgment mechanism; and whereby the healthcare administrator can use the local display device to send a level-of-care alert relating to the needs of a patient to the remote display device, which can display the level-of-care alert to the healthcare provider, who can then use the acknowledgement indicator to send an acknowledgment response to the local display device, which can use the acknowledgment indicator to display the acknowledgment response from the healthcare provider to the healthcare administrator, indicating whether the healthcare provider accepts or declines the healthcare administrator's request to attend to the needs of the patient.

A method or system is disclosed for assessing a level of care for a care guest and matching the care guest to at least one care host or to an assisted living place. The method includes steps of (a) assessing a suitable level of care for the care guest, by prompting the care guest to choose an answer from an array of possible answer choices to each question from a set of questions and assigning an answer score to each answer and compute an assessment score for the care guest; (b) assessing a care host by prompting the care host to select an answer from an array of possible answer choices to each question from a set of questions assigning an answer score to each answer and compute an assessment score for the care host; and (c) matching the care guest to at least one care host through evaluating the answer scores and assessment scores for the care guest and one or more care hosts. The questions are selected from a group consisting of bathing, hygiene, dressing, telephone use, snack preparation, eating, transfer, mobility, daily housekeeping, going to the bathroom, wellness, mental status, medications, and a means to getting medications.

The present invention discloses substantially more efficient and effective methods for delivering healthcare whereby patient care can be coordinated effectively and efficiently through changes in different physical settings and levels of care. Coordinated care helps ensure that patients seeking healthcare, and in particular chronically ill patients, with comorbidities get timely care to avoid unnecessary ER visits and admissions. Through risk and disease stratification, member profiling, inter disciplinary team follow-up and patient education, the methods of the present invention are operative to effectively allocate available resources, formulate and execute individualized care plans and successfully manage high risk members.

The application provides a shifting robot and control equipment thereof, and relates to the technical field of nursing equipment. The shifting robot can shift personnel who are inconvenient to move autonomously, and the equipment is simple in structure, short in preparation time and convenient to operate, and can be conveniently operated or controlled by nursing personnel. A main bearing arm can drive a bearing and supporting structure to rise or fall, and the nursing personnel can lie prone in a bearing and supporting space formed by the bearing and supporting structure to rise or fall along with the bearing and supporting structure. In the process of shifting the nursing personnel, the shifting robot does not need to exert external force to support the nursing personnel, and further does not need the nursing personnel to rely on their own leg strength, and thus the nursing difficulty in nursing work is reduced. The shifting robot has a compact structure, can be used in a smaller space, and improves the nursing level of nursing personnel.

The invention discloses a manhole with a horizontally supporting cover. The manhole comprises a manhole shell ring and a manhole cover (10), a support beam (7) is arranged on the manhole cover (10) and is 'L'-shaped, a horizontal arm of the support beam (7) is arranged below the manhole cover (10) and supports the manhole cover (10), a sleeve type supporting system is arranged on the outer wall of the manhole shell ring, a vertical arm of the support beam (7) is perpendicularly arranged on a side surface of the manhole via the sleeve type supporting system and can drive the manhole cover (10) to rotate in a horizontal plane around the vertical arm of the support beam (7). The manhole with the horizontally supporting cover has the advantages that the manhole cover can rotate horizontally, the manhole can be opened and closed conveniently, and work intensity and difficulty of operating or maintaining staff are reduced.

The invention discloses an intelligent calling system for liquid crystal display, which comprises an LED screen, a rectangular shell, a rectangular board, a rectangular hole, a rectangular slot, a time display, a honeycomb hole, a switch button, a volume knob, a wireless data transmitter, a PCB board controller, a receiving card, a sending card and a voice horn. The design of the invention is reasonable, it is helpful to display the changes of patients' grade nursing timely and accurately, so as to facilitate the medical personnel to observe and understand directly, and avoid forgetting the level of care information. The system is convenient for timely updating the patient information of the hospital bed corresponding to the ward, adds the calling function, is beneficial for the medical personnel to rush to the rescue in time, and interfaces with the information platform of each layer of nurse service information through the formalities processing information platform, so that the patient information on the LED screen connected with the transmission equipment can be automatically updated.

The present invention is directed to a Point Specific Junctional Tourniquet Kit designed for the treatment of hemorrhage control of junctional injuries to a patient's torso especially in the area of the iliac (hip / groin area) and axillary (shoulder / armpit area) arteries where blood flow is extremely hard to stop. The complete kit contains a variety of components to give caregivers in the military as well as civilian medical caregivers a means for treating a wide variety of severe injuries, in the pre-ambulance environment, increasing the chances of a victim surviving and reaching a higher level of care.

The present invention is directed to a Point Specific Junctional Tourniquet Kit designed for the treatment of hemorrhage control of junctional injuries to a patient's torso especially in the area of the iliac (hip / groin area) and axillary (shoulder / armpit area) arteries where blood flow is extremely hard to stop. The complete kit contains a variety of components to give caregivers in the military as well as civilian medical caregivers a means for treating a wide variety of severe injuries, in the pre-ambulance environment, increasing the chances of a victim surviving and reaching a higher level of care.