184 results about "Medical practice" patented technology

A system and method of managing therapy provided to patients in an institution. The system monitors all aspects of the medication delivery to a patient, as well as other information related to the patient, such as values of vital signs, laboratory results and patient factors such as history, diagnosis, allergies and the like. The system includes one or more databases of information, including institutionally developed rules, guidelines and protocol representing the best medical practices of the institution. The system provides alerts and / or recommendations based on the application of the rules to the information being monitored, and alerts care givers accordingly, providing for dynamic adjustment of the patient's therapy. The system also monitors the status of the alerts, and if no action is taken in a selected period of time, may escalate the priority of the alert and / or halt the delivery of medication to the patient until the alert is resolved.

A system for the collection, management, and dissemination of information relating at least to a medical procedure is disclosed. The system includes a user interface adapted to provide raw data information at least about one of a patient, the medical procedure, and a result of the medical procedure. A medical device communicates with the user interface, receives the raw data information from the user interface, and generates operational information during use. A central database communicates at least with the medical device and receives data from the medical device. The central database is used to create related entries based on the raw data information and the operational information and optionally transmits the related entry to the medical device or the medical device user. The related entry includes information that provides guidance based on previously tabulated, related medical procedures. A system for the iterative analysis of medical standards is also disclosed along with methods for the evaluation of medical procedures and standards.

A system and method of managing therapy provided to patients in an institution. The system monitors all aspects of the medication delivery to a patient, as well as other information related to the patient, such as values of vital signs, laboratory results and patient factors such as history, diagnosis, allergies and the like. The system includes one or more databases of information, including institutionally developed rules, guidelines and protocol representing the best medical practices of the institution. The system provides alerts and / or recommendations based on the application of the rules to the information being monitored, and alerts care givers accordingly, providing for dynamic adjustment of the patient's therapy. The system also monitors the status of the alerts, and if no action is taken in a selected period of time, may escalate the priority of the alert and / or halt the delivery of medication to the patient until the alert is resolved.

A method is provided for a virtual clinic to establish communications and working relationships among itself, patients, physicians, and insurance companies patient to facilitate the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients. In one embodiment, a patient may contact its insurance carrier via a web page on the Internet. The insurance company then matches the patient to one of its plans and then forwards information to the virtual clinic which then responds to the patient's web request. The patient is then put in operative communication with a physician who is known by the virtual clinic to be licensed to practice medicine in the patient's current location and to have expertise in the patient's condition.

The current invention is directed to a system for adaptive medical decision support. The invented system provides a system that allows users to efficiently enter, access, and analyze medical information, without disrupting patient-doctor interactions or medical facility course of business; which assists in all stages of medical assessment and treatment; and which is tailored to the particular medical practice or specialty and taking into account the developing habits, preferences, performance, and individual patient histories, of an individual user. The invention provides a learning capacity configured to learn previously presented data and decisions and predict data or decisions based on data that it receives from the user, thereby adapting its operations to the developing habits, preferences, performance, and individual patient histories of an individual user. The system may also provide a “virtual specialist” feature, whereby the system can be instructed to produce the probable actions or recommendations of particular medical specialists.

A medical practice management system of the present invention acquires schedule information on a medical practice to be administered to a patient. Information on medical equipment corresponding to the acquired schedule information is selected from among pieces of information on medical equipment to be used in medical practices, stored in association with a plurality of pieces of schedule information, respectively. Then, the acquired schedule information and the selected information on medical equipment are managed in association with each other.

A method and system for automated medical records processing. The method and system includes plural electronic medical templates specifically designed such that they reduce the complexity and risk associated with collecting patient encounter information, creating a medical diagnosis and help generate the appropriate number and type medical codes for a specific type of medical practice when processed. The medical codes and other types of processed patient encounter information are displayed in real-time on electronic medical records and invoices immediately after a patient encounter.

A system and method is provided for generating a multi-dimensional contextual platform that may be used to manage, diagnose, and communicate with patients in a medical practice. In particular, the system may provide a website that may provide dynamic, avatar-based interfaces that include a doctor interface and a patient interface. A doctor may create a subscription with an operator of the website in order to find new patients and view patient health records across multiple dimensions. A patient may create a subscription with the operator to locate a doctor and maintain open communications with the doctor. Once subscribed, the doctor and patient may use the website to enhance the overall healthcare experience by using social networking aspects of the website to facilitate doctor and patient communication in real-time.

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for improving the care of patients (e.g., chronically ill patients). In one example (which example is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive), the invention may be designed to improve such care through real time output (e.g., periodic, such as hourly, daily, weekly or monthly) to deter development of co-morbidities associated with many chronic diseases. Various embodiments of the invention may improve the care of chronically ill patients by: easing data collection, simplifying data transmission, efficiently interpreting chronically ill patient information, providing time series to form the basis of subsequent analysis, expanding the ability of the chronically ill patient or other user of the invention to understand the relationship between the medical practice and the patient's own lifestyle and / or easing the workload of healthcare providers (such as the patient's physician). In this regard, the invention may help in creating dialogue between chronically ill patients and healthcare providers that otherwise would be impossible.

Certain examples provide systems and methods for patient identification. Certain examples provide a patient identification system. The patient identification system includes a data storage to store patient information including patient identifying information associated with one or more patient images and a processor adapted to facilitate identification of a patient. The processor is to receive a camera feed including an image of a patient; perform facial recognition using the camera feed to identify the patient in comparison with information stored in the data storage; retrieve information associated with the identified patient from the patient storage; display the retrieved information in conjunction with the image of the identified patient on a computer screen; and facilitate an electronic action with respect to the identified patient via the computer.

In a system for conducting medical studies a number of medical locations, such as clinics or medical practices, are connected to a central server via a computer network. The system is constructed in modular fashion, and it is automatically determined, with computer support within the system, whether a specific patient is eligible to participate in a medical study of the system, and if so, the sequence of the corresponding medical study is controlled centrally by corresponding modules, automatically and in a study-specific and patient-specific fashion.

A method and system for automated medical records processing with cloud computing including patient tracking for actual and virtual encounters. The method and system includes plural electronic medical templates specifically designed such that they reduce the complexity and risk associated with collecting patient encounter information, creating a medical diagnosis, tracking the patient through the medical processes at the medical facility and generate the appropriate number and type medical codes for a specific type of medical practice when processed. The medical codes and other types of processed actual or virtual patient encounter information are displayed in real-time on electronic medical records and invoices immediately after an actual or virtual patient encounter via a cloud computing network.

A method and system for automated medical records processing. The method and system includes plural paper and electronic templates specifically designed such that they reduce the complexity of collecting patient encounter information and help generate the appropriate number and type medical codes for a specific type of medical practice when processed. The method and system also includes processing applications that allow easy and automated collection, processing, displaying and recording of medical codes (e.g., diagnosis codes, billing codes, insurance codes, etc.). The medical codes and other types of processed patient encounter information are displayed in real-time on electronic templates immediately after a patient encounter.

An integrated dispensing and inventory tracking system is provided for use in conjunction with a medical practice. Data records of inventoried items, such as repackaged drugs or other medical supplies, can be maintained by the system and accessed by a user through a graphical user interface displayed by a browser. The data records can include information pertaining to user-defined inventory categories, minimum and maximum quantities associated with tracked inventory items, quantities on hand associated with tracked inventory items, lot numbers associated with tracked inventory items, and / or related information. Inventory data records can be updated in real time in response to dispensing transactions and / or deliveries of additional inventory items. Various alert status conditions can also be detected by the system, allowing users of the system to be notified of circumstances requiring immediate attention.

A computer-based method that allows automated measurement of a number of metrics that likely reflect the quality of a colonoscopic procedure. The method is based on analysis of a digitized video file created during colonoscopy, and produces information regarding insertion time, withdrawal time, images at the time of maximal intubation, the time and ratio of clear versus blurred or non-informative images, and a first estimate of effort performed by the endoscopist. As these metrics can be obtained automatically, the method allows future quality control in the day-to-day medical practice setting on a large scale. In addition, the method can be adapted to other healthcare procedures. The method may be useful to assess progress during colonoscopy training, or as part of endoscopic skills assessment evaluations.

A method and system that automatically matches patients to clinical drug and device trials with: a database component operative to maintain a hospital / RHIO / medical practice patient database and their corresponding medical records, and a medical practice database and their corresponding plurality of specialties, and a clinical studies database component and their corresponding plurality of clinical studies a communications component to receive changes to the database component and a processor programmed to: periodically match compatible patients and clinical studies and generate reports to matched medical practices in the medical practice database having matched patients. The processor may be programmed to more efficiently function by selecting key rare criteria first in order to search free text keywords and phrases last.

An inspection tube (20) for use in the medical practice, in which sensors, such as a miniature electronic camera, are incorporated in the distal face of the tube. The sensors receive energy supplied via conduits (24, 26, 28) running along the length of the tube, preferably embedded within the wall. Signals of the sensors are transmitted to the rear of the tube where they are fed into receivers. Sensor cleaning can be affected in some embodiments by conducting cleaning agents through a channel in the wall of the tube. An alarm procedure can be affected by comparing sensed pattern with a reference base pattern and defining a critical deviation from the reference base.

A method and system for automated medical records processing with cloud computing The method and system includes plural electronic medical templates specifically designed such that they reduce the complexity and risk associated with collecting patient encounter information, creating a medical diagnosis and help generate the appropriate number and type medical codes for a specific type of medical practice when processed. The medical codes and other types of processed patient encounter information are displayed in real-time on electronic medical records and invoices immediately after a patient encounter via a cloud computing network.

The invention is a business process embodied in a software algorithm that determines difference in practice patterns among physicians for the main cost components of given conditions.

An information processing apparatus includes a similar case search unit configured to search for similar case data, which is medical case data including examination information similar to examination information of a medical practice target in characteristics, from a medical case database that stores medical case data including examination information of a subject associated with medical practice difficulty level information based on the examination information. The information processing apparatus further includes a display mode determination unit configured to determine a display mode applicable to the similar case data based on a medical practice difficulty level of the similar case data searched by the similar case search unit, and a display unit configured to display the similar case data according to the display mode determined by the display mode determination unit.

A method and system for automated medical records processing. The method and system includes plural electronic medical templates specifically designed such that they reduce the complexity and risk associated with collecting patient encounter information, creating a medical diagnosis and help generate the appropriate number and type medical codes for a specific type of medical practice when processed. The medical codes and other types of processed patient encounter information are displayed in real-time on electronic medical records and invoices immediately after a patient encounter.

An intelligent care provider medical practice system which learns the care provider's preferences and historical diagnosis for predicting and treating patients based on provided information. The system makes use of one or more medical knowledge bases and utilizes artificial intelligence and reasoning to learn the provider's preferences and tendencies. The system also automatically generates the provider's notes, treatment plans, and other medical practice actions for treating, billing, and processing the patient after an exam or visit.

The Remote Access Management System is a patient scheduling and superbill generator with cross migration between PDAs, cell phones and any wireless device linking to medical practice management software. It is a web based application any provider can use to schedule patient appointments and generate a superbill for a patient's visit. The Remote Access Management System links to medical practice support software (medical practice management systems, electronic medical records systems). There is no double data entry. A provider can view and create new appointments from any wireless device with access to the internet. Any appointments created in the medical practice management software can be viewed online in real time. The provider can add new appointments, patients, and superbills directly. This information will automatically be transferred into the medical practice support software.

A system for collecting, managing and disseminating information relating to medical procedures includes a central computer and a plurality of medical devices each in communication with an injector, a scanner, a hospital system and / or at least one other device. Each medical device receives (I) before a procedure is performed, patient identification information from a user interface, the scanner and / or the hospital system and (II) during and / or after the procedure, injection information from the injector and imaging study information from the scanner. Each medical device has an associated database for storing as a record therein the patient identification information, the injection information and the imaging study information for each procedure performed on each patient. The central computer remotely links to each medical device for accessing, collecting and storing in a related database the records transmitted therefrom and for analyzing the records and creating therefrom at least one related entry based thereon.

A system and method for managing drug dose inventory for a medical practice includes a server in electronic communication with a database and an interface with practice management software. The system allows users in a medical practice to track drug dose orders, receipt, and the administration of drug doses to patients, and billing for the doses, with a user computer that accesses the server over the Internet.

An autonomic nervous activity monitor capable of predicting occurrence of abnormal reaction depending on autonomic nervous activity and used for medical practice and the like is provided. A blood component collecting apparatus 100 carries out frequency analysis to a pattern of heartbeat which is acquired by an ECG 300 from a donor, and calculates a high frequency component value [msec2] defined as an indicator for parasympathetic activity and a ratio value of a low frequency component to the high frequency component defined as an indicator for sympathetic activity to detect a change in these values on a time-series base. When a judgment circuit 204 predicts that abnormal reaction may occur to a donor after blood collection operation is started, a controller 200 controls a pump 9 to decrease a blood drawing or blood returning speed, or, to stop blood drawing or blood returning operation.

A patient may request medical services from a patient computing device. Doctors may be matched with patients desiring or needing medical care. A patient may enroll or subscribe with a system using a computing device. Using the same or a different computing device, a patient may request medical care at a particular location. A doctor may be matched to a patent request for medical services. Doctor / patient matches may be made based upon location information, the medical needs of the patient, the medical practice of the doctor, gender, language skills, or any other criteria. A doctor may accept or decline a request for medical services from a patient. A bi-directional and at least partially anonymized communication may be initiated to permit a doctor to evaluate the medical needs of a patient. Computing devices associated with a patient and / or doctor may be used in conjunction with a coordination component to collect relevant information, record medical records, manage communications, process billing, navigating to a patient's location, and / or other purposes.

The invention is a process to encourage and simplify preventive medical practices. The process includes selecting known effective in-home medical test kits from laboratories and making these kits available to users for order through a website. The fulfillment of the orders from the labs as well as the collection of the results is coordinated. The results are consolidated with appropriate analysis into a report which is made available to the user through the website on a restricted basis, such as password control. The process may optionally include a health risk assessment questionnaire which guides the user in test kit selection. The process can be initiated by an employer in the form of an invitation to an employee to participate, and the website can be customized and co-branded with the employer.