4104 results about "Medical record" patented technology

The method of the present invention derives the illness probability of any selected person from a database of people stored in a computer and / or on a computer network using collected relational data from every person in the database, including whether a person has a contact relationship with another person in said database and utilizes a database of illnesses infection probability functions given different illnesses and states of nature including data relating to social relationship; type of disease; probability function of infection given a time unit; length of contact of the particular contact relationship link; and calculates at least one relational path between said person and each person in the data base with whom there is a contact relationship, direct or via other persons in the said database for deriving the illness probability of the selected person. In addition. the method of the present invention permits selecting the optimum treatment for a patient with an infectious disease based upon recommending a drug or drugs deemed optimum for treating the patient and permits generating alerts for the detection of emergency events such as the outbreak of an infectious disease or a biological, chemical or nuclear attack and for diseases management. Moreover, in accordance with the method of the present invention a given patient may compare his or her medical record with summary information of patients with similar defined criteria.

The present invention provides a network system for storage of medical records. The records are stored in a database on a server. Each record includes two main parts, namely a collection of data elements containing information of medical nature for the certain individual, and a plurality of pointers providing addresses or remote locations where reside other medical data for that particular individual. Each record also includes a data element indicative of the basic type of medical data found at the location pointed to by a particular pointer. This arrangement permits a client workstation to download the record along with the set of pointers which link the client to the remotely stored files. The identification of the basic type of information that each pointer points to allows the physician to select the ones of interest and thus avoid downloading massive amounts of data where only part of that data is needed at that time. In addition, this record structure allows statistical queries to be effected without the necessity of accessing the data behind the pointers. For instance, a query can be built based on keys, one of which is the type of data that a pointer points to. The query can thus be performed solely on the basis of the pointers and the remaining information held in the record.

A method of maintaining electronic medical records, comprising the steps of receiving a medical transaction record, encrypted with an encryption key relating to a patient association of the file, accessing the encrypted medical transaction record according to a patient association; and further encrypting the encrypted accessed medical transaction record with an encryption key associated with an intended recipient of the medical record. The system and method according to the present invention presents a new business model for the creation, maintenance, transmission, and use of medical records, allowing financial burdens to be reallocated, for example more optimally or equitably, to decrease overall societal cost, or simply to provide a successful business model for a database proprietor. Secure entrusted medical records are held in trust by an independent third party on behalf of the patient, serving the medical community at large. Separately encrypted record elements may be aggregated as an information polymer.

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.

Methods and systems for creating a knowledge graph that relates terms in a corpus of literature in the form of an assertion and provides a probability of the veracity of the assertion are disclosed herein. Various aspects of the invention are directed to and / or involve knowledge graphs and structured digital abstracts (SDAs) offering a machine readable representation of statements in a corpus of literature. Various methods and systems of the invention can automatically extract, structure, and visualize the statements. Such graphs and abstracts can be useful for a variety of applications including, but not necessarily limited to, semantic-based search tools for search of electronic medical records, specific content verticals (e.g. newswire, finance, history) and general internet searches.

Ergonomic graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for displaying medical record information obtained from various sources within handheld devices are provided. A GUI for display within a touch screen display of a handheld device includes adjacent first and second portions. A list of patient names is displayed within the first portion of the GUI, along with medical facility location information, means for indicating when new clinical data for a patient is available, means for removing patient names from the displayed list, and means for sorting the displayed list of patient names. A plurality of ergonomically designed GUI controls are displayed within the second portion of the GUI. At least some of the displayed information is responsive to user touching for displaying additional patient information.

A mobile personal computing and communications device provides for secure, reliable, accurate and up-to-date point-of-care medical information for rendering sound medical care to a patient. The mobile personal device may be used by either the patient and / or by caregivers to furnish, access and / or acquire and store the patient's medical records using wireless communications, to provide a treatment, to facilitate compliance with a treatment plan, to facilitate patient care, to facilitate collaboration on treatment for the patient's condition, and to proffer an authenticated medical directive, among other mobile medical services.

A secure medical records maintenance system including a first server that stores patient identification information indexed by patient identification numbers (PINs) and a second server that stores patient medical data indexed by medical record identification numbers. For security purposes, the medical data maintained in the second remote server cannot be correlated to the associated patient identification information maintained in the first server based on the information contained in the servers. A correlation table uniquely associating each medical record identification number with a particular one of the patient identification numbers is used to allow correlation of the databases. The correlation table for a particular patient typically resides on a patient's removable memory storage device (smartcard). The correlation table for a practaioner's patients may also reside on the practitioner's computer, which is associated with the licensed medical practitioner having an assigned professional registration number

A system for storing medical records (15) which is comprised of a global communications network (12), a personal computer or terminal (14) linked to the global communications network (12) including a first connection port and a portable data access device connected to the first connection port is disclosed. The portable storage device preferably contains a processor, a memory, and an input device. An electronic patient record (15) is also disclosed. The patient record is carried by the portable data access device and may be updateable via the global communications network (12), the personal computer (14), or the input device acting in communication with the storage device. The patient record (15) contains personal patient information, such as disease / treatment history, and health insurance / medication information. The storage device may also generate patient reminders instructing a patient to schedule appointments. The input device is used to log into the portable device or terminal (14).

A cloud-based, federated collaborative medical records system and methods, in the preferred embodiments, features a variety of mechanisms to enable end users to store, access, edit, and share health information, on demand. A key aspect of said embodiments involves the circumvention of barriers preventing the transfer of health information placed upon other electronic medical records systems and related systems preventing users who are not part of a specific business entity from accessing the records. The preferred embodiments of the present invention delegate control over medical information to those individuals who need access to such medical information at the appropriate time.

An apparatus and method for generating a patient's medical record. The apparatus comprises a data input component that executes through a plurality of clinical, tree-like pathways that are traversed as data describing the patient's condition is entered, for example, by the physician during a clinical examination. At each node, the physician is prompted as to the additional health information required to traverse the clinical pathway. Once an end “leaf” is reached, the medical record is generated based on the path traversed through the clinical pathway. A web site stores the record for access via a web browser.

A computer implemented system for the production of medical records, legal documents and other frequently produced semi-technical documents. This is accomplished by generating an intelligent computer-guided interview and the use of serialized scriptable objects. Major program elements include a knowledge base text file, a parse engine, and an execution module. The knowledge base uses a unique rule syntax. The parse engine converts the textual knowledge base file to a compiled binary representation which can then be interpreted by the execution module. The execution module leads the user through the interview by generating a series of questions and presents possible answers in the form of pick lists. The data is recorded with a computer pen and collated into a document file. This file is coded in binary format and can be written to and recalled from disk. If the file is recalled from disk the user can continue to answer questions or change answers previously given. The result is a mobile computing system whereby data is input in a structured format. When the program is executed the user is prompted for answers to questions and, based upon the user's response, the final document can change considerably. Depending upon each answer, the program may change the subsequent questions being asked, change the list associated with a question, change the text being generated, or change the entire structure of the document. The data collected may be also be stored in a database for analysis at a later date. Finally, the data collected is output in a narrative text format which can be tailored according to the traditions and expectations of the user's profession. The program will output the text via a printer or it can be transmitted via electronic means.

This invention relates to an Internet or other broadband computer-based networked system, operated by a service provider that enables members of the system provider network, which may be patients, family members, employees or others, to assemble, update, enhance, analyze, correct, broker, securely store and transmit, certify and otherwise manage the medical records and, under appropriate circumstances, the medical records of family, friends, clients or customers and integrates those medical records and their updating around the patient.

Systems and methods are provided for automated assessment of regional myocardial function using wall motion analysis methods that analyze various features / parameters of patient information (image data and non-image data) obtained from medical records of a patient. For example, a method for providing automatic diagnostic support for cardiac imaging generally comprises obtaining image data of a heart of a patient, obtaining features from the image data of the heart, which are related to motion of the myocardium of the heart, and automatically assessing regional myocardial function of one or more regions of a myocardial wall using the obtained features.

This medical (human and veterinary) CRM and ERP software affects every step of patient interaction: marketing, sales or service-related. It allows management of the workload by distributing the chores among staff members and automates medical and business processes through workflow rules. It enables users to view and update tasks, medical cases, appointments, sales, phone calls, faxes, emails, letters and automatic input of lab results into the patient's medical record. It also serves the needs of people in human resources; finance and inventory control, and integrates with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, Great Plains and other business systems. It delivers detailed diagnostic differentials associated with a likelihood of their applicability to the given patients' record and physician's experience in his contextual situation; selects the most appropriate diagnostic procedures; offers the possibility for the user to implement context-sensitive tutorials; presents a context-sensitive source of information on diseases and medical procedures.

This invention provides a process and system for a comprehensive surgical assist system, called a Therapy Imaging and Model Management System (TIMMS), which combines and integrates all of the necessary information and communication technology; workflow analysis, data processing and data synthesis; interactive interfaces between surgeon and mechatronic devices; and, cognitive agents; to provide comprehensive assistance and guidance throughout complex medical and surgical therapies, such as image guided surgery. The components of this invention, which are modular, scalable and may be distributed in location, act synergistically to provide functionality and utility that exceeds the sum of its individual parts.A method of performing surgery on a patient comprising the step of comparing a chosen patient's data to statistical data in a repository of patient data to develop a patient specific model, wherein the data comprises information from two or more sub databases selected from the group consisting of workflow data, electronic medical records, diagnostic data, biological data, measurement data, anatomical data, physiological data, genetic data, molecular data, imaging data, chemical data, clinical laboratory data, simulated data, coordinate data and surgical result and wherein the patient specific model aids in the preoperative, operative or post operative phase of surgery performed in real time on the patient.

The present disclosure includes a medical monitoring hub as the center of monitoring for a monitored patient. The hub includes configurable medical ports and serial ports for communicating with other medical devices in the patient's proximity. Moreover, the hub communicates with a portable patient monitor. The monitor, when docked with the hub provides display graphics different from when undocked, the display graphics including anatomical information. The hub assembles the often vast amount of electronic medical data, associates it with the monitored patient, and in some embodiments, communicates the data to the patient's medical records.

A teleconferencing system is disclosed that enables patient and physician teleconferencing stations (100) to communicate over a global network (104), wherein the teleconferencing stations include access to a database of electronic medical records (110). The system includes means for instant text messaging (130), audio / video conferencing (142), and secure e-mail exchange (146). The patient and physician have differential access to the electronic medical records, such that the electronic medical records can be updated. The physician station includes means for capturing image data received from the patient station and storing the captured image data into a medical record. In the preferred embodiment the system is able to teleconference more than two stations at a time. In the preferred embodiment, the physician station includes means for entering a prescription (310) and for entering hospital orders (304).

A system and method is provided in which medical treatment of a patient is effected in a systematic and guided fashion. From a patient's symptoms and electronic medical record, a specific diagnostic test may be recommended. Upon execution of the diagnostic test, the diagnostic scan results may be forwarded to a remote location for assistance in analysis. Once analyzed, the results are transmitted to the attending medical personnel. The results, and information which led to the decision to have a diagnostic test, are also sent to a repository for use in future diagnoses and other determinations. A monitor or dashboard is used to keep track of the various steps of the procedure, to provide on the job guidance in using a diagnostic test device, and the ensure a specific efficiency and protocol are followed. A remote location of experts may also be monitoring the dashboard, as a quality control.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an electronic-medical-record sharing system based on a block chain. The electronic-medical-record sharing system comprises an identity verification module, a processing module and a querying module, wherein the identity verification module is used for receiving a logging-in account input by a user, identifying the logging-in account and configuring corresponding operating authorization for the logging-in account; the processing module is used for being connected with a pre-established block-chain database, wherein the block-chain database comprises a plurality of nodes, and each node corresponds to a hospital database; the querying module is used for receiving a querying order input by the user, obtaining a corresponding electronic medical record from the block-chain database according to the querying order and showing the obtained electronic medical record to the user. The electronic-medical-record sharing system is established based on the block chain technology in the embodiment, all data can be only preserved in a hospital server generated through original data, only data hash values are stored on the block-chain database so that the aims that data cannot be tampered, is looked up in a classified mode and is retrospective in consulting can be achieved, and the electronic-medical-record sharing system has the advantage that the data security is improved.

The Physician To Patient (P2P) network system, a private & secure infrastructure for independently practicing physicians and patients for real-time electronic communication & transfer of patient health information is disclosed by the invention. The invention also discloses an efficient and natural method for creation of Electronic Medical Records by physicians in their own handwriting. The P2P network system utilizes a plurality of devices and components defined by the invention, and custom programming to integrate all equipment, devices and components of the network system. The invention also discloses a highly targeted method of advertising, the One2One Advertising, for healthcare product manufacturers to reach physicians and patients. A number of healthcare related business processes, currently executed manually are performed automatically by P2P network system software. The invention will improve the quality of services to patients, and reduce the overhead cost of the medical offices, and the healthcare industry.

A system for remotely reviewing medical data allows medical data to be transmitted to a physician's mobile device from where they are stored or collected. The system includes a console, a data server and at least one mobile device, although the data server may be a software component within the console. The system may further include medical imaging equipment, medical records databases, and other sensors and servers. Medical data is routed through the console to the data server to reach the mobile device via a wireless network. After reviewing the data, physicians may transmit their comments from their mobile device to the requester by going through the same system. The data server may further include a resident messaging system that communicates to the mobile device such that the user is notified of messages or data awaiting review along with the urgency of the required review are also described.

A web-based platform for guiding a user's encounter with a patient and for generating a medical record of the encounter. The web-based platform comprises a processor in communication with an output display device and an input user interface, a knowledge base. The processor outputs information to the output display device, accesses the knowledge base, and receives information from the input user interface. The output display device requests patient information in response to presented successive prompts for patient medical information. The prompts are responsive to the knowledge base and to prior responses to prior prompts as entered through the input user interface. The output display device presents a patient medical condition report based on responses to requests and prompts. ICD codes are included within the knowledge base and included within the patient medical condition report. The codes are determined, as applicable, as each prompt and response is entered.

Systems, methods and computer readable media performing mobile medical information management are provided. In one aspect, one or more web-based patient portals are accessed and medical history records of a patient are downloaded therefrom, based upon a user profile including personal information that uniquely identifies the patient. All or part of the downloaded data can be outputted to at least one of the patient and a physician or other authorized care provider treating or evaluating the patient.

An online occupational medicine management system and method that allow authorized physicians, patients, employers, and insurance companies to capture, store, retrieve, and disseminate an employee's medical records from any computer having Internet access. The employee medical information can be shared between the aforementioned parties in real time, resulting in improved quality of care and greater efficiency in the field of work-related injuries, i.e., workers' compensation. The online occupational medicine management system also provides physicians with diagnosis appropriate treatment protocols that can be pre-approved by a patient's employer and / or the employer's insurance company, thus requiring monitoring only of medical treatments that fall outside of the pre-approved protocols. Accordingly, administrative costs to insurance companies and employers are lessened, and payment time to physicians is reduced.

A medical record is partitioned into personal and medical data portions, and an identification code is concatenated into each portion. The personal data portion is encrypted so a patient's identity cannot be linked to the patient's medical data except by authorized viewers. Each portion of the secure medical record can be transferred over a network as separate files, and stored in a data storage system separately. Access to the entire medical record is thereby provided only to those who know the key for the personal data portion of the medical record. The system and method can be used to help ensure patient confidentiality while allowing patient medical records to be accessed over a network such as the Internet, providing physicians and patients quick access to their medical records. The system and method can be used to create a database of anonymous medical records useful for medical research.

A case-centric medical records system with social networking capabilities is disclosed. Using the system, users can build charts that are centered around a single procedure or treatment and include physician notes as well as imagery and video relating to the procedure. Users can also build social networks around their records by identifying colleagues with whom chart data can be shared. Search functions allow the charts to be searched by diagnosis and procedure codes or by other keywords or information. Users can search their networks of colleagues for relevant experience and expertise and can search and review their colleagues' charts to gain insights.

Coding free text documents, especially in medicine, has become an urgent priority as electronic medical records (EMR) mature, and the need to exchange data between EMRs becomes more acute. However, only a few automated coding systems exist, and they can only code a small portion of the free text against a limited number of codes. The precision of these systems is low and code quality is not measured. The present invention discloses a process and system which implements semantic coding against standard lexicon(s) with high precision. The standard lexicon can come from a number of different sources, but is usually developed by a standard's body. The system is semi-automated to enable medical coders or others to process free text documents at a rapid rate and with high precision. The system performs the steps of segmenting a document, flagging the need for corrections, validating the document against a data type definition, and looking up both the semantics and standard codes which correspond to the document's sentences. The coder has the option to intervene at any step in the process to fix mistakes made by the system. A knowledge base, consisting of propositions, represents the semantic knowledge in the domain. When sentences with unknown semantics are discovered they can be easily added to the knowledge base. The propositions in the knowledge base are associated with codes in the standard lexicon. The quality of each match is rated by a professional who understands the knowledge domain. The system uses this information to perform high precision coding and measure the quality of the match.

A method for controlling access to a medical record of a patient hosted by at least one medical record repository, comprising a plurality of sub-records, each sub-record having an associated different patient-controlled access control criteria, comprising: receiving, by an intermediary, a request for a medical record from a requester, said request comprising a medical record identifier, a requester identifier, requester authentication information, and patient-provided access control authorization; automatically processing, by the intermediary, the request for the medical record to authenticate the requester and determine sufficiency of the patient-provided access control authorization to meet the patient-controlled access control criteria for each respective sub-record encompassed by the request; and selectively communicating, from the intermediary to the at least one medical record repository, an identification of each sub-record for which access control criteria are determined to be sufficient for access by the requestor. An electronic payment authorization associated with the request may be generated, for compensation of at least one of the intermediary and a medical record repository.