332 results about "Medical unit" patented technology

A plurality of co-operative and complementary software programs are implemented in a web-enabled high speed computer system to remotely monitor, manage and modify the operational and functional parameters of a plurality of implanted medical devices (IMDs). The system utilizes virtual electrophysiologist module (VEM), chronic monitoring module (CMM) and prescription program module (PPM) programs to effect specific therapeutic and diagnostic methods for managing the IMDs, remotely on a conditions and real-time basis. The modules enable remote and continuous monitoring, management and maintenance of the IMDs by identifying critical medical events, determining optimal clinical settings and upgrading performance parameters based on prescriptive data. The modules are implemented in a data center having high-speed computers operating in a web-enabled environment. The modules and the IMDs communicate through wireless communications system via a programmer or an interface medical unit (IMD).

A wound spacer device comprising multiple beads connected by non-absorbable suture material is disclosed. The device can be applied, for example, by a first responder to an injured individual, or can be applied by a trauma treatment facility, such as a Level 2 medical unit. In typical embodiments the device allows for site-specific controlled elution of an antimicrobial agent, such as Tobramycin, including defined elution over a period of time, such as 48 or 72 hours.

This invention provides impact detection and vehicle cooperation to achieve particular goals and determine particular threat levels. For example, an impact / penetration sensing device may be provided on a soldier's clothing such that when this clothing is impacted / penetrated (e.g., penetrated to a particular extent) a medical unit (e.g., a doctor or medical chopper) may be autonomously, and immediately, provided with the soldiers location (e.g., via a GPS device on the soldier) and status (e.g., right lung may be punctured by small-arms fire).

The invention relates to a medical unit with an apparatus designed for the examination or treatment of a patient. The medical unit comprises at least one means designed for the collection or analysis of at least one substance exuded from the body of the patient during the course of a bodily process concomitantly to the examination or treatment of the patient with the apparatus.

This invention provides impact detection and vehicle cooperation to achieve particular goals and determine particular threat levels. For example, an impact / penetration sensing device may be provided on a soldier's clothing such that when this clothing is impacted / penetrated (e.g., penetrated to a particular extent) a medical unit (e.g., a doctor or medical chopper) may be autonomously, and immediately, provided with the soldiers location (e.g., via a GPS device on the soldier) and status (e.g., right lung may be punctured by small-arms fire).

The invention provides an intelligent medicine purchasing system based on a remote medical system and medical advice compliance monitoring. The system comprises a remote medical subsystem, a management subsystem linked with a medical unit information platform, and a medicine shopping guide service subsystem linked with a service information platform of a medicine sales network. With the adoption of the intelligent medicine purchasing system provided by the invention, a specific marketing channel is established for the medicine sales network, and a new business model and a new service model are synchronously developed; a patient can implement the follow-up visiting process and medicine purchasing process without going to a hospital and a drugstore, therefore, the medical visits can be reduced, the cost of medical visits is decreased, the probability of cross infection of a patient can be reduced, the efficiency and accuracy of medicine purchasing service can be improved, convenience is brought to medicine sales and the patient, and the burden on the patient can be decreased.

An equipment for monitoring the physiological functions of a user and processing relative information in order to diagnose, prevent and treat diseases is composed of the monitor unit close to the body of user for sensing relative information, the medical unit attached to the body of said user for diagnosing and treating diseases, and a monitor center for receiving said sensed information, controlling said medical unit for real-time diagnosis of therapy, and transmitting the information to a remote medical system for consultation.

An implantable medical device has a medical unit, such as a pacemaker lead, and a casing at least partially enclosing the medical unit. The casing is formed of a base polymer such as a polyurethane, a polyurethane copolymer, a fluoropolymer and a polyolefin or a silicone rubber. The casing has biologically active agents covalently bonded to the base polymer. The biologically active agents can be attached to the base polymer as surface active end groups. As an alternative, the biologically active may be attached to a backbone the base polymer. As yet a further alternative, the biologically active agents may be attached to surface modifying end groups, which are in turn attached to the base polymer. Examples of suitable biologically active agents are microbial peptide agents, detergents, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, cations, amine-containing organosilicones, diphosphonates, fatty acids and fatty acid salts.

The invention relates to a medical unit comprises a 3D radar array for the detection of positional or movement data of objects in an examination space and a processing unit for the evaluation of the detected data, with the processing unit being connected to the medical unit and to the 3D radar array, and with the evaluated data being used to control the medical unit or for post-processing data acquired by the medical diagnostic or therapeutic unit. The invention also relates to a method for improving examination or treatment workflows with the medical unit, comprising: detecting positional or movement data of objects in the examination space by the 3D radar array; generating control commands for the medical unit based on the detected data; and post-processing image or spectroscopy data received by the medical based on the detected data. The medical unit is a medical diagnostic or therapeutic unit.

A distributed medical image retrieval system based on a grid platform is designed and aims at the wide demands of medical units to the medical image retrieval,. A user submits a medical image retrieval request to a grid regional managing center through a grid portal. The domain management center matches the request with resource metadata to obtain a usable network service mask of a medical image expert database, and then sends out the request to the corresponding medical image expert database. The medical image expert database extracts the characters of the submitted image, such as the shape, the color, the texture, etc., and compares the characters with the stock medical image characters, so as to obtain a group of images which have the maximum integrated similarity degree with the submitted image. The domain management center integrates the medical images sent back by each medical image expert database, and returns to the user. The system improves the utilization efficiency of the software and the hardware of the system, reduces the entire cost required by realizing the distributed medical image retrieval system of the medical unit, and provides an effective way to widely share the medical image resources.

The invention discloses a tracking management method of medical waste and a system, aiming at solving the technical problem that the medical waste disposal is supervised in real time. The method comprises the following steps: a medical unit uploads the waste weighing to a database server, a GPS module of a receiving and transporting vehicle receives GPS data, a GPRS communication module uploads, a medical waste disposal center carries out secondary weighing, and comparison information is uploaded. A data management part of the system is coupled with the medical unit and a reader and a weighing platform of the medical waste disposal center; the receiving and transporting vehicle is provided with the GPS module, an electronic label and a mobile communication module, and a waste revolving barrel is provided with the electronic label. Compared with the prior art, the invention establishes the medical waste tracking management system, and a supervising method which adopts radio-frequency identification RFID, global positioning system GPS communication, mobile communication and network to carry out distributed control for the process of receiving and transporting and processing of the medical waste, and realizes real-time supervision to the process of collection, transportation and disposal of medical waste.

A system for aggregating and disseminating in-case-of-emergency (ICE) medical information to medical units. The system includes an ICE medical record server that stores medical records of respective subscribers, and automatically receive updates from health service entities visited by subscribers. When contacted by emergency dispatchers or first responders, the server sends subscribers medical information to first responders, emergency management agencies directly, via a dispatcher, or via a computer aided dispatch (CAD) system. The medical information may be arranged, emphasized, and / or filtered in a manner relevant to the on-going emergency. A communication device may wirelessly receive the medical information and pre-populate a pre-hospital care form with the information, which may be further orally annotated by the first responder. The completed PCR may then be sent to a PCR server for subsequent access by medical units that subsequently treat the subscriber. The medical server may further assist a public health agency to disseminate emergency information to selected subscribers, responders, and public health alerting systems. An ICE personal server for storing important personal documents is also disclosed. A PCR server is also disclosed that can disseminate aggregate PCR information in near real-time to an emergency management agency (EMA) system for developing incident response plans during a wide area emergency.

A medical apparatus includes a socket unit for connecting a plug unit of a device for supplying medical fluids, in which the medical apparatus is in particular an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus, for example an extracorporeal dialysis apparatus or an apparatus for peritoneal dialysis, or an apparatus for filling the device for supplying medical fluids. The socket unit comprises connection pieces for the connection of connectors of a plug unit, so that a flow connection can be produced for supplying or discharging a fluid. The connection pieces are surrounded by connection parts thereby forming rinsing chambers, in which the rinsing chambers are closed by closure pieces, said closure pieces being part of a closure body which is disposed rotatably on the socket unit.

A laparoscopic medical fluid delivery device includes a catheter having an articulating tip formed with shape memory properties and thus having a pre-shaped curvature. A tubular member is reciprocatingly slidable axially on the catheter to selectively cover and uncover portions of the articulating tip to thereby selectively vary the degree of curvature of the articulating tip. An actuator operatively linked to the tubular member selectively moves the tubular member reciprocatingly on the catheter. The pre-shaped articulating tip of the catheter is constrained by the tubular member from articulating to the pre-shaped curvature when the tubular member covers the articulating tip, and bends to a selected degree of curvature when the articulating tip is at least partially uncovered by the tubular member.

A medical suspension arm assembly including a plurality of suspension arms, with each adjacent pair of the suspension arms being connected to each other by a joint and with at least one of the joints comprising an infinite rotation joint. The infinite rotation joint allows the suspension arms at the infinite rotation joint to have unlimited rotation relative to one another. Cabling including at least one fiber optic cable extends through each of the suspension arms and each joint. A wired medical unit is connected to an end of the plurality of suspension arms. High definition video, data and power can be transferred along each one of the suspension arms through the cabling and across each joint.

The invention discloses a full automatic chemiluminescence immune assay instrument. An upper needle plate group device, a photon detection device and a reagent strip propelling device are located above an upper plate; a specimen disc device and an incubation disc device are located below the upper plate; a dark room detection device is located in a region adjacent to the photon detection device and the reagent strip propelling device; a V-shaped notch slot is formed in a reagent putting station, corresponding to the incubation disc device, of the upper plate; both a puncture needle group device and an enhancing liquid needle group device in the upper plate needle group device are provided with a double needle structure which not only can move horizontally, but also can move vertically, and the other needle assemblies in the puncture needle group device and the enhancing liquid needle group device are stirring needle assemblies. As the station of the incubation disc device is of a reasonable layout structure and the double needle structure is combined in use, the automatic degree of the instrument is improved, and the whole instrument is simpler and more compact in structure; and moreover, the full automatic chemiluminescence immune assay instrument is low in cost and quite suitable for being popularized and generalized in medical units at home.

Aspects of the present invention provide a method for using an apparatus to deliver medicine and to wash, clean, and dry a region of a human body. The apparatus include a toilet seat assembly and a medicine delivery assembly. In addition, the apparatus may include a drying nozzle assembly and / or a spraying nozzle assembly. The medicine delivery assembly may include one or more medicine storage cartridges and / or one or more medicine base units, each medicine base unit includes at least a cartridge unit and at least a cartridges slot, wherein the cartridge slot is adapted to match with a medicine storage cartridge. The medicine delivery assembly may include a medicine delivery nozzle, which can be coupled to a spraying nozzle assembly, or may be operated by itself with a medicine delivery nozzle. Finally, the medicine delivery assembly can be controlled by one or more control units.

The invention provides a cloud computing-based intelligent medical management system. According to the cloud computing-based intelligent medical management system, a patient management module providesa user with a port for registering and using a medical card, logging in a registered account to inquire personal medical history, and accessing a medical card or health insurance card terminal via network; a medical business module is used for, according to acquired doctor authority, endowing a doctor with the right to check the medical history of the patient and all the information of the patient in a local medical unit, and uploading the treatment history of the doctor on the patient to a cloud server; an authority control module is used for setting the authority of the patient account on reviewing a medical history range and that of the doctor on reviewing the medical history of the patient; a data processing unit is used for, according to the personal medical history and the distanceof the patient as well as the specialty and the duty time of doctors, recommending appropriate hospitals and doctors for the patient's choice, and meanwhile, providing corresponding data for an expense reimbursement system according to the health insurance payment status and clinic expense reimbursement ratio and limitation.

The invention relates to the field of asset management, in particular to a fixed asset management system based on an Internet of things. The system comprises an electronic tag, a fixed asset monitor, a fixed asset database, a fixed asset management platform, and a fixed asset information backup library. The fixed asset management platform comprises an asset information collection module, an asset inquiry management module, an asset inventory management module, an asset depreciation management module, a data processing module, an abnormity handling module, an asset borrowing and returning management module, a background management module. The fixed asset monitor collects fixed asset information and uploads the fixed asset information to the fixed asset management platform; the fixed asset information is processed through the fixed asset management platform and then stored into the fixed asset database; the problem of the medical unit fixed asset management is effectively solved. The hospital fixed asset management system based on the Internet of things has the advantages of changing the collecting way of asset inventory data; solving the bottleneck problem of hospital asset physical inventory; greatly improving the inventory efficiency; achieving the real-time monitoring on hospital fixed assets; and protecting the safety of fixed assets.

The invention relates to an intelligent servo oxygen therapy control system, which is mainly formed by a blood oxygen measuring device (1), a communication module (2), a control unit (3), an electronic flow valve (4), an information reminding module (5), an oxygen input port (6), and an oxygen output port (7). The anoxia degree of a patient is judged by adopting an oxygen saturation value obtained in real time, and an oxygen therapy scheme is given by a built-in oxygen therapy data model, so the medical treatment of an oxygen uptake link is more precise and scientific; the dynamic oxygen saturation value is adopted, change of the anoxia degree of the patient is judged in a tracing manner, and an oxygen therapy flow value is automatically corrected by the control unit, so not only is the clinical effect of the oxygen therapy ensured, but also unnecessary consumption of oxygen is reduced and a large quantity of cost is saved for medical units.

The invention discloses patient document retrieval authorization control method and system, belonging to the technical field of computer software. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, classifying patient documents, setting access rights to the documents for medical personnel according to the roles of the medical personnel and issuing corresponding digital certificates to the medical personnel; then signing own documents by patients and meanwhile setting diagnosis activity participation roles and the access time of the medical personnel; and finally, determining the document retrieval rights of the medical personnel according to the roles, the diagnosis activity participation roles and the access time of the medical personnel by the system. The system comprises a medical personnel certificate registration mechanism, a patient certificate registration mechanism, a certificate authorization mechanism, a safety service interface, an access control module, a document retrieval client and a document base server. Compared with the prior art, the invention not only protects the individual privacy information of patients and the intellectual property of medical units, but also are convenient for the medical personnel to conveniently use the documents of the patients.

The present invention discloses a medical health management system. Each item treatment information of a patient is uploaded to a central server to carry out statistics so as to obtain waiting time of subsequent patient untreated items; by effectively regulating the untreated items, medical resources are reasonably used so as to avoid long-time invalid waiting of the patient; by third-party supervision of a supervision server, the problem of excessive medical treatment is effectively solved, so that body health, rights and interests of the patient are further ensured; and moreover, uniform supervision and management on a management system of each medical unit in each region are implemented by a third-party monitoring system and health indexes of residents in a designated area can be subjected to statistics and analysis according to the supervision server.

A medical unit includes a shielded enclosure (2) in which are accommodated:—elements (13) for supporting a container (12) including a source or a generator of injectable radioactive product (11),—elements (10) for supporting a syringe (6),—a device (3) of the activimeter type, and—a system of pipes (9, 20, 23, 24) associated with at least one valve (15). The syringe support (10), the valve (15) and the radioactive source support (13) are arranged vertically relative to one another, respectively from top to bottom, the syringe support (10) being arranged to support the syringe (6) with the plunger (8) thereof oriented upward. The valve (15) and the syringe plunger (8) can be operated so as to ensure the withdrawal, dilution and injection operations.

The invention discloses a test strip for rapidly detecting vitamin D. The test strip comprises a supporting plate which does not absorb water. A sample pad, a combination pad, a chromatography film and an absorbent pad are arranged on the supporting plate in sequence. The combination pad is covered with a marker-marked conjugate of the vitamin D and carrier protein. The chromatography film is a nitrocellulose film and provided with a quality control line C and a detection line T, the detection line T is located between the combination pad and the quality control line C, the detection line T is covered with a vitamin D specific antibody, and the quality control line C is covered with a specific antibody capable of being combined with the carrier protein. The test strip is convenient to use, easy to operate, high in detection speed, and capable of being easily popularized in primary medical units, meeting market requirements, and filling gaps in domestic and foreign markets. A result of the test strip is easy to judge and is represented symbolically, and special requirements of vitamin D detection for equipment, instruments and personnel are eliminated.

This invention discloses a medical record exchange system based on ebXML, which is a star-like structure. The exchange center is at the center realizing data sharing and exchange and connects with the electronic medical record systems of medical units via WEB service interface. The system of each medical unit interacts with the center via web service, engages in data transformation via XML following the ebXML standard.

The present invention relates to a personal method for monitoring physiological parameters and safety condition of human body. Said method is characterized by that it uses a monitoring device, and makes said monitoring device be carried on the body of a persion to be monitored, and said monitoring device can be used for monitoring several movement informations and several physiological parameters of the monitored body, and can be used for judging that these movement informations and physiological parameters are normal or not, and can be used for making the movement informations and physiological parameters be transferred into medical unit by means of wireless communication network.

The invention discloses an intelligent medicine purchase system based on regional medical cooperation and doctor advice compliance monitoring. The intelligent medicine purchase system comprises a server for interacting data with a medical information platform of a basic medical unit, a medical information platform of a large-size medical unit, a regional medical information platform and a service information platform of a medicine selling website, wherein the server comprises a medical unit service subsystem, a patient service subsystem and a medicine purchase guide service subsystem. The regional medical cooperation is combined with medicine purchase guide for a patient; cooperation for medicine purchase and outpatient service is supplied to the patient according to information in doctor advice, so that the time of the patient can be saved, and the treatment efficiency and the treatment quality of a doctor can be improved; and the doctor advice compliance of the patient can be indirectly promoted.

A medical treatment apparatus, and in particular an extra-corporeal blood treatment apparatus, has a socket unit for the connection of a plug unit belonging to a device for supplying a medical fluid for the medical treatment apparatus. A filling apparatus for filling a device for supplying a medical fluid has a socket unit for the connection of a plug unit of the device for supplying a medical fluid. The device has a plug unit having means for indicating two states of operation, while the socket unit of the treatment apparatus has means for destroying the means for indicating two states of operation. When the plug unit is connected to the socket unit, the means for indicating two states of operation are destroyed, to rule out the possibility of the device being re-used. Re-use of the device is ruled out by the fact that the device cannot be re-filled with fluid.