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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 patient activity monitoring system that allows caregivers of multiple patients to work more efficiently and with reduced cost, while increasing the quality and level of patient care. The system includes a plurality of remote monitoring subsystems, a plurality of user notification units, and a central monitoring unit with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) communicably coupled between the remote monitoring and user notification units. Each remote monitoring subsystem includes a remote monitoring unit, and a sensor device associated with a respective patient that detects one or more activity and/or physiological parameters of the patient. A simplified user interface including the GUI and the user notification units provides indications of the type and level of assistance required by one or more patients to caregivers at centralized and remote locations.

A pacifier pulse oximeter sensor includes pulse oximeter sensor elements located within the nipple of a pacifier. The pulse oximeter sensor elements may be completely within the nipple material, embedded within the nipple material, nested within the nipple material, or adjacent to the nipple material while not being exposed to the outside environment. The pulse oximeter sensor elements include a light source and a light detector. The pulse oximeter sensor elements communicate with an oximeter through wiring, an electrical connector, and/or wirelessly. An alternative embodiment adds oximeter processing capabilities to the pacifier pulse oximeter sensor.

This invention is a protective covering to protect off-the-shelf disposable pulse oximeter sensors from bodily or surgical fluids. The protective covering will envelop and encase the inserted pulse oximeter sensor up to a point on the connection cable extending from the pulse oximeter sensor. The protective covering is a polypropylene, rubber, or similar material, which preferably is tapered from the large width at the entrance to the narrower width at the blind end. The protective covering is bilaminar in nature to contain a substantially rectangular pulse oximeter.

The present invention relates to a system and method for assessing the impact of an ailment on a health related quality of life domain of a patient using a standardized common metric. The standardized common metric of the present invention enables the impact of various ailments to be compared.

A patient monitoring system according to one embodiment includes a real-time wetness sensor configured to detect the rate of change in wetness occurring within an associated diaper, and automatically adjusting the sensitivity of the sensor to account for a wetness event unrelated to urination. A monitoring unit may be utilized in such a manner that the monitoring system controller-monitors the wetness sensor and generates data associated with detected-wetness events relative to the diaper. A wireless transmitter configured with the monitoring unit and in communication with the monitoring system controller may be further utilized to send the generated data, through a host computer, to a caregiver unit having a caregiver system controller in communication with the host computer. The caregiver can then check the status of the patient, provide a service, and annotate the patients history by transmitting the recorded observation and service provided back to the base station.

System and methods for collecting, sharing and analyzing data of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) for improved health analytics. Quality of health care delivery is assessed and improved through use of data from EMRs. For example, data may be analyzed for a variety of purposes, including to determine variation in performance of a practice site, a group practice, or an individual clinician for the patient population on a given treatment or to identify a risk of disease for patients of the patient population.

The invention provides automatic transfusion medicine dispensing equipment, which belongs to the technical field of transfusion medicine dispensation. The automatic transfusion medicine dispensing equipment can automatically extract liquid in an ampoule, medicine powder or water aqua in a powder bottle, and mother liquid in a mother liquid container to be mixed. The invention also provides an automatic transfusion medicine dispensing method. The equipment and the method in the invention can be used for realizing the effect of operating the liquid in the ampoule and the medicine powder or the water aqua in the powder bottle by a machine and mixing the liquid in the ampoule and the medicine powder or the water aqua in the powder bottle with the mother liquid, the problem of easy pollution of the medicine liquid is solved, the medicine dispensing risk is lowered, the disputes between doctors and patients can be reduced, and in addition, the invention saves labor and improves the nursing efficiency and quality.

The invention includes a system and processes to gather and analyze data to monitor, track, and provide care. The major subsystems of the invention include the Medical Digital Assistant (“MDA”), Server, Monitoring Devices, Dispensing Devices, Server, Dashboard, and Application Software. The invention includes the method for conducting data acquisition, monitoring, analysis, and reporting to diagnose and treat medical conditions such as diagnosing and treating specific medical conditions such as fertility and congestive heart failure.

The invention discloses a safety venous indwelling needle with a needleless interface positive-pressure closing valve, comprising a puncture needle, a puncture needle seat and a handle, wherein, the puncture needle is formed into a puncture needle protection assembly by a puncture protection sleeve, a spring, a plunger latch and an escapement clamp; a venous indwelling needle is formed by an indwelling needle soft tube, a puncture needle guide tube, an indwelling needle seat and a sealing plug; a needless interface positive-pressure closing valve is formed by a shell, a piston, a seal ring, a spring, a connecting soft tube and a base; the positive-pressure closing valve and a liquid out plug separated structure do not involve the indwelling needle, are easy to operate, can reduce pain, and avoid the indwelling needle from taking off; the puncture needle protection sleeve can protect the puncture needle before and after the use of the indwelling needle, has the advantages of without added length, small and exquisite volume, good hand feel, accurate control, high puncture precision, and convenience for puncture operation and the like, can automatically retract to protect the puncture needle, can avoid acupuncture injury on medical workers, has positive pressure closing function, can prevent venous blood flowing back and overflowing, prevent blood from being polluted and avoid the blood from forming blocking in the indwelling needle, does not need heparin tube closing and other operation, has needless connection function, and can avoid needle injury, improve working efficiency and protect the safety of medical workers and patients.

A mechanical automatic intravenous medicine mixing device comprises an intravenous mixing area and is characterized in that a glass lifting window is arranged on the front portion of the intravenous medicine mixing area, a syringe storage box, a small package medicine bottle cover opening device and a cover opening locating device are arranged on the rear portion, a medicine mixing mechanical arm is arranged on the inner left side, a touch screen is arranged on the outer left side, a transfusion bag/bottle clamp and a medicine mixer are arranged on the left side of the bottom, a sterilizing lamp is arranged on the rear side of the inner top, a lamp is arranged on the front side of the inner top, a bottle taking and cover opening mechanical arm is arranged on the inner right side, and a medicine storage tray is arranged on the right side at the bottom. A recycling box is arranged below the small package medicine bottle cover opening device, a push-and-pull device composed of a driving mechanism and a transmission mechanism and a sensor are arranged at the front end of the medicine mixing mechanical arm, and a sensor is arranged at the front end of the bottle taking cover opening mechanical arm. By means of the mechanical automatic intravenous medicine mixing device, repeated work of medical staff is avoided, and the problem that the medical staff can be infected easily by mixed medicine in a medicine mixing process is solved.

The invention discloses an infusion monitoring apparatus and a monitoring method thereof. The infusion monitoring apparatus consists of a gravity sensor, a data acquisition unit, a data processing unit, terminal equipment and a power source. The infusion monitoring method comprises the following steps of: leading the sum of the weight of an infusion container, the weight of liquid medicine in the container and the weight of accessories to be equal to the initial weight Wo of the liquid medicine, and automatically judging the weight WG of the liquid medicine in the container by analysis software according to the standard of the infusion container; computing the dynamic change numerical value of the infusion speed, the time required for infusing residual liquid and the liquid level liquid quantity in the infusion container by a microprocessor, and when the dynamic change numerical value of the infusion speed and the liquid level liquid quantity in the infusion container exceed the critical alarm points of the dynamic change numerical value of the corresponding infusion speed and liquid level liquid quantity in the infusion container, sending out an alarm signal; and displaying all data of infusion parameters by a displayer, and sending to a nurse center by a wire network or a wireless network, so that the dynamic change process of the infusion process can be timely monitored by medical workers, and the problem of various inconveniences of the medical workers and the patients during infusion can be solved.

The invention provides an intravenous infusion management device and an intravenous infusion management system constituted by the intravenous infusion management device. The intravenous infusion management device comprises a center machine which is arranged on a nurse station and is in charge of management and monitoring; a host machine (terminal) and a signal transmission relay box arranged beside a patient's bed in a ward; a doctor's advice management and intravenous infusion plan customizing module, a drug incompatibility module and an infusion monitoring and alarming module arranged in the center machine; and an infusion dripping speed regulating and controlling and infusion monitoring and alarming module arranged in the host machine (terminal). With the application of the intravenous infusion management device and the intravenous infusion management system provided by the invention, intravenous infusion is more scientific, more effective and safer, and a patient, accepting the intravenous infusion, feels more relieved and assured and takes a better rest; and nursing quality of a hospital can be improved and workload of nurses can be relieved.