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A system and method for accounting and billing patients in a hospital environment. A hospitalized patient is associated with a patient identifier. Billable services provided to the hospitalized patient are associated with the patient identifier. If the billable service is provided by a physician, a physician identifier is also associated with the billable service. The hospitalized patient is scored and a current procedural terminology (CPT) assignment manager assigns CPT codes to the billable service. A bill generator receives the patient data, patient insurance information, physician insurance information, and CPT codes and generates a bill for the billable services provided to the hospitalized patient.

A remote command center for providing services to geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. A datastore accessible to the remote command center receives patient data from geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. Monitored data elements of geographically dispersed hospitalized patients are also received at the remote command center and stored in the datastore. A smart alert module generates and applies patient specific rules to selected data elements. If a patient-specific rule for a hospitalized patient has been contravened, an alert is issued from the remote command center. A patient care module displays selected data elements of the hospitalized patients at the remote command center. A decision support module applies decision support algorithms to selected data elements of a hospitalized patient and to user input to provide patient care advice. Patient care advice comprises a diagnosis, a method of treatment, and a laboratory protocol. The decision support module may also write orders for medication, laboratory protocols and surgical procedures.

A system and method for observing patients in geographically dispersed health care locations. A portable monitoring station is associated with a patient assigned to a health care location. The portable monitoring station comprises monitoring equipment that monitors physiological measures of the patient. A remote command center receives the monitored data elements, accesses patient data elements indicative of a medical condition associated with the patient, and applies a patient-specific rule to selected data elements to determine whether the patient-specific rule has been contravened. The monitored equipment may further comprise video and audio equipment that captures patient video data and patient audio data and provides these data to the central command center.

A remote command center for providing services to geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. A datastore accessible to the remote command center receives patient data from geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. Monitored data elements of geographically dispersed hospitalized patients are also received at the remote command center and stored in the datastore. A smart alert module generates and applies patient specific rules to selected data elements. If a patient-specific rule for a hospitalized patient has been contravened, an alert is issued from the remote command center. A patient care module displays selected data elements of the hospitalized patients at the remote command center. A decision support module applies decision support algorithms to selected data elements of a hospitalized patient and to user input to provide patient care advice. Patient care advice comprises a diagnosis, a method of treatment, and a laboratory protocol. The decision support module may also write orders for medication, laboratory protocols and surgical procedures.

The invention provides a baffle device for sealing molten steel and a fabrication method thereof as well as a die applying the baffle device. The baffle device comprises a steel plate part, a fire-resistant filler and a coating, wherein, the steel plate part is a steel plate with a preset thickness, the steel plate part is provided with a first side face and a second side face which are oppositely arranged, the first side face is equipped with an annular inverted-cone dovetail groove, and the size of the groove bottom on a radial section is more than that of a notch of the inverted-cone dovetail groove; the outer diameter of the inverted-cone dovetail groove is 1.05 times more than that of a centrifugal casting pipe, and the outer diameter of the inverted-cone dovetail groove is 0.95 times less than that of the baffle device; the inner diameter of the inverted-cone dovetail groove is 0.75-0.85 times that of the centrifugal casting pipe; the fire-resistant filler is filled in the inverted-cone dovetail groove; and the coating is coated on the surface of the steel plate part and the fire-resistant filler. The baffle device has the advantages of high temperature resistance, good sealing property, strong non-deformability, molten steel erosion resistance and lowered cost, which prevents the fire-resistant filler from falling from the baffle device into the die in the case of high-speed rotation vibration.

The invention relates to a folding boring tower which comprises a boring tower support arranged on the rear part of a rig substructure and a tower body articulated on the boring tower support, wherein a tower body comprises an upper section boring tower, a lower section boring tower and a tower rising oil cylinder, and the tower rising oil cylinder is arranged between the lower section boring tower and the rig substructure; the top end of the boring tower support is articulated with a sliding seat, a sliding oil cylinder is arranged between the sliding seat and the lower section boring tower, the front of a joint of the upper and lower section boring towers is provided with a folding articulated shaft, and the back surface of the joint of the upper and lower section boring towers is provided with positioning holes which are mutually matched; and an automatic plug pin mechanism matched with the positioning holes is arranged on the upper section boring tower or the lower section boring tower, and a double cylinder mutual assistance mechanism is arranged between the upper and lower boring towers. The folding boring tower provided by the invention adopts the double cylinder mutual assistance mechanism, the tower body can automatically complete spread or fold, the automatic degree is increased, and the performance of a boring apparatus is improved; and the sliding seat and the sliding oil cylinder are adopted to match, the work force and a lifting device are not needed in a tower rising process, the auxiliary expenses in a construction process is greatly reduced, and the work efficiency is improved.