152 results about "Consumer health" patented technology

The invention features methods, systems, and computer programs for generating a customized set of possible medical conditions, thereby providing access to medical information relevant to the user's state of health. The methods and systems involve at least some of the following steps: receiving a list of symptoms specified in terms selected from a first language set; translating the list of symptoms into a translated list of symptoms specified in terms selected from a second language set; using the translated list of symptoms to generate possible medical conditions, the possible medical conditions described in terms of the second language set; and translating the possible medical conditions into descriptions that are specified in terms selected from the first language set.

An apparatus, system, and method are provided to enable an individual to access and manage his health care via a web-based portal. The apparatus, system, and method further provide for the compiling and displaying of localized consumer health care information. In particular, the apparatus, system, and method provide a receiver configured to receive raw health information data from a health information source, and a processor configured to process the raw health information data by transforming the raw health information data into refined health information data. The apparatus, system, and method further provide a storage unit configured to store the refined health information data, and a display including a graphical user interface configured to display the refined health information data, enabling a user to access and manage health care needs of the user in a user selected geographical area.

Personalization of access to health or benefit-related information on a computer network is provided based upon a health history of a user. In one implementation, personal health or benefit-related information about the user is obtaining from the user operating a client computer. The health or benefit-related information includes one or more health or benefit-related terms that each corresponds to a health or benefit-related concept. The health related terms provided by the user are correlated with a health terminology thesaurus that is stored on a computer-readable medium, such as at a server remote from the user client. Each of the health or benefit-related terms is associated with a health or benefit-related concept, which has one or more health or benefit-related works associated therewith. The works associated with health or benefit-related concepts are then made accessible over a computer network to the user.

A method for providing a consumer with the ability to access and collect personal health records associated with the consumer in a secure and private manner is provided. The method includes assigning a toll-free phone number individually associated with and dedicated to the consumer for private fax and voice communications from a health care provider, associating access information with the consumer for the consumer to use to access a secure web site, receiving a private fax communication comprising a personal health record associated with the consumer for which the consumer has requested and given permission to the health care provider to send to the toll-free number, converting the private fax communications into an image file format, storing the health record encoded in the image file format, and providing the consumer with secure access to the web site using the access information and providing on the web site an interface to the health records of the consumer for the consumer to access the health record.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a biological preservative. As known to all, along with the rapid development of the society, chemical preservatives have been used in food, have strong impact on food safety and endanger the health of consumers, therefore, the use of preservatives causes great concern of government departments and consumers. According to the biological preservative, natural plants and microbial antibiotic substances are used as base materials, for example, the biological preservative is prepared by mixture of carboxymethyl chitosan, xylooligosaccharide, nisin from lactic streptococci, acetic acid, lactobacillus reuteri, pediococcus acidilactici, calcium citrate, ionized calcium, lactic acid, plant essential oil and water. The biological preservative can inhibit growth of harmful microorganisms by antagonistic and competitive inhibition effects among different microorganisms and produce extracted and separated components of antibacterial active ingredients having antifungal and antibacterial functions in normal growth and metabolism processes, thereby achieving antiseptic and fresh-keeping effects.

The invention discloses upper air inlet gas cookware, belongs to gas cookware and solves the problems of inadequate combustion, low efficiency and small power caused by poor ejection capacity of the conventional gas cookware. In the upper air inlet gas cookware, a burner base is provided with a central ejector pipe and is connected with two side ejector pipes, an annular groove is formed on the upper surface of the burner base, an air admission hole is formed on one side face of the burner base and legs are arranged at the bottom of the burner base; a circular path is formed on the lower end face of an outer ring fire cover, fire holes are formed on the outer circumference of the outer ring fire cover and a central fire cover is arranged in the center of the outer ring fire cover; and a central gas nozzle and a central gas interface are arranged at the bottom of the gas ejection base and two spray pipes aligned with two side ejector pipe inlets respectively are arranged on the upper surface of the gas ejection base. The upper air inlet gas cookware improves gas inlet capacity, mixes gas uniformly, has adequate combustion and increases power; and foreign matters cannot enter a shell, so that the health of consumers is facilitated. By the upper air inlet gas cookware, the heat absorption efficiency of a pot can reach 55 percent; the emissions of CO and NOx is lower than 400ppm and 300ppm respectively which are far below the national energy-saving environmental protection index.

A method, system, and program for providing consumer healthy habits incentives are provided. A consumable item, consumed by an individual, is detected. A health factor is detected for the consumable item. An electronic incentive is selected for the individual according to the health factor, such that the individual is encouraged to consume a healthy selection of consumable items. An electronic incentive may be further specified according to the personal health history, exercise history and consumption history of an individual.

A method and system are provided for connecting consumer searches and in-store transactions using credit cards, debit cards, and gift cards. In accordance with one or more embodiments, the method includes the steps of (a) receiving from a search system and storing the search results relating to an online or mobile search performed by a consumer, the search results identifying one or more telephone numbers of merchants that signed up with the search system as Advertisers, and the search association identifiers such as IP Address, Cookie, and/or Carrier User ID associated with the consumer; (b) associating the card to the online or mobile search by matching the search association identifiers based on two purchase transactions originated from the same card number within a predetermined period of time of the one or more searches; (c) charging the selected Advertiser a fee for successful correlation of the consumer's transaction to the search association identifiers; and (d) providing detailed Return-On-Investment reports.

The invention discloses a food composition and application thereof. The food composition comprises whole wheat flour, wheat flour and bean flour, wherein a weight ratio of the wheat flour to the whole wheat flour is 1-4: 1, and each 100 g of the composition contains 0.2 to 1.2 g of lysine and 6 to 12 g of dietary fiber. The composition contains rich amino acid and dietary fiber, overcomes the problem of unbalanced intake of dietary nutrients of consumers at present and the disadvantages of rough mouthfeel and poor taste of whole grain food, and is beneficial for maintaining and/or improving health of consumers.

Consumer healthcare decisions are facilitated using systems, methods and computer program products configured to generate healthcare path recommendations based a consumer engagement with a consumer interface in which consumer-reported information related to a consumer health condition is received and used to generate healthcare path recommendations. The healthcare path recommendations are customized for the consumer based on the consumer's personalized information including the consumer's engagement with the consumer interface. The customized healthcare paths include treatment options for addressing the health of the consumer and may include cost-effective providers.

An ecological regulation and control method of waxberry belongs to the technical field of agricultural product safety in production, particularly relating to an ecological regulation and control method in safe production of waxberry, and is characterized in that the method constructs good circular system of ecological environment by mutually matching with ecological base construction, biological diversity culture, natural enemy protection and natural enemy use so as to establish good condition for natural enemy and improve the ability of natural enemy controlling pests; natural enemy is used for replacing chemical pesticide so as to obtain fruits without pesticide residues, thereby ensuring product quality safety and consumer health, reducing material cost, having economic, social and ecological effect, and being capable of efficiently promoting continuous development of waxberry industry.

With frequent occurrence and severe harm of vegetable insect pests, agricultural benefits are reduced and consumer health is threatened because of improper insect pest diagnosis and control measures. The improvement of insect pest control level can guarantee large-scale plantation, high yield and high quality of vegetables, and an insect pest diagnosis expert system can assist in diagnosing insect pests and relieving the contradiction of low quality of agricultural planting personnel and insufficient plant protection experts. Aiming at vegetable insect pest occurrence characteristics, by simulating an analysis mode of insect pest diagnosis of plant protection experts, fully considering ways of thinking of users and adopting a case-based reasoning mechanism, an insect pest diagnosis expert system constructing method comprising contents of new case generation, case library construction, insect pest symptom weight calculation, case retrieval and match, human-machine interactive interface and the like is created and a vegetable insect pest diagnosis expert system taking the method as a core is constructed. Moreover, due to an online edition, a standalone version and a personal digital assistant (PDA) version of the vegetable insect pest diagnosis expert system, multi-channel insect pest diagnosis information technical service is provided for users with different requirements.

The fish ball and the fish cake as food product is food composition with fish as main component, and consists of fish 100 (in weight portions, the same below), starch 10-20, fat meat 15-25, wine 0.4-0.6, salt 2-5, sodium glutamate 0.04-0.06, water 10-20 and proper amount of ginger and scallion. The fish ball and the fish cake may be preserved easily and has reasonable composition and good taste.

The invention discloses selenium-rich peanut fertilizer and belongs to the field of fertilizer. The selenium-rich peanut fertilizer comprises, by weight, 500 parts of concentrated molasses ferment powder, 70 parts of citric acid, 10 parts of urea, 2 parts of sodium selenite, 5 parts of a growth conditioning agent and 9 parts of trace elements. The selenium-rich peanut fertilizer contains a plurality of trace elements such as zinc, calcium, iron, magnesium and molybdenum needed by crops, can promote peanut development, contains sodium selenite, is free of sodium selenate and prevents damage to producer and consumer health.

The invention relates to a novel cadmium-removal cigarette filter tip and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of biotechnology application. In the invention, carboxymethyl chitosan is utilized as an adsorbent to be evenly added to the cigarette filter tip so as to reduce content of heavy metal-cadmium in smoke without affecting the original quality of a cigarette; and meanwhile the cadmium-removal cigarette filter tip also has absorption effect on toxic and harmful substances such as nicotine, a hydroxide, a sulfide, a cyclic hydrocarbon compound and the like in the smoke, thus being beneficial to improving cigarette quality and ensuring consumer health.

The invention relates to an Internet of Things based intelligent refrigerator comprising a refrigerator body, a master control CPU (central processing unit), a remote dietician communication module, a supermarket communication module and a mobile terminal. A touch screen, a touch screen CPU, an RFID (radio frequency identification) card reader and a wired/wireless network card are arranged on the refrigerator body, the touch screen CPU is connected with the master control CPU and the touch screen electrically, the input end of the touch screen CPU is connected with the output end of the RFID card reader electrically, the remote dietician communication module is connected with the touch screen CPU bidirectionally in a wired or wireless mode, the output end of the remote dietician communication module is connected with the input end of the supermarket communication module in a wired or wireless mode, the supermarket communication module is connected with the touch screen CPU bidirectionally in a wired or wireless mode, and the mobile terminal is connected with the touch screen CPU wirelessly and bidirectionally. Information sharing is realized through the remote dietician communication module, the supermarket communication module, the refrigerator and consumers, and the consumers are directed to have a healthy diet.

Real time purification of contaminated common air is an unsolved public health problem inside residences and the workplace, and outside from air pollution by industry and transportation. Currently popular consumer grade electrostatic air filters accumulate suspended contaminants onto accumulation plates which require subsequent disposal or cleaning of the highly concentrated contaminates, a maintenance requirement that presents a new consumer health risk. Disclosed is a technology with several embodiments that structurally sequester and eradicate suspended particulates by electrostatically migrating them to an internal photocatalytic dismantling grid. The grid is a multicellular foundation of tetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) or Teflon-coated metal, with an outer layer of photocatalytic nanocrystals embedded in a durable, porous coating that is energized by ultraviolet radiation to create powerful surface dismantling agents thereon, including hydroxyl radicals, from natural elements in ambient air. Pathogens, mycotoxins, spores, odor molecules, allergens, smoke particles, and industrial pollutants are structurally dissociated into harmless protein fragments and natural molecules when they encounter the dismantling grid. The decontamination phenomenon is amplified by using the natural or enhanced positive or negative electrostatic surface charge on the suspended particles to migrate them to the dismantling grid for photocatalytic destruction. Contaminants, suspended water molecules, and trace ozone ions are drawn to the dismantling grid in this manner, also enhancing the supply of raw material from which the dismantling agents are created. The dismantling grid is self-cleaning and maintenance free, and is designed to use UV energy in a bandwidth that can physically inactivate pathogen replication defenses until photocatalytic destruction. Depending on the UV energy used, none of the powerful dismantling agents escape the apparatus because of their short half-lives. Once their job is done all return to the natural elements from which they were made, creating no environmental harm.

The invention discloses a fermentation processing method of pork, and relates to the technical field of food processing. According to the fermentation processing method, lactobacillus plantarum and pediococcus acidilactici are combined and used as fermentation inoculum, meat before fermentation is firstly subjected to cold and hot treatment, in the pickling process of the meat, starch is added toform uniform starch films on the surface of the meat, and later uniform fermentation is facilitated. Under the premise that the elasticity and the color of the meat are guaranteed, the fermentation quality of the meat is entirely improved. The pork processed by the fermentation processing method is brown and red in color, soft, tender and refreshing in mouth feel, and unique in flavor, and the fermentation processing method is suitable for health consumption ideal of modern consumers.

The present invention provides an enzymic preparation treatment method for disposable chopstick production. The method includes the following steps: cutting the bamboo slab into blank chopstick with a chopstick molding machine; soaking the blank chopstick into a compound enzymic preparation solution; drying and disinfecting the blank chopstick soaked in enzymic preparation; and polishing the dried blank chopstick to produce the finished product of disposable chopstick. The production method of the disposable chopstick solves the problem of high microbial indicators and high sulfur dioxide leaching amount caused by chemical additives and reduces the harm to consumers health; at the same time, the reduction of chemical components such as starch, fat and pectin reduces the quality problems of color changing and mildew of the disposable chopstick.

Method, system, and apparatus for automatic stance classification. Propositions can be collected that are relevant to a query. A classifier can classify the stance of each proposition based on whether the proposition supports the query, opposes the query, or is neutral with respect to the query in order to thereafter provide substantive data for decision making based on and extracted from the query. The stance can be classified based on, for example, an SVM-SC (SVM Based Stance Classification) approach and/or an NN-SC (Neural Network Stance Classification Approach).

A method and system for exchanging health information of an individual via the Internet is characterized by tagging of discreet consumer health encounter records, created by an electronic medical record system, with a unique identification number and encoding the identification number in an electronically readable identifier. The record includes the results of medical examinations, medical procedures, medical device measurements and other health information pertinent to the individual. The record is tagged using an electronic network service that creates the unique identification number and the electronically readable identifier. When provided with the unique identification number and the electronically readable identifier, the individual can transfer private medical information to a selected personal health record system. This allows the transfer of private medical information in a secure manner without the need to connect the electronic medical record system to the personal health record system, and without the need for the patient to disclose where the medical information will be stored.

The invention discloses electronic cigarette liquid with lemon flavor and a preparation method thereof. The electronic cigarette liquid is made from, by weight, 0.1-10 parts of lemon oil, 0.01-1 partof bergamot oil, 0.01-1 part of limette oil, 0.005-0.25 part of terpilenol, 0.005-0.25 part of linalool, 0.001-0.1 part of methyl heptenone, 0.001-0.1 part of octanal, 0.005-0.25 part of geranyl acetate, 1-5 parts of ethyl alcohol, 10-30 parts of water, 30-90 parts of propylene glycol, and 20-40 parts of glycerol. The smoking flavor of electronic cigarettes can be enriched, the needs of differentconsumer groups can be met, and potential hazards to the health of the consumers can be effectively reduced.

Disclosed is a tea pillow. An interlayer tea sleeve is arranged in a double-layer pillowcase and provided with a zipper, plant mixture is filled in the interlayer tea sleeve, and a filling pillow inner is wrapped by the interlayer tea sleeve. The plant mixture includes tea leaves, waste tea leaves, tea stems, mint leaves and mint stems. On the basis of conventional functions of a pillow, the tea pillow has antisepsis and anti-inflammation functions and a function of purifying air, effectively improves air quality in a space while being used for a user to have a rest, and meets the health needs of consumers. In addition, the utilization range of the tea leaves is expanded, coarse tea leaves can be selectively used as filling materials, utilization values of autumn tea and summer tea are improved, and utilization rate of the tea leaves is improved.

The invention discloses a method for processing sweet potato leaf powder. The method comprises the steps of fresh leaf washing, drying, grinding and screening, wherein the drying step means conducting drying in vacuum for 8 hours at a temperature of 60 DEG C and a vacuum degree of 0.09MPa with the loading amount of 75 percent. The method is simple in process, does not need color-protecting or blanching process, can be used for well maintaining the original color and nutrition of dried sweet potato leaves, and is safe, green and easy to popularize. Furthermore, the sweet potato leaf powder can be used as a nutrition enhancer so as to improve nutrition and assortments of foods and promote the health level of consumers.