50 results about "Current medication" patented technology

An apparatus, method and data structure for procuring, analyzing, and communicating dietary information, particularly information regarding the research, evaluation and selection of dietary products. The system provides a comprehensive combination of dietary information in a format that facilitates analysis, decision-making, and procurement of various dietary products based on factors, including an individual's medical nutritional needs, current medication(s), cooking skills, budgeted food expense, food preferences, food allergies, life stage, and lifestyle.

A medication dispensing device comprising a housing having an enclosure configured to provide direct access to a current medication container storing medication to be dispensed. The device includes a plurality of bins, each bin configured to receive and store therein a medication container within a bin seat. Additionally, the device includes a scale assembly, within the housing, configured to automatically lift the medication container from the bin seat, weigh the medication container at least once and lower the medication container into the bin seat during a weighing cycle.

A globally-accessible computerized system for data management of medications for a plurality of patients. The system allows for medication specific data of the patient to be stored and modified such as the name of the medication, an image of the medication, the form of the medication, the route of administration, the frequency at which the medication is to be taken, the purpose of the medication and any particular instructions from the healthcare provider regarding the medication. By means of the system, the patient may maintain a comprehensive list of current medications in order to aid the healthcare provider in diagnosis and thereby reduce the risk of an adverse drug event. The system also allows for the patient to make a prescription request to the healthcare provider and for the health care provider to submit the prescription to a pharmacist for filling.

Current methods of delivering drug usually require a certain degree of human intervention. For example, a doctor, a paramedic or a patient is required to inject insulin manually when the blood sugar level becomes low. This invention provides a medical device for use with a patient for performing at least one of the functions of delivering drug and performing physical therapy to the patient. The device of this invention includes a sensor for measuring at least one parameter from the patient, an analyzer for analyzing the parameter to determine appropriate function to be carried out on the patient by said medical device, and at least one actuator to perform at least one of the functions of delivering drug and performing physical therapy.

A method of accurately administering medication to a patient includes enrolling the patient including capturing an enrollment iris image, converting the enrollment iris image into an enrollment iris code, and associating the enrollment iris code with the patient, associating a medication with a patient including associating a medication bar code value associated with the medication bar code with the patient, administering a medication to the patient including capturing a current iris image, converting the current iris image into a current iris code, capturing a current medication bar code image of the bar code associated with the medication, converting the current medication bar code image into a current medication bar code value, querying the database for any patient having a previously stored enrollment iris code matching the current iris code and comparing each previously stored medication bar code value associated with the patient with the current medication bar code value.

Devices and methods are disclosed which relate to the sharing of medical information securely to comply with HIPAA. A medical device is disclosed that takes medical readings and sends them, along with other pertinent medical information, to a secure server where it is stored in a database. In case of an emergency, the device also connects the user to an expert where the expert can recall pertinent medical information from a database. This database can store everything including height and weight, allergies and current medications, a history of problems and conditions, and even the instantaneous heart beat of the subject.

Current methods of drug administration to the lungs are inefficient. ‘Endotracheal Tube with Aerosol Delivery Apparatus III’ is specifically designed for uniform intrapulmonary delivery of aerosolized medication in patients on mechanical ventilation. As opposed to the current methods of drug delivery where aerosol particles are generated at the proximal end of the ETT, with majority of the particles adhering to the endotracheal tube during delivery, this invention bypasses the endotracheal tube by generating aerosol particles at its distal end. The invention consists of two coaxial hollow tubes fused to each other. The inner coaxial tube and/or one or more secondary cannulation(s) in the wall of the outer coaxial tube terminate at proximal and as MDI adapters and at the distal tip as a single or multiple micrometric orifices. The device generates one or more aerosol plumes with different geometries, velocities and orientations made possible by variations in the ID, shape, trajectory and orientation of secondary cannulation(s) and the distal orifice(s) to ensure effective aerosol delivery to respiratory system.

A computer-implemented method, system, and apparatus for providing interactive and analytical components that provide a comprehensive and dynamic tool for therapies to prevent and cure dementia-related diseases. The invention includes one or more computers that receive and store personal information for people, including personal background information, pre-existing conditions, current medications, genomic data and diagnostic information. The computers also generate synergic data containing compounded probability data specifying an expected adjustment of individual biological mechanisms from particular combinations of therapies. For each person, the computers process personal information and identify a subset of biological mechanisms that are principally affected by dementia-related diseases or the substantial risk of dementia-related diseases. The computers also apply the personal information including the principally-affected biological mechanisms to the therapy data and generate for each person one or more messages communicating a therapy plan containing a combination of therapies and determines how to apply the therapies.

Human muscle tissues involve striated and smooth muscles. Each muscle tissue possesses its own special function. Differences of physiology functions among the muscle tissues are mainly determined by their various initiation and signal transmission systems, defined as the pre-muscle molecular motor mechanism, or initiating and regulating mechanism. The current medications, drugs, and therapies for diseases and symptoms related abnormal increased muscle tone or excessive muscle contraction are aimed just at the pre-muscle molecular motor mechanisms, whereas without directly intending to effect on the muscle molecular motor mechanism i.e. the contractile apparatus mechanism at all, which, however, is in common for all kinds of muscle tissues. The muscle molecular motor mechanism mainly involves recycling of actin-myosin filament cross-bridge formation and sliding movement. In the process, bio-energy provided by ATP hydrolysis is necessarily required. Therefore, abnormal increased muscle tone or excessive contraction of muscle tissues under diseased conditions may be modified by inhibition of the muscle molecular motor with the actin-myosin ATPase inhibitor, which blocks hydrolysis of ATP, then reduces release of bio-energy for the muscle contraction.

Our studies in vitro and in vivo have demonstrated that BDM, an ATPase inhibitor, thereby, its analogues, derivatives, and other chemicals possessing similar effect on ATPase may be used as bio-energy muscle relaxants (general muscle relaxants).

The method, system and user-interface facilitates patient compliance with healthcare provider instructions for prescription medication after discharge from a healthcare facility by analyzing patient current medication, canceling open prescriptions no longer used by the patient, aligning verified patient current prescriptions with patient discharge prescriptions, thus limiting the number of occasions on which a customer must visit the pharmacy to retrieve refills of the aligned prescriptions, and providing follow-up education at multiple occasions after discharge, decreasing the likelihood that the patient will be re-admitted to the hospital for the same ailment or complications from that ailment and increasing the likelihood that the customer will comply with the recommended medication regimen.

The present invention provides a system and method for the management of multiple medications. The invention enables patients and caregivers to accurately track what medications are taken at what times on a compact chart, which is easy to use and to read. The system and method uses a plurality of containers for safe and convenient storage of current medications. The invention facilitates prompt handling of medications needing refills by storing the medications needing refills in a refill container and placing a refill indicator on the chart. The invention enables the safe and efficient management of discontinued medications by storing discontinued medications in a discontinued medication container and placing a discontinued indicator on the chart. If a discontinued medication is prescribed again, it can be removed from the discontinued container and reused.

The invention discloses a Chinese medicinal pack for treatment of insomnia and a making method thereof. The Chinese medicinal pack comprises the following raw materials by weight: 2-5g of vinegar processed cyperus rotundus, 2-5g of radix bupleuri, 2-5g of eupatorium, 2-5g of folium artemisiae argyi, 2-5g of acorus gramineus, 2-5g of angelica dahurica, 2-5g of Chinese angelica, 2-5g of Ligusticum wallichii, 2-5g of dried tangerine peel, 2-5g of polygala tenuifolia, 2-5g of albizia flower, 2-5g of rose, 2-5g of lily, 2-5g of tuber fleeceflower stem, 2-5g of dried lemon, 2-5g of mint, and 2-5g oflavender. The Chinese medicinal pack provided by the invention is suitable for treating insomnia and dreaminess, restless sleep at night, upset and testiness, palpitation, melancholy, sadness and easy crying, and has the functions of dispersing qi stagnancy in liver and relieving depression, clearing away heart fire and relieving restlessness, soothing nerves and helping sleep. The medicinal spice developed according to the invention has nerve soothing efficacy, and is administered by means of underwear pad or sachet aromatherapy, and the mode is rare in existing dosage form and drug administration way research. The Chinese medicinal spice development and the underwear imbedding way provide great convenience for population in daily life, especially for female drug administration, and hasthe characteristics of random drug administration time, easy carrying and the like.

The invention disclosed herein is a system and method for the collection and dissemination of personal health information, including demographic data, medical history and insurance coverage. The individual is issued a card containing a microchip to which information is downloaded from each healthcare provider or a central medical database. The information downloaded on the card is easily carried by the patient and provides ready access to other healthcare providers of personal health information such as past medical history, current medications, available insurance and name and address of the patient, among others. The personal health information contained on the card may be viewed by the individual and corrected if necessary.

Current medication labels are very difficult for people with disabilities, language barriers, functional impairments, or illiteracy to read, potentially increasing the risk for accidental medication overdoses and/or poor compliance with medication administration and adherence. By having a color coded sticker system with an enclosed full body guide in the form of a poster, and a home health medication record card, these stickers are placed on each medication bottle as a symbol for what the medication is used for. The stickers are color coded in order to distinguish the time the medication is to be administered. Home health agencies may use the poster and stickers as they educate their patients about the medications they take.

The present invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine with the effects of activating blood circulation, dredging collaterals, strengthening sinews and bones, which can be prepared into the granules, tablets and capsules by malaytea scurfpea fruit, himalayan teasel root, drynaria rhizome of fortune, radix rehmanniae glutinosae, radix rehmanniae preparata, white paeony root, cassia twig, vinegar quenching pyrite, stir-fried myrrh, incised notopterygium rhizome, doubleteeth pubescent angilica root, prepared common monkshood mother root, epimedium herb, prepared kusnezoff monkshood root, stiff silkworm, common anemarrhena rhizome, ground beetle, twotooth achyranthes root, garden balsam stem, ephedra herb, east Asian tree fern rhizome, divaricate saposhnikovia root and the excipients. The preparation method is that: the water is added in the traditional Chinese medicines for boiling for 2 times, 5 times amount of water is added at the first time for boiling for 50 minutes, then the medicines are filtered; 4 times amount of water is added at the second time for boiling for 30 minutes, then the medicines are filtered; the filtrates are merged and prepared into the clear paste with the relative density of 1.15 to 1.17 at 85 DEG C by vacuum pressure reduction concentration, then the clear paste is cooled down, 4 times amount of ethanol is added, the supernatant liquid is taken and filtered after leaving for 24 hours, the ethanol is recovered and concentrated to the thick paste with the relative density of 1.32 to 1.35 at 50 DEG C, the thick paste is mixed with appropriate amount of excipients to be prepared into the granules, tablets and capsules. The present invention is in line with a variety of requirements of current medication, the dosage is accurate, the application is convenient, the carry, transportation and the storage are convenient, the bioavailability is high and the present invention has no obvious adverse taste of the drugs.

The medicinal bottle with injection function has cylindrical bottle, bottle mouth with hem and air channel for vacuum pumping, flat bottle bottom, bottle cap of butyl rubber with edge matching the hem of the bottle mouth, weak structure easy to stretch or break between the piston part and the cap edge, and notch for setting the needle rod in the top center of the bottle cap. The present invention combines the medicine packing and injection together, and facilitates the medicine storage, transportation and clinical use. In addition, the present invention can avoid the illegal re-use of the disposable syringe.

This invention provides one effective and rapid method to extract target molecule and target compound find three dimensional structure from Chinese medicine product, which uses target protein transistor stricture as base and uses X ray transistor means to filter the product for active component and for study from one new respective.

A method for vascular dysregulation. The method includes treating a medical condition or improving a number of chronic medical conditions (e.g., asthma, etc.) by looking for certain common medical symptoms associated with the chronic medical conditions such as headaches or sinus problems and eliminating known environmental triggers, eliminating known medical triggers and adjusting patient's current medication profile and to include a calcium channel blocker, a nasal anticholinergic or an antiemetic to reduce or eliminate the common medical symptoms, thereby improving the chronic medical condition.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine for treating stroke, and aims to solve the problem that the stroke cannot be radically cured by present medicines. The traditional Chinese medicine comprises the following substances in parts by weight of 20-120g of radix astragali, 5-15g of peach kernels, 8-16g of safflowers, 8-16g of roots of herbaceous peonies, 8-16g of radix angelica sinensis, 5-15g of radix curcumae, 5-15g of grassleaf sweetflag rhizomes, 10-20g of earthworms, 5-15g of ligusticum wallichii, 10-20g of radix salviae miltiorrhizae, 5-15g of licorice roots, 5-15g of leeches and 10-20g of caulis spatholobi. The traditional Chinese medicine disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the used traditional Chinese medicines do not have side effects, are safe and reliable, outstanding in treatment effects and high in cure rate, and take effect quickly.

The invention discloses an intelligent management and control system for use of antibacterial drugs in a perioperative period, and the system comprises: a perioperative period antibacterial drug prevention and use knowledge base module which is used for storing information such as indications of various operations and preventive antibacterial drugs for operation based on ICD-9 standard codes, incision types, limitation of suitable varieties of the preventive antibacterial drugs, limitation of post-operation preventive medication courses and the like; a medication state judgment and selectable sub-module which is used for judging the current medication state of the patient according to the ID of the patient, the operation application form and the operation state, displaying an operation medication path column including preoperative preventive medication, intraoperative additional medication, postoperative preventive medication, postoperative prolonged preventive medication, and setting different unselectable states and default selection states in different paths; and a medication selection sub-module which is used for selecting a medication path from the set selectable options in the medication path selection page according to the actual condition of the patient, and carrying out corresponding operation according to the medication path.

The invention discloses a method and device for adjusting a medication scheme based on a medication condition. The method comprises the steps of collecting the current medication condition of a certain user, and obtaining the latest diagnosis condition of the certain user; judging whether the current medication condition needs to be adjusted or not according to the latest diagnosis condition; andif so, generating a target medication scheme matched with the latest diagnosis condition and outputting the target medication scheme to the user for reference. According to the invention, the currentmedication condition of the user is obtained, and the medication scheme matched with the latest diagnosis condition can be intelligently generated when the current medication condition is not matchedwith the latest diagnosis condition of the user, so that the adjustment of the medication scheme is realized; and the medication condition and the latest diagnosis condition of the user are automatically collected, so that the adjustment timeliness and flexibility of the medication scheme of the user can be improved, and the user is helped to recover as soon as possible.

A computer-implemented system and method to improve patient care throughout the hospital continuum by creating a complete and accurate list of a patient's past and current medications and other treatment-related information are disclosed. The present system can be employed to review and compare the past and present medication records of the patients to provide them better care and treatment. The system includes a server running a medical reconciliation application having a number of modules including clinical and pharmacy information management modules for managing clinical and medication information of the patients. The system further includes a number of electronic devices in communication with the server for allowing the users to access the clinical and medication information of the patients. The present system provides a standardized comprehensive clinical and medication reconciliation process for the patients through an interactive user interface of the medical reconciliation application accessible through the electronic devices.