120 results about "Hospitalized patients" patented technology

A system and method for displaying a health status of hospitalized patients. Patient data associated with hospitalized patients is selected according to display rules. A display module selects selected patient data, applies display rules to the selected patient data, and displays the selected patient data. A smart alert module generates and applies patient specific rules to other selected patient data elements. If a patient-specific rule for a hospitalized patient has been contravened, an alert is issued from the remote command center. Graphical attributes may be assigned to patients for whom an alert has been issued and to selected patient data elements that fall outside of an acceptable range. The graphical attributes determine how selected patient data appear on a display screen.

An apparatus for monitoring the intra-abdominal pressure of a hospitalized patient includes a urinary catheter connected to a urine valve providing selectable communication between a discharge end of the urinary catheter and either a drain or a fluid source. Preferably, the urine valve is adapted for remote actuation and has a housing adapted to resist patient discomfort from leg-valve contact. Plumbing structure desirably maintains fluid supply and drain conduits in a substantially parallel arrangement to assist routing those conduits between a patient's legs. When the urine valve is oriented to permit communication with the fluid source, an infusion pump may be used to infuse a known quantity of fluid through the urine valve and into the patient's bladder. A pressure transducer desirably is connected in-circuit to indicate the fluid's pressure. To facilitate the infusion process, an automatic flow control device may be included in a fluid supply path and arranged to permit repetitive operation of a syringe to inject a bolus of fluid into the patient's bladder. Subsequent to a period of time in which to make a pressure measurement, preferred embodiments of the urine valve automatically return to a bladder draining position.

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 Candida albicans bloodstream infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Filament formation and adherence to host cells are critical virulence factors of C. albicans. Multiple filamentation regulatory pathways have been discovered, however the downstream effectors of these regulatory pathways remain unknown. The cell surface proteins in the ALS group are downstream effectors of the filamentation regulatory pathway. Particularly, Als1p mediates adherence to endothelial cells in vitro and is required for virulence. The blocking of adherence by the organism is described resulting from the use of a composition and method disclosed herein. Specifically, a pharmaceutical composition comprised of a gene, gene product, or specific antibody to the ALS gene family is administered as a vaccine to generate an immune response capable of blocking adherence of the organism.

An improved apparatus for monitoring the intra-abdominal pressure of a hospitalized patient includes a urinary catheter connected to a urine valve having selectable communication positions between a discharge end of the urinary catheter and either a drain or a fluid source. Preferably, the urine valve has a housing adapted to resist patient discomfort from leg-valve contact. One operable protective housing may be embodied as a separate tray component. Plumbing structure desirably maintains fluid supply and drain conduits in a substantially parallel arrangement to assist routing those conduits between a patient's legs. When the urine valve is oriented for communication to the fluid source, an infusion pump may be used to introduce a known quantity of fluid through the urine valve and into the patient's bladder where the fluid's pressure can be measured. Desirably, a double check valve is included in a fluid supply path and arranged to permit repetitive operation of a syringe to inject a bolus of fluid into the patient's bladder. Subsequent to making a pressure measurement, the urine valve is returned to the bladder draining position.

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.

Disclosed embodiments include a telemedicine communication system designed to make possible “virtual” patient visits by approved visitors such as the spouse, family, and friends of the hospitalized patient having the appropriate digital certificate and visitation/communication permissions. According to one embodiment, the system enables relatives to visit hospitalized patients using audiovisual communication modalities selected according to the severity and health status of the patient. Additionally, the system provides functionality to enable approved relatives to follow the health status of the patient according to their permissions.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medical insurance, and particularly relates to a system for managing hospitalized patients with the medical insurance. The system comprises a medical insurance settlement system and a background server, wherein the medical insurance settlement system and the background server are connected through an internal local area network. The medical insurance settlement system comprises a basic information module, a cost management module, an identification module, a prompt module, a discharge diagnosis and a prognosis fill-in module, wherein the cost management module comprises an actual payment module, a prepaid amount module, a self-paying amount module and a social security paying module; the identification module comprises a self-paying identification module and a discharge medicine taking identification module; the prompt module comprises an extremely-special project prompt module, a special instruction fill-in module, a limit range prompt module and a medical insurance notification module. By means of the system, the insurance type, deposit information and cost information of the patients with the medical insurance can be inquired about, query, segmentation, uploading and the like of instruction information identification can be achieved, work efficiency and audit accuracy of the medical insurance auditing personnel are improved, and the overall informatization management level of a hospital is increased.

A patient stomach fullness sensor is employed in conjunction with an optional patient angle sensor to shut off or to reverse the flow of fluid in a gastric tube when the combination of stomach fullness and patient angle relative to the horizontal becomes sufficient to indicate that gastric juices may enter the esophagus or go even higher. In this way incidents of aspirational pneumonia in hospitalized patients is significantly reduced or eliminated.

A Candida albicans bloodstream infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Filament formation and adherence to host cells are critical virulence factors of C. albicans. Multiple filamentation regulatory pathways have been discovered, however the downstream effectors of these regulatory pathways remain unknown. The cell surface protein, Als1p, is a downstream effector of the filamentation regulatory pathway and is regulated by Efg1p. Als1p mediates adherence to endothelial cells in vitro and is required for virulence. The blocking of adherence by the organism is described resulting from the use of a composition and method disclosed herein. Specifically, a pharmaceutical composition comprised of a gene product from the ALS1 gene family is administered as a vaccine to generate an immune response capable of blocking adherence of the organism.

The invention relates to a multifunctional bracelet for a hospitalized patient. The multifunctional bracelet for the hospitalized patient comprises an annular surface and an annular belt, wherein a button, a switch button and volume keys are arranged on a side surface of the annular surface; the end part of the annular belt is connected with a first annular tail interface and a second annular tail interface; the first annular tail interface is positioned on the outer side of the second annular tail interface; the outer side surface of the first annular tail interface is provided with a two-dimensional code. The multifunctional bracelet further comprises a central processing unit, a sensor module, a time module, a GPS (global positioning system) module, a power supply module, an induction device module and an output module. The multifunctional bracelet for the hospitalized patients has the functions of medical history recording, identity recording, illness degree displaying, GPS positioning, time reminding and two-dimensional code payment in hospitals.

The invention discloses an APP-based hospitalized patient management system. The system comprises: a terminal APP; an RFID tag card; a plurality of WIFI relay stations; a cloud server comprising a cloud receiving module, a cloud monitoring module and a cloud distributing module; and a hospital server in communication connection with the cloud server and comprising a hospital receiving module, a hospital monitoring module and a hospital distributing module, wherein the cloud receiving module is used for acquiring the coordinate information of a patient terminal and the WIFI relay stations in a preset range of the coordinate information after receiving a service request sent from the terminal APP. The system can enhance the health of hospital patients, and also can carry out real-time monitoring and information feedback on the activity path and the health condition of absent patients.

The invention relates to a new pharmaceutical composition, a method of treatment of infection and also a process to prepare the composition. The infectious complications are important causes of morbidity and mortality. Hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) remains the most severe nosocomial infection in intensive care units. Beta-lactams alone are always considered inadequate when P. aeruginosa and/or methicillin-resistant S. aureus are implicated as pathogens or copathognes. The present invention provides the desired empirical therapy for control of all bacterial infections. The invention provides antibiotic combination products for delivering at least two different antibiotics, through parenteral dosage form comprising protein-synthesis-inhibiting antibiotic which is amikacin or its sulphate salt and non-protein-synthesis-inhibiting antibiotic which is cefepime or its hydrochloride salt. The invention provides a total solution, against multiresistant P. aeruginosa, or Acinetobacter spp. and/or methicillin-resistant S. aureus, and are useful for intramuscular or intravenous administration as antibiotics for hospitalized patients with acute or serious infections. The pharmaceutical compositions described here normally have the least nephrotoxicity and have better efficacy and safety of cefepime plus amikacin combination.

The invention provides a diabetes blood glucose prediction system and method based on CNN and model fusion. The system comprises a blood glucose management module, an inpatient management module, an intelligent user side and a terminal monitoring module. The blood glucose management module is connected with the intelligent user side through the network server; the blood glucose management module comprises a data input unit, a data processing unit, a data output unit, a reminding unit and a data display unit; the data input unit is connected with the hospitalized patient management module and the intelligent user side; the data output unit is connected with the intelligent user side, the reminding unit and the data display unit; the data input unit, the data processing unit and the data output unit are electrically connected; the intelligent user side comprises a warning error correction module, an information input module and a service module; and the terminal monitoring module is connected with the intelligent user side through the wireless transmission module. Multi-directional monitoring is achieved, harm of hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia to a patient is reduced, and accurate nursing is achieved.