462 results about "Individual health" patented technology

A system, method and apparatus for real time measurement and monitoring of various personal health parameters including controlled delivery of drugs/medications by intelligent pump appliances, intelligent inhalation appliances and intelligent skin patch appliances used in a standalone manner or in a wired or wireless networked configuration, in conjunction with various peripheral devices, other intelligent appliances, servers, RF ID Tags and stationary/mobile devices. The intelligent appliances relate to the measurement, monitoring and delivery of insulin/other drugs for the treatment of diabetes and other diseases. The method also additionally includes the application of intelligent appliances for pain management including visualization of organs and body locations exhibiting pain.

Embodiments of the present invention include a system for improving the general personal health of individuals by networking a plurality of individuals who with remote systems, preferably personal computers that are in communication with a central server through the internet. The remote systems also communicate with external servers storing documents relating to health information, non-health information, and entertainment content. In one embodiment of the present invention collect data relating to an individual's demography, personal health, familial health and personalization factors. Using this information, the system generates a health and preferred news and entertainment content profile of the individual. Embodiments thereby provide a healthcare information portal that provides directed healthcare information and other information to attract the individual's attention.

An on-line health market exchange (HME) service method and system is provided which, in addition to hosting an on-line medical services auctioning system, includes interactive tools for arranging financing of successful bids, performing on-line research of proffered services and providers, as well as participating on-line in other healthcare related negotiations and transactions. The on-line HME system provides an Internet accessible web-site that acts as a “one stop” full service on-line marketplace for use by healthcare service providers and prospective consumers/patients for negotiating and consummating transactions for proffered medical/healthcare services and products. The on-line HME service also provides Internet access to customized proprietary databases and interactive tools for obtaining credentials information and for conducting on-line research concerning prospective healthcare service providers/facilities, and for making on-line payments/arrangements for healthcare/medical service financing. A personal “healthcard” product and service, analogous to a conventional debit/credit card, is supported by the HME service and made available to eligible members/users. On-line resources for reviewing and procuring various types of insurance coverage for performed medical services are also made available.

The present invention relates to a system and method for assessing individual healthfulness and for providing health-enhancing behavioral advice and promoting adherence thereto. More specifically, the invention relates to a system and method for eliciting one or more responses from an individual pertaining to the individual's health; for assessing, based on the responses, the individual's health; and for providing the individual advice concerning behavior to enhance the individual's health, and in which the advice is provided in a form and manner promoting adherence thereto.

The apparatus and methods disclosed herein implement a convenient and efficient standards based healthcare management system. The various preferred embodiments of the present invention enable the healthcare industry to deliver efficient, low cost and higher quality services through value added RFID technology and information processing solutions. The most preferred embodiments of the present invention enable the tracking of medical assets, processing of portable electronic patient health information, and provides a robust web-enabled interface for monitoring and managing interoperable healthcare information. The three main components of the present invention are the Asset Management component, the Personal Health Manager component, and the Clinical Information Management component. These components, taken together, offer a standards-based modular, platform for delivering efficient and effective healthcare management solutions.

We present a data-driven system that seamlessly integrates the compilation of a diverse set of patient electronic medical records, family history, and environmental risk factor databases, a program that determines correlations and assigns weights through a neural network between illness and the state of symptoms, a program to create disease-specific questionnaires and content, a program alert that informs users of trends and potential illness outbreaks due to anomalous changes in regional or national symptom trends, and a program that enables medical practitioners to view patient-generated records and manage an online referral system. The automated diagnoses and alerts allow users to make informed and rapid medical treatment decisions.

The present invention provides a system and method for assisting users in developing a customized health, wellness and prevention plan and making health related decisions. A health assessment-intervention component collects and screens diagnostic and demographic data from clients and assists in forming health-care related decisions, action plans and treatment plans. An analytical component analyzes blood and other test information to derive a hierarchy of health risks. A scheduling component manages tests, screenings, and reminders for the customized plan. A plan manager component assists in accumulating information compiled through the other components, as well as presenting a customized prevention plan, dashboard and other interfaces to users. The invention collects and maintains health-related data from third parties such as physicians, researchers, universities and the like, and provides user accessible personal health records and health decision assistance.

A personal wellness system may facilitate personal wellness management via personal wellness devices. The personal wellness devices may be portable, handheld devices configured to facilitate personal exercise and personal wellness management using the device. Exercises performed using the personal wellness devices may be tracked based on forces exerted on the personal wellness device, a location and/or motion of the personal wellness device, and/or other bases for tracking personal exercise. Tracked exercises may be a basis for determining exercise parameters such as information associated with cardiovascular endurance, respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, and/or balance; calories burnt or energy expended; a completion level of a prescribed exercise routine; a quantified improvement in an exercise; and/or other exercise parameters. The personal wellness system may facilitate automated and/or live coaching, exercise regimen design, exercise scheduling, diet program design, rehabilitation, and/or other functions associated with personal wellness management.

A system and method for tracking longitudinal data for the maintenance and management of health of an individual. The method entails marking numerous groceries, drugs, beverages, etc., with labels that may be read by a scanner or reader embedded in a PDA or cell phone or similar small electronic device, and providing users with a suitable scanner or reader. Users scan the labels of the products they consume during the course of a day, and the system keeps track of calories, fat content, carbohydrate content, etc. of the food consumed, drug content of the drugs consumed, etc. The system can also be operated to track exercise levels and energy expenditure during the day. The system is operable to provide a comparative display of various databased information, such as calorie intake versus calorie expenditure during exercise.

A system, method and computer program product of capturing and displaying health information of a first person on an electronic computing device, the electronic computing device can include: one or more computer processors; and one or more memory devices, the computer-implemented method can include, e.g., a) receiving data electronically about a first person user on the first client computing device, where the first person user has one or more family member users, each having one or more computing devices, or a user with which the user may wish to share a personal health data record, the data about the first person user can include: any identification data, any inputted health related data, or any captured health related data about the first person, can include: any health related data; an application programming interface (API) accessible data; or other health records such as, e.g., electronic medical record (EMR); scanned data; sensed data; or optical character recognition (OCR) captured data; b) receiving data about one or more second person users, where the at least one second person user can include: any other person user with which the first person wishes to be connected, a family member, a guardian, a friend, an individual, or care provider, the data about the second person users can include: any identification data, any inputted health related data, or any captured health related data about the second person user(s); and c) sharing at least a portion of the data electronically about the first person user, to the second person user(s). Various other embodiments can include various features such as a health journal, targeted educational content, an interactive family tree, selectable sharing, escalated alerting, notifications, and collaborative digital file cabinet.

A secure online patient health management portal for patient and payer/provider communication, documentation and improved workflow efficiency. A payer/provider portal provides patient and file management, patient tasking and reminders, calendaring, creation and management of medical condition templates, aggregate report generation and electronic informed consent. A patient portal provides personal health management, task management and reminders, comprehensive access to and management of health records and documentation, calendaring, online payer/provider and institution communication, prescription and finance management and discussion forums.

A method for transmitting personal health information from a databank to a health facility. An individual's health information is stored in a database, and the information is sent to authorized users as needed. The information is stored in the database by coding an individual's private file with a unique identifying number or alpha-numeric sequence. The individual is provided with an electronically readable identifier (ERI) that corresponds to the unique identifying number or alpha-numeric sequence. The ERI can be scanned by medical personnel with the appropriate scanner. The scanner is authenticated by the database, and the information corresponding to that individual is sent back to the scanner for use by the emergency medical personnel. The health information can also be sent to a hospital. The entire process requires authentication of the medical personnel and validation of the ERI for security purposes.

A central health data repository stores health data from various data providers and provides data to various data consumers. The data hub is a standardized central repository that conforms to various standards, such as Health Level Seven (HL7). The data is received according to the HL7 specification and is transmitted to the various data providers using HL7. The data may also be transmitted as a continuous data feed. In this manner, a large volume of health data may be collected, stored, and disseminated using the data hub as a standardized service. A computer system includes one or more processors, an output network interface and an input network interface, a memory for storing multiple personal health records having fields for storing data in a proprietary format or in a standard format. The memory may also include an HL7 translation module and a data insertion/retrieval code module, wherein the computer system performs as a standardized health data repository for various entities in the healthcare industry.

The present invention is a personal health monitoring system which interactively delivers treatment stimuli and compiles a chronological history of a patient's health. The invention includes personal health diaries for direct measurement of physiological measurement as well as collection subjective responses. The personal health diaries also deliver educational content and health related reminders. The personal health diaries are remotely configured to deliver patient specific display of the treatment information. Patient response information, timing signals are routinely transmitted to the central monitoring system. The central monitoring system is programmed to automatically alert caregivers and family members when responses fall outside patient defined normal ranges. Caregivers and family members can interactive with the central monitoring system to provide updated treatment information as well as personal inspirational content. Through education and appropriate intervention the present invention can improve and maintain the patient's health and extend their independent lifestyle.

Systems and methods for measuring, collecting, managing, reporting and distributing data pertaining to medical device measurements, such as personal health condition data, are provided. In various embodiments, medical device(s) are paired (integrated, tethered, or wirelessly coupled) with a user's portable computing device, such as a cell phone, so that the portable device receives locally made health data measurement(s) recorded by the medical device(s). After any pre-processing by the portable device, standard interfaces enable the health data measurement(s) to be transmitted, e.g., periodically, from the portable device to a health station server on a wireless communications network. The health station server may then analyze the health data measurement(s), e.g., versus historical and demographic data, so that the results of the analysis can be distributed to end users and service providers alike who make use of the communications network in a variety of ways.

Systems, methods, and computer-coded software instructions are provided for automated data analysis using graph topology techniques in a connections-mapping process to automatically identify interrelationships between various data fields in a system or body of data followed by statistical pattern analysis and machine learning techniques applied on the graphs (e.g., hidden networks) identified to improve analyses (e.g., automated analysis of medical bills and health insurance documents). Automated conversion of paper-based medical and insurance billing records to electronic data is provided, along with automatic correlation of medical services data to insurance plan policies and tax regulations for health benefits to detect errors or fraud, and to project health insurance plans for various subscribers.

The use of a medical software platform to collect, normalize, and aggregate clinical data. Supports clinical care and provides research and clinical tools for institutions, healthcare providers, researchers, and patients. The invention provides a graphical interface to customize searches in the database for specified subsets of conditions, treatments or outcomes. The invention also provides a system and method for searching through clinical databases for desired terms which may provide additional information to a physician regarding patient care. Furthermore, this invention facilitates personalized medicine-based practices as relationships between genetics, personal heath data from multiple sources, disease risk and drug response can be more easily visualized and utilized for patient care and research.

A system, for facilitating independent living of one or more individuals who has a health status and is located in a predetermined living area, that is adapted to communicate with one or more caregivers, that generally comprises: a first subsystem that monitors the activity levels of an individual and determines whether the activity level is indicative of a decline in said individual's health status; a second subsystem that can be selectively activated by the individual to alert caregivers that assistance is needed; a third subsystem that automatically alerts caregivers that assistance is needed based at least in part on determination of the first subsystem; and a fourth subsystem that monitors whether the individual is exhibiting wandering activity.

The invention discloses a system, method and computer program for generating a Global Personal Health Record Timeline (GPHRT) is provided. A plurality of data items and information points associated with at least one relationship between users associated with a single patient, healthcare provider, a group of healthcare providers. Ordered data items are stored in a personal health record, transmitted and shared via a plurality of storage and transmittal technologies such as, (BLE), barcode scanner, and a plurality of other storage and transmittal technologies that will interface with the Global Personal Health Record Timeline platform. These aforementioned embodiments would further be integrated into an Enterprise Resource Planning Electronic Medical Records Software Environment (ERP/EMRSE) which would interface with a Database Repository with a web-based Global Patient Health Record Timeline interface portal, security interface, Customer Resource Management platform, Practice Management platform, e-commerce interface, “HIPPA” compliant security filter.

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.

The invention discloses a perceptive health community information service system based on a mobile internet and a working method thereof. The system is provided with an application server, a business database, a health data acquisition terminal, a data gateway terminal, a general practitioner mobile work terminal, a service quality monitoring terminal and an external system interface terminal, wherein the business database is connected with the application server respectively through a wired or wireless local area network and a mobile internet; and the external system interface terminal interacts information between the system and an electronic medical record system and a health record system. According to the invention, the technology of mobile internet and internet of things is effectively combined with personal health service for community residents, the problems of hospital managers, general practitioners and community residents in the current community medical and health services are solved, and the aim of 'curing diseases through prevention' is achieved. The system provides a new health service mode of 'bring health to family' to the residents based on the community personal health data remotely monitored in real time and uploaded intelligently, and lays product and material foundations for the engineering technology from 'curing' to 'prevention' in the modern medical and health services.

An apparatus, method and system for dispensing medication in a personal health management system are described. The apparatus for dispensing medication is shown. The apparatus includes one or more storage compartments for storing-one or more medications, an input device for inputting data related to the medications, a data storage device configured to store at least the data, an output device operable to message information related to the medications, and a computing device configured to respond to the data, select one or more of the storage compartments for dispensing of the medication, provide information for the output device, and record quantity and frequency of the dispensing in the data storage device. A method is also provided for dispensing medication in accordance with an aspect of the invention. A system utilizing the apparatus in a personal health management system is also shown.

A system and method for providing to an individual certain information which is relevant to that individual's health status. More specifically, the invention relates to a system and method for providing information relevant to an individual's health status and wherein the information provided is chosen on the basis of not only the individual's health status but also complex psychosocial behavioral factors related to that individual's motivational structure and likely impact.