80 results about "Laboratory results" patented technology

A system and method of managing therapy provided to patients in an institution. The system monitors all aspects of the medication delivery to a patient, as well as other information related to the patient, such as values of vital signs, laboratory results and patient factors such as history, diagnosis, allergies and the like. The system includes one or more databases of information, including institutionally developed rules, guidelines and protocol representing the best medical practices of the institution. The system provides alerts and / or recommendations based on the application of the rules to the information being monitored, and alerts care givers accordingly, providing for dynamic adjustment of the patient's therapy. The system also monitors the status of the alerts, and if no action is taken in a selected period of time, may escalate the priority of the alert and / or halt the delivery of medication to the patient until the alert is resolved.

A system and method of managing therapy provided to patients in an institution. The system monitors all aspects of the medication delivery to a patient, as well as other information related to the patient, such as values of vital signs, laboratory results and patient factors such as history, diagnosis, allergies and the like. The system includes one or more databases of information, including institutionally developed rules, guidelines and protocol representing the best medical practices of the institution. The system provides alerts and / or recommendations based on the application of the rules to the information being monitored, and alerts care givers accordingly, providing for dynamic adjustment of the patient's therapy. The system also monitors the status of the alerts, and if no action is taken in a selected period of time, may escalate the priority of the alert and / or halt the delivery of medication to the patient until the alert is resolved.

This medical (human and veterinary) CRM and ERP software affects every step of patient interaction: marketing, sales or service-related. It allows management of the workload by distributing the chores among staff members and automates medical and business processes through workflow rules. It enables users to view and update tasks, medical cases, appointments, sales, phone calls, faxes, emails, letters and automatic input of lab results into the patient's medical record. It also serves the needs of people in human resources; finance and inventory control, and integrates with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, Great Plains and other business systems. It delivers detailed diagnostic differentials associated with a likelihood of their applicability to the given patients' record and physician's experience in his contextual situation; selects the most appropriate diagnostic procedures; offers the possibility for the user to implement context-sensitive tutorials; presents a context-sensitive source of information on diseases and medical procedures.

A closed loop medication use system and method includes selecting a medication to prescribe to a patient based on patient information, such as laboratory results, radiology results, and patient allergies, healthcare industry practices, patient-care site specific guidelines, and medication information. The selected medication is prescribed on an unverified prescription order that is then transcribed. Transcribing includes performing multiple crosschecks of the prescription order to real-time patient information, healthcare industry practices, and medication information to generate a verified prescription order. After transcribing, the appropriate dispensing method is determined for the prescription order and dispensed. The dispensed medication is administered after confirmation by the administering clinician of the right patient, right medication, right dosage, right route, and right time. The whole process of medication use described above is monitored continuously in real-time. The monitored information is communicated to the prescribing, transcribing, dispensing and administering parts of the system.

The invention relates to the artificial intelligence technical field, in particular to a text classification feature selection and weigh calculation method based on field knowledge. The method combines sample statistics and field glossaries to construct a filed classification feature space, utilizes internal knowledge relations in the field, calculates the similarity between the glossaries, and then adjusts the corresponding feature weight of classification feature vectors. Moreover, the method adopts a learning algorithm of a support vector machine to construct a field text classification model and then realize field text classification. As shown by text classification laboratory results of the Yunan tourist field and the non-tourist field, the classification accuracy of the method is improved by 4 percent compared with the text classification effect of the improved TFIDF feature weigh method.

An active guidelines capability or component is linked to a computerized patient record system to integrate the use of clinical guidelines in the workflow of clinicians treating patients. Many healthcare entities maintain sets of clinical guidelines describing recommended treatment or analysis options for patients displaying sets of symptoms or for whom certain diagnoses have been made. The active guidelines feature adds an active guidelines tag to such clinical guidelines so that when the clinician accesses the clinical guidelines and wishes to follow the recommendation, the clinician merely has to click on a hypertext created from the tag which then transmits action orders, also contained in the tag, to be transmitted to the computerized patient record system for implementation. Patient data associated with the recommendations, such as relevant test or lab results, interaction or allergy information, or other current treatments, is also identified and displayed.

An apparatus and method for enhancing advanced process control (APC) performance based on fuzzy logic control (FLC) concept and methodology is described. The method and apparatus provide a systematic way to characterize / assess process operations (encompassing the manufacturing process, laboratory measurement systems, and control practices / results) automatically and then determine the best APC model update and feedback control strategies dynamically to cope with various control problems commonly observed in the polymer industry. Since the method is able to reach a single definite control output signal based upon vague, ambiguous, or imprecise input information, control issues that are difficult to quantify or model mathematically can now be addressed effectively and included as part of the APC control strategy. With the method, polymer manufactures can better use their existing off-line laboratory results for on-line APC controllers without resorting to costly on-line property measurements or inferential sensors.

The invention provides a system and method for tracking and managing transportation of specimens from a first location such as a medical office to a second location such as a testing lab for processing. A courier using a portable computing device can receive information when a specimen is ready for pick up from a first location. The courier will travel to a first location and enter specimen identification information into the portable computing device as well as first location information. Therefore, the portable computing device will have a record that the specimen has been picked up from the first location. The specimen is then carried to a second location and the courier enters the status of the specimen to show that it has been delivered to the second location for processing and a record exists to show that the specimen has been delivered to the second location. Lab results can be sent via the invention from the second location to the first location. A chain of custody and tracking system is therefore provided to reduce the risk of mishandled or even lost specimens and processing results.

The invention relates to a novel cross-diamond searching method. Firstly, a crosslet mode is adopted for pre-search to find a minimum block-matching distortion (MBD) point, the MBD is taken as a center to construct a large cross searching mode to find the MBD; secondly, the MBD of the large cross mode is taken as the center to start the diamond search that a large diamond is searched first, a small diamond mode is adopted for search if the MBD is positioned at the center, and the found MBD point is the final block-matching distortion point; and if not, the large diamond search is continued. A cross-diamond also adopts the halfway stopping technique, and the speed for searching stationary blocks and half stationary blocks is improved obviously; and the modified partial distortion criterion greatly reduces the computational complexity without influencing the distortion factor. The laboratory result shows that the novel cross-diamond searching method respectively saves 41 percent and 16 percent of searching points compared with the diamond searching method and the cross-diamond searching method under the circumstances that the signal-to-noise ratio is less reduced or even is not reduced; compared with other prevalent block-matching motion estimation methods, the novel cross-diamond searching method has higher searching speed and less distortion degree.

The invention discloses a medical service guiding system based on patient physical symptoms. The medical service guiding system comprises a client side system and a server system, wherein the client side system and the server system are connected with each other through a network. The client side system comprises a doctor information module, a department information module, a disease inquiry module, a symptom fuzzy reasoning module, a human body system guiding module, a human body part guiding module, a laboratory result module and a hospital planar graph module. Users can log into the medical service guiding system through a hospital terminal device or a personal handheld mobile device and select the corresponding modules to conduct inquiry; meanwhile, by setting up a symptom-department-doctor fuzzy reasoning model, newly-diagnosed patients can be helped to rapidly know prevalence of themselves according to the symptoms of themselves and find appropriate doctors in the unfamiliar environment, and therefore flexibility, accuracy and diagnostic efficiency are improved compared with an existing system. By means of the medical service guiding system, the current requirement of people for medical treatment and health is met, and the hospital service level and the service capacity are improved.

The invention discloses a medical service guiding system based on patient physical symptoms. The medical service guiding system comprises a client side system and a server system, wherein the client side system and the server system are connected with each other through a network. The client side system comprises a doctor information module, a department information module, a disease inquiry module, a symptom fuzzy reasoning module, a human body system guiding module, a human body part guiding module, a laboratory result module and a hospital planar graph module. Users can log into the medical service guiding system through a hospital terminal device or a personal handheld mobile device and select the corresponding modules to conduct inquiry; meanwhile, by setting up a symptom-department-doctor fuzzy reasoning model, newly-diagnosed patients can be helped to rapidly know prevalence of themselves according to the symptoms of themselves and find appropriate doctors in the unfamiliar environment, and therefore flexibility, accuracy and diagnostic efficiency are improved compared with an existing system. By means of the medical service guiding system, the current requirement of people for medical treatment and health is met, and the hospital service level and the service capacity are improved.

A sample processing system that may be configured to achieve parallel or coincidental sample processing such as histochemical processing may involve a plurality of samples arranged for coincidental movement perhaps by use of angular microscopic slide movements to cause processing activity that may include repeated elimination and reapplication of a fluidic substance perhaps through the action of capillary motion in order to refresh a microenvironment adjacent to a sample such as a biopsy or other such sample. Snap in antibody and other substances may be included to ease operator actions and to permit location specific substance applications perhaps by including single container multiple chamber multiple fluidic substance magazines, linearly disposed multiple substance source, and primary antibody cartridges. Through refreshing of a microenvironment, depletion of the microenvironment is avoided and the time necessary for slide processing may be dramatically shortened from a more common 60 to 120 minutes to perhaps less than 15 minutes so as to permit use of such a system in an intraoperative or surgical environment such as recommended by the College of American Pathologists intraoperative guidelines or the like. Patients may thus avoid a need to be subjected to an additional surgical procedure when lab results become available to see if tumors or the like were fully removed in a prior procedure.

The invention relates to a spectral image restoration method of a code aperture spectral imager. The spectral image restoration method comprises the following steps of (1) assembling the code aperture spectral imager; (2) carrying out two-dimensional coding on a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD); (3) adjusting a monochromator; (4) calibrating the code aperture spectral imager, and recording a calibration result; (5) collecting a two-dimensional coding background image; (6) collecting a coding image; (7) processing the two-dimensional coding target image obtained by the step (6); and (8) restoring a spectral image. The spectral image restoration method solves the problem of time scan or space scan existed in the existing spectral imager, has a certain general applicability, can be used for spectrum restoration of many coding templates in the code aperture spectral imager, and has a certain guiding significance on laboratory results of other spectral imagers.

A sample processing system that may be configured to achieve parallel or coincidental sample processing such as histochemical processing may involve a plurality of samples arranged for coincidental movement perhaps by use of angular microscopic slide movements to cause processing activity that may include repeated elimination and reapplication of a fluidic substance perhaps through the action of capillary motion in order to refresh a microenvironment adjacent to a sample such as a biopsy or other such sample. Snap in antibody and other substances may be included to ease operator actions and to permit location specific substance applications perhaps by including single container multiple chamber multiple fluidic substance magazines, linearly disposed multiple substance source, and primary antibody cartridges. Through refreshing of a microenvironment, depletion of the microenvironment is avoided and the time necessary for slide processing may be dramatically shortened from a more common 60 to 120 minutes to perhaps less than 15 minutes so as to permit use of such a system in an intraoperative or surgical environment such as recommended by the College of American Pathologists intraoperative guidelines or the like. Patients may thus avoid a need to be subjected to an additional surgical procedure when lab results become available to see if tumors or the like were fully removed in a prior procedure.

This invention describes how users can capture digital artifacts from any medical device using their mobile device. Some examples of medical devices included, but are not limited to a medical ID card, Medical ID bracelet, Electronic Medical Records, blood pressure machines, blood glucose, scales, inhalers, INR, prescription bottles and trays, pulse oximeter, etc. Digital artifacts included, but are not limited to a medical ID, basic patient information, patient contact information, emergency contact information, primary care physician information, health insurance information including co-pay and deductibles, prescriptions, office visit summary, appointment cards, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), lab results, blood type, organ / donor status, vital signs, diagnostic data, immunization records, payments and transaction history, pictures, etc

A closed loop medication use system and method includes selecting a medication to prescribe to a patient based on patient information, such as laboratory results, radiology results, and patient allergies, healthcare industry practices, patient-care site specific guidelines, and medication information. The selected medication is prescribed on an unverified prescription order that is then transcribed. Transcribing includes performing multiple crosschecks of the prescription order to real-time patient information, healthcare industry practices, and medication information to generate a verified prescription order. After transcribing, the appropriate dispensing method is determined for the prescription order and dispensed. The dispensed medication is administered after confirmation by the administering clinician of the right patient, right medication, right dosage, right route, and right time. The whole process of medication use described above is monitored continuously in real-time. The monitored information is communicated to the prescribing, transcribing, dispensing and administering parts of the system.

A modular system and method able to carry out the following functions. Acquiring, standardizing and manipulating data obtained from any medical device, including digital data, waveforms, and administration of medication, images and lab results. Monitoring allowing customization of each view of the patient with his own characteristics and real-time visualization of included values: digital data, waveforms, video surveillance, medication and clinical milestones. Collecting information in a single powerful graphic user interface helping physicians to improve decision making and make clinical guides. Using statistical methods applied to real-time data helping to detect alerts and identifying physiological behavioral patterns. Connecting different medical devices to control the use of each device individually and transform the activity carried out in invoices.

The invention provides a system and method of collecting, storing and managing laboratory test results of patients. In one embodiment the invention is directed towards collecting, storing and managing laboratory test results of patients taking an endothelin receptor antagonist (ERA). The system provides a way of securely collecting and tracking information from a plurality of patients, a plurality of laboratories, and a plurality of health care providers by use of a database. The method comprises receiving patient information from health care providers, receiving a laboratory test schedule for each patient, and laboratory tests needed for each patient. This data is entered into a central processing computer. The patients then go to any laboratory to have the monthly testing done due to the ERA prescription. The laboratory test data collected is sent to the central processing computer. The central processing computer can generate an automated report on the laboratory results and supply the results to the health care provider. Additionally, if no laboratory test data for the patient is entered into the central processing computer in accordance with the laboratory test schedule for the patient, the central processing computer will notify a call center which will call the patient, laboratory or health care provider informing them of the overdue laboratory test data.

This invention is a system and method for tracking and managing transportation of specimens from a first location such as a medical office to a second location such as a testing lab for processing. A courier using a portable computing device can receive information representing that a specimen is ready for pick up from a first location. The courier will travel to a first location and enter specimen identification information into the portable computing device as well as first location information. Therefore, the portable computing device will have a record that the specimen has been picked up from the first location. The specimen is then carried to a second location and the courier enters the status of the specimen to show that it has been delivered to the second location for processing and a record exists to show that the specimen has been delivered to the second location. Lab results can be sent via the invention from the second location to the first location. A chain of custody and tracking system is therefore provided to reduce the risk of mishandled or even lost specimens and processing results.

The present invention relates to the preparation and use of compositions for the treatment of skin disorders itchy and / or infected skin such as impetigo, acne (on face, forehead scalp and on the back of the body) and fungal infection of skin and nails. Whether the infection may be acute or chronic or sub-acute or acute on chronic. As well as for the promotion of non carrier state of the human beings and animals from some pathogenic bacteria such as staphylococci. The compositions are based on extracts from the plants Cassia tora, Centratherum anthelminticum and / or Melia azadirachta. A variety of other herbal extracts may be included and the composition may take the form of a freeze dried or a spray dried powder or presence of this in a cream or ointment based on Ghee, or in a cream or ointment form developed with any other vehicle, or they may be in a powdered form without spray drying. That spray dried or freeze dried powder may be suspended in a suitable mouth wash or nasal drops. The herbs may be in a powdered form of suitable for preparing decoctions in hot water. Laboratory results are of Specimen Example 2. Specimen Example 1 I have found working on the patients clinically as broad spectrum covering pustules as well as fungal infections.

The invention discloses a computer management system and in particular discloses a tuberculosis monitoring and early-warning network information management system. The tuberculosis monitoring and early-warning network information management system is characterized by comprising a network registration or inquiry management system, a laboratory result registration management system and a data statistics or query analysis management system, wherein data is input into a computer through the network registration management system which is combined with the laboratory result registration management system, a data base is established and is managed through the computer, and operators inquire or state demanded information through the network inquiry management system and the statistics or query analysis management system. The advantages of the invention which are displayed in practical application can not be realized by current manual operations, the invention realizes safe and reliable data management, convenient and rapid data inquiry, analysis and statistics, and the operation of data input.

A computer-based method for generating rules for a clinical decision support system includes displaying a selected lab result for a patient, receiving a command from a user to create a rule using the selected lab result, and displaying questions and receiving answers from the user concerning future values of the selected lab result and / or trends of the selected lab result. The method further includes generating a rule for notifying the user based upon the future values of the selected lab result and / or trends of the selected lab result, in accordance with the received answers from the user.

Catalytic reactions are taught for air or oxygen oxidative chemical conversion of primary alcohols to aldehydes, glycol ethers and related products and secondary alcohols to ketones and related products at ambient pressure. The catalytic process converts ethanol to acetaldehyde and 2-ethoxyethanol, n-propanol to propionaldehyde and its glycol ethers, 2-propanol to acetone, and other reactants to similar products. The catalysts are based on molecular strings of di-, tri- and / or poly- groups of transition metal complexes possessing a degree of symmetry. Laboratory results have demonstrated [manganese (II)]2, [cobalt (II)]2, [vanadium (II)]2 and similar families of catalysts to be effective for oxidative catalytic conversion of primary alcohols to products comprising related aldehydes and glycol ethers, and secondary alcohols to products comprising ketones and related products.

Embodiments of the present invention include methods and systems for analyzing clinical-laboratory results and data in order to detect erroneous clinical-laboratory results. Embodiments of the present invention employ Bayesian networks and modified Bayesian networks that are constructed using cleaned clinical-laboratory results into which various types of synthetic errors have been introduced and that are optimized using different, cleaned clinical-laboratory results into which synthetic errors have been introduced.

An online detection method for controlling the extinguishing of a station boiler relates to a combustion technology, and is proposed according to the current situation of the flame extinction accidents caused by the discrepancy between coal property and the designed coal in the operation of the station boiler and imperiling the safe operation. The invention is characterized in that: (1) equipping a special-used online detection device and a computer software; (2) arranging all the sensors in the device in a wind and coal inlet of a combustion chamber, arranging a transmitting treatment system near the operating personnel for the automatic detection of a computer; (3) calibrating the ratio of the carbon content to the static electrical signal according to the laboratory result of the actual coal property when putting into operation for the first time; (4) observing the change of the coal power at any time, and comparing the data of the carbon content analysis of raw coal and adjusting the ratio between wind and coal and the supply air rate of the hot and cold wind timely according to a relation curve of the carbon content of coal power and the volatile component; (5) adjusting the static electrical signal comparison value at any time according to the change of the coal. The online detection method can fully meet the demand of monitoring the combustion extinguishment of the station boiler.

A method and computer system for performing simulation of a field having a subterranean formation. The method includes obtaining measured core sample data of a core sample retrieved from the formation, the core sample data measured by injecting fluid into the core sample, obtaining a digital rock model of the core sample describing a physical pore structure in the core sample, and obtaining a fluid model describing a physical property of the fluid. A digital core analysis (DCA) of the core sample is performed to generate a DCA simulation result and the DCA is tuned using the measured core sample data to reduce a difference between the DCA simulation result and the measured core sample data. The tuning is performed by adjusting, in response to the difference exceeding a pre-determined limit, a parameter of the DCA to generate an adjusted parameter and further performing the DCA to reduce the difference.

The invention provides a standard sample of red sea bream iridobirus virus molecules and a preparation method for the standard sample. The preparation method specifically comprises the steps: selection of raw materials of RSIV (red sea bream iridobirus virus), preparation of the standard sample, checking of uniformity and stability, qualitative verification, value fixing and the like. The preparation method for the standard sample comprises the steps: extracting a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) of a virus from an RSIV solution, performing PCR (polymerase chain reaction) to multiply and purify a target gene fragment, connecting and converting the target fragment, and recycling plasmids. The standard sample of red sea bream iridobirus viruses is high in stability and high in uniformity, supplies requirements of the standard sample on detection researches, medicinal researches and application researches on the red sea bream iridobirus viruses, technically instructs a inspection and quarantine institution and technically supports service export enterprises. According to the standard sample disclosed by the invention, comparison of different laboratory results can be realized, so that the quality control in a laboratory is guaranteed.

A system, method and apparatus for managing a patient affected with a disease. In one aspect, the invention is directed to an apparatus for managing a patient, the apparatus comprising a system that provides: A) a means for enrolling a patient into a system including storing general information about the patient into the system's database; B) a means for storing a schedule for the patient; C) a means for reminding the patient to execute the patient care activities; D) a means for retrieving patient information comprising responses to side effects questionnaires and laboratory results; E) a means for storing the patient information into the system; F) a means for analyzing the patient information and generating a recommendation; G) a means for submitting the recommendation to a provider for approval; and H) a means for receiving approval or a modified recommendation and sending the recommendation or modified recommendation to the patient.

A medical system (10) and method for monitoring a patient. Patient data for the patient is received. The patient data includes vital sign measurements and laboratory results. A vital signs instability index (VIX) regarding a physiological condition of the patient is calculated from the received vital sign measurements. A laboratory instability index (LIX) regarding the physiological condition is calculated from the received laboratory results. The VIX and the LIX are integrated into an indicator of patient deterioration.

A neonatal nutrition assessment system is disclosed that includes a remote terminal connected with a server as well as several software modules. A patient diagnosis module operable to allow a physician to record at least one diagnosis relating to a patient with the remote terminal. A parenteral nutrition software module operable to allow the physician to record a parenteral nutrition prescription for a predetermined time period including at least one parenteral nutrition solution to be given the patient. An enteral nutrition software module operable to allow the physician to record an enteral nutrition prescription for the predetermined time period including at least one enteral nutrition solution to be given the patient. An outputs software module operable to allow a user to record a plurality of bodily output values for the patient over the predetermined time period. A medication software module operable to allow the physician to record at least one medication prescription for the patient. A laboratory software module operable to record a plurality of lab results for the patient over the predetermined time period.