44 results about "Long-term care" patented technology

A system, software and related methods of enhanced pharmaceutical operations in long term care facilities are provided. An embodiment of a system includes a long-term care facility pharmacy group management server, long-term care facility pharmacy management software associated with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server to manage pharmacological operations in a plurality of long-term care facilities, a plurality of pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts each positioned in a long-term care facility remote from the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server and in communication therewith, a remote pharmacy group server in communication with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server, and a plurality of pharmaceutical prescription document processors each positioned in a long-term care facility and in communication with the remote pharmacy group server or the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server.

A dispensing system and associated method provides a turnkey solution for dispensing pharmaceutical products such as solid medications and nutritional supplements to be taken orally in health care settings, including but not limited to long term care (LTC) and assisted living settings.

In one aspect, the invention comprises a computer implemented method comprising: (a) determining an average monthly cost of long term care for a consumer; (b) determining an estimated total cost of long term care for the consumer; (c) receiving and storing in a computer readable medium data describing the consumer's preferences regarding long term care resources; (d) calculating with a processor an initial benefit amount for the consumer; (e) adjusting with a processor the initial benefit amount based on the data describing the consumer's preferences to determine a total benefit amount; and (f) recommending a long term care policy providing the total benefit amount to the consumer, wherein the processors may the same processor or different processors. Other aspects of the invention comprise related method, computer system, and software embodiments.

The collection bag of the invention is used to capture body fluids / waste material throughout the complete process as an enema is being administered, eliminating contamination of the patient, bed, linens, and floor as well as the caregiver and others that administer the enema. This bag can be administered to patients that are recovering from bariatric surgery, are in a long term care facility, hospital, home, or special unit caring for spinal cord injuries, or head injuries. It can be used with patients who are in a comatose condition whereby hip flexion, weight bearing, or transferring to a bedside commode is impossible. This collection bag captures waste for laboratory testing and other lab work and is marked with warning indicia. The bag fits any age patient, male or female.

The invention discloses an old person nursing requirement evaluation system which realizes reasonable matching between an old person basic nursing requirement and a professional service and promotes fair distribution and effective use of limited old person nursing resources in an area. The old person nursing requirement evaluation system is characterized in that a unified nursing management platform and a service operation platform are built; and old persons access the unified nursing management platform through a service object interface platform. The system of the invention is based on concepts of providing service to the old persons and continuous nursing. The old person nursing requirement evaluation system aims to realize long-term nursing on the old persons and is around the old persons. Furthermore the old person nursing requirement evaluation system continuously perfects a social old person service system.

A packaging system and associated method for use with a pharmaceutical dispenser provides a turnkey solution for packaging pharmaceutical products such as solid medications and nutritional supplements to be taken orally in health care settings, including but not limited to long term care (LTC) and assisted living settings. An overall pharmacy system and methodology begins with bulk medications and supplements introduced into the work flow, individually packaged and assembled into medpass orders per patient and delivered to the LTC facility or other institution for patient consumption. The process begins by converting bulk medications and supplements to packaged unit doses and ultimately individually packaged medpass bags for each patient on a 24-hour schedule. The design of the overall system and its individual components allows for physical control of each unit dose package from start to finish without any unit dose package “free fall” in the system.

Administering a fixed annuity having a long-term care (LTC) rider includes calculating, at a time of an insured party entering a claim period for LTC benefits and as a function of a value of a fixed annuity for an annuitant, an available insurance amount for an LTC benefit. This fixed-annuity value can comprise a present value of the fixed annuity at the time the insured party enters the claim period. These teachings will also accommodate calculating the total LTC benefits by summing the value of the fixed annuity with the value of the fixed annuity as multiplied by a multiplier. LTC benefits can be paid by apportioning a first part of the payment against the fixed annuity itself while apportioning a second part of the payment against an available insurance amount. Following depletion of the annuity, however, one can then apportion such payments only against the available insurance amount until exhausted.

The present invention provides a whole grain coarse cereal power production method, comprising the steps as follows: cleaning a whole grain coarse cereal; storing the whole grain coarse cereal in a container with sieve pores, steaming the whole grain coarse cereal for 60+ / -5 minutes with steam at the temperature of 85-95 DEG C; drying at the temperature of 50-70 DEG C to make the water content of the whole grain coarse cereal lower than 3.5%; and grinding. The present invention also provides a whole grain coarse cereal power product produced by the steps of the above whole grain coarse cereal power production method. The steaming temperature of the whole grain coarse cereal is within the range from 85 DEG C to 95 DEG C, and the whole grain coarse cereal is steamed by the steam with the container provided with the sieve pores, it is not easy to cause gelatinization, thus particles of the whole grain coarse cereal remain intact, nutrient is avoided from exposing in the environment to reduce the possibility of oxidation and qualitative change of the nutrient without adding food additives to supply oxidated and qualitative changed nutrient; burden of body of an eater can not be increased due to the food additives, the complete nutrition of the whole grain coarse cereal can be obtained, and the whole grain coarse cereal power product is suitable for being used as tube feeding recipe of long-term care patients.

The invention relates to the field of nursing service for old people, in particular to an internet of things-based intelligent nursing service system for the long-term care elderly people. The systemtakes an informatization service management platform as a core and is formed by professional assessment, a nursing management scheme, the nursing process management, the nurse execution, the intelligent monitoring equipment, the service quality management and a medical environment-friendly channel. According to the invention, the comprehensive health guarantee and care for nursing the elderly canbe formed, the physical and mental condition changes of the elderly are dynamically tracked, a nursing scheme is analyzed and adjusted, the disease development, the limb degeneration and the intelligence degeneration processes of the long-term care elderly people are delayed, and the living quality of the elderly people is improved.

A system and method for analyzing risk for underwriting insurance is provided. The method may comprise: inputting data regarding at least one applicant for insurance, wherein at least one item of data relates to a first category and at least one item of data relates to a second category; assigning a numerical risk factor to at least one item of data; generating a first numerical risk score for the first category; generating a second numerical risk score for the second category; generating a composite risk score based on at least the first numerical risk score and the second numerical risk score; assigning a composite risk score to at least one applicant for insurance; wherein the first category comprises medical conditions or severities of medical conditions and the second category comprises negative medical condition interactions.

A packaging system and associated method for use with a pharmaceutical dispenser provides a turnkey solution for packaging pharmaceutical products such as solid medications and nutritional supplements to be taken orally in health care settings, including but not limited to long term care (LTC) and assisted living settings. An overall pharmacy system and methodology begins with bulk medications and supplements introduced into the work flow, individually packaged and assembled into medpass orders per patient and delivered to the LTC facility or other institution for patient consumption. The process begins by converting bulk medications and supplements to packaged unit doses and ultimately individually packaged medpass bags for each patient on a 24-hour schedule. The design of the overall system and its individual components allows for physical control of each unit dose package from start to finish without any unit dose package “free fall” in the system.

The invention discloses a powered cart base for medical care combination, the top of the base is connected with a battery cabinet through fastening bolts, and both ends of one side of the battery cabinet are connected with a door of the battery cabinet through hinges. One side of the battery cabinet is provided with an opening, and the opening is adapted to the door of the battery cabinet, and the inner wall of the bottom of the battery cabinet is connected to equidistantly distributed limiting slide rail groups by fastening bolts. The present invention installs lockers and workbenches on the combined medical care cart, and combines the ordinary nursing cart with the carrying cart of nursing equipment. While classifying and storing medicines and nursing tools, it can also carry medical care through the installation bracket. The equipment is powered by rechargeable batteries for medical care equipment. Three rechargeable batteries and plug-in boards are installed inside the battery cabinet through the limit slide rail group. At the same time, the rechargeable battery is easy to replace, just push the rechargeable battery into the battery cabinet. It can provide stable and long-term power supply for nursing equipment.

A computerized method for administering an investment account having an income or withdrawal guarantee and long term care guarantee includes the steps of establishing an investment account having an account balance, allocating a first portion of the account balance to fund a periodic long term care benefit having a long term care benefit guarantee, allocating a second portion of the account to fund a periodic income or withdrawal benefit having an income or withdrawal benefit guarantee, determining an amount of a periodic long term care benefit available for payment of a long term care benefit claims under the long term care benefit guarantee, and determining an amount of a periodic income or withdrawal benefit available for distribution under the income or withdrawal benefit guarantee. The long term care benefit guarantee may include an acceleration of benefits guarantee and an extension of benefits guarantee. A computer system which includes a processor and a program for causing the processor to perform certain steps is also disclosed.

The invention discloses a health management device, a health management method and a health management system. The health management device comprises an arterial voiceprint capturing unit, a processing unit and a comparison unit. The arterial voiceprint capturing unit is used for capturing an arterial voiceprint signal of an organism. The processing unit is used for processing the arterial voiceprint signal, and acquiring physiological data of the organism based on the arterial voiceprint signal. The comparison unit is used for comparing the physiological data with reference physiological data, and generating a health status report. According to the health management device, the health management method and the health management system, the health status report is obtained through capturing the arterial voiceprint signal and directly processing the arterial voiceprint signal, the user can be informed about own health status immediately, the hardware cost can be reduced, and the operation can be simplified. The health management device, the health management method and the health management system can be applied to many respects, such as long-term care for chronic patients, care for the elderly, care for pregnant women, TCM pulse diagnosis and the like, or applied to the evaluation of the effect of treatment or prescription.

A dispensing system and associated method provides a turnkey solution for dispensing pharmaceutical products such as solid medications and nutritional supplements to be taken orally in health care settings, including but not limited to long term care (LTC) and assisted living settings.

The invention provides a drug addict rehabilitation evaluation system and method based on a portrait label. The system comprises an evaluation demand selection module, a scale extraction module, a rehabilitation scheme recommendation module, an evaluation information collection module, an evaluation result processing module, an evaluation scale database used for storing multiple evaluation scales,a rehabilitation scheme database used for storing multiple care schemes, and a portrait label system comprising a scale label system based on evaluation scale database labeling and a care scheme label system based on rehabilitation scheme database labeling and realizing association of a scale label and a rehabilitation scheme label. The system is advantaged in that labeling of the evaluation process is realized, periodic evaluation of a drug addict in the evaluation process is performed, an evaluation record analysis report can be generated, and quantification and rehabilitation of the long-term care effect of the drug addict are facilitated.

The present invention provides a box-card system for use with the distribution of medication, specifically orally disintegrating tablets (ODT's), to residents / patients of long term care facilities. A box-card allows ODT's to be stored and distributed from their original manufacturer packaging. The box-card is dimensioned to be coextensive in height and width to a standard medication punch card, commonly used to store and dispense traditional medication forms to residents / patients of long term care facilities. The box-card allows ODT's and other medications to be stored and dispensed from a medication drawer of a medication cart with standard punch cards, allowing the stored medications to be easily accessed and dispensed therefrom.

There are many patients in the hospital or at home or in long-term care centers who must often be assisted in turning over by caregivers. Not only are large human resources are occupied, an economic burden is caused for some employers. A great problem is that caregivers cannot get enough rest because of the need to regularly help patients turn over, especially at midnight. In the present invention, a turn-ove device support can be applied to a general bed or be clamped on a mattress, besides being applied to the bed, via the arrangement of a first arrangement part or a second arrangement part. Furthermore, via arrangmenet of a second shaft part, a short-arm and side-bars, smooth and stable operation of the turn-over device support is allowed.

The invention discloses a Chinese herbal medicine fur care solution and a preparation method thereof. The components of the care solution include, by weight, 30-37 parts of Chinese herb extracts, 1-2 parts of a brightening agent, 1-2 parts of an emulsifying agent, 0.2-0.3 part of an antistatic agent, 1-2 parts of a dispersing agent, 0.3-0.6 part of a flavoring agent and 55-60 parts of water. The Chinese herbal medicine fur care solution has the beneficial effects that the main raw materials of the care solution are all Chinese herb extracts, all kinds of components are combined reasonably to come into play cooperatively, the fur care solution is green, environmentally friendly, and good in long-term care effect, and makes no damage on fur, is good in mould-proof and mothproof effect, can prevent hair from falling down, and is not prone to ageing; the prescription of the care solution is reasonable, each component cooperates with one another, and the care solution has the advantages of being capable of resisting bacteria, resisting oxidation, neutralizing grease, resisting mould and fixing colors; and the preparation method of the care solution is simple, and short in production period, no waste water and gas harmful to the environment cannot be released in the production process, and the preparation method is a process being friendly to the environment.

The invention relates to an information acquisition processing system and method for patients with the nephrotic bone disease. The system comprises a detection parameter acquisition module for acquiring bone disease parameters of the patients, an analysis and determination module used for triggering corresponding medicament adjusting schemes, diet adjusting schemes and / or the early warning information according to the bone disease parameters, and a display output module used for displaying the medicament adjusting schemes, the diet adjusting schemes and / or the early warning information on a display medium, wherein the bone disease parameters comprise a blood calcium detection value, a blood phosphorus detection value and a parathyroid hormone detection value, and the display output modulecomprises a parameter display column used for sequentially displaying the bone disease parameters on the display medium and used for displaying the medicament adjusting schemes, the diet adjusting schemes and / or the early warning information. The system is advantaged in that on one hand, suggestion is provided for treatment decision of doctors, and medical quality difference is avoided; on the other hand, the patients can be provided with their own conditions at any time to facilitate long-term care of the patients.

The invention discloses a comprehensive meal replacer for long-term care for gout patients. The comprehensive meal replacer is composed of a main material and an auxiliary material with the weight ratio of 1:(0.1-0.2); the main material is composed of, by weight, 10-20 parts of euglena, 30-40 parts of a plant extract, 10-15 parts of sunflower pollen, 10-15 parts of pumpkin powder, 12-15 parts of corn oligopeptide, 7-12 parts of epigallocatechin gallate, 15-20 parts of rhizoma curcumae longae and 6-15 parts of stachyose; the auxiliary material is composed of, by weight, 5-10 parts of a binder and 5-8 parts of a food additive. The comprehensive meal replacer has the advantages that materials are selected according to the special nutritional requirements of gout patients, the comprehensive meal replacer not only can supplement various vitamins and minerals to serve as a meal replacement food, but also is beneficial to the dissolution and discharge of uric acid accumulated in tissue to achieve the effect of treating or relieving gout, and the comprehensive meal replacer has a good mouthfeel and rich nutrients, is convenient to take and can be eaten for a long term.

CiFiCo (Cinematic Financial Concepts) simplifies finance concept by taking information and “cinematizing” it into fun, simple, engaging, moving visual representations (aka “movies”) accompanied by sound and touch control. Movies contain various assets, incomes, and insurance, as well as intergenerational timelines. CiFiCo can demonstrate the impact of asset accumulation, distribution, taxes, insurance, investments, intergenerational transfers, and other concepts. The tool allows individuals to gain a unique perspective on how the financial decisions they make (past, present and future) can impact their overall financial picture (movie). CiFiCo can illustrate and factor for contributions and distributions, as well as risks or attacks that may draw against one's financial stability (e.g., death, disabilities, long term care costs, lawsuits, natural disasters, market volatility, etc.). The application can illustrate a single financial concept, compare several financial strategies, or portray a fully integrated, multi-generational, financial plan.

The invention discloses a processing system for applying a block chain to long-term care. The processing system comprises a user side, a member management side, a manpower management side and a time bank side. The user side selects at least one care item and sends a service request, and the user side writes each service request and service time information into an intelligent contract; the membermanagement side records the member information of the user and is used for verifying the identity of the user side and forwarding the service requirement passing the verification; the manpower management side records feedback quantity of the volunteer, assigns the volunteer to the user side according to service requirements, and calculates the feedback quantity of the user side according to the feedback quantity of the user side; the service providing side provides the care items, the care items correspond to human resources, time resources and consumption amount; the service providing side generates a front-end interface according to the care items, and a front-end program plays the front-end interface; and the time bank side is used for updating the intelligent contract of each user side.

The invention relates to washing tools for daily life, and in particular relates to a biological-care toothpaste composition. The biological-care toothpaste composition comprises the following components by weight percent: 15-40% of sorbitol, 2-10% of whitening agent-sodium percarbonate, 2-5% of surfactant-stearic acid, 1-5% of polyethylene glycol, 3-5% of xanthan gum, 0.5-2% of adhesion agent-carboxymethyl cellulose sodium and the balance of water. The whitening agent of the biological-care toothpaste composition is selected from sodium percarbonate, and the addition of sodium percarbonate is between 2-10%; and the surfactant is selected from stearic acid, is harmless to human bodies, is a relatively moderate surfactant, can potentially influence the human bodies for a long time and cannot generate side effects. When the biological-care toothpaste composition is used, no obvious friction effect can be generated, and the biological-care toothpaste composition generates small friction force on teeth and is beneficial to the long-term care of the teeth.

A system for health management for policy holders to reduce disability in a long term. The system includes an external data gatherer, a model builder, a filterer and a plan selector. The external data gatherer gathers data about a plurality of policy holders from at least two of: medical records, wearable sensors, questionnaires about lifestyles, direct observations by professionals, family and caregivers, and third-party data sources. The model builder builds a health outcome model on the gathered data to generate probabilities of health outcomes and uses previously determined impact coefficients generated to determine the need for long term care in a near term. The filterer filters the probabilities to generate risk factors for a particular policy holder. The plan selector combines the risk factors with the gathered data and current incentive options to generate a health improvement plan for the particular policy holder.

The invention discloses an elderly long-term care demand assessment method and system, and the method is characterized in that the method comprises the steps: collecting the feature information of a caregiver and a cared person through a population feature collection module; based on the feature information, using an index establishment module to establish an old-age long-term care demand evaluation index and a care time evaluation index; performing assignment and analysis on the elderly long-term care demand evaluation index and the care time evaluation index through an expert letter module, and establishing an elderly long-term care demand evaluation standard system. According to the invention, by establishing the elderly long-term care demand assessment standard system, the accuracy of elderly long-term care demand assessment is improved, and the physical health and psychological demands of the elderly are satisfied.