116 results about "Medical communication" patented technology

A medical communication system for providing remote communications with an active implantable medical device. In one embodiment, a medical communication system includes an active implantable medical device (AIMD) that is configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal from within a human body, and a non-implantable programmer that includes a retrodirective antenna. The programmer is configured to scan in multiple directions for signals received from the AIMD and to identify the direction of the signal having the highest signal power.

Telemedicine systems and methods are described. In a telemedicine system operable to communicate with a remote operations center, communications can be transmitted / received using a transceiver having an antenna. The antenna can include first and second di-pole antenna elements, the first di-pole antenna element being vertically polarized and the second di-pole antenna element being horizontally polarized. A controller of the system can establish, using the transceiver, a telemedicine session with the operations center using a Transport Morphing Protocol (TMP), the TMP being an acknowledgement-based user datagram protocol. The controller can also mask one or more transient network degradations to increase resiliency of the telemedicine session. The telemedicine system can include a 2D and 3D carotid Doppler and transcranial Doppler and / or other diagnostic devices, and provides for real-time connectivity and communication between medical personnel in an emergency vehicle and a receiving hospital for immediate diagnosis and treatment to a patient in need.

A medical communications and management system (MCMS) that is operative to compile, store, retrieve and transmit digitized medical information from a variety of medical imaging modalities, as well as digital information such as scanned in images, digital photographs, audio files, and digitized information corresponding to monitored physiological conditions, such as heart rate and the like. The MCMS is further operative to include personal patient identification information, such as retinal scans and fingerprints, and is capable of being archived to thus enable such digitized information to be readily accessed. To that end, it is contemplated that the MCMS of the present invention will be used in connection with an electronic medical record and facilitate compliance with HIPAA.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for implementing a medical critical results communication, including: receiving an identification and a classification of a finding of criticality on a patient; creating and transmitting a critical results communication to a recipient by electronic methods; receiving and storing an acknowledgement from the recipient that the critical results communication was received; receiving and storing feedback and / or the initiation of clinical intervention and a follow-up action from the recipient, and transmitting same to the health care provider sender; receiving and storing diagnostic confirmation from the recipient and / or the healthcare provider sender; performing an analysis of critical results data, and performing a compliance analysis with stored established medical standards; and providing the critical results data analysis and the compliance analysis to at least the health care provider sender.

The invention relates to a doctor-patient remote alternation platform and a remote alternation method, comprising: a computer system at a server end, a microcomputer device at a medical referral centre institution end, a microcomputer device at a medical referral application end, a microcomputer device at a medical expert end, which are in a wide area network and realize network connection, thereby realizing facial transmission in a broadcasting mode, medical image of real-time transmission, remote control automatic microscope platform, and alternation speech communication is present on the basis of sharing real-time medical image. Three perfect remote medical solution with different applications are realized, including a pathology remote consultation solution, a pathology remote medical education solutionand a pathology remote medical communication solution.

A medical communications and management system (MCMS) that is operative to compile, store, retrieve and transmit digitized medical information from a variety of medical imaging modalities, as well as digital information such as scanned in images, digital photographs, audio files, and digitized information corresponding to monitored physiological conditions, such as heart rate and the like. The MCMS is further operative to include personal patient identification information, such as retinal scans and fingerprints, and is capable of being archived to thus enable such digitized information to be readily accessed. To that end, it is contemplated that the MCMS of the present invention will be used in connection with an electronic medical record and facilitate compliance with HIPAA.

Medical communication systems and related methods are provided for facilitating the sending of medical treatment related communications to users of various user communication devices, such as wireless devices, over one or more networks. Medical devices providing patient care may be in communication with the system, and transmit operational data thereto. Errors detected in individual medical devices may be operative to transmit notifications to manufacturers. Users of such a communication device may securely log on to a host computer system and access information through the communication device or otherwise. Such information is accessible to all affected entities involved in the administration of healthcare. By utilizing various embodiments of the systems and methods, medical professionals and / or other users can receive timely updates of medical data related to a particular patient independent of location or time of day.

Medical communication systems and related methods are provided for facilitating the sending of medical treatment related communications to users of various user communication devices, such as wireless devices, over one or more networks. Users of such a communication device may securely log on to a host computer system and access information through the communication device or otherwise. Such information is accessible to all affected entities involved in the administration of healthcare, including physicians, hospital staff, healthcare administrators, skilled nursing / assisted living facilities, pharmacists and family members / guardians of patients. By utilizing various embodiments of the systems and methods, medical professionals and / or other users can receive timely updates of medical data related to a particular patient independent of location or time of day.

A health care monitoring system and network for monitoring a patient's use of medications, physiological conditions, and / or the environment around the patient. The system takes advantage of a hierarchical nodal network to allow for the transfer of information from sensors to authorized users of the network while providing personal control of sensitive information and providing a distributed database structure for increased data security. In one embodiment, sensors transmit information to wearable personal data recorders that use a combination of random access and overwriting to store information in a time-sequenced organization.

A remote mobile medical communication apparatus is suitable for use in communicating with a remote terminal for monitoring and treating a patient. The apparatus comprises a communicating unit, for transmitting a local communication information to the remote terminal, and receiving a remote communication information from the remote terminal. A patient-monitor interface unit receives at least one patient vital-sign signal from the patient, and then transmits to the remote terminal via the communicating unit. A bi-directional audio / video communication unit is for communicating with the remote terminal with an audio / video information via the communicating unit. An instruction from the remote terminal is instructed if the patient needs a treatment. A system and method use the function of the remote mobile medical communication apparatus.

A medical communication system for use in connection with providing medical care to patients at a health care facility. The system includes a central server, a database accessible by the server, and a plurality of mobile stations each carried by a health care practitioner for use within the facility. Each of the mobile stations are accessible within the health care facility by the server via wireless communication. The database provides storage of task information associated with patients receiving medical care at the facility, wherein the task information comprises information associated with a task, including identification of the task, task status, task priority, task assignment or any combination of these. Task information can be shared and updated on each of the mobile devices of the practitioner associated with the patient.

The invention provides a heart rate detection method and system based on PPG signals, and relates to the medical communication technical field; the method comprises the following steps: using a PPG sensor to output a corresponding heart rate waveform according to heart rate changes of a tested human body; carrying out heart rate waveform Fourier transform so as to obtain a heart rate frequency spectrum corresponding to the heart rate waveform; setting three peaks in the heart rate frequency spectrum heart rate frequency range, comparing frequencies corresponding to the three peaks with the previous heart rate, and taking the heart rate peak with the frequency most close to the previous heart rate as the present heart rate peak; using the frequency corresponding to the present heart rate peak as the present heart rate of the tested human body, and outputting same. The method and system can solve the problems that an existing method cannot eliminate the continuous motion interferences; even under long time continuous motion interferences, the method and system can calculate the accurate heart rate.

The invention relates to a traceable medical communication service robot which comprises a steering engine module, a tracing sensor, an MCU (MicroController Unit), a camera, a microphone, a USB (Universal Serial Bus) wireless network card, a wireless router, a display, a sound box, and the like. The robot provided with the camera and the microphone transmits an obtained image voice signal to a remote control end by the USB wireless network card and displays and plays the image voice signal. The remote end controls the medical communication service robot according to the video condition obtained by the camera, transmits the signal obtained by the camera and microphone at the remote end to the robot by a network and displays and plays the signal. The wireless router is connected to Internet, and a remote medical care staff can carry out video conversation with a patient by a Web browser at anytime and anywhere and learn illness condition. The remote control end can input a command, and the robot walks among patients in different hospital beds according to a tracing line and carries out simple transmission of medical objects.

Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for connecting a user for providing emergency response assistance to victims and emergency service providers. In some embodiments, a method for automatically populating an incident report includes the steps of: generating a victim code for display at a first electronic device; receiving an emergency data request comprising the victim code from a second electronic device associated with an emergency service provider (ESP) personnel; gathering emergency data associated with the victim code; transmitting the emergency data associated with the victim code to the second electronic device associated with the ESP personnel; and automatically populating, at the second electronic device associated with the ESP personnel, one or more fields of an incident report using the emergency data associated with the victim code.

The invention discloses a system and an interactive method for obtaining medical information by an electronic or biological identification technology. Complete patient archives are formed for patients through an identity information storage unit and a medical information unit, and are stored in a cloud server; the corresponding patient archives can be called in real time from the cloud server through an identity identification unit, and an access link, a medical information two-dimensional code or a transmission interface medium used for transmission is formed; and the medical information is viewed in real time directly through using the access link, scanning the medical information two-dimensional code or accessing the transmission interface medium, and information communication of multiple users can be formed in an information interactive unit at the same time. According to the system and the method, the users can obtain complete medical records of themselves and hold the medical records for a long term; the medical records are repeatedly utilized and updated in real time, so that the system can obtain detailed information of diseases; online doctors can conveniently obtain standard and complete medical record data in the way and know conditions of related patients, so that the medical communication efficiency is improved; and the disease development conditions of the patients are tracked in real time, so that accurate diagnosis and treatment opinions can be provided.

Providing medical communications to patients using the steps of receiving first data relating to a test from a laboratory via electronic data interchange and retrieving second data relating to a patient associated with the first test data. A medplate is selected medplate based upon the first test data and autopopulated medplate based upon the first test data and the second patient data. Transformation rules are applied to select default textual fragments based upon the first test data. The medplate also has alternative textual fragments when presented for review. The physician modifies the default and alternative textual fragments to finalize the medplate and a correspondence based upon the modified medplate is automatically generated and sent to the patient.

A medical communication system provides efficient messaging and communications services with physicians. The medical communication system permits physicians to define contact preferences so that they may receive messages in an efficient way based on various criteria, such as urgency, type, and time of a message. The medical communication system provides status for each of its physicians so that requestors that wish to contact the physicians can immediately know if a physician is available and the best way to reach the physician at a particular time and for a particular circumstance. The medical communication system protects to the privacy of physician's personal contact information and provides tracking of communications for the purpose of patient records. In addition, the medical communication system may be configured to meet various regulatory requirements, including HIPAA regulations.

The invention discloses a real-time medical communication system based on current coupling type human body communications and a communication method of the real-time medical communication system, and belongs to the field of human body communications, wherein the problem that an existing whole system of capacity coupling type human body communications is poor in adaptation and stability is mainly solved. The real-time medical communication system comprises a power module, a transmitter and a receiver, wherein the transmitter and the receiver are respectively connected with the power module and installed on a human body. The communication method of the real-time medical communication system comprises the steps that a medical signal of the human body is converted into a differential current signal suitable for transmission of human tissues through the transmitter, the differential current signal is transmitted to a patch electrode through a guide line and is injected into the human tissues through the patch electrode, a voltage signal in the human tissues is collected and transmitted to the receiver, and the receiver detects voltage of two different positions on the human body so as to obtain the medical signal. Information is transmitted by safely and stably using the human body as a medium without affecting the normal physiological status of a person, and the real-time medical communication system based on the current coupling type human body communications and the communication method of the real-time medical communication system are suitable for being popularized and used on a large scale.

Disclosed herein is a method and system for integrating and controlling multiple medical electronic devices. A medical communication system is provided for communicating with and controlling the medical electronic devices. A communication link is established between the medical communication system and the medical electronic devices. The medical communication system selects one or more medical electronic device based on diagnostic requirements. The selected medical electronic devices are configured using a set of configuration parameters. The medical data is then captured by the medical electronic devices. The captured medical data is transferred to the medical communication system via the communication link. The medical communication system stores the transferred medical data for medical diagnosis. A medical report may be generated based on the medical data received. The concerned doctor, physician, or caretaker may be notified about the availability of the medical data and the generated medical report.

A medical communication system is provided with a scope 10 including an image pickup element, and a processor 13 including an image processing section which performs image processing on an image signal obtained by the image pickup element. The processor 13 further includes a communication control section which controls communication with the medical instrument. The scope 10 and the processor 13 are connectable by radio.

A system and method that guides patients, caregivers and supporters or individuals as they confront, and endeavor to overcome, a serious health crisis or major life transition. The system facilitates the reduction of the overwhelming psychological nature of the diagnosis event by compartmentalizing it into manageable phases, based on distance from diagnosis, enabling a patient to overcome and quickly envision their first step toward wellbeing. The system then facilitates the building of an online community and social media network, using templates to help patients, caregivers, or supporters and individuals set goals and acquire community wisdom, that leverages the unique nature of the phases, from diagnosis to treatment to recovery to wellness. The system automatically transforms the templates into a printed chronological journal that serves as an organizer, note and record keeper, medical communication tool, and a progressive documentation of the patient, caregiver, supporter or individual's story.

The invention provides a communication system used for a remote medical system and a working method of the communication system. The communication system used for the remote medical system and the working method of the communication system mainly utilizes a sensor technology to collect various physiological features of human body, then uses wireless transmission or cable transmission technology to send collected data to an information collecting device, and the information collecting device processes the data and then sends the information to the Internet and a far-end server by wifi technology. The far-end server performs processing by using data base technical data and returns processed information. The communication system used for the remote medical system and the working method of the communication system mainly resolve the problems of connection of all hardware equipment and working methods of various equipment in the system, and can achieve fast and effective transmission of data, lower remote medical cost and better popularize remote medical technology.

A real time medical communication system for sending Notifications of medical Alerts includes a data translation layer for receiving real time medical data from one or more sources via a network and an Alerts engine. The Alerts engine may include a message processing module including an entity extraction module configured to extract entities from the real time medical data; and a fragment generation module configured to define fragments comprising events of interest for defining one or more medical Alerts. The Alerts engine may further include an Alert generation module that may include fragment query and evaluation modules for analyzing received real time medical data for defined fragments and generating one or more medical Alerts therefrom. A Notification module may also be provided for sending Notifications of Alerts to users.

The invention provides an electronic medical record report form system and an electronic medical record report form recording method and relates to the technical field of medical communication, the system comprises an application server, a database server and a follow-up visit form filling end, wherein the database server and the follow-up visit form filling end are in communication connection with the application server; the database server is used for storing predesigned follow-up visit schemes and filled electronic medical record report forms; the follow-up visit form filling end is used for calling the follow-up visit scheme matched with a follow-up visit instruction according to the follow-up visit instruction input by a follow-up visitor, receiving the medical record data filled by the follow-up visitor according a medical record report form template and transmitting the medical record data to the application server; the application server comprises a follow-up visit scheme template, a medical record report form generation module and a follow-up visit data analysis module. According to the electronic medical record report form system and the electronic medical record report form recording method, the values of clinical follow-up visit data can be excavated favorably, and the general applicability of the electronic medical record report form system and the clinical follow-up visit efficiency are improved.

The invention relates to a post-electrocardiogram diagnosis service method. The method comprises the steps that a doctor performs medical communication and learning through a doctor end APP and can perform electrocardiogram diagnosis through an electrocardiogram diagnosis SaaS system; the electrocardiogram diagnosis SaaS system performs processing and analysis to obtain auxiliary conclusion data; and after the auxiliary conclusion data is corrected and confirmed at a doctor end, the electrocardiogram diagnosis SaaS system generates an analysis report and transmits the analysis report to a personal user end. According to the post-electrocardiogram diagnosis service method, the doctor can perform an electrocardiogram diagnosis and treatment service at any time, so that the time and region restrictions in an existing service mode are broken through. The electrocardiogram diagnosis SaaS system can remarkably improve the electrocardiogram diagnosis efficiency and accuracy of the doctor. A personal user can obtain a diagnosis report in first time and can conveniently perform health consultation and historical diagnosis report query. A doctor end user can perform learning communication by utilizing a learning database, so that the business level is improved.

A medical communication system includes a plurality of end-user audio / video recording and playback devices (40) disposed with recipients of medical assistance, and a medical server (10) configured to receive audio / video messages (90') generated by the end-user audio / video devices and to generate and transmit audio / video responses (94) to targeted end-user audio / video devices. The medical server includes an audio / video recording and playback device (12) configured to playback received audio / video messages and to record audio / video responses, and the end user audio / video recording and playback devices are configured to playback audio / video responses (94') received from the server. In some embodiments, each end-user audio / video device includes: a video recording lens (62); a microphone (64);and an automatic lens cover (63) arranged to physically block the video recording lens except during recording of audio / video content. In some embodiments, each end-user audio / video device includes aconsumer entertainment device (50, 52).

A medical communication system (10) comprises peer devices (44, 46) which provide medical services which are used for patient monitoring, patient management or other medical procedures involving patients and / or clinicians. A mobile device (12) includes a short-range interface device (22) for discovering peer devices (44, 46) and associated peer devices services (66). A positioning component (14) determines a location of the mobile device (12). An identification component (60) reads a patient identification device (48) and a clinician identification device (50) and identifies a patient (32) and a clinician (30) at the location of the mobile device (12). A visibility manager (120) limits information and services available to the mobile device (12) to current context relevant information andservices which are based at least on one of the identity of the patient (32), the identity of the clinician (30), and the identified mobile device location.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medical communication equipment and discloses a medical pension appointment inquiry control system and method and an information data processing terminal. A medical pension platform is connected through a 4G / WiFi mobile network. The system specifically comprises a registration module, a login module, an appointment module, a query module, a display module, a power key module, an up and down key module. According to the system, the method and the information data processing terminal, elderly or disabled patients and family members can convenientlyconsult and understand a medical care situation, a bed situation and a charging standard of a hospital or an old-age care institution before admission, carry out knowledge consultation on health knowledge, healthy eating, exercise and rehabilitation knowledge and the like, carry out appointment before the admission, and timely inquire a patient examination and treatment plan, a health checkup condition and hospitalization expenses or inquire an assessment report of the behavior of a pensioner, a health checkup report, a care condition, pension expenses and the like.

A personal wallet medication card apparatus which is at most the dimensions of a credit card and having at least one sealed cavity which conveniently and safely retains medication for use in an emergency. One embodiment of the present invention facilitates telecommunication with medical persons or entities in an urgent medical event by using a scannable code encoding a prompt on a mobile telecommunication device for medical communications or other information.