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Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.

A pharmaceutical system and method of operation in which a single remote professional provides pharmaceutical care and oversight of multiple local pharmacies. A control location is connected through an electronic network to one or more individual pharmacies, each of which may be located at a different physical site. Each individual pharmacy includes one or more drug preparation areas, and one or more self-service or staffed customer terminals. A drug preparation area includes a robot, which is adapted to prepare prescriptions or other items, and which is connected by a pneumatic delivery system to one or more customer terminals within the pharmacy.

The Automated Healthcare Risk Management System is a real-time Software as a Service application which interfaces and assists investigators, law enforcement and risk management analysts by focusing their efforts on the highest risk and highest value healthcare payments. The system's Risk Management design utilizes real-time Predictive Models, a Provider Cost Index, Edit Analytics, Strategy Management, a Managed Learning Environment, Contact Management, Forensic GUI, Case Management and Reporting System for individually targeting, identifying and preventing fraud, abuse, waste and errors prior to payment. The Automated Healthcare Risk Management System analyzes hundreds of millions of transactions and automatically takes actions such as declining or queuing a suspect payment. Claim payment risk is optimally prioritized through a Managed Learning environment, from high risk to low risk for efficient resolution by investigators.

The present invention creates an objective methodology of quantitative accountability for medical device manufacturers, vendors, clinical providers, patients, and payers. In one embodiment, the standardized data received and stored in the medical device database can in turn be used for a variety of applications related to decision support (e.g., medical device selection), education and training (e.g., procedural performance), cost efficacy, evidence based medicine and best practice guidelines, personalized medicine, and comparative performance/safety analytics.

A method for providing insurance coverage to a subscriber comprises offering an insurance policy to said subscriber wherein said insurance policy comprises providing allowances to pay for one or more expenses covered by said insurance policy and providing monetary credits to said subscriber for any unused portion of a given allowance where said monetary credits can be used to cover the cost of a subsequent allowed expense. The insurance policy may be a pharmacy benefits plan. The covered expenses may be pharmacy expenses. The allowed expenses may be medical expenses which qualify under section 213 of the US Internal Revenue code for payment by an employer without said subscriber having to declare said payment as taxable income.

Systems, methods and computer readable media performing mobile medical information management are provided. In one aspect, one or more web-based patient portals are accessed and medical history records of a patient are downloaded therefrom, based upon a user profile including personal information that uniquely identifies the patient. All or part of the downloaded data can be outputted to at least one of the patient and a physician or other authorized care provider treating or evaluating the patient.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.

The invention encompasses a method of conducting a clinical trial of a test substance from a primary site, via the internet. The internet is used in various phases of a clinical trial, including: recruiting and screening for candidates who are eligible to participate in a clinical trial of a test substance using the internet; obtaining, directly from a participant at a remote site, personal information as well as information allowing a determination of any effect(s) of the test substance on the participant after use (e.g., by evaluation forms completed and transmitted over the internet); compiling data from multiple participants.

A desirably sanitary environment such as a hospital will have hand hygiene stations dispersed in some of the patient rooms, hallways, common areas, staff bathrooms and the like. Workers entering and exiting these rooms and areas should comply with proper hand hygiene protocols as they move from contact with one patient to another. A system, method and implementation are provided for increasing the likelihood of proper hand hygiene protocols. Identifying credentials unique to each worker, sensors tracking the room entry and exit activities of each credential, electronic hand hygiene substance dispensers responsive to the credentials and a computerized network are combined to count completed hand hygiene protocol cycles to the credit of each credential for use in a compliance awards program to encourage proper hand hygiene. Each credential may include green, yellow and red LED's to alert as to “hands clean,” please sanitize” and “hands dirty” conditions.

The systems methods described herein incorporate on teamwork in which all of the participants (patients, medical staff, and medical care providers), contribute to the medical visit, medical record generation, and billing for the visit. The systems and methods include three aspects, which are referred to herein as portals: 1) a patient portal 130, which allows patients to interact with the system; 2) a clinical portal 150, which serves as a medium in which medical staff and providers interact with the system; and 3) a billing portal 170, which serves as a medium in which the medical providers and billing personnel interact with the system.

A prescription creation software system implemented on a computer is provided. The prescription creation software system includes a prescription creation screen display to allow the data capture of information including, patient-identifying data, prescribed drug identification data and drug quantification data. The prescription creation software system additionally provides a prescriber with drug formulary information identifying at least one drug as a patient's drug formulary preference, prior to completion of the prescription.

Methods, systems and devices for electronically prescribing medication to a patient include providing to a prescriber prescription medications in response to a request to prescribe medication to a patient, allowing selection of one of the prescription medications, in response to the selection of one of the prescription medications, determining in a processor whether alternative prescription medications having equal or more preferred status than the selected prescription medication exist based upon the patient's health plan, and if any such alternative medication exists, alerting the prescriber of the preference status of the selected prescription medication and alternative prescription medication.

A system and method for the efficient administration of health care plans, particularly as to the reduction and/or elimination of avoidable medical costs for select individuals who participate in the plan, is disclosed. Existing health care data is processed to determine an indication as to the relative desirability of an intervention in a plan participant's health care regimen. The data is also processed to determine the status of one or more flags, each of which potentially indicates the relative desirability of an intervention in a plan participant's health care regimen. A predictive model is used to determine the status of a flag relating to the likelihood of an insurance plan participant making a disability claim within a certain period of time. The information relating to desirability of an intervention in a plan participant's health care regimen, as well as a plan participant's medical information and claim history, is presented to case managers and/or health care providers in a user-friendly format

A method for displaying patient growth data on a computerized growth chart is provided. A database including growth chart data for a computerized growth chart appropriate for a patient is accessed and the growth chart data is utilized to display the computerized growth chart. The patient's electronic record is accessed for patient growth data and the patient growth data is displayed on the computerized growth chart.

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.

A method is proposed for monitoring participation of a patient in at least one clinical trial. The method includes collecting data regarding at least one clinical trial for the patient. Using a computer device, the collected data is then compared to at least one threshold. Finally, the patient is rewarded upon the collected data at least meeting at least one threshold.

A system to assist in at least one of the evaluation of or the improvement of skills to perform minimally invasive surgery includes a minimally invasive surgical system, a video system arranged to record at least one of a user's interaction with the minimally invasive surgical system or tasks performed with the minimally invasive surgical system, and a data storage and processing system in communication with the minimally invasive surgical system and in communication with the video system. The minimally invasive surgical system provides at least one of motion data, ergonomics adjustment data, electrical interface interaction data or mechanical interface interaction data of at least a component of the minimally invasive surgical system in conjunction with time registered video signals from the video system. The data storage and processing system processes the at least one of motion data, ergonomics adjustment data, electrical interface interaction data or mechanical interface interaction data to provide a performance metric in conjunction with the time registered video signals to be made available to an expert for evaluation.

Systems and methods related to efficient practice of medicine, with a particular focus in the dermatologic field. The systems methods described herein rely on teamwork in which all of the participants (patients, medical staff and medical care providers) contribute to the medical visit, medical record generation, and billing for the visit. The systems and methods include three aspects, which are referred to herein as portals: 1) a patient portal 130, which allows patients to interact with the system; 2) a clinical portal 150, which serves as a medium in which medical staff and providers interact with the system, and 3) a billing portal 170, which serves as a medium in which the medical providers and billing personnel interact with the system.

A personal hygiene device includes a personal hygiene implement and a first position member. The personal hygiene device is capable of providing the user with feedback which can assist the user in his/her personal hygiene routines.

Certain embodiments provide methods and systems by which a predictive modeling provider may provide a client with predictive healthcare analysis. The predictive healthcare analysis may be used to assess whether a beneficiary is likely to develop conditions requiring healthcare. If such conditions are identified, intervention plans are developed and implemented to address the conditions and reduce healthcare costs. Certain embodiments provide method and systems by which an integrated benefits management organization may manage a client's healthcare program. A claim audit may be performed on healthcare claims of the client's beneficiaries. A claim repricing process may be used to discount the healthcare claims of the client's beneficiaries. In at least certain embodiments, the predictive modeling provider or integrated benefits management organization are motivated to maximize the reduction in the client's healthcare costs.

Novel methods for delivering a drug to a patient while preventing the exposure of a foetus or other contraindicated individual to the drug. Embodiments are provided in which the involved prescribers, pharmacies and patients are registered in one or more computer databases. Embodiments are also provided in which registered patients receive counseling information concerning the risks attendant to foetal exposure to the drug. Male patients and female patients who are not pregnant may, in certain circumstances, receive the drug.