422 results about "Medical malpractice" patented technology

The invention discloses a linear type suturing and excising device, comprising a body, a staple cartridge rack, a staple anvil, a staple cartridge, a cocking block and a knife pushing rod, wherein the staple cartridge rack, the staple anvil and the staple cartridge are arranged at the far end of the body, the cocking block is used for pushing a staple pushing piece and is arranged in a chute of the staple cartridge, the knife pushing rod pushes the cocking block to move, the staple cartridge rack is provided with a safety block for preventing secondary cocking, the safety block has a linear motion trail, the moving direction of the safety block is vertical to the moving direction of the knife pushing rod, and the safety block is arranged at the far end of the knife pushing rod and the excising knife, and is used for limiting the movement of the knife pushing rod and the excising knife from the near end of the linear suturing and excising device to the far end of the linear suturing and excising device when the linear type suturing and excising device is under the initial state and under the state of cocking completion. The linear type suturing and excising device has the beneficial effects that a doctor is effectively prevented from performing the next operation under the condition of not replacing a cocked staple cartridge, the occurrence of medical negligence is avoided, and the structure is simple and effective.

A medical database and associated methods are especially suited for compiling information in a medical malpractice situation. A general medical database is provided and specific medical information corresponding to a given situation is entered. Entry of the information automatically cross-references some terms of the entered data to definitions in the general medical database. Terms are readily looked up when reviewing specific medical information and definitions are easily inserted where desired. A drug reference display provides two-way lookup from drugs to their side effects (or contraindications or interactions) and back. Significant information from an entered medical chronology is easily copied to a significant information section when a reviewer finds the information important.

The invention discloses a radio frequency identification (RFID) wireless communication-based transfusion monitoring system. Intelligent transfusion monitoring equipment distributed in each sickroom acquires physiological data such as body temperature, blood pressure, pulse, heart rate and the like of each transfusion patient, transfusion pump state information and medicinal liquid state information; and a singlechip processes and packs the data and the information to respective active RFID tag. A medicinal staff working center sever reads the active RFID tag through a reader distributed in each sickroom so as to realize real-time monitoring and analysis of transfusion of each patient, treatment prescriptions are written according to the analysis results and written into the active RFID tags of the corresponding patients, and the intelligent transfusion monitoring equipment properly adjusts the parameters of transfusion equipment to realize control of the running state of the transfusion equipment. When the physiological parameters of the patient or the medicinal liquid state information fluctuates abnormally, the medicinal staff working center sever, the intelligent transfusion monitoring equipment and mobile nurse handheld equipment perform alarm prompt to avoid medicinal negligence.

Presented are systems and methods that provide patients with diagnostic measurement tools and clear and concise audio/video guidance to reliably and accurately perform clinical grade diagnostic measurements of key vital signs. In various embodiments, this is accomplished by using an automated remote (or local, e.g., in the form of a kiosk) end-to-end medical diagnostic system that monitors equipment usage for accuracy. The diagnostic system analyzes patient responses, measurement data, and patient-related information to generate diagnostic and/or treatment information that may be shared with healthcare professionals and specialists, as needed. Automation provides for timely, hassle-free, and cost-effective health care management that takes the stress out of doctor visits, while delivering personalized health care. The high accuracy of generated diagnostic data improves health care to patients and reduces the risk of medical malpractice for treating physicians.

A medical diagnosis system based on big data comprises a diagnosis and treatment scheme database.Information of the diagnosis and treatment scheme database and information of a patient inspection result are combined and transmitted to a prescription generation module.The prescription generation module transmits the information to a patient drug-use module.The patient drug-use module transmits the information to an information feedback module.The information feedback module transmits the information to the diagnosis and treatment scheme database.The patient inspection result can also be transmitted to a patient information base.The diagnosis and treatment scheme database and the patient information base transmit the information to a hospital information system.The big data technology is utilized for building the diagnosis and treatment scheme data, the prescription generation module can synthesize all inspection result data and automatically give out prescription or treatment schemes, drug effect conflicts or drug-use contraindication among drugs can be avoided, curative effect feedback information of a patient is included, communications between a doctor and the patient can be increased, more treatment reference information can be given to the doctor, the patient can go to the doctor conveniently, and medical accidents can be reduced.

A computer system for supporting a plan of counterclaim insurance provided to professionals, optionally along with professional liability insurance, deters frivolous professional malpractice claims. The insurance plan pays expenses, for example, of counterclaims for malicious prosecution when a frivolous claim has been made and tried to a judgment for the accused professional, and an independent review concludes that the claim was frivolous. The names of covered professionals are posted on a publicly accessible database. If potential plaintiffs or their attorneys find a potential defendant's name on the database, they may be deterred from filing weaker claims that might be viewed as frivolous. Upon approval of an applicant for counterclaim insurance, the applicant's name is posted to a public database, which may be accessible through the Internet, including the World Wide Web, or alternatively through a dial-up facility.

A reporting system, including a processing device, and method provides drug and medical device safety and support information during a workflow of a healthcare provider. The system and method electronically acquires, maps, generates, compiles, verifies and transfers in real time critical information regarding particular drugs and medical devices required by healthcare providers, such as a prescriber, at the optimum time in which the healthcare provider needs the information. In an embodiment, the drug and medical device safety information is accessed from an associated healthcare website, such as an Electronic Health Record (EHR) web site, during a prescription stage in the healthcare providers workflow for a particular patient. The system and method also includes an adverse reporting system that allows for the drug and medical device safety information to be updated and accurately reported in an efficient and up to date manner. In an embodiment, a healthcare provider reports an adverse event or reaction to a drug by a patient during a workflow at a EHR web site. The adverse event information is forwarded to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and the particular drug manufacturer which may update the corresponding drug information. The updated drug information may then be reported by the system to insure that healthcare providers receive the most current, accurate and complete safety information during a workflow. In embodiments, the updated drug and medical information may be provided to malpractice insurance carriers to further ensure safety.

The invention belongs to the field of medical device and provides a medical infusion speed monitoring and control system based on machine vision. The invention comprises an image collection device, a parameter input device, a data processor, a data display device, a dripping speed control device and an alarm prompting device. The data processor comprises an image processing module, a data display module, a data analyzing module, an alarm prompting module and a dropping speed control module. The invention uses an image processing method for calculating the infusion speed, which is stable and reliable. The invention solves the problems of inaccurate detection and complex operation caused by different infusion bottle/bag weight when detected using weighing principle and outside radiation source interference in the infrared light detecting method universally applied currently. The system is capable of automatically adjusting the infusion speed so that the infusion speed is equal /close to the inputted expected dropping speed. The invention is also capable of alarming to the abnormal condition occurs in non medical solution or/and other infusion process, which relieves the pain for patients, reduces the workload for medical staff and decreases the occurrence of medical malpractice.

Biologic information is obtained concerning a member of a population by obtaining a tissue sample from the member, storing the sample without embedding it in an embedding medium, retrieving from storage the sample associated with the member and thereafter analyzing it for biologic information. The tissue sample may be all or part of the member's placenta. Storage may be in a fixative such as formalin or a formalin substitute. Storage may also be by other means of preserving such as freezing or the like. When a tissue sample from more than one member is collected, a library is created that may be used for a variety of purposes, including reducing the incidence of medical malpractice claims, identification of members such as paternity testing or suspect identification. The library may also be used for pharmaceutical development and epidemiological surveys and research. Each sample may have associated with it certain epidemiologic information such as the donor's identity and medical history, residence, place of employment and the like. If the sample is of placental tissue similar information concerning the member's parents may also be recorded, as well as the hospital where the delivery occurred, the attending physician's name and the like. If and when a sample is retrieved and analyzed for biologic information, that information may also be associated with the sample so that it is available for future researchers.

The present invention discloses a method and a device for constructing a medical knowledge graph and an assistant diagnosis method. The assistant diagnosis method based on a medical knowledge graph comprises the steps of: acquiring complaint data and examination data of a patient and processing the data to obtain symptom entities and sign entities of the patient; searching, from the medical knowledge graph, disease entities associated with the symptom entities and the sign entities, calculating a posterior probability of each disease entity separately under a set of its corresponding symptom entities and sign entities; and outputting a disease entity with a maximum posterior probability as well as data corresponding to its associated nodes. The present invention provides an intelligent assistant diagnosis for clinical medicine to reduce the work burden of medical staff, relieve the medical pressure and reduce medical accidents.

The invention discloses an intelligent anaesthesia system. The intelligent anaesthesia system comprises an intelligent control end, a vital sign detecting end, an anesthetic injecting end, an indoor environment monitoring end, an electronic medical information end, a breathing machine and a monitoring display screen, wherein the vital sign detecting end, the anesthetic injecting end, the indoor environment monitoring end, the electronic medical information end, the breathing machine and the monitoring display screen are connected with the intelligent control end; the vital sign detecting end comprises a brain wave scanner, an artery systolic pressure measuring equipment, body temperature detection equipment, pulse detection equipment, muscle tension detection equipment and pain sense detection equipment; the electronic medical information end comprises a data acquiring module, an information input module, a data decoding module, a wireless data transmitting module, an outpatient service receiving end module, a leaving information module and a central server. In the intelligent anaesthesia system disclosed by the invention, the intelligent control end is used for receiving the information from the vital sign detecting end, the indoor environment monitoring end, the electronic medical information end and the breathing machine and controlling the anesthetic injecting end to perform quantitative dosing so as to feed back the physical condition of a patient in real time, reduce occurrence of medical accidents and alleviating the workload of an anesthetist.

Presented are systems and methods for examining patients and generating diagnostic medical data to make automated diagnoses and treatment recommendations to patients and doctors. Various embodiments of the present invention provide patients with diagnostic tools and audio/video guidance to reliably and accurately perform clinical grade diagnostic measurements of key vital signs. In embodiments, this is accomplished by using an automated remote (or local, e.g., in the form of a kiosk) end-to-end medical diagnostic system that monitors equipment usage for accuracy. The diagnostic system analyzes patient responses, measurement data, and patient-related information to generate diagnostic and/or treatment information that may be shared with healthcare professionals and specialists, as needed. Automation provides for timely, hassle-free, and cost-effective health care management that takes the stress out of doctor visits, while delivering personalized health care. The high accuracy of generated diagnostic data improves health care to patients and reduces the risk of medical malpractice for treating physicians.

A risk of injection liquid contamination due to contact of injection liquid in an injection-liquid filled area in a barrel with the surface in an injection-liquid unfilled area in the barrel by causing a plunger of a prefilled syringe to be inadvertently withdrawn by mishandling which may leads to medical malpractice, is eliminated by the invention. Withdrawal of a plunger 14 is limited by engagement of a barrel 12 in which a withdrawal-limiting member 48 is provided and a the plunger 14 in which a withdrawal-limiting member 54 is provided. As a result of this, contact of the injection liquid L prefilled to a liquid-filled area 32 in the barrel 12 with the surface of a liquid-unfilled area 34 in the barrel by withdrawal of the plunger 14 is prevented.

The invention relates to a method for extracting needed and specific text information from a closed hospital information system (HIS) and inputting the information to another picture archiving and communication system (PACS) to be used for medical administration. Automatic transmission and exchange of the text information is finished through the procedures of setting a system hook, acquiring a course address, operating the system hook, outputting the text information, acquiring a cursor position, setting a window text and the like. The invention realizes the functions of automatic acquisition of information among different systems and automatic retransmission of information through extracting display information of a computer screen, meets the requirement of extracting the patient information of the HIS by the PACS, improves the working efficiency of the medical workers and reduces the probability of medical negligence and medical dispute due to patient information error caused by human negligence.

An inventive process is disclosed for linking credentialing information with a medical malpractice insurance application. The credentialing information is automatically transferred from the credentialing questionnaire to an insurance application, and this credentialing information is then used to generate a medical malpractice insurance policy. The medical malpractice insurance policy is a two year policy, in order to coincide with the required re-credentialing of the healthcare provider. The inventive process also includes linking an information database, not created for insurance purposes, with an insurance application.

The invention relates to a method and system for recommending a health diagnosis and treatment plan based on cloud computing. The method comprises the following steps: (1) a cloud server collects medical knowledge data and analyzes the medical knowledge data for storage; (2) a user terminal uploads a registered patient's electronic medical record to the cloud server, and the cloud server performspre-analysis of the patient's health condition; and (3) the user terminal uploads the current symptom of the patient to the cloud server, and the cloud server formulates the health diagnosis and treatment plan according to the current symptoms of the patient on the basis of medical knowledge data, pre-analysis data and the basic situation when the patient registers, and outputs one or more recommended diagnosis and treatment plan. Meanwhile, the invention also provides the system for recommending the health diagnosis and treatment plan based on the cloud computing. The method and system provide convenience for the patient to timely know the treatment, prevention and nursing method which can be adopted, avoids occurrence of medical accidents due to adoption of an outmoded diagnosis and treatment method by a doctor, effectively reduces the misdiagnosis rate and raises the working efficiency.

The invention discloses a movable anesthesia operating table which comprises a foldable wheelchair bed body device, an intelligent control end, a vital sign detecting end, a narcotic injection end, an electronic medical information end, a breathing machine, a monitoring display screen and a remote diagnosis end. The vital sign detecting end comprises a brain wave scanner, a systolic arterial pressure measuring device, a body temperature detecting device, a pulse detecting device, a muscle tension detecting device and a pain sense detecting device. An intelligent terminal and a central server are arranged in the electronic medical information end. By receiving information of the vital sign detecting end, the electronic medical information end and the breathing machine through the intelligent control end, the narcotic injection end is controlled to feed medicine quantitatively, the monitoring display screen can feed back physical conditions of a patient in real time, the remote consultation can be achieved through the remote diagnosis end, medical accidents are reduced, the movable anesthesia operating table can be folded into a bed or a wheelchair for use due to the foldable wheelchair bed body device and is flexible and convenient to use, and the workloads of anesthetists are reduced.

Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, are systems and methods for extending patient care effectiveness of a licensed primary healthcare provider facility, group, or individual and providing professional answering and triage services, comprising: a live, remote, adjunct healthcare provider, wherein said adjunct provider is credentialed by said licensed primary healthcare provider facility, group, or individual to provide remote adjunct care for one or more patients, wherein said adjunct provider is covered by medical malpractice insurance, wherein said patients are legally under the care of said licensed primary healthcare provider facility, group, or individual; a software module for providing said remote adjunct healthcare provider access to one or more electronic health records for said one or more patients; and a communications link between said remote adjunct healthcare provider and said patient or one or more onsite patient caregivers.

The invention relates to an intracavitary intervention system for an interventional object. The system comprises a near end operating sub system and a far end control device, wherein the far end control device is in communication connection to the near end operating sub system; the near end operating sub system comprises a medical scanning imaging device, an angiographic device and an intracavitary intervention device. A doctor can control the near end operating sub system remotely through the far end control device, so that radiation probably received by the doctor in an operation process canbe reduced; in addition, as the intracavitary intervention device moves, the far end control device can acquire a fused image of the interventional object in real time, so that the doctor can monitorimplementation of the operation accurately in real time, and therefore, the demand on the doctor is reduced greatly and the probability of medical negligence is also reduced.

The invention discloses ultrasonic diagnostic equipment with a fingerprint identifier and a method. On the basis of traditional medical ultrasonic diagnostic equipments, fingerprint identifiers are added to identify the identities of the patients, and on the basis, a new method is provided for acquiring ultrasonic images of the patients and leading in patient data from other ultrasonic diagnostic equipments with fingerprint identifiers. By using mature fingerprint identifying technology to identify the identities of the patients, the equipment can robustly, stably and reliably identify the identities of the patients, thus reducing the input workload of the doctors, reducing the probability of classifying the test data of the same patient as that of different patients and providing correct past case histories for query; in addition, by using fingerprint information, the invention realizes that the doctors are only allowed to access the recorded information of the patients in the presence of the patients, thereby effectively protecting the private data of the patients from leaking, preventing the doctors from insurance fraud by arbitrarily generating or changing the records of the patients and avoiding that the doctors deliberately change the original records when medical negligence happens.

Eliminating actual and potential bias from a malpractice claim evaluation process utilizes a double blind evaluation method, which includes the steps of retention by an entity having a direct or indirect interest in the claim of a neutral third party to obtain an independent evaluation of the claim, acquisition by the third party of facts relating to the claim which are sufficient to permit an independent objective evaluation of the claim, retention by the third party of a qualified independent expert to perform the claim evaluation, redaction from the sufficient facts of all facts which would permit the expert to identify any party involved or having an interest in the claim, submission by the third party of the sufficient facts after redaction to the expert in order to permit the expert to make an independent objective evaluation of the claim, preparation by the expert of a written independent objective evaluation of the claim, submission of the written claim evaluation by the expert to the third party, redaction from the written claim evaluation of any information which would permit identification the expert, and submission of the evaluation after redaction to the entity retaining the third party.

The invention provides a drug supply control system. Patient information parameters, disease information parameters and drug information parameters are input through a data input unit; the drug, the dosage and the infusion speed required for treatment of a patient at the current time can be obtained through a dosage analysis unit according to the information parameters in combination with historical treatment information data of the patient stored in a storage unit; after the infusion speed is obtained, a control unit controls external infusion equipment to control output of the drug according to the infusion speed. By means of the drug supply control system, the dosage and the infusion speed can be calculated in an automated mode, work intensity of clinicians is greatly lowered, meanwhile accuracy of the calculation result of the dosage and the infusion speed is greatly improved, various defects caused by insufficient experience and work strain are avoided, and unnecessary medical accidents are avoided; meanwhile a powerful database function of an automated technology is utilized, a case database targeted to different patients can be established, and it is convenient to apply the drug according to different patents.