131 results about "Medical profession" patented technology

A technique is provided for enhancing performance of computer-assisted data operating algorithms in a medical context. Datasets are compiled and accessed, which may include data from a wide range of resources, including controllable and prescribable resources, such as imaging systems. The datasets are analyzed by a human expert or medical professional, and the algorithms are modified based upon feedback from the human expert or professional. Modifications may be made to a wide range of algorithms and based upon a wide range of data, such as available from an integrated knowledge base. Modifications may be made in sub-modules of the algorithms providing enhanced functionality. Modifications may also be made on various bases, including patient-specific changes, population-specific changes, feature-specific changes, and so forth.

A system and method for monitoring and controlling the therapy of a cardiac rhythm abnormality victim at a remote site by proving immediate access to a medical professional at a central station. The method comprises the steps of: (1) providing a plurality of electrodes for receiving cardiac signals generated by the victim and for the application of electrical pulses to the victim at a remote site; (2) transmitting the signals from the remote site to a central station; (3) receiving the signals at the central station and displaying them for the medical professional; (4) selecting whether to delivery defibrillation or pacing therapy to the victim based on the medical professional's analysis of the signals (5) transmitting the selection results to the remote site; and (6) receiving the selection results at the remote site and applying the selected therapy to the victim.

This invention enables targeting, personalized measurement, and management of cognitive skills development by users, clinicians, teachers, and parents. The invention features a game based virtual learning curriculum for targeting and developing the underlying cognitive skills of executive functions. The methods and systems of the invention provide an effective and rapid video game-based training curriculum to improve the cognitive skills such as focused attention, sustained attention, cognitive inhibition, behavioral inhibition, selective attention, alternating attention, divided attention, interference control, novelty inhibition, delay of gratification, inner voice, motivational inhibition, and self-regulation. This curriculum utilizes: (i) each of the cognitive processes that underlie attention control and impulse inhibition; (ii) the identification of measurable and trainable cognitive skills; and (iii) game design and game mechanics that effectively train and enable retention of those skills. The game-based system provides a medical professional, clinician, parent, teacher and user with the ability to measure and manage training of targeted cognitive skills to reach a desired performance goal.

A system, apparatus and method are described for recording, processing, measuring and transmitting electrical data relating to audible signals originating from within a human body. Acoustic signals originating from a human body are detected by a hand-held device that converts these acoustic signals into corresponding electrical signals. Within the housing of this hand-held device, these signals are processed in the electrical domain, such as filtering, amplifying, storing and analyzing, so that they may be provided in a preferred output format. In certain embodiments of the invention, a speaker on the device housing outputs audible signals relating to the detected inner-body acoustic signals. In other embodiments, a port is provided that outputs electrical signals which may be transmitted over a connection to a distant remote device or stored on a computing device external to the hand-held device. In yet other embodiments, an antenna is provided that transmits a wireless signal relating to the detected inner-body acoustic signals. These various embodiments of the invention allow for a more effective diagnosis of medical conditions, such as asthma or heart ailments, by a remote medical professional or recording of inner-body acoustic signals which may be later analyzed by the medical professional.

The computer-implemented system of providing online medical consultation services by a team of medical professionals begins when a user accesses the system website. The user selects the level of consultation services desired and a case submission form is provided to the user requesting information relating to desired medical consultation. The user provides the requested information on case submission form. If additional information is required, it is obtained. When the case is ready for submission, members of the medical professional team are selected for consultation on the case and forwarded the particulars of the submitted case via the Internet. The selected team members review the submitted case particulars and each member provides their medical opinion via Internet. The submitted opinions are recorded and displayed in real time on the system website, to which the user has access. In addition, the submitted opinions to structured questions are compiled to determine if there is a consensus. A graphical representation of the compiled opinions is generated and displayed in real time on the website, as well. This system can provide nearly instant information as to the sum of the opinions of medical experts for a variety of case scenarios and establishes whether, and to what extent, a consensus exists among the consulting medical professionals.

A multi-array membrane strip biosensor device (10, 20) using a fluid mobile conductive polymer as reporter is described. The biosensor device (20) is designed to detect multiple analytes at low concentrations in near real-time with an electronic data collection system. The biosensor device can be small. The device can be used to detect pathogens, proteins, and other biological materials of interest in food, water, and environmental samples. The device can also be used for on-site diagnosis and against potential bioterrorism. Potential users include food processing plants, meat packaging facilities, fruit and vegetable packers, restaurants, food and water safety inspectors, food wholesalers and retailers, farms, homes, medical profession, import border crossing personnel, and the police force, military, space habitation and national security.

The invention relates to a man-machine interactive system and a scheme which is composed of four parts: a man-machine interactive scheme (1) used for interacting medical information, a man-machine interactive hardware device (2) used for interacting medical information, a physical sign/symptom analysis software program (3), a medical information database and an inquire software program (4). The system can be assembled manufactured by using accessory random that is mass popularization manufactured in current social such as singlechip, computer, PDA, mobile phone and e-dictionary. The system realizes arranging inquire and multiple inquire to special information (the medical health type information having individuation requirement characteristic), provides target medical information service to broad masses of other specialty with culture standard more than middle. The system solves social requirement that ordinary masses obtains systematic and comprehensive medical health information guidance urgently who take medicine/health by experience at once because of lackness medical health information.

A membrane strip biosensor device (10, 20, 100) using a fluid mobile conductive composition of ferromagnetic particles bound to a conductive polymer bound to a capture reagent is described. The biosensor device is designed to detect analytes at low concentrations in near real-time with an electronic data collection system and can be small. The device can be used to detect pathogens, proteins, and other biological materials of interest in food, water, and environmental samples. The device can also be used for on-site diagnosis and against potential bioterrorism. Potential users include food processing plants, meat packaging facilities, fruit and vegetable packers, restaurants, food and water safety inspectors, food wholesalers and retailers, farms, homes, medical profession, import border crossing personnel, and the police force, military, space habitation and national security.

What is disclosed is a system and method for processing a video acquired using a 2D monocular video camera system to assess respiratory function of a subject of interest. In various embodiments hereof, respiration-related video signals are obtained from a temporal sequence of 3D surface maps that have been reconstructed based on an amount of distortion detected in a pattern placed over the subject's thoracic region (chest area) during video acquisition relative to known spatial characteristics of an undistorted reference pattern. Volume data and frequency information are obtained from the processed video signals to estimate chest volume and respiration rate. Other respiratory function estimations of the subject in the video can also be derived. The obtained estimations are communicated to a medical professional for assessment. The teachings hereof find their uses in settings where it is desirable to assess patient respiratory function in a non-contact, remote sensing environment.

A handheld device, such as a personal digital assistant ("PDA"), can be used at the point-of-care to find an appropriate pair of diagnosis code and procedure code for use in writing an order for further medical procedures for a particular patient. The choice of diagnosis code and procedure code can be checked for conformance with the requirements set forth in a particular set of medical necessity policy rules. In a preferred embodiment, the codes and rules are aggregated by medical specialty so that a specialist can work with solely those codes and rules that are relevant to that particular medical specialty. This abstract is provided as a tool for those searching for patents, and not as a limitation on the scope of the claims.

A system and method for coordinated evaluation and prescription of unregulated therapeutic substances in a supervised medical environment, wherein the unregulated therapeutic substances, derived from natural products, are initially qualified as a therapeutic option to traditional prescription and OTC medicines. The implementation of the system and method of qualification and prescription of unregulated therapeutic substances is performed within the context of a mainstream medical care environment comprising an established health care management system wherein patient subscribers, within a given system, elect to participate in a trial evaluation under the supervision of the medical professional responsible for their care. Upon successful completion of the evaluation, the patient is empowered, with his medical professional's approval, to adopt the unregulated therapeutic substances for treatment of his illness or condition, and the established health care management system is obligated to reimburse such patient for such unregulated therapeutic substances.

Embodiments relate to integrating data collection and productivity applications with an EHR system. To integrate a patient's data collection application with the EHR system, an EHR server provides API calls to (i) retrieve patient information, (ii) post data to the patient's account, and (iii) post data to the medical professional's account. To integrate a medical professional's productivity application with the EHR system, an EHR server provides API calls to (i) retrieve practice information, (ii) retrieve patient information, and (iii) post data to the medical professional's account. Embodiments securely provide these APIs to third party providers.

A medical professional monitoring system includes a user interface in communication with a global communications network for use by a medical professional. The system may also include a patient information database, a diagnosis database, a medical treatment database, and a server, each of which are in communication with a global communications network and are accessible by the medical professional. The patient information database includes patent information for a plurality of registered patients. The diagnosis database includes diagnosis information, and the medical treatment database includes medical treatment information. The server may include a recording system to record medical treatments selected by the medical professional, and to track the selected medical treatments for compliance with predetermined standards.

The present invention provides a fresh method and system for truly automated online prescription purchases while providing improved security for issuing prescription simultaneously. Within the said online pharmacy network, both patients and doctors (M.D.s) are registered users. Doctors (M.D.s) will be verified by one of the authorities, such as the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), an organization that maintains a database of physician board certification information on more than 700,000 specialty physicians representing 36 medical specialties and 88 subspecialties. ABMS contains information primary sourced from 24 recognized medical specialty boards, not self reported by physicians, and is fully recognized by key healthcare accreditation organizations for credentialing purposes. Once a doctor's status is verified, he/she has the authority to issue online prescriptions or approve patients' online prescription requests within the said online pharmacy network. Patients who wish to purchase prescription online will register with the said online pharmacy network and provide personal information such as credit card numbers, email addresses, and etc. Once a patient is registered with the said online pharmacy network, he/she has the ability to request an online prescription that will be used towards prescription purchases within the said online pharmacy network. A patient can choose from diverse payment methods and delivery preferences without obtaining or dropping off a conventional paper prescription at a pharmacy that has a physical location for pick-up. The present invention will reduce the likelihood of prescription abuse by avoiding counterfeit paper prescriptions, improve the efficiency of the prescription purchase by automating the processing of prescription writing and dropping off, permitting patients who wish to order discounted prescription drug online without adopting the existing prescription fax-in or mail-in methods.

The present invention relates to methods, computer systems and computer apparatus for obtaining references that assist in identifying a disease or condition in an individual, wherein the reference has been described or made part of a database having medical data. The steps of the method include obtaining or identifying two or more symptoms, conditions, procedures, medication or any combination thereof, experienced or used by the individual; transcribing the symptoms, conditions, procedures, medication or combination thereof into standardized medical codes to thereby obtain transcribed codes; categorizing transcribed codes by medical specialty; searching at least one medical literature database using one of the transcribed codes to thereby obtain code-specific results, and repeating this step for each of the transcribed codes; cross-referencing the code-specific results for each transcribed code with code-specific results of all other transcribed codes in the same categorized medical specialty to obtain common references, and repeating this step for each specialty for which the codes have been categorized; and studying the references to determine references applicable to or those that assist in identifying the disease or condition.

The computer system or computer apparatus of the present invention includes a source of transcribed codes that comprises standardized medical codes translated from two or more symptoms, conditions, procedures, medication or any combination thereof experienced or used by the individual; a processor routine coupled to receive transcribed codes from the source, wherein the processor routine performs the above steps of categorizing transcribed codes by medical specialty; searching the medical literature database and cross-referencing the code-specific results for each transcribed code with code-specific results of all other transcribed codes in the same categorized medical specialty to obtain common references. The computer system or apparatus further includes an output device, coupled to the processor routine, for indicating common reference grouped by the number of occurrences of transcribed codes present in the reference.

A system and method for enrolling patients in a medical study, includes: a database component operative to maintain a medical practice database component and their corresponding plurality of specialities and a clinical studies database component and their corresponding plurality of medical studies. The system further includes a communications component to alert the medical practices of the medical studies and observe changes to the database components. The system also includes a processor programmed to update the database components, periodically match compatible medical specialties with the medical studies, and generate reports of the matched medical practices in the medical practice database. The system also includes a fee database component which the processor uses to calculate a fee for conducting the study.

The present invention provides a medical support system capable of properly supporting entry of medical information by a medical professional. A medical support system stores, as medical data, first medical information entered by a medical professional as an operator, and second medical information entered without direct intervention of the medical professional. Further, the medical support system generates and outputs support information for supporting entry of the first medical information by the medical professional. In the medical support system, the support information is generated on the basis of the first medical information and second medical information being entered. Therefore, in the medical support system, when the first medical information and second medical information being entered changes, the support information to be generated also changes.

The invention discloses a college medical virtual laboratory teaching system based on cloud computing. The college medical virtual laboratory teaching system is composed of a role and right limit module, a learning material module, an experimental operation exercise module, a student self-assessment module, a teacher examination and evaluation organizing module and a summary sharing module. Compared with the prior art, the college medical virtual laboratory teaching system based on cloud computing achieves integration and sharing of educational resources; the educational resources such as isolated teaching materials are uploaded and stored in a cloud terminal server through a network, knowledge can be acquired more conveniently and efficiently, the learning interest of students is greatly stimulated, and therefore a better teaching result is achieved; the capital investment for purchasing and maintaining college software and hardware physical experiment equipment is greatly lowered, and cost is reduced for college medical specialty construction; the basis is provided for further improving teaching methods, and meanwhile an important approach is provided for accumulating excellent teaching experience.

A medical student and school program entry and/or medical professional entry, verification and tracking system is disclosed which is implemented on a computer with remote login and logoff capabilities. The system and methods utilizing the system includes login routines for medical students, medical staff, supervisors and accrediting agencies, medical discipline selection screens, protocol/procedure selection screens, data entry windows or areas associated with the protocol/procedure screens, logout routines, submission routines and polling routines.

A computer-based method includes receiving health-related data associated with each respective one of multiple individuals, all of whom have, had, or will likely have the same health-related experience. An algorithm identifies, based on the health-related data, information relevant to facilitate efficient allocation of medical expertise or resources to the health-related experience of one or more of the individuals. A notification is generated that, reveals the identified information. Feedback is received that corresponds to the generated notification, after medical expertise or resources have been allocated in response to the generated notification. The algorithm is then adjusted in view of the feedback received to improve the ability to accurately identify the information relevant to facilitate efficient allocation of medical expertise or resources. A system implements the method, and is capable of implementing privacy and security consistent with best practices and legal requirements for handling personal medical information and health records.

Cold therapy is an established practice used in the medical profession to treat certain limb injuries, such as sprained or strained arm or leg muscles or injuries to joints. Generally, these types of injuries should be chilled to slow blood flow, which reduces swelling, pain, and further damage. Cold therapy is also an established practice used to treat migraine and other types of headaches. A typical course of cold therapy treatment is to apply ice for a specified period to the injured region of a limb, the neck, face, or head. Alternatively, a pack or bag containing a chemical agent that reacts (endothermically) to produce cold may be applied to the injured region, the neck, face, or head.

The invention discloses a method for unified communication between multiple medical information systems. In accordance with the method of the invention, an isomerous gateway pool comprises multiple servers connected to the clients ports of various medical information systems via network ports. The network ports of a the gateway pool are connected to a network interface module and the information of various medical information systems is transformed by the servers via information analysis modules and information building modules into information conforming to an international electronic medical information standard. The information is then intercommunicated between various medical information systems. By applying the method taught by the invention, the intercommunication of information between various medical information systems is realized, and the problem of Information Island is solved, the work efficiency of medical systems is increased largely, and the information communication between various medical systems is improved, which is beneficial to the patients and the development of the medical profession.