115 results about "Nursing management" patented technology

A care management system in which the management of the administration of care for patients is automated. Hospital information systems are monitored and the information from those systems is used in verifying the administrations of care to patients. The care management system monitors ongoing administrations for progress and automatically updates records and provides alarms when necessary. The care management system is modular in nature but is fully integrated among its modules. Particular lists of data, such as the termination times of all ongoing infusions, provide hospital staff current information for increased accuracy and efficiency in planning. Features include the automatic provision of infusion parameters to pumps for accurate and efficient configuration of the pump, and providing an alarm when an unscheduled suspension of an infusion exceeds a predetermined length of time. A passive recognition system for identifying patients and care givers is provided.

System and method for reducing healthcare costs by improving care and encouraging healthy behaviors. A web-based or telephonic program using health plan sponsor funded financial incentives, offered to patients and providers for declaring or demonstrating adherence or providing a reason for non-adherence to performance standards. Financial incentives are contingent upon patient's and provider's agreement to allow the other to confirm or acknowledge the other's declaration or demonstration of adherence or non-adherence reason. Combining financial incentives with a set of checks and balances motivates participation in the program and adherence to the performance standards. Performance standards include evidence-based treatment guidelines, information therapy, wellness and prevention solutions, care management, and other methods proven to control costs by improving behaviors and healthcare. The system and method achieves improved health and more affordable healthcare by aligning the interests of providers, patients/consumers, and health plan sponsors in a win-win-win arrangement.

A patient care management system for assisting a physician in monitoring drug use by a patient. The system receives drug dispensation data for a drug, on the basis of which the system determines drug supply availability data. The drug supply availability data is indicative of periods of time during which the drug was available in non-duplicate supply, or in oversupply, or in insufficient supply. The periods of time are displayed with respect to a common time base. Each degree of supply availability is visually displayed via a graphical user interface using, e.g., a color coded scheme, so as to be distinguishable by a user. This allows a physician to rapidly assess over-consumption or compliance problems. Plural drugs may be monitored on a single display screen. The system may also be adapted to allow an prescribing physician to assess refill compliance, hospitalization periods and prescription drug costs.

Systems and methods are provided for locating an on-call doctor, specific to a patient's needs, who is readily available for a live confidential patient consultation using a network enabled communication device with a digital camera and microphone. The system facilitates customized matching of patients with doctors to provide higher quality and faster delivery of medical evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment. The systems and methods transmit results through a secure connection and manage a referral process whereby a referring doctor refers a patient to another provider, laboratory, facility, or store for a particular procedure, order, analysis, or care. The referrals may be based on specialties and availability. The system relates particularly to the fields of medicine, where doctors can perform online consultations and provide a diagnosis, treatment recommendations, recommendations for further analysis, triage and/or provide follow up on-call care.

A system and method for observing patients in geographically dispersed health care locations. A patient is assigned to a health care location comprising a patient visual monitoring system, a patient audio receiver, and a patient controller. The visual monitoring system is responsive tri-axially to command signals received via a patient controller connected to the network. The patient controller sends patient imaging data and patient audio data to a remote command center via the network. A computerized patient care management system comprising the remote command center monitors patient data, patient imaging data, and patient audio data determines from the patient data, the patient imaging data, and the patient audio data if intervention with the selected patient is warranted.

The invention discloses a medical care system based on a hand-held terminal. The system is composed of hand-held terminal equipment, an HIS and an identification generation module, an information matching module, an information acquisition module and an information inquiry module which are in communication with a database platform of the HIS. By means of the medical care system, it is facilitated for medical workers to identify problems existing in a patient and make targeted nursing measures, and the system also serves as reference for a doctor to learn about the illness state of the patient and work out an effective therapeutic scheme; a complete nursing record serves as important information for nursing research, and meanwhile source materials with respect to statistics are provided for illness treatment; a nursing scheme can reflect the nursing level of a hospital to some extent, is important information of nursing management of the hospital and also serves as one of materials for the hospital to assess the working load of nursing workers; by means of the scheme, the paperless and filmless processing of patient information is achieved, the nursing procedure is simplified, and the working efficiency of the nursing workers is improved.

The present invention is an automated disease management system designed to assist healthcare providers in the care management of patients with one or more health conditions. More particularly, this invention relates to a system and method for assisting healthcare providers in developing and monitoring the implementation of patient care plans.

A system for facilitating the physical provision of health care services to patients comprises a computer-readable medium containing information associated with the physical provision of health care services to patients; an electronic display disposed in a health care environment; and software configured to effect display of some of the information on the electronic display; wherein the electronic display is not a part of a computer workstation and is configured for simultaneous viewing by a plurality of staff. A method for facilitating the physical provision of health care services to patients comprises inputting, via the electronic touch screen display, information corresponding to a patient or room; displaying, via the electronic touch screen display, the information; and providing, to a patient, physical health care services, based on the viewed information. The electronic touchscreen display preferably is not a part of a computer workstation and is configured for simultaneous viewing by a plurality of health care providers and caregivers.

A method for managing health care related information includes the steps of providing a computer database, and storing health care related information in the database A computer for use by a health care provider is provided, and the health care provider computer is operatively connected to the database. A plurality of health care management functions is displayed on the health care provider computers and the health care provider uses the health care provider computer to select a specific health care management function Information for the selected specific health care management function is retrieved from the computer database and is displayed on the health care provider computer The present invention also includes an apparatus for managing health care related information, including a computer network to carry out the steps of the method

Healthcare intelligence and analytics may be improved by combining sets of disparate healthcare records and matching records between patients. The matched records may then be analyzed by identifying relevant individuals and providing information to a user containing the combined sets of healthcare records and the analysis. The information may be customized for the user after identifying the user accessing the interface. Additionally, rules may be applied to the analyzed data to enhance the data when viewed by the user.

The method of the present invention is used to select high risk or co-morbid patients for participation in a care management program. An acuity score determines which patients are selected for care management.

A method and system for improving care and reducing adverse events and cost by identifying patent care opportunities and integrating them directly into electronic hospital records and the provider's routine workflow. The invention enables clinicians, care managers and users to improve care and efficiency by assembling data from disparate sources, identifying care opportunities and integrating them directly into the EHR system and their routine workflow, while tracking that the recommended action was taken.

The invention provides a method for constructing nursing management and quality comprehensive information of a hospital. The method comprises the following specific construction steps of: 1, establishing basic information of the whole hospital, i.e. establishing the basic information and personnel basic situations of all clinical departments and all research institutions of the whole hospital; 2, establishing manpower resource dynamic configuration, i.e. dynamically displaying a nurse scheduling table and manpower resources; 3, establishing the nursing quality management, i.e. inputting a quality check and analysis table and estimating the completing condition of nursing indexes and nursing risk factors; 4, establishing a nursing continuing education file, i.e. inputting annual assessment scores of nursing personnel, calculating the credit, querying the learning condition and carrying out special lecture and nursing teaching rounds; 5, establishing mobile nursing information, i.e. establishing patient bar codes, acquiring physical sign data, executing the advice of a doctor, establishing a nursing electronic medical record and carrying out nursing performance appraisal; 6, establishing the catheter placement maintenance of a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC); and 7, carrying out stoma nursing.

Systems and methods for managing the care of care receivers using a care management system are disclosed. One embodiment includes a care management server configured to communicate with at least one care provider client, where the care provider client is configured to provide a user interface for receiving care management instructions; where the care management server is configured to receive care management instructions from the at least one care provider client and store the care management instructions in a care management database; receive data concerning the status of a care recipient and store the received data concerning the status of the care recipient in the care management database; analyze the data concerning the status of the care recipient within the care management database in accordance with the care management instructions; and send notifications to the care provider client based upon the analysis of the care management database.

The invention relates generally to health care management methods and systems, and more particularly, to a home care logistics and quality assurance tracking system and method that facilitates accountability of caregivers visiting, caring for, and treating patients. Upon receipt of a service request for a patient, the system establishes a field of acceptability for compliance. The field of acceptability includes a service location, a plurality of locations distinct from the service location, a service time, and a time period that includes the service time. The system identifies compliance or non-compliance with the service request by comparing the field of acceptability with location data and time data from the caregiver's and patient's computing devices, which may also be utilized to establish new temporary field boundaries. Upon identifying compliance, the system can automatically adjust a billing request to match a service request and authorize payment.

The invention relates to a nursing intern management system. The nursing intern management system comprises a server, a management department terminal, a department terminal and an intern terminal. The server is provided with a database where related practice information is stored, and the related practice information includes intern personal information, practice teacher information, cooperation academy information, an intern shift-in-turn plan and teaching materials. The management department terminal is used for recording the related practice information and dynamically updating and managing the related practice information in the database. The department terminal is used for inquiring about the related practice information matched with the department terminal in right, recording intern clinical practice scores and evaluations related with the department, and uploading the intern clinical practice scores and evaluations to the server. The intern terminal is used for inquiring about the related practice information matched with the intern terminal in right and the personal clinical practice scores and evaluations from the server, evaluating the clinical nursing teaching quality of shift-in-turn departments and downloading the teaching materials from the server. The nursing intern management system can manage interns in a unified mode.

The invention discloses a remote medical nursing system based on a WLAN indoor positioning technology. The remote medical nursing system based on the WLAN indoor positioning technology comprises terminal devices allocated for doctors who make the rounds of wards, a hospital nursing management server, patient personal homepages, multiple AP wireless access points and Wi-Fi labels. The AP wireless access points are arranged on hospital aisles or passages and the Wi-Fi labels are installed on beds of all patients of the wards and used for identifying the patients of the corresponding beds. The terminal devices, the hospital nursing management server, the patient personal homepages, the AP wireless access points and the Wi-Fi labels compose a wireless local area network to carry out data communication. The terminal devices and the hospital nursing management server carry out wireless communication through the AP wireless access points. The terminal devices comprise ARM processors. The ARM processors are connected with the Wi-Fi labels for location, cameras and microphones. By means of the remote medical nursing system based on the WLAN indoor positioning technology, a medical treatment and nursing manner can meet the demand of relatives of a patient for knowing the condition of the patient in time and the quality of medical treatment service is improved.

The invention discloses a comprehensive management platform for hospital nursing, which relates to the technical field of medical information research. The comprehensive management platform for hospital nursing comprises a nursing document management subsystem, a nursing scheduling management subsystem, a nursing shift turnover management subsystem, a nursing mobile management subsystem, a nursingquality management subsystem, a nursing whiteboard management subsystem, an adverse event whole process management subsystem, a nursing pressure sore management subsystem, a nursing management cockpit subsystem and a nursing performance management subsystem. According to the comprehensive management platform for hospital nursing, electronic informationization of all routine nursing work can be realized, and management is more convenient, accurate and effective. The existing process of the hospital is improved and sorted, a patient-centered modern hospital management mechanism is built, the nursing efficiency and the work quality are improved, the medical quality is improved, and the credibility and the authenticity of hospital information are enhanced.

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.

The invention relates to the field of artificial reproduction of rare trees and in particular relates to an artificial seedling reproducing technique for huanghua pear trees. The artificial seedling reproducing technique for the huanghua pear trees is characterized by specifically comprising seedling growing, soil preparation, fertilizer application and backfilling, planting and nursing management. According to the artificial seedling reproducing technique for the huanghua pear trees, high survival rate of huanghua pear cuttings is realized by use of the scientific and reasonable methods such as seedling growing, soil preparation, fertilizer application and backfilling, planting and nursing management, artificial seedling reproduction of the huanghua pear trees is realized by virtue of seedling management, and reasonable prevention and treatment and nursing management, and finally, extensive management is realized on the huanghua pear trees to allow the huanghua pear trees to grow naturally.

A nursing workload statistical method firstly determines quantized values of workload of all nursing items, next inputs the nursing items currently requiring counting, then counts total nursing workload according to the nursing items currently requiring counting and the quantized values of workload of the corresponding nursing items, and finally realizes counting of workload of nursing units and nursing individuals, thereby providing a scientific management method for assessment on workload of sections carried out by personnel in charge of nursing work, scientific assignment of nurses and effective control on nursing quality.

The invention discloses a medical care monitoring and managing system device which is a real-time infusion monitoring system device with the functions of intelligent alarming, infusion data transmitting and patient infusion data statistic integrated. The medical care monitoring and managing system device comprises an infusion terminal, a repeater and a monitoring station. By means of the medical care monitoring and managing system device, multipoint concentration and unified management can be carried out on the information of a patient. The medical care monitoring and managing system device is an innovation and revolution on the nursing management and clinical nursing mode.

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.