128 results about "One Health" patented technology

The invention discloses a system and method for health management based on the internet of things and cloud computing. The system comprises at least one health detection device, an intelligent mobile platform, a cloud center server, at least one doctor working platform, at least one relation query platform and at least one client side. The client sides comprise the emergency center client side and the insurance client side. The health detection device is connected with the intelligent mobile platform through a communication protocol. The intelligent mobile platform is connected with the cloud center server through a communication network. The relation query platform, the doctor working platform, the emergency center client side and the insurance client side are respectively connected with the cloud center server. According to the system and method for health management based on the internet of things and cloud computing, a user, a relation and a doctor are main participants, services such as health data checking, recording, visual displaying, data analyzing and mining, doctor guiding, customization message pushing, positioning and tumbling detection pre-warning are provided for the user, meanwhile, a health service is provided for infants, and a monitoring service is provided for the endowment insurance and the medical insurance.

Disclosed is a system and method for managing and tracking the location of patients and health care facility resources, including but not limited to health care practitioners, health care equipment, patient charts and other items in a health care facility. The system comprises a health care information system having at least one data repository for storing health care facility data, patient data and health care facility resource data and at least one graphical user interface in communication with the at least one data repository, and a graphical representation of at least one health care facility stored in the health care information system and displayable by the graphical user interface for managing patient care and health care facility resources. The graphical representation preferably provides an interactive map of the at least one health care facility for tracking the location of patients and health care facility resources.

The present invention is directed to the administration of aerosolized particles to specific area of the lungs, and in particular to the targeted delivery of aerosolized pharmaceutical formulations to a specific area of the lungs. More specifically, the present invention relates to devices and methods for depositing aerosolized particles to a specific area of the lungs by regulating aerosolizing parameters of the device. The present invention also relates to devices, systems and methods for disease management, where the aerosolizing parameters are adjusted based on monitoring at least one health parameter.

A system and method for a comprehensive interactive graphical representation of a health care facility for managing patient care and health care facility resources. The system comprises an integrated enterprise health care information system including at least one data repository for storing data and at least one graphical user interface for accessing data. The graphical user interface comprises a display area for displaying a graphical representation of all areas of the at least one health care facility. The graphical representation is preferably an interactive map of the at least one health care facility stored in the data repository. Because the graphical representation of the at least one health care facility is integrated within the enterprise health care information system, it allows a user access patient data and health care facility resource data, perform actions on the displayed patients and health care facility resources, and manage patient care and health care facility resources.

A system, method and computer program product for improving the delivery of healthcare services may include, e.g., but not limited to, in an exemplary embodiment, a) capturing data associated with at least one health care services event, wherein said data comprises at least one aspect of said at least one health care services event; b) categorizing, into at least one category, said at least one aspect of said at least one health care services event; c) analyzing said data associated with said categorized health care services event comprising: i) determining a correlation between said at least one aspect of said data to said at least one category, and ii) determining any cause and effect relationship between said at least one aspect and said at least one category; and d) recommending at least one course of action based on said at least one aspect having said correlation and said cause and effect relationship to said at least one category, is disclosed.

An apparatus (10) helps protect an occupant (1) of a vehicle (100). The apparatus (10) includes first means (11) for non-intrusively sensing at least one health condition of the vehicle occupant (1) and for producing a first output signal (110) indicative of the health condition of the vehicle occupant (1). The apparatus (10) further includes first means (21) for transmitting a health condition signal derived from the first output signal (110) to a person at a location remote from the vehicle (100) to convey health condition information to the person and to enable the person to determine a suitable type of response.

In a system and method for estimating medical costs under at least one health plan, one or more user devices provide user health data entered by one or more users to a processor, and the processor provides estimated health plan cost data to the user device(s) to enable the user(s) to compare the costs and benefits of various health plan options available to the user(s). The processor includes an administrative module for receiving user account data and health plan data entered by an administrator; a calculation module for providing estimated cost data based upon the user health data; a user module for generating the estimated health plan cost data based upon the user health data, user account data, health plan data and estimated cost data and providing the estimated health plan cost data to the user device; and a database for storing the estimated health plan cost data, user health data, user account data, health plan data and estimated cost data. The user health data may include medical condition data, prescription data, prescription cost saving option data, healthcare provider selection data, historical user data, expected medical procedure data and / or expected durable medical equipment data. The user module calculates the estimated health plan cost data by adding all estimated cost data corresponding to the user health data and applying the health plan data and user account data to determine expected costs to the user under each health plan option available to the user. The user module may further calculate a recommended contribution to a flexible spending account or health savings account based upon the estimated health plan cost data and a tax savings amount associated with the recommended contribution to the flexible spending account or health savings account using income and tax status data provided by the user.

Systems and methods for providing travel health management include determining that a user will be traveling to a new location that is different from a home location that is associated with the user in a database. Health situation information that is associated with at least one health situation at the new location is then retrieved. The health situation information is compared to a medical profile for the user that is stored in the database to determine a travel health recommendation that includes a health action that will prepare the user for the at least one health situation at the new location. The travel health recommendation is then provided for display to the user. A status of the performance of the heath action by the user may then be tracked, and updates displayed to the user to provide for the management of the travel health of the user.

A health monitoring system includes a plurality of remote user sites, each remote user site comprising at least one health monitoring device for collection of user health monitoring data, an interactive video device, and a user interface apparatus; at least one remote computing facility configured for signal communication with, and to receive health monitoring data-related signals from, the plurality of remote user sites; and at least one computer, configured for signal communication with the remote computing facility, wherein the interactive video device is interactively coupled with the remote computing facility. Associated methods are also described.

A system, method and computer program product for maintaining an infrastructure of components. The system receives structured data, unstructured data, and infrastructure data from a database. The system runs at least one statistical and optimization modeler with one or more of: the received structured data, the received unstructured data and the received infrastructure data, in order to calculate a health index of at least one component of the infrastructure. The health index represents a health attribute of the at least one component. The system establishes at least one maintenance plan of the infrastructure, based on the calculated health index. Each established maintenance plan is associated with at least one health index. The system compares health indices of the at least one established maintenance plan. The system selects a plan, among the at least one established maintenance plan, whose health index is a maximum among the compared health indices.

Disclosed is a system and method to maintain the health of a control system. A recording of running status of process control system software is performed. Then a health assessment of a process control system is carried out using the recorded running status. Using this information, at least one health maintenance recommendation is generated. The recommendations are then implemented to maintain the health of a process control system.

A method for dynamic control of medications provided to a patient at a remote location is disclosed. The method can include steps of selecting a customized set of medications for a patient, where the customized set of medications at least partially reflect a medical diagnosis of the patient, and providing the customized set of medications to the patient, where the customized set of medications are inaccessible to the patient without authorization from a medical care provider. Further steps of the method can include authorizing the patient to receive a first medication regimen from the customized set of medications, monitoring remotely at least one health parameter of the patient, and authorizing the first medication regimen to be modified to a second medication regimen based at least partially on the at least one health parameter.

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A health monitoring system includes a plurality of remote user sites, each remote user site comprising at least one health monitoring device for collection of user health monitoring data, an interactive video device, and a user interface apparatus; at least one remote computing facility configured for signal communication with, and to receive health monitoring data-related signals from, the plurality of remote user sites; and at least one computer, configured for signal communication with the remote computing facility, wherein the interactive video device is interactively coupled with the remote computing facility. Associated methods are also described.

A system and method for creating a unique alias associated with an individual identified in a health care database such that health care data, and particularly pharmaceutical-related data, can be efficiently gathered and analyzed. The system has a first data store for storing at least one record where each record includes a plurality of identification fields which when concatenated uniquely identify an individual, and at least one health care field corresponding to health care data associated with the individual. The system also has a second data store, and a processor. The processor selects a record of the first data store, then selects a subset of the plurality of identification fields within the selected record, and concatenates the selected subset of identification fields. Then the processor stores the concatenated identification fields in a record in the second data store with the at least one health care field from the selected record of the first data store.

A method and a system for teaching and guiding an individual and changing the lifestyle and in building up a health or healthier behaviour includes the step of making a basic assessment of the individual and of defining at least one program to which the individual should attend on the basis of this assessment. The program includes at least teaching, guiding and actively involving the individual and individually gathering personal objective information represented by at least one health indicator. The individual is taught in accordance with a specific learning program in view of understanding a relationship between the objective information and a phenomenon or symptom caused by pathology or functional deficiency. The individual is further taught and guided to understand the effect of specific behaviour and lifestyle on the pathology or functional deficiency. Finally, actions are identified to be taken for changing the lifestyle and for building up a healthier behaviour in view of reducing health problems or health risks.

The invention provides a health data gathering system, a health base station and a health data access server and belongs to the field of network communications. The health data gathering system comprises: at least one health data acquisition device for acquiring the health data of a user and sending the acquired health data in a first format to the health base station; the health data base station for receiving the health data in the first format and sending the health data in the first format to the health data access server through Internet; and the health data access server for receiving and caching the health data in the first format, converting the health data in the first format to health data in a second format and then storing the health data in the second format in a user database. According to the invention, the health base station is used for accessing the health data acquisition device so that the health data in the health data acquisition device can be acquired and synchronized to the health data access server in a network without manual invention and operation.

A system and method for creating a unique alias associated with an individual identified in a health care database such that health care data, and particularly pharmaceutical-related data, can be efficiently gathered and analyzed. The system has a first data store for storing at least one record where each record includes a plurality of identification fields which when concatenated uniquely identify an individual, and at least one health care field corresponding to health care data associated with the individual. The system also has a second data store, and a processor. The processor selects a record of the first data store, then selects a subset of the plurality of identification fields within the selected record, and concatenates the selected subset of identification fields. Then the processor stores the concatenated identification fields in a record in the second data store with the at least one health care field from the selected record of the first data store.

A system and method for providing healthcare services in a ubiquitous environment are disclosed. In order to synthetically manage healthcare related information as well as provide desired healthcare services using an IPTV, an IPTV data center and an IPTV communication network, the system includes at least one health device, a healthcare set-top mounted on the IPTV, and a healthcare server installed at an IPTV data center. The health device collects personal health data, and transfers the collected data based on a Personal Health Device (PHD) standard. The healthcare set-top analyzes the PHD standard personal health data transferred from the at least one health device, converts the analyzed data into Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) standard data, and transfers the converted CDA standard data through an IPTV communication network. The healthcare server synthetically manages the CDA standard data transferred from the healthcare set-top through the IPTV communication network.

An arrangement for arranging an information service is configured to manage at least one probability weighting coefficient of an influence of at least one gene being in a functional state to at least one health property with a certain probability, and at least one probability weighting coefficient to at least one nutrient and / or medical substance influencing at least one health property in a healing or harmful manner with a certain probability. In addition, the arrangement is configured to form information describing the suitability of the nutrient and / or medical substance for the user with the help of the probability weighting coefficients.

A health management device is disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. The health management device comprises at least one sensor, a microprocessor and a memory unit. The sensor measures the status of a target and generates a sensing signal. The microprocessor, coupling to the sensor, processes the sensing signal and generates a data signal. The memory unit, coupling to the microprocessor, generates a measurement data according to the data signal and stores the measurement data. Wherein, at least one health management software is embedded in the memory unit and computes the data signal to obtain the measurement data.

A wearable device is disclosed. From one or more sensors sensing health information of a user, a wearable device automatically obtains at least one health related measurement. The wearable device computes at least one of a vitality index and a health index based on at least one health related measurement and classifies, based on the vitality and health indices, the health of the user into some predetermined health condition classes. The wearable device then transmits the classified health condition class(es), via network connection, to a health service engine and receives health assistance information that is adaptively determined in accordance with the health condition class(es).

A real time health monitor deployed on a mobile device is disclosed. From one or more sensors sensing health information of a user, the real time health monitor automatically obtains at least one health related measurement. The real time health monitor computes at least one of a vitality index and a health index based on at least one health related measurement and classifies, based on the vitality and health indices, the health of the user into some predetermined health condition classes. The real time health monitor then transmits the classified health condition class(es), via network connection, to a health service engine and receives health assistance information that is adaptively determined in accordance with the health condition class(es).

Techniques and apparatus for managing contributions to an accruable health spending account in an employer-sponsored plan offering a member an employer-funded defined contribution, at least one insurance premium option and the ability to specify an allocation of the defined contribution for payment of option premiums and, in turn, a directed contribution amount designated to such accruable account are disclosed. The accruable account may be used to reimburse the member for qualified medical expenses, and the member may pay any premium shortfall using a tax-advantaged process such as a premium only payment plan. Also disclosed are techniques and apparatus directed to presenting member-specific out-of-pocket expenses for a selected procedure offered by at least one health-care provider.