60 results about "Patient assessment" patented technology

Disclosed are probabilistic approaches to patient evaluation, warning and treatment of a neurological disorder. Disclosed techniques estimate probability distribution functions or cumulative distribution functions, determined by relying on representative historical profiles, comprising information in short and / or long timescales obtained at times that may be intermittent or temporally discontinuous from each other or from other events of interest. The patient may thereby be treated based on the determined probability information.

A patient evaluation method is disclosed in which non-standard input data is corrected in a syntax processing block with reference to a healthcare lexicon and a resulting corrected data file is thereafter used to reference an ontology in an ontology processing block to generate a standardized output.

An independently operable interactive health care monitoring and control system for the patient-responsive treatment and reporting from a home-based patient with respect to a health care provider treatment facility, the system comprising a patient or system activated “body-condition” test unit configured for personal recognition and interactive telecommunication with the health care provider treatment facility; and a patient-personalized, screen displayed, patient-respected computer generated avatar figure, to prompt and guide proper patient evaluation, reporting, behavior, behavior modification and treatment.

The invention is of a stethoscope cleansing unit and of the use of the stethoscope cleansing unit as a novel business method for promoting a marketer's logo and advertisement to medical personnel and patients in the examining room or hospital. The system attaches such advertisements to a useful and conveniently used stethoscope cleansing unit that will be used by medical personnel to sterilize stethoscope diaphragms between patient assessments, thereby preventing the spread of infectious diseases. This apparatus can be utilized in a novel business method as a way for marketers to distinguish their product from the myriad of others by 1) attracting the attention of busy medical personnel during patient examinations, which is the exact time that medical product marketers would benefit most from such attention; and by 2) attracting the attention of the patient through its presence in the examining room at a time when the patient is typically waiting for attention and has time to notice such advertisements.

Systems and methods for automated triage and scheduling in an emergency department are described. An example computer-implemented method of automatically triaging and scheduling patients in an emergency department includes associating a patient with an identification bracelet and processing the patient using a patient evaluation device. The processing includes obtaining patient data with the patient evaluation device and dynamically determining a risk level associated with the patient based on the patient data obtained. The method also includes automatically prioritizing and scheduling the patient with a healthcare practitioner based on the risk level determined.

A clinical data processing system systematically organizes and analyzes clinically significant information of a patient using a result flag indicating a critical or abnormal result to automate display of a view of clinical data in various contexts including diagnosis, insurance, medical complaint assessment and others to improve patient care. A system for use in processing patient clinical data for access by a user includes a repository associating an observation with a clinical significance indicator and with data indicating observations relevant to evaluation of the observation having the associated clinical significance indicator. A clinical data processor uses the repository fork automatically providing data for display in response to receiving data representing an input observation and an associated clinical significance indicator. The data for display supports a user in making a patient assessment and includes the input observation and associated relevant clinical data item,s. A display processor initiates generation of data representing an image including the data for display.

The present invention relates to systems for collecting patient data and for analysing the data for the purpose of managing patient assessment procedures. In particular, the invention relates to a system for using collected patient data for the purpose of prioritising patients for assessment by clinicians. In particular, the invention provides a system for analyzing patient data in an automated system for managing patient assessment. The system includes a database for storing patient assessment data collected from a plurality of patients, a computer processor executing instructions stored in a computer program and a data processing computer program executed by the computer processor. The program comprises instructions for identifying one or more patients who have one or more predetermined care requirements wherein the predetermined care requirement optionally comprises one or more of: further assessment, a predetermined medical or surgical intervention, a funding-related requirement, an incontinence-related requirement, and / or supply of a healthcare product. The present invention also provides a computer program comprising instructions for optionally allocating a value to a patient based on patient assessment data, optionally comparing the allocated patient value with a limit value and identifying one or more patients who are candidates for further assessment optionally according to a proximity of the allocated patient value to a limit of one or more predetermined value ranges containing the patient value.

A medical risk assessment method and computer program product resident on a computer or a hand-held device that allows a physician to determine the best strategy for primary and secondary cardiovascular disease prevention utilizing current guidelines and published medical literature. The computer program product evaluates a number of risk factors to determine specific recommendations for an individual patient, including Framingham risk scoring (FRS), pertinent medical history, individual lipid panel and advanced lipoprotein profiling, patient laboratory test results, and published literature on the effects of anti-lipid medicines on plasma concentration and / or composition of lipoprotein molecules and clinical outcomes. The risk assessment method establishes a cardiovascular treatment therapy strategy for a patient by determining a cardiac risk classification group, determining a cardiovascular treatment therapy based on the patient's lipoprotein profile and the patient's cardiac group risk classification, and presenting the cardiovascular treatment therapy for the patient to a medical practitioner on a patient evaluation display.

A method for managing prescriptions includes receiving a patient assessment from a physician at an application server, receiving a prescription based on the patient assessment, determining drug interactions based on the received prescription, sending the prescription to a pharmacy based on the drug interaction determination and validating the prescription. Validating the prescription comprises a three-way match of prescription information stored on a centralized database with the filled medicine container and the bulk container. Prescriptions can be prescribed and patient records reviewed using remote devices linked to the prescription management application server and centralized database.

A video game-based medical simulation is provided. Disclosed embodiments pertain to mass-casualty simulation for burn disaster training. Game-play exercises direct a player through a mass-casualty event where triage management and patient assessment are tested, and then follow the player to a Burn Center where resuscitation through patient monitoring, reassessment, and managing are tested for the critical hours / days of recovery. Complication loops are included in the game system to provide random application of variation in patient response. The complication loops can insert semi-randomness of critical complication occurrences into the game such that patient simulation may vary each time the game is played.

The invention discloses a diabetic patient assessment and management system. The system comprises a patient information collection module, a regression model establishment module, a data processing module, a regression coefficient calculation module, a risk grade assessment module and a follow-up visit setting module. According to the system, risk factors leading to the complication of a patient are found out through Logistic regression analysis, the risk factors are assigned with corresponding scores according to the risk degrees of the risk factors, the symptom of the patient is objectively scored through accumulation of the risk factors, and the degree of the complication risk is judged according to the score accumulation condition, wherein the score changes dynamically along with the change of the patient's condition. Meanwhile, as all data is stored in an internet server, as long as a computer capable of having access to networks is available, a doctor can complete the function anywhere by accessing a website with accessing software.

A system generates criteria associating subjective narrative text describing a treatment outcome with acquired patient medical data and linking a narrative treatment outcome description to documented data during patient assessment documentation. A patient healthcare monitoring system includes an acquisition processor for automatically acquiring data representing outcomes of multiple corresponding assessments of medical condition of a patient. A data processor automatically evaluates a logical expression comprising a logical combination of the multiple corresponding assessments to provide an overall outcome representative result and compares the overall outcome representative result with a predetermined treatment objective of the patient to provide a result indicative of whether the treatment objective is met. A documentation processor updates a record of the patient to indicate the objective is met.

A medication adherence system for and method of facilitating an automated adherence program is disclosed. The medication adherence system of the present disclosure may be, for example, a web-based and / or telephone-based system by which enrolled participants may access the automated adherence program. The medication adherence system may utilize an adherence application for assessing patients with respect to, for example, certain barriers and / or other adherence issues. Additionally, by use of adherence application, the content of the interactions between patients and the medication adherence system as well as the frequency and timing of the interactions is optimized with respect to the drop-off periods of medications. The adherence application may include, for example, an interactions routine for processing interactions content, a user interface, a feedback component, a drop-off algorithm, a patient assessment component that may further include a revealed barriers algorithm and a derived barriers algorithm. Further, the medication adherence system of the present disclosure provides a reporting mechanism.

A method for managing prescriptions includes receiving a patient assessment from a physician at an application server, receiving a prescription based on the patient assessment, determining drug interactions based on the received prescription, sending the prescription to a pharmacy based on the drug interaction determination and validating the prescription. Validating the prescription comprises a three-way match of prescription information stored on a centralized database with the filled medicine container and the bulk container. Prescriptions can be prescribed and patient records reviewed using remote devices linked to the prescription management application server and centralized database.

A clinical data processing system systematically organizes and analyzes clinically significant information of a patient using a result flag indicating a critical or abnormal result to automate display of a view of clinical data in various contexts including diagnosis, insurance, medical complaint assessment and others to improve patient care. A system for use in processing patient clinical data for access by a user includes a repository associating an observation with a clinical significance indicator and with data indicating observations relevant to evaluation of the observation having the associated clinical significance indicator. A clinical data processor uses the repository for automatically providing data for display in response to receiving data representing an input observation and an associated clinical significance indicator. The data for display supports a user in making a patie nt assessment and includes the input observation and associated relevant clinical data items. A display processor initiates generation of data representing an image including the data for display.

A method and system employed by emergency responders to an emergency incident in the management of individuals injured in emergency incidents. An injured patient is tagged with a triage tag that has a bar code and an RFID inlay that identify the patient. At least one of the bar code and RFID inlay are scanned by a portable optical / electronic unit. As the patient is moved through various zones in which the condition of the patient is evaluated and, if necessary, the condition of the patient is treated, patient evaluation data is recorded in the in the portable optical / electronic unit and a command computer in association with patient identification data.

The invention is of a stethoscope cleansing unit and of the use of the stethoscope cleansing unit as a novel business method for promoting a marketer's logo and advertisement to medical personnel and patients in the examining room or hospital. The system attaches such advertisements to a useful and conveniently used stethoscope cleansing unit that will be used by medical personnel to sterilize stethoscope diaphragms between patient assessments, thereby preventing the spread of infectious diseases. This apparatus can be utilized in a novel business method as a way for marketers to distinguish their product from the myriad of others by 1) attracting the attention of busy medical personnel during patient examinations, which is the exact time that medical product marketers would benefit most from such attention; and by 2) attracting the attention of the patient through its presence in the examining room at a time when the patient is typically waiting for attention and has time to notice such advertisements.

Systems and methods for automated triage and scheduling in an emergency department are described. An example computer-implemented method of automatically triaging and scheduling patients in an emergency department includes associating a patient with an identification bracelet and processing the patient using a patient evaluation device. The processing includes obtaining patient data with the patient evaluation device and dynamically determining a risk level associated with the patient based on the patient data obtained. The method also includes automatically prioritizing and scheduling the patient with a healthcare practitioner based on the risk level determined.

The invention provides a cervical cancer postoperative survival prediction method, system and device and a medium, and belongs to the technical field of medicine. On the basis of traditional patient evaluation, the influence of pathological factors on postoperative survival of patients is emphasized, and on the basis of a machine learning algorithm, a clinical prediction model for predicting postoperative survival of early cervical cancer patients is developed. According to the invention, more personalized clinical guidance opinions can be provided for selection and accurate treatment of earlycervical cancer postoperative adjuvant therapy schemes, so that the method has good practical application value.

The present invention provides an improved package from the administration of active ingredients. The present invention provides a package comprising: a standard portion comprising one or more active ingredients in a plurality of different potencies, and a rescue portion comprising one or more same or different active ingredients. The package may be optionally be used with a patient assessment module. The present invention also provides a kit comprising: a package comprising a standard portion comprising one or more active ingredients in a plurality of different potencies, and a patient assessment module comprising instructions for administration of the standard portion. The package may optionally further comprise a rescue portion.

Methods and systems for disease management care coordination are described. In one embodiment, claim data associated with a prescription drug is integrated with additional health data from a plurality of data feeds received from a client device, a care coordination device, and a health management vendor device. The integrated data is targeted to identify a member. The integrated data associated with the member is transmitted to a patient evaluator device. The integrated data is updated using additional member information received from the patient evaluator device. Other methods and systems are described.

The invention discloses a man-machine cooperation system and method for disease early warning and intervention management. The man-machine cooperation system comprises: a monitoring data collection device, a clinical data gateway, a score calculation server, an observation data recording gateway, an observation data recording terminal, an intervention plan server, an intervention activity record terminal, a score calculation monitoring terminal, and an intervention plan monitoring terminal; the monitoring data collection device is connected to the clinical data gateway; the score calculation server is respectively connected to the clinical data gateway, the observation data record gateway, the intervention plan server and the score calculation monitoring terminal; the observation data recording terminal is connected with the observation data recording gateway; and the intervention activity recording terminal and the intervention plan monitoring terminal are connected to the intervention plan server. The man-machine cooperation system and method for disease early warning and intervention management proposed by the invention can reduce the workload of medical staff on patient assessment, and improve work efficiency and accuracy.

Outcomes from a patient plan of care are provided in conjunction with documentation of patient assessment items to assist clinicians in the healthcare process. A documentation area for documenting assessment items for a patient and having areas for entering patient assessment information is presented. Additionally, an outcome icon is presented in conjunction with at least one assessment item. The outcome icon relates to at least one outcome corresponding with the assessment item and is based on the patient plan of care. In response to receiving a user selection of the outcome icon, information associated with the outcome is presented in context of the documentation area.

A personalised medicine system comprising: a processor; memory; an input module; and an output module, said personalised medicine system being configured: to provide a plurality of predetermined patient assessment routines; to display a plurality of pages associated with respective stages in a workflow for guiding a clinical consultation; in response to an input from a user on a displayed page, to receive data for a selected patient assessment routine; to determine a value for at least one patient characteristic based on the received data; and to display a respective graphical scale for each of a plurality of patient characteristics, wherein an indicator is displayed on each graphical scale at a position corresponding to at least one of the determined characteristic value and a characteristic value directly input by the user. A method and a computer program are also provided.

Outcomes from a patient plan of care are provided in conjunction with documentation of patient assessment items to assist clinicians in the healthcare process. A documentation area for documenting assessment items for a patient and having areas for entering patient assessment information is presented. Additionally, an outcome icon is presented in conjunction with at least one assessment item. The outcome icon relates to at least one outcome corresponding with the assessment item and is based on the patient plan of care. In response to receiving a user selection of the outcome icon, information associated with the outcome is presented in context of the documentation area.

A workflow system includes a workflow unit (8), a location unit (10), and a display device (12). The workflow unit (8) identifies and tracks patient assessment and patient vital signs for a plurality of patients each assigned to at least one caregiver according to a schedule for each patient. The location unit (10) receives a location of each assigned caregiver and a location of each patient. The display device (12) displays grouped,caregiver centric, acuity adapted,clinical data,and crucial timing information for each patient in a consistent format as well as a name and the location of the patient, a caregiver name and the caregiver location for each assigned caregiver.

A medical system includes a plurality of portable vital sign monitors (12), a patient assessment unit (24), a patient watch-dog unit (42), and at least one display device (44). Each monitor continuously monitors vital signs of a subject (12) from a point of initial contact with a healthcare professional and wirelessly transmits the monitored vital signs, and the vital signs include blood pressure (BP), blood oxygen (SpO2), heart rate (HR), and respiratory rate (RR). The patient assessment unit (24) receives the transmitted monitored vital signs of each subject and determines a triage score based on the received vital signs, and subject gender, subject age, and subject symptoms. The patient watch-dog unit (42) constructs a display of a patient trajectory of each subject and the trajectory includes the monitored vital signs, the determined triage score, and the subject gender, the subject age, and the subject symptoms. The at least one display device (44) display the constructed patient trajectory of at least one subject.