189 results about "Patient diagnosis" patented technology

The information management system disclosed enables caregivers to make better decisions, faster, using aggregated genetic and phenotypic data. The system enables the integration, validation and analysis of genetic, phenotypic and clinical data from multiple subjects who may be at distributed facilities. A standardized data model stores a range of patient data in standardized data classes that encompass patient profile information, patient symptomatic information, patient treatment information, and patient diagnostic information including genetic information. Data from other systems is converted into the format of the standardized data classes using a data parser, or cartridge, specifically tailored to the source system. Relationships exist between standardized data classes that are based on expert rules and statistical models. The relationships are used both to validate new data, and to predict phenotypic outcomes based on available data. The prediction may relate to a clinical outcome in response to a proposed intervention by a caregiver. The statistical models may be inhaled into the system from electronic publications that define statistical models and methods for training those models, according to a standardized template. Methods are described for selecting, creating and training the statistical models to operate on genetic, phenotypic and clinical data, in particular for underdetermined data sets that are typical of genetic information. The disclosure also describes how security of the data is maintained by means of a robust security architecture, and robust user authentication such as biometric authentication, combined with application-level and data-level access privileges.

A system for diagnosing and / or treating a patient comprising a patient information database for storing and retrieving patient health data related to the patient. The data includes one or more of real-time patient health information, at least one clinical practice guideline, at least one patient questionnaire and a patient medical history. At least one server is operative to access the patient information database. A computing device remotely located from the server, including a microprocessor, configured to store a computer application and is configured for communication with the server for retrieving of the patient health data. The computer application generates at least one of a patient diagnosis or a patient treatment recommendation using the retrieved patient health data.

A diagnosis, therapy and prognosis system (DTPS) and method thereof to help either the healthcare provider or the patient in diagnosing, treating and interpreting data are disclosed. The apparatus provides data collection based on protocols, and mechanism for testing data integrity and accuracy. The data is then driven through an analysis engine to characterize in a quantitative sense the metabolic state of the patient's body. The characterization is then used in diagnosing the patient, determining therapy, evaluating algorithm strategies and offering prognosis of potential use case scenarios.

A medical diagnostic enhancement method and system for determining diagnostic tasks to fine-tune a patient diagnosis based upon a possible diagnosis and acquired data for the patient. With this method, a presenting problem is received. Responsive to the presenting problem, particular patient data is then collected. Next, based on predetermined criteria, a plurality of possible diagnoses are presented for selection by a user. The user is then provided with a recommended diagnostic task based on the selected possible diagnosis. The system is a repository of the results of the diagnostic task or it can continue to process the patient data for other suspected diagnoses.

Uterine cervical cancer Computer-Aided-Diagnosis (CAD) according to this invention consists of a core processing system that automatically analyses data acquired from the uterine cervix and provides tissue and patient diagnosis, as well as adequacy of the examination. The data can include, but is not limited to, color still images or video, reflectance and fluorescence multi-spectral or hyper-spectral imagery, coherent optical tomography imagery, and impedance measurements, taken with and without the use of contrast agents like 3-5% acetic acid, Lugol's iodine, or 5-aminolevulinic acid. The core processing system is based on an open, modular, and feature-based architecture, designed for multi-data, multi-sensor, and multi-feature fusion. The core processing system can be embedded in different CAD system realizations. For example: A CAD system for cervical cancer screening could in a very simple version consist of a hand-held device that only acquires one digital RGB image of the uterine cervix after application of 3-5% acetic acid and provides automatically a patient diagnosis. A CAD system used as a colposcopy adjunct could provide all functions that are related to colposcopy and that can be provided by a computer, from automation of the clinical workflow to automated patient diagnosis and treatment recommendation.

The invention provides apparatus and methods for home or other remote delivery of health care that gather subjective and objective measures of patient health and treatment, analyzing them (e.g., correlating them with one another and / or with norms) and reporting them to aid in on-going patient diagnosis and treatment (both on acute and chronic bases), as well as to aid physicians, nurses and other caregivers in decision support, monitoring treatment compliance, facilitating regulatory compliance, billing, and so forth. Thus, for example, in some aspects a health care delivery device comprising a medical treatment apparatus, such as a home hemodialysis or home peritoneal dialysis unit, that is coupled to a processor. The processor generates patient queries in connection with treatments rendered by the dialysis equipment (or other treatment apparatus). The queries are directed, at least in part, to subjective topics, such as the state of the patient's mental health and well being, quality of life, degrees of pain, views on success of therapy, and so forth. They are presented on an LCD screen or other output device coupled to the processor to elicit responses on a keyboard or other input device, also coupled to the processor.

A small integrated diagnostic and identification system is disclosed that solves several problems associated with current sensory systems. The diagnostic and identification system comprises a bracelet with an identification mechanism that is difficult to remove and has a lock. Further, the diagnostic and identification bracelet comprises a microprocessor which communicates with various physiologic sensors wherein said physiological sensors are substantially within said bracelet. Alternatively some of the sensors may be mounted outside the bracelet and means are provided for communicating data from the outside mounted sensors to the bracelet. The physiologic sensors either routinely, automatically monitor an individual's physiology or monitor the physiology based on a user request. The resulting physiology data from each sensor is combined via a single output and displayed on a display device. The present invention may be integrated with a record management system to share and store an individual's records.

A computer-implemented method of tracking patient data in a clinical trial is provided. The clinical trial has one or more investigative sites which perform patient screening and enrollment for the clinical trial, one or more diagnostic sites which perform analysis on one or more patient diagnostic tests ordered by an investigative site and generate analysis results, and a centralized data center in electronic communication with the one or more investigative sites and the one or more diagnostic sites. Each investigative site is provided with a user interface display screen for allowing a user at the investigative site to enter data regarding patients who have been screened for the clinical trial and patients who have been enrolled in the clinical trial. The data from each of the investigative sites is electronically communicated to the centralized data center. Also, the analysis results from each of the diagnostic sites are electronically communicated to the centralized data center. The centralized data center consolidates the data and analysis results from each of the sites and provides one or more status reports regarding the patients for whom data and analysis results were received from the one or more investigative sites and the one or more diagnostic sites.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for determining a patient's condition. A system for determining a patient's condition, in one embodiment, comprises a computer processor device, an interface between the computer processor and one or more patient monitoring devices, and a software program configured to interpret patient input data, diagnose the patient's condition, and recommend treatment options. A method for determining a patient's condition may comprise receiving patient data from one or more patient monitoring devices, consulting a treatment database, determining a diagnosis, and converting a diagnosis into a treatment.

The invention provides apparatus and methods for home or other remote delivery of health care that gather subjective and objective measures of patient health and treatment, analyzing them (e.g., correlating them with one another and / or with norms) and reporting them to aid in on-going patient diagnosis and treatment (both on acute and chronic bases), as well as to aid physicians, nurses and other caregivers in decision support, monitoring treatment compliance, facilitating regulatory compliance, billing, and so forth. Thus, for example, in some aspects a health care delivery device comprising a medical treatment apparatus, such as a home hemodialysis or home peritoneal dialysis unit, that is coupled to a processor. The processor generates patient queries in connection with treatments rendered by the dialysis equipment (or other treatment apparatus). The queries are directed, at least in part, to subjective topics, such as the state of the patient's mental health and well being, quality of life, degrees of pain, views on success of therapy, and so forth. They are presented on an LCD screen or other output device coupled to the processor to elicit responses on a keyboard or other input device, also coupled to the processor.

A system dynamically refreshes stale patient clinical data during a clinical workflow sequence of tasks concerning treatment ordering, patient diagnosis, or patient condition assessment and warns a clinician if patient clinical data has changed since starting a work session. A system for managing patient clinical data includes at least one repository associating sources of clinical data with data representing a form. The form incorporates clinical data derived from the sources. An interface processor automatically interrogates particular sources of clinical data associated with a particular form to identify updated clinical information of a particular patient in response to a user command to process the particular form. An update processor initiates generation of an indication to a user identifying updated clinical information of a particular patient is available prior to processing of the particular form.

A system for diagnosing and / or treating a patient comprising a patient information database for storing and retrieving patient health data related to the patient. The data includes one or more of real-time patient health information, at least one clinical practice guideline, at least one patient questionnaire and a patient medical history. At least one server is operative to access the patient information database. A computing device remotely located from the server, including a microprocessor, configured to store a computer application and is configured for communication with the server for retrieving of the patient health data. The computer application generates at least one of a patient diagnosis or a patient treatment recommendation using the retrieved patient health data.

A diagnosis, therapy and prognosis system (DTPS) and method thereof to help either the healthcare provider or the patient in diagnosing, treating and interpreting data are disclosed. The apparatus provides data collection based on protocols, and mechanism for testing data integrity and accuracy. The data is then driven through an analysis engine to characterize in a quantitative sense the metabolic state of the patient's body. The characterization is then used in diagnosing the patient, determining therapy, evaluating algorithm strategies and offering prognosis of potential use case scenarios.

Uterine cervical cancer Computer-Aided-Diagnosis (CAD) according to this invention consists of a core processing system that automatically analyses data acquired from the uterine cervix and provides tissue and patient diagnosis, as well as adequacy of the examination. The data can include, but is not limited to, color still images or video, reflectance and fluorescence multi-spectral or hyper-spectral imagery, coherent optical tomography imagery, and impedance measurements, taken with and without the use of contrast agents like 3-5% acetic acid, Lugol's iodine, or 5-aminolevulinic acid. The core processing system is based on an open, modular, and feature-based architecture, designed for multi-data, multi-sensor, and multi-feature fusion. The core processing system can be embedded in different CAD system realizations. For example: A CAD system for cervical cancer screening could in a very simple version consist of a hand-held device that only acquires one digital RGB image of the uterine cervix after application of 3-5% acetic acid and provides automatically a patient diagnosis. A CAD system used as a colposcopy adjunct could provide all functions that are related to colposcopy and that can be provided by a computer, from automation of the clinical workflow to automated patient diagnosis and treatment recommendation.

The invention discloses a method and a system for performing intervention according to information of chronic disease patients. The method comprises the steps that out-hospital health reminding schemes of the patients are generated according to hospital leaving advices given by a doctor; in-hospital diagnosis and treatment information, out-hospital medication information, vital sign information and healthy living mode information of the patients are collected, the collected information is processed, and labels are set; the patients are dynamically grouped according to the labels; and the doctor sends intervention information to the patients in a whole group and pushes the intervention information to each patient in the group. According to the embodiment, the collected patient information is more comprehensive in terms of dimension, contains patient diagnosis and treatment information, advice scheme information and self-examination information and also comprises patient daily behavior evaluation information, a data basis is provided for precise intervention by the doctor, precise dynamic label identification of the patients and intelligent grouping depending on the labels are realized, the doctor can quickly know the current health states of the patients by spending little time, and increase of the intervention workload of the doctor due to increase of the number of the patients managed by the doctor is avoided.

Systems and methods are described for allowing a pharmacist to practice pharmaceutical care in an accurate and efficient manner. The present invention provides the systems for gathering, organizing, and maintaining the necessary clinical and patient data, and providing pharmacists access thereto, through integrated computer software. The clinical data classifies drugs into therapeutic classes, and for each class there is associated therewith known indications, contra-indications, recommended dosages, known adverse reactions, and drug interactions. A clinical database and a patient database are used. In the clinical database, each drug is assigned a unique identification code including a therapeutic cross reference (TXR). The TXR allows access to information associated with the drug's adverse reactions, and dosage recommendations, and also to disease indications and contra-indications via a link to the ICD-9s (International Classification of Diseases) associated with the diseases. The patient data includes patient diagnosis profiles and allergy profiles.

The invention provides an outside-hospital continued-nursing method, device and system. The outside-hospital continued-nursing method comprises the steps that patient diagnosis information and doctor's advice information sent by a medical terminal are received, a home nursing plan is generated according to the patient diagnosis information and the doctor's advice information and is sent to a patient terminal; nursing confirmation information and working and resting time returned by the patient terminal according to the home nursing plan are received, and a nursing reminding task is generated according to the nursing confirmation information and the working and resting time; the nursing reminding task is sent to the patient terminal so as to make patient terminal execute the nursing reminding task. By the adoption of the outside-hospital continued-nursing method, device and system, the outside-hospital rehabilitation process of a patient is managed when the patient leaves a hospital for outside-hospital rehabilitation, and the purpose of making medical services continue till the patient is really rehabilitated is achieved.

A method for providing medical diagnostic equipment in a patient's home to permit remote assessment by a medical practitioner is described. A need for a particular diagnostic equipment to be set up in the patient's home is identified. a request is placed for diagnostic equipment to be allocated to the patient. The diagnostic equipment is dispensed to the patient together with instructions as to how to set up the equipment. The diagnostic equipment is set up in the patient's home according to the instruction and is used for recording physiological data allowing a remote assessment of the patient. The diagnostic equipment is returned after use and the physiological data is validated by a technician. The physiological data is then analyzed and an assessment of the patient is provided.

The invention provides an outpatient service information management system. The outpatient service information management system comprises an outpatient service clinical information database for storing the personal health information of a patient, a pre-hospitalization health information questionnaire analysis module for providing a pre-treatment health information questionnaire for the patient, an in-hospital diagnosis and treatment management module for managing pre-treatment suggestions generated according to the pre-hospitalization health information questionnaire analysis module by the patient, all diagnosis and treatment information generated in a hospital treatment process, and a treatment scheme, a post-hospitalization health management module for providing subsequent health management suggestions for the patient according to patient diagnosis and treatment information managed in the in-hospital diagnosis and treatment management module and the treatment scheme, and performing monitoring, and a system external interface integrating module for realizing data interaction between an outpatient service management system and other external systems. Through adoption of the outpatient service information management system, the outpatient service queuing time of the patient in a hospital can be effectively shortened, the outpatient service working efficiency is increased, communication channels and communication time between the patient and a doctor are increased and prolonged, and the doctor-patient relationship is improved.

The invention relates to a circulating tumor cell separation micro-fluidic chip device and an application method thereof. The device comprises a micro-fluidic chip (1) and a chip fixture (2). The micro-fluidic chip (1) comprises a chip inlet (11), a single-screw chip (12), rare cell collection tubes (13, 14) and a leucocyte outlet (15). A single-screw channel starts from the chip inlet (11) at the center of a circular spiral channel, passes through a semicircular starting channel and enters a spiral micro-fluidic channel. The tail end contains three outlets: rare cells with different particle sizes are respectively collected; and the chip fixture (2) is automatically in butt joint with inlet and outlet of the micro-fluidic chip (1). In comparison with the prior art, the micro-fluidic chip device of the invention has the following beneficial effects: a treated sample can be automatically subjected to automated high-throughput tumor cell separation and tumor cells in a liquid sample such as peripheral blood / pleural effusion / cerebrospinal fluid, etc. of a cancer patient can be enriched; and cancer patient diagnosis and customized treatment specificity and accuracy are remarkably enhanced.

Method, system, and computer program product are provided for predicting diagnosis of a patient performed by a computerized device. The method may include: modeling data from a group of successfully diagnosed patients, wherein the data is modeled as treatment paths of patients including referrals to medical practitioners; and predicting diagnosis for a current patient by comparing a treatment path of the current patient with the modeled treatment paths of successfully diagnosed patients, including calculating a probability of a given diagnosis from the modeled treatment paths. The method may include: defining a set of medical entities including medical practitioners to which a patient has been referred; and gathering treatment paths of successfully diagnosed patients, wherein the treatment path links medical entities in a directional route. Predicting diagnosis for a current patient may use the modeled data to calculate the probability of each model instance for each diagnosis and choosing the model instance of the diagnosis that maximizes the treatment path probability.

Device and method for improved diagnostic and treatment of patients. Clinician's notes of diagnosis, treatment or testing are electronically recorded thereby becoming an entry in a patient specific EHR. Coding appropriate to diagnosis etc., may be adapted by the clinician and the coding integrated into the EHR entry. The EHR may be searched using adapted codes as an index of diagnosis, treatment and testing. The tool and method includes program for facilitating entry of clinician notes (auto complete and autocorrection) and suggestion of appropriate code entries correlated to the content of the clinician notes. The program may include authentication protocols for protecting privacy and accesses to patient EHR. Code and code descriptors may be the product of established protocols such as CBD-10 or CPT. The tool and method may allow immediate search of patient's EHR for prior relevant conditions or treatment thereby facilitating prompt treatment of underlying cause of malady.

The invention belongs to the field of intelligent rehabilitation treatment technology, and particularly relates to a rehabilitation equipment management system based on rehabilitation treatment. The system comprises a patient diagnosis procedure applied to a patient terminal, a patient treatment procedure applied to the patient terminal, a patient diagnosis procedure of a rehabilitation information management module, a patient treatment procedure of the rehabilitation information management module, a patient diagnosis procedure applied to a doctor terminal, and a patient treatment procedure applied to the doctor terminal. The system settles a problem of no system or method for realizing interconnection and intercommunication among a doctor, a patient and rehabilitation equipment by means of Internet and Internet-of-things technology. The system has beneficial technical effects of realizing interconnection and intercommunication among the doctor, the patient and the rehabilitation equipment by means of Internet and Internet-of-things technology, connecting through equipment and APP, acquiring rehabilitation data in real time, conveniently and quickly generating a treatment plan. Furthermore the system has advantages of high intelligence, high accuracy, high convenience, high speed, low cost, high efficiency, etc.

Method, system, and computer program product are provided for predicting diagnosis of a patient performed by a computerized device. The method may include: modeling data from a group of successfully diagnosed patients, wherein the data is modeled as treatment paths of patients including referrals to medical practitioners; and predicting diagnosis for a current patient by comparing a treatment path of the current patient with the modeled treatment paths of successfully diagnosed patients, including calculating a probability of a given diagnosis from the modeled treatment paths. The method may include: defining a set of medical entities including medical practitioners to which a patient has been referred; and gathering treatment paths of successfully diagnosed patients, wherein the treatment path links medical entities in a directional route. Predicting diagnosis for a current patient may use the modeled data to calculate the probability of each model instance for each diagnosis and choosing the model instance of the diagnosis that maximizes the treatment path probability.

A small integrated diagnostic and identification system is disclosed that solves several problems associated with current sensory systems. The diagnostic and identification system comprises a bracelet with an identification mechanism that is difficult to remove and has a lock. Further, the diagnostic and identification bracelet comprises a microprocessor which communicates with various physiologic sensors wherein said physiological sensors are substantially within said bracelet. Alternatively some of the sensors may be mounted outside the bracelet and means are provided for communicating data from the outside mounted sensors to the bracelet. The physiologic sensors either routinely, automatically monitor an individual's physiology or monitor the physiology based on a user request. The resulting physiology data from each sensor is combined via a single output and displayed on a display device. The present invention may be integrated with a record management system to share and store an individual's records.

A system and method configured for coordinating healthcare services is disclosed. The method can comprise selecting a patient for care coordination based in part on a patient diagnosis and data analytics, assigning a predetermined patient care flow plan to a patient based in part on the patient diagnosis, modifying the predetermined patient care flow plan in response to input from at least one of a healthcare provider and the patient, and generating a customized patient care flow plan for the patient, executing the customized care flow, and engaging the patient by providing to the patient at least one of patient scheduling, notifications, a personal health record, patient home monitoring, and patient education and medication information materials. The present disclosure further includes computer program product of a computer-readable medium usable with a programmable computer and having computer-readable code embodied therein for coordinating healthcare services.

Device and method for improved diagnosis and treatment of patients. Detailed coding protocols are instantly assigned to diagnoses and treatment plans created by clinicians based upon initial patient encounter. Past patient records (EHR) can be instantly searched using the assigned codes during the patient encounter, thereby allowing the clinician to make a more complete diagnosis and plan of treatment. The search of past patient records utilizes the assigned codes as a search index thereby filtering out unrelated-non relevant patient medical history. Clinician notations of symptoms and possible diagnosis can be utilized for an expanded correlation to codes of medical code protocols relevant to treatment or tests. This expanded listing of codes can be displayed to the clinician during the patient encounter for evaluation in determining a diagnosis. Correlated medical codes can be disclosed with calculated or past recorded reimbursement information.

The disclosure relates to a medicine-taking aiding decision-making method and device and belongs to the technical field of data processing. The method includes: clustering medical data according to patient basic information in medical data, determining the main diagnosis of the patient in each period according to discharge diagnosis in the medical data; determining effective medicine-taking data corresponding to the main diagnosis in each period according to medicine-taking data in the medical data, and clustering the multiple pieces of effective medicine-taking data to generate effective medicine-taking data clusters based on the main diagnosis; cleaning the effective medicine-taking data of the effective medicine-taking data clusters to determine a recommended medicine; acquiring the current main patient diagnosis, and determining and feeding back, in recommended medicine, medicine-taking data matching the current patient's main diagnosis. On the one hand, the method and device can accurately lock the main diagnosis, determine a corresponding relation between the diagnosed disease and the medicine-taking data, and on the other hand, can improve the accuracy of the effective medicine-taking data, thereby improving the accuracy of the evaluation of the medicine-taking effect, and can help the doctor expand the medicine-taking scope.