357 results about "Patient stay" patented technology

The present invention is a novel method of generating and representing the status of various physiological parameters that are monitored for patients during hospitalization. The system of present invention allows healthcare providers to easily view, at a glance, the status or trend of a patient or a plurality of patients as well as any changes in the parameter values.

The invention relates to a method and system of physician economic performance evaluation in which the relative medical difficulty associated with patients admitted by a particular physician is determined and, given that measurement, judgments made concerning the relative amount of inpatient resources that the physician required. Also, one application of the present invention relates to a method for gainsharing of physician services using a surplus allocation methodology for rewarding physicians in relation to their performance. An incentive pool is determined from previous patient claims and payments made to physicians in advance, such as in a base year. Best practice norms are established for a plurality of classified diagnosis groups. In one embodiment of the present invention, the classified diagnosis related groups are adjusted for severity of illness to compensate for actual clinical challenges faced by individual physicians. The best practice norms can be used in the surplus allocation method for determining physician performance. The incentive is established proportional to the relationship between a physician's individual performance and the best practice norm.

To achieve “ecological” robotic rehabilitation therapy, the present invention provides the system capacity of training of patients in different ambulatory tasks utilizing motorized footplates that guide the lower limbs according to human gait trajectories generated for different ambulatory tasks of interest. A lower extremity robotic rehabilitation system comprises an active pelvic / hip device which applies series elastic actuation to achieve an intrinsically safe and desirable impedance control. A robotic unit features the telepresence operation control that allows a patient stay at home or nursing home to continue his or her rehabilitation training under a physician's remote supervision and monitoring. The robot unit utilizes an affective patient-robot interface to capture emotional information of the patient, to allow for real-time adaptation of the robotic system and adjustments of treatment protocol, and to enhance the quality and effectiveness of rehabilitation

The invention discloses a digitalized information management system and a method for realizing the same for nursing stations in hospitals. The digitalized information management system comprises nursing station monitoring management equipment, multiple ward field apparatuses and a communication network, and the communication network is used for connecting the ward field apparatuses with the nursing station monitoring management equipment. The digitalized information management system for nursing stations in hospitals integrates functions of general information processing, intelligent patient and bed combination, intelligent video tracking, calling information linkage and remote transfusion monitoring and alarming by the aid of the network communication, intelligent control and data processing and the like and realizes digitalization of general operation and informatization of ward management, and further, medical treatment technical level, medical treatment efficiency and safety in hospital of patients can be improved, meanwhile, resources are reasonably optimized and configured and resource waste is reduced.

The invention provides a tray organizer apparatus for safely organizing routine expendable medical supplies for in hospital patients disclosing a plurality of variants in the form of a non power embodiment of a surface tray with shaped recesses for retaining medical supplies and power embodiments with 110 ac volt supply with a multiplicity of 110 volt outlet and a plurality of USB ports, Firewire port, and other devices such tiltable LED illuminated mirrors.The tray organizer is formed of injection molded plastic, folded sheet metal or other equal structures and incorporates a peripheral upstanding rim connected to a lower planar surface from which a number of recessed openings are formed with enclosed bottom surfaces to retain expendable supplies in a variety of shapes.All of the organizer tray embodiments can be attached to a portable COTS type intravenous (IV) pole assembly, attached to bed heads or foot boards, hospital bed side rails, and as free-standing non supported trays.

The present invention is a novel method of generating and representing the status of various physiological parameters that are monitored for patients during hospitalization. The system of present invention allows healthcare providers to easily view, at a glance, the status of a plurality of patients as well as any changes in the parameter values.

A system is provided that integrates of records of clinical laboratory services into the assessment and optimization of patient health care and, in particular, regulation of the use of pharmaceuticals. Laboratory test result records are used in conjunction with other health care benefits records to monitor regulation of use of pharmaceuticals by patients. The incorporation of laboratory tests and results into such a utilization system allows improvement in the management of a patient's therapy based on a more precise picture of the patient's level of illness as revealed by the laboratory test results. The system of the present invention also allows optimization of the selection of laboratory tests to be performed, and also provides an outcome assessment of the risk of hospitalization due to pharmaceutical treatments resulting in physician intervention, leading to a change in physician prescribing behavior and, accordingly, a decrease in drug induced hospitalizations and improved quality of patient care and savings of health care costs.

A medical information management system is disclosed comprising at least one patient record repository that includes information identifying treatments and corresponding outcomes for a plurality of different patients. The system further comprises a query generator for generating a message to acquire information concerning a medical condition of a particular patient from the record repository. The query message initiates the acquisition of information from the record repository including data identifying, (i) a group of patients and a number of patients in a group, (ii) those attributes of the patients in the group which are similar to attributes of the particular patient and, (iii) different treatments associated with a medical condition employed by the patients in the group. The system further includes a data analyzer for analyzing the information acquired by the query generator to provide analysis results including (1) mortality of the patients of the group, (2) the length of patient stay in a healthcare facility of the patients of the group and (3) the cost of treatment incurred by the patients of the group.

The present disclosure pertains to a system and method for monitoring usage of a respiratory medicament delivery device. Regular use of a respiratory medicament delivery device at intervals prescribed by a doctor may be critical to a subject's health. The system described herein is configured to monitor usage of a respiratory medicament delivery device such that manual tracking of a patient's adherence to a dosage plan by a doctor, for example, is not required. Monitoring usage of the medicament device delivery device may allow the doctor to judge the adherence of the subject to the dosage plan and encourage increased adherence. Improved adherence by the subject may result in improvement in the condition of the subject and economic benefits including reducing costs associated with re-hospitalization after discharge. In some embodiments, the system comprises a medicament delivery device and a usage event monitoring device.

Disclosed embodiments include a telemedicine communication system designed to make possible “virtual” patient visits by approved visitors such as the spouse, family, and friends of the hospitalized patient having the appropriate digital certificate and visitation / communication permissions. According to one embodiment, the system enables relatives to visit hospitalized patients using audiovisual communication modalities selected according to the severity and health status of the patient. Additionally, the system provides functionality to enable approved relatives to follow the health status of the patient according to their permissions.

The invention opens a index model of medical event, to the incident as the core, in accordance with the relationship between the incidents to express the whole medical process; The invention also opens a integrated view system of electronic medical records based on the above medical events index model, mainly according to organization of data of medical events index model, establish a comprehensive medical data center with standard and structure covering the entire medical field, of the patients with, to realize indexing on the various types of medical information of the patients, for all types of clinical applications provide a convenient, speedy service, at the same time integrated view of electronic medical records software, patients with outpatient, medical detailed view software of inpatient medical records information integrated integrated with data center integration of medical data collation, analysis, from different perspectives, different levels formating intuitive, and visual expression of information.

The invention provides an early death risk assessment model establishing method and device based on ensemble learning. The method and device are used for assessing the death risk of an old multi-organfailure patient during hospitalization based on diagnosis and treatment data of the first day when the old multi-organ failure patient enters an intensive care unit. The method comprises the steps ofdata set construction, data processing and model construction and evaluation. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring three pieces of demographic information, five pieces of vital sign information, five laboratory examination indexes and two clinical indexes of a patient on the first day during living in an intensive care unit; inputting the data into a risk assessment device, and carrying out internal data preprocessing, feature calculation and model operation. Finally, the risk of adverse outcomes in the hospital of the patient can be predicted early, and doctors are helped to treat the patient as soon as possible.

The invention provides a tray organizer apparatus for safely organizing routine expendable medical supplies for in hospital patients disclosing a plurality of variants in the form of a non power embodiment of a surface tray with shaped recesses for retaining medical supplies and power embodiments with 110 ac volt supply with a multiplicity of 110 volt outlet and a plurality of USB ports, Firewire port, and other devices such tiltable LED illuminated mirrors.The tray organizer is formed of injection molded plastic, folded sheet metal or other equal structures and incorporates a peripheral upstanding rim connected to a lower planar surface from which a number of recessed openings are formed with enclosed bottom surfaces to retain expendable supplies in a variety of shapes.

Systems, methods, and computer program products that enable system-wide probabilistic forecasting, alerting, optimizing and activating resources in the delivery of care to address both immediate (near real-time) conditions as well as probabilistic forecasted operational states of the system over an interval that is selectable from the current time to minutes, hours and coming days or weeks ahead are provided. There are multiple probabilistic future states that are implemented in these different time intervals and these may be implemented concurrently for an instant in time control, near term, and long term. Those forecasts along with their optimized control of hospital capacity may be independently calculated and optimized, such as for a dynamic workflow direction over the next hour and also a patient's stay over a period of days. In the present application, a probabilistic and conditional workflow reasoning system enabling complex team-based decisions that improve capacity, satisfaction, and safety is provided. A means to consume user(s) judgment, implement control on specific resource assignments and tasks in a clinical workflow is enabled, as is the dynamical and optimal control of the other care delivery assets being managed by the system so as to more probably achieve operating criteria such as throughput, waiting and schedule risk.

The invention discloses a novel epidemic prevention detection channel which comprises an inlet gate machine, a temperature detection door, a temperature detection gate machine, a human body disinfection box, a mask pick-up machine and a release gate machine. The inlet gate machine, the temperature detection door, the temperature detection gate machine, the human body disinfection box, the mask pick-up machine and the release gate machine are sequentially connected from front to back. The temperature detection gate machine comprises a first temperature detection gate machine and a manual passage gate machine, the temperature detection door is provided with a camera electrically connected with the temperature detection door, the camera is used for shooting the face of a patient, and the manual passage gate machine is provided with a display screen in communication connection with the camera. Through the arrangement of the temperature detection door, the workload of medical personnel formeasuring the body temperature of patients can be reduced, medical personnel only needs to recheck the patients with abnormal temperature at the manual passage gate machine, the quarantine efficiencyis effectively improved, the efficiency of the patients entering a hospital is improved, and the spread of viruses caused by the fact that a large number of the patients stay at the doorway of the hospital is avoided.

The invention provides a portable multifunctional sickbed support and mainly relates to the technical field of medical equipment. The portable multifunctional sickbed support comprises a support body and a cover body, the support body comprises a first support and a second support which are parallelly arranged side by side, the cover body connects the first support and the second support into a whole, the first support can move towards or away from the second support to contract or expand the cover body, the cover body, the first support and the second support surround to form a containing cavity, and a heating sterilization member is arranged on each of the first support and the second support and used for increasing temperature in the containing cavity. The portable multifunctional sickbed support can sterilize environment in the containing cavity and a wound of a patient while maintaining temperature state of the environment in which the patient stays, can relatively isolate air of a sickroom and protect privacy of the patient and brings convenience to doctors in treatment like making sickroom rounds and changing fresh dressing for the wound.

The invention discloses a television-based doctor and patient information interaction method, system and equipment. The interaction method comprises a voice communication step, a video communication step and a data switching step. The interaction system comprises a voice communication module, a video communication module, a data switching module, a doctor terminal system and a patient terminal system, wherein the doctor terminal system is connected with the patient terminal system through a television communication network; the doctor terminal system comprises a doctor terminal television and a doctor terminal televisions set-top box; the doctor terminal set-top box comprises a voice system, a video system, a data memory and a set-top box remote controller; and the structure of the patient terminal system is the same as that of the doctor terminal system. The television-based doctor and patient information interaction method, system and equipment have the advantages of capability of realizing face-to-face communication, diagnosis and treatment of a patient and a doctor in case that the patient stays at home, simple system, easiness in implementation and the like.

An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a method of forecasting a demand for a particular hospital unit. The method can be executed by programming the steps into a computer readable medium. One step includes logging a total number of beds in the particular hospital unit and available nursing slots to determine a capacity for the particular hospital unit. The method also includes analyzing data for patients scheduled to stay in the particular hospital unit data to predict stochastic arrivals in order to estimate a total inflow. A length of stay of a patient in the particular hospital unit is predicted using a survival analysis based on physician orders to estimate a total outflow. Additionally, the method includes executing an algorithm designed to use the capacity, total inflow, and total outflow to determine the demand for the particular hospital unit.

The invention provides a spinal minimally invasive surgery robot and relates to the field of medical instruments. The spinal minimally invasive surgery robot comprises an operating bed, a linear guiderail, an arc support base, an arc guide rail, a rotation mechanism, a six-degrees-of-freedom parallel mechanism and a needle input mechanism, wherein the linear guide rail is arranged on the operating bed, the arc support base is slidably connected to the linear guide rail, the arc guide rail is arranged on the arc support base, and the rotation mechanism, the six-degrees-of-freedom parallel mechanism and the needle input mechanism are successively connected and movably arranged on the arc guide rail. The spinal minimally invasive surgery robot can be operated remotely through a control module so that the harm caused by X-ray radiation to a doctor's body can be avoided; the use of the spinal minimally invasive surgery robot for performing minimally invasive surgery can achieve safe, accurate, highly effective, highly repeatable effects and has the advantages such as less surgical trauma, less intraoperative blood loss, shorter hospital stay and faster postoperative recovery.

The invention relates to a smart-type medical examination method and system and a server, can achieve the one-station smart-type services of registration, triage, examination, medical technique inspection, report taking, payment, medicine obtaining and hospitalizing handling in an examination process, can shorten the examination time of a patient, can improve the examination comfortableness of thepatient, and can greatly improve the work efficiency for a hospital. The examination condition of the patient in the whole process is accurately transmitted to a mobile equipment terminal of the patient through the Internet technology, the BIM building information model technology and the wireless positioning technology, thereby technically solving the problems of long examination time and crowded and disordered conditions and a problem that the privacy cannot be protected, greatly improving the examination efficiency, improving the examination experience, also improving the work efficiency of the medical workers, and improving the management level of the hospital.

The invention discloses a re-hospitalization risk predicting method based on a deep learning hybrid model. The method comprises the following steps of 1, collecting a data set which comprises a patient personal characteristic and an outer environment characteristic; 2, performing characteristic grouping and preprocessing, dividing the characteristics to static characteristics and time sequence characteristics; 3, mining the time sequence characteristics, performing statistics analysis on the time sequence characteristics, and establishing an LDA model and a bidirectional LSTM model; 4, performing characteristic splicing, fusing the static characteristics and the time sequence characteristics after characteristic engineering processing, and using the fused characteristic as input of a CNN model; and 5, establishing the CNN model for predicting the patient re-hospitalization risk. The method is based on a deep learning algorithm. Researching and analysis are performed on patient health medical big data and the outer environment, thereby establishing the re-hospitalization risk predicting model, facilitating reasonable medical resource arrangement by a medical organization, supplyingbetter medical service to the patient, and improving efficiency and accuracy in performing re-hospitalization risk identification of a participant by an insurance organization.

The invention relates to a method and system of physician economic performance evaluation in which the relative medical difficulty associated with patients admitted by a particular physician is determined and, given that measurement, judgments made concerning the relative amount of inpatient resources that the physician required. Also, one application of the present invention relates to a method for gainsharing of physician services using a surplus allocation methodology for rewarding physicians in relation to their performance. An incentive pool is determined from previous patient claims and payments made to physicians in advance, such as in a base year. Best practice norms are established for a plurality of classified diagnosis groups. In one embodiment of the present invention, the classified diagnosis related groups are adjusted for severity of illness to compensate for actual clinical challenges faced by individual physicians. The best practice norms can be used in the surplus allocation method for determining physician performance. The incentive is established proportional to the relationship between a physician's individual performance and the best practice norm.

A method and an apparatus for carrying medical and / or emergency information of a person so as to be readily available to emergency response personnel is disclosed. The apparatus has a memory device and a connector. The memory device is a portable storage device and the connector may be a USB interface or connector. More particularly, the apparatus is a keychain size USB flash memory device. The memory device is loaded with an appropriate software application or template and user specific emergency information is installed using that software application or template. When the memory device is plugged into a host computer, typically a hospital admission room computer or a mobile computer in an emergency vehicle, the software application is launched or the template is displayed. Consequently, emergency personnel are able to readily access an individual's emergency information.

A medical information management system is disclosed comprising at least one patient record repository that includes information identifying treatments and corresponding outcomes for a plurality of different patients. The system further comprises a query generator for generating a message to acquire information concerning a medical condition of a particular patient from the record repository. The query message initiates the acquisition of information from the record repository including data identifying, (i) a group of patients and a number of patients in a group, (ii) those attributes of the patients in the group which are similar to attributes of the particular patient and, (iii) different treatments associated with a medical condition employed by the patients in the group. The system further includes a data analyzer for analyzing the information acquired by the query generator to provide analysis results including (1) mortality of the patients of the group, (2) the length of patient stay in a healthcare facility of the patients of the group and (3) the cost of treatment incurred by the patients of the group.

The invention belongs to the technical field of the information processing, and discloses a medical and pension integrated information-based control system, and a signal data processing terminal. Thesystem comprises a portal management module, a medical-pension integration support module, a supervision module, a health electronic document module, a remote teaching and guidance module, a remote monitoring and remote-consultation module, a pension and treatment appointment module, a health examination and treatment query module, a health knowledge consultation module, and an evaluation supportmodule. The examination measures, the diagnosis, the medical dosage, the medical treatment, the operation, the in-hospital information and the recovery condition information in the medical database ofthe HID and like systems of the medical institution are extracted to formulate the uniform data standard, thereby performing corresponding data cleaning and desensitizing, and establishing a medical-pension combined basic information database and a health examination database for the information sharing of the medical institution and the pension institution; the pension institution formulate theappropriate nursing, nutrition, and rehabilitation exercise scheme for the older according to the related information and behavior capacity assessment status.

The invention provides a method for recording and transmitting an electronic medical record file. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, arranging more than one recording units, wherein each of the recording units comprises a computer host, a keyboard or a handwriting board and a network interface; arranging at least one main server which is connected with the recording units through network transmission cables; and arranging a standardized recording module in the computer host of each recording unit, wherein the standardized recording module comprises a medical record model; the medical record format of the medical record model comprises a medical record sheet editor; and the medical record model comprises 100 models of branch hospitalized medical records in medicinal hospitals and covers branches set in large and extra-large hospitals. The method for recording and transmitting the electronic medical record file can be applicable to electronic recording, transmission and final management of the medical records of small, middle-sized and large hospitals.

The invention relates to an APP-based novel coronavirus pneumonia screening and evaluating system. The system comprises a personal registration module, a mobile terminal, a home FECWBY symptomatic screening module, an outpatient C-BCEU examination result evaluating module, a PCR definite diagnosis module and a hospitalization CROPB early warning module. Through the system, a common user can carryout novel coronavirus pneumonia home FECWBY symptomatic screening and outpatient C-BCEU examination result evaluation; a suspected case or a user with a high infection risk is prompted to the system;PCR definite diagnosis and examination and hospitalization CROPB early warning are completed through intelligent prompt; according to the scheme of the system, a common user can effectively and quickly screen the novel coronavirus pneumonia at home; an outpatient doctor-seeing user can perform examination result evaluation and a patient is intelligently guided to see a doctor, safety early warningis set, unnecessary outgoing exposure and contact history during an epidemic situation period is reduced, cross infection is avoided, protection on privacy of a patient is enhanced, and patients areeffectively and accurately guided to see doctors.

An information collection apparatus for collecting information related to a diagnosis support program with a purpose for performance monitoring is provided. The diagnosis support program is for data processing of patient health data of a patient body and for outputting diagnosis support information for reference in determining a treatment plan for the patient body. A first information collector collects judgment information of approval or non-approval as to whether the treatment plan for the patient body for which the diagnosis support program is used is based on the diagnosis support information. A second information collector collects treatment result information of a treatment result of the patient body. Preferably, the treatment result information includes at least one of occurrence or non-occurrence of rehospitalization of the patient body, a cost of hospitalization of the patient body, and a cure level of a symptom of the patient body.