231 results about "Prescribing information" patented technology

Methods and systems for rapidly and conveniently creating prescriptions through the use of portable digital assistants (PDAs) and bar code scanning technology are provided. Prescriptions are created using a form-based approach in which prescribing options are presented to the prescriber for selection. The system allows entry of medication and patient ID by scanning bar codes. A bar code is generated for each prescription and is used to access the prescription information in a database. The bar code and prescription information can be printed on a ticket, which can be presented at a pharmacy when the prescription is picked up. The use of bar codes allows several levels of checking to ensure that the correct medication is dispensed and that the prescription is valid. Prescription information is transmitted between prescribers and pharmacies via a central site at which prescription information is stored. In a preferred embodiment of the invention communication occurs over the Internet, and the creation and transmission of prescriptions are coordinated by a World Wide Web service which sends Web pages to PDAs to present and gather prescription information. The Web pages can provide links to patient and medication information, and the system can advise the prescriber if there is a contraindication to the medication about to be prescribed. The Web service transmits prescription information to pharmacies, receives notification when prescriptions are fulfilled, and can perform other functions such as notifying patients or physicians when prescriptions are close to running out. The Web service can further be used to keep track of medication sample package inventories at prescribing locations such as physician offices. Prescription data can be used to perform market research in a timely fashion.

In an aspect, a medication delivering injector which includes a housing having opposing proximal and distal ends and an accessible internal cavity for inserting and removing a medicament container such as a syringe. The injector is designed to hold and manipulate a medication delivery device such as a large variety of standard and non-standard medical syringes with fixed or attached needles, assembled such that centrally located is a cylinder containing a liquid medicament and attached either permanently or removably to the distal end of the cylinder, is a hypodermic needle or cannula in fluidic communication with the cylinder. The needle can be from one-half inches to one-and-one-half inches in length in the illustrated embodiment and other sizes are possible by changes in scale of the injector. At the proximal end of the cylinder is an opening with an inserted seal or bung with an attached rod thus constituting a plunger. The central medicament containing cylinder could also be a standard medicament cartridge. Hereinafter, both are referred to as a “syringe”. A lid or access cover which, in an open position permits insertion and removal of the syringe into / from the housing in a horizontal fashion thus providing ease of loading. The syringe is inserted with the needle end toward the distal end of the housing and the plunger toward the proximal end of the housing. A movable carriage is disposed in the proximal end of the housing and slides in the axial direction forwards and rearwards such that a syringe, whose proximal end is gripped by the carriage, so moves with the carriage such that the needle exits the housing at the distal end of the housing and pierces the tissue of the patient prior to dispensing of the medicament, and then is retracted after the medicament has been dispensed by retraction of the carriage. Attached to the carriage is an actuator which pushes on the syringe plunger causing the medicament contained within the syringe cylinder to be dispensed through the needle into the patient's tissue. In one embodiment suitable for both removable needle and fixed needle syringes, the proximal end of the syringe including the syringe finger flange is gripped by an elastomeric flange grip which resides within the carriage, while the syringe distal end resides in and is supported by a “syringe guide” which is attached to the carriage and thus moved with it. In another embodiment which is so made to accommodate syringes with removable needles and their safe disposal, the syringe flange at the proximal end of the cylinder is gripped by an elastomeric flange grip which resides in the carriage as described above, while the syringe distal end is supported by a needle which resides in a removable disposable needle shield. The needle guide is biased toward the carriage and thus, the syringe body is compressed and guided as the carriage moves forward and rearward.Both the movement of the carriage and the actuator are controlled by servo motors which are controlled by electronics and a microcontroller so operating such that speeds and accelerations are controlled smoothly and gently so as to avoid the stop / start motion of motors controlled by limit switches and simple electronics or the vibration and abruptness such as result from injectors powered by compressed springs or gas. Furthermore, the forces are adaptive to the loads imposed and the requirements necessary for the proper dispensation of medicaments with high viscosity or sensitivity to shear forces.The housing, approximately midway between proximal and distal ends, is affixed by a hinge such that the device can be folded in half to provide for a more compact device to be stored and transported.On the distal end of the housing are electrical sensor pads in communication with the microcontroller such that contact with the patient's skin and the angle at which the injector is held against the skin and the steadiness with which the injector is being held can be ascertained. Within the housing are a haptic vibrator and an audio speaker, both producing a vibration which is variable in pitch in such a manner that biofeedback is provided to the injector user as to the pressure, angle and steadiness with which they are holding the injector against the skin. This facilitates the action of injection oneself in the gluteus muscle where visual feedback isn't available to the patient.Multiplexed onto the electrical sensor pads, is a TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) generator which is operational (at the user's choice) just before and during the injection to interrupt or quench the pain of tissue perforation often accompanied with needle injections.Contained on the surface of the housing such as on the access cover, is a display such that user menus, device state, directions, and battery charge status, etc. are displayed. Also contained on the surface of the housing, on the proximal half, are buttons which control the menus and selections that are shown on the display. These selections provide for the user to set such parameters as hypodermic insertion speed and medicament dispensing speeds, the preferred mode of user biofeedback which can include: speech mode (which can be accompanied by musical themes and ringtones, plus variable pitch tone and haptic vibration), MP3 mode (which has speech muted but includes musical ringtones and variable pitch tone and haptic vibration), and haptic mode (which is haptic vibration and audio tone queues needed for injector position biofeedback and readiness), plus mute mode (which provides no audio but the haptic vibration remains), and none, which provides no vibrational biofeedback, yet the display information always remains available.Also contained on the surface of the housing on the distal half, is an “injection initiate” button which causes the sequences required for performance of an injection to occur if said button is “enabled”.Contained within the electronics and its operating program is the ability to audibly play pre-recorded human speech in any language such that: directions in the form of consecutive steps which are required to load the medicament container (syringe) into the device, consecutive steps to perform an injection, steps to remove and properly dispose of parts, to alert of device status and menu choices, etc. can be played through the audio speaker. Also contained within the electronics and program is the ability to play musical ringtones as a distraction during the needle insertion and injection or when a scheduled injection alarm is reached, or calming human voice exhibiting bedside manner during the needle insertion and injection.Also contained within the electronics and software is a real-time clock-calendar which can store a patient's injection schedule and play a musical ringtone as an alarm as each scheduled injection becomes due. Also contained within the electronics and software are the ability to communicate with a personal computer through a USB port, which can also charge the injector's rechargeable battery. The battery in one embodiment, consists of three AAA batteries which can be rechargeable or non-rechargeable. The USB port in combination with an application running on the personal computer, is used to download the injection schedule into the real-time clock-calendar and to download ringtones and musical themes of the user's choice and to download foreign language sets for the pre-recorded human language feature.The injector can be further equipped with the capability to aspirate the tissue by drawing back on the plunger thus creating a vacuum into which fluids will flow. These fluids enter the syringe cylinder where they can be checked for the presence of blood by optical absorption in the red spectrum. This information is useful in the instances where intramuscular injections are to be given with drugs whose ‘Full Prescribing Information’ instructs the patient to aspirate and check for blood in the syringe which indicates that the puncture of a vein has occurred, and if so detected, to abort the injection and then re-inject into a different location.

An orthodontic workstation stores a library of virtual three-dimensional brackets in a memory. Each of the virtual brackets has a unique three-dimensional configuration and prescription. Typically, the library of bracket comprises a library of commercially available, off-the-shelf brackets. The workstation further includes an interactive treatment planning program that permits a user to move teeth from a virtual model of the dentition to a proposed set-up. In one possible embodiment, the treatment planning program provides the ability to display a virtual bracket placed on a virtual tooth and change the prescription or configuration of the virtual bracket. The treatment program automatically compares the modified prescription with the prescription information of the virtual brackets in the library and selects a bracket from the library that most closely matches the virtual bracket displayed on the tooth. Thus, the user does not have to use customized brackets. Any deviation in tooth position resulting from a discrepancy between the off-the-shelf bracket and the user-defined bracket can be corrected for by changing the position of the bracket on the tooth or by changing the shape of the archwire.

A self-service system and user interface supports a patient in initiating, monitoring, and managing administration of admission, discharge and scheduling activity and in accessing medical information. A system supports patient access to medical information of the patient. The system includes an interface processor for receiving patient identification information and a database linking a patient identifier derived using the patient identification information, with prescription information identifying a medication for the patient. A data processor accesses the database to retrieve the prescription information. A display processor initiates generation of data representing an image including the prescription information, in response to the received patient identification information and a request by the patient to access the prescription.

To return a predetermined answer in a predetermined order, even in the event that user utterance contents differ from an original objective. A conversation control apparatus, which transmits an answer sentence in response to a user utterance, includes: a conversation data base storing a plurality of plans each including the answer sentence and next candidate prescription information which prescribes a next candidate answer sentence, which is an answer sentence due to be transmitted in an order succeeding the answer sentence; and a planned conversation processor which, in response to a first user utterance, selects a plan stored in the conversation data base, transmits an answer sentence included in the plan and, subsequently, in response to a second user utterance, based on next candidate prescription information included in the plan, transmits a next candidate answer sentence, wherein at least one portion of the plurality of plans, regardless of contents of a user utterance, includes an answer sentence and next candidate answer sentence in such a way as to transmit each question in a predetermined survey in a predetermined order.

A method and system for inventory management of pharmacies and for detecting trends includes a pharmacy search and order service that receives information on prescriptions and communicates the prescription information to the pharmacies. The pharmacy search and order service also receives patient information, such as patient demographic data. The prescription information and patient information received by the pharmacy search and order service is transferred to a self-learning service where a rule database analyzes the information to detect trends in usage of medical items. The pharmacy search and order service determines which pharmacies have requested medical items in inventory and provides user output information indicating availability of the medical items at the pharmacies or indicates a nearest pharmacy having the items. An option provides for confirmation from the pharmacy of the item in inventory.

An orthodontic workstation stores a library of virtual three-dimensional brackets in a memory. Each of the virtual brackets has a unique three-dimensional configuration and prescription. Typically, the library of bracket comprises a library of commercially available, off-the-shelf brackets. The workstation further includes an interactive treatment planning program that permits a user to move teeth from a virtual model of the dentition to a proposed set-up. In one possible embodiment, the treatment planning program provides the ability to display a virtual bracket placed on a virtual tooth and change the prescription or configuration of the virtual bracket. The treatment program automatically compares the modified prescription with the prescription information of the virtual brackets in the library and selects a bracket from the library that most closely matches the virtual bracket displayed on the tooth. Thus, the user does not have to use customized brackets. Any deviation in tooth position resulting from a discrepancy between the off-the-shelf bracket and the user-defined bracket can be corrected for by changing the position of the bracket on the tooth or by changing the shape of the archwire.

A system and method for distributing healthcare products is disclosed. A patient who obtains a prescription from clinic such as a federally qualified 340B health clinic (FQHC) is entered into a retail pharmacy's computer as a third party patient. Prescription information is transmitted to a healthcare product distributor inventory tracking system where the retail pharmacy is credited at its original invoice cost for the product. The healthcare product distributor's system charges the FQHC for the product at the 340B price. The inventory system tracks each 340B product distributed. In some cases, the first time a product is dispensed, the FQHC is charged for a stock package size and subsequent prescriptions are tracked and applied against the original purchase until the amount dispensed equals or exceeds the stock package originally charged to the FQHC. Once the quantity dispensed exceeds the stock package size, the inventory accumulation process is restarted.

The invention discloses a prescription auditing method and a system thereof, wherein the method comprises the steps of extracting medicine taking characteristic information of a patient, and identifying prescription information; according to the medicine taking characteristic information and a pre-trained medicine taking recommending model, obtaining recommending medicine information; and performing rationality auditing on a medicine taking doctor's advice in the prescription information according to the recommending medicine information, the medicine taking characteristic information, a preset expert rule database and a medical body knowledge database. The prescription auditing method and the system thereof have advantages of assisting a prescription pharmacist and a doctor for realizinghigher scientific performance and higher rationality in medicine taking, reducing medical cost of the patient and sanitation resource wastage, realizing in-time finding of the unreasonable medicine taking condition, and maximally alleviating and even settling a medicine abuse problem.

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 method of dispensing medical prescriptions that includes scanning the prescription at a location remote from a dispensary, and providing an electronic communication of the prescription to the dispensary, followed by delivery or patient pick up of the prescription medicine or prescription devices. The invention further provides a process for controlling a system of processing medical prescription information that utilizes software that controls scanning of the prescription information and electronic communication of the prescription information to a dispensary. In both embodiments, the patient controls the steps in prescription filling, preferably including entry of the prescription information.

An electronic prescription system that includes a first prescription processor, a second prescription processor and a third prescription processor. The first prescription processor is configured to provide prescription information for creating an electronic prescription for a patient. The second prescription processor is configured to provide an electronic prescription processing service. The third prescription processor is configured to accept a sequence of digits representative of the electronic prescription from the patient and to provide the second prescription processor with the sequence of digits.

The present invention provides an intelligent medicine taking reminding and controlling device and a method. The device comprises a housing, a CPU controller, a communication module, a loudspeaker, an information display input unit, a camera, a medicine supply unit, and a power supply. The device is set in a remote manner through a special background server website and according to prescribing Information, so as to remind when a patient takes medicine. When the medicine taking time is up, the device reminds the patient to take medicine in a sound making or displaying manner, conforms the patient identity, drops the medicine off for the patient. If the set time period is over, the patient does not take the medicine, the device informs a preset keeper through a preset manner such as a telephone call, a short message or uploaded information to the background network.

An apparatus reproducing content provided by a content providing server includes: a content processing unit for performing content reproduction; a communication unit providing communication through a prescribed network; and a template processing unit receiving service-related information including service identifying information indicating a content service and prescribed information related to the content service identified by the service identifying information from the network through the communication unit, processing the service-related information, and controlling the content processing unit such that the content indicated by the received service identifying information is processed using the service-related information.

The present invention provides a method and system for drug dispensing and detection. The method includes: acquiring prescription information prescribed by a doctor, and the prescription information includes serial number, patient information, type of drug prescribed according to the patient information, drug specification and corresponding Quantity of medicines; collect the characteristic information of medicines on the transmission device, record the quantity according to the characteristic information of the medicines, wherein the characteristic information includes the types of medicines and specifications of medicines; detect whether the types of medicines, specifications of medicines and the quantity of medicines on the transmission device are consistent with The patient has the same prescribing information and responds based on the test results. The invention also provides a system based on drug preparation detection. It fundamentally eliminates the risk of making mistakes when taking medicine according to the order, and the use of the transmission device also improves the efficiency; at the same time, the prescription information is stored in the database to record specific information such as the time of dispensing the medicine and the recipient of the medicine, which can be queried according to user needs, which is convenient for doctors Post-maintenance management, establishment of patient health records.

An information provider instructs a server system of an information distribution region and attributes of service users, monitors, based upon position information from service users, the state of distribution of service users who have the above-mentioned attributes and are present in the information distribution region designated by the information provider, and distributes prescribed information to mobile information terminals of the service users based upon the state of distribution of the service users.

This headup display includes a projection portion projecting prescribed information initialized to a first display color on a display board arranged in a user's gaze direction, a detection portion detecting a background color visually recognized by the user through the display board, and a control portion performing control of adjusting the first display color on the basis of the background color detected by the detection portion and the first display color and displaying the prescribed information in the adjusted display color.

The information processing apparatus comprises: an input unit which inputs moving image data of frames; a reference information acquisition unit which acquires reference information in accordance with the moving image data of one of the frames inputted to the input unit, the reference information forming a reference for identifying a constituent part of a person; a constituent part region extraction unit which extracts, in accordance with the reference information, a constituent part region where the constituent part of the person is situated, from the moving image data of each of the frames inputted after the frame from which the reference information has been acquired by the reference information acquisition unit; a priority region setting unit which sets, in accordance with the constituent part region, a priority region in the moving image data of each of the frames inputted after the frame from which the reference information has been acquired by the reference information acquisition unit; and a processing unit which carries out prescribed information processing preferentially in the priority region set by the priority region setting unit.

A communication device includes: a communication unit that performs communication with another communication device in a first range through a first communication scheme; and a detecting unit that detects prescribed information within a second range different from the first range. When the detecting unit detects the prescribed information, the communication unit performs communication with the other communication device within the second range through the first communication scheme.

A medical monitoring system extracts characteristic information for one or more medications from an image of the one or more medications on an uncontrolled background, the image being taken by a client device associated with a user of the medical monitoring system. The medical monitoring system determines prescription information associated with a medication, of the one or more medications, using the extracted characteristic information and a medication database, the medication database containing mappings between prescription information and characteristic information for a plurality of medications. The medical monitoring system provides a portion of the prescription information to the client device.

The invention discloses an intelligent drug guidance method, system and device. The method comprises the following steps: establishing a drug use database, extracting prescription information, carrying out prescription auditing, comparing patient basic information, drug information and patient drug use related element actual information with reasonable drug use guidance related information and rules in the drug use database, and obtaining and outputting drug use guidance information. The method, system and equipment for intelligent medicine guidance are used for assisting or replacing pharmaceutical workers to provide personalized medicine auditing and medication guidance for the patient, can improve the safety, effectiveness, economy and convenience of patient medication can be improved,and can enable medical institutions and retail drugstores of different levels to break through the limitation of professional resources and share professional data and business experience; meanwhile,the working efficiency of the pharmacy personnel can be greatly improved, the problem of insufficient pharmacist resources is effectively relieved, and the accessibility of patient pharmacy services is achieved.

The invention relates to the agricultural machinery, in particular to a variable control device for fertilizing and sowing and belongs to the variable input technology of the fine agricultural intelligent machinery. The variable control device overcomes the defects and solves the problems of an actuating mechanism of a conventional variable control device for fertilizing and sowing and solves the problems of inconvenience use and increased cost caused by an IC card serving as the variable work prescribing information storage medium. The device comprises a singlechip and a GPS or DGPS communication control module connected with the singlechip, wherein the singlechip is connected with a USB memory device read-write control module and a step motor driving circuit; a step motor adjusts and controls the actuating mechanism; the actuating mechanism comprises an impulse stepless speed variator; and the step motor drives an adjusting shaft of the impulse stepless speed variator through a worm wheel-worm reducing mechanism. The variable control device of the invention is specially used for controlling the fine agricultural variable fertilizing and variable sowing work.

An information provider instructs a server system of an information distribution region and attributes of service users, monitors, based upon position information from service users, the state of distribution of service users who have the above-mentioned attributes and are present in the information distribution region designated by the information provider, and distributes prescribed information to mobile information terminals of the service users based upon the state of distribution of the service users.

A method, system and apparatus for medication therapy management programs. One embodiment of the invention includes a comprehensive, technology-enhanced pharmacy system for patients following a complex medication to regimen comprising a treatment database, communications interface, and a personal medication cartridge configured to store medication and configured based on a treatment optimization algorithm. Another embodiment of the invention includes a medication administration apparatus comprising computer processing hardware, a user interface, an interface for receiving a personal medication cartridge including medication dose packets labeled with computer-readable identification or an RFID mechanism, a medication ejection mechanism, and a medication dispensing sensor. The medication administration apparatus utilizes medication dose packets and prescription information and identifies individual dose packets using computer-readable information or an RFID mechanism. The medication administration apparatus determines the location and prescription schedule for each dose packet within the medication administration apparatus and provides an indication when a dosing event is scheduled.

The invention provides a special drug management cabinet. The special drug management cabinet comprises a cabinet body, a cabinet door, a plurality of drug drawers, a locking assembly and a control terminal, wherein a chamber for storing the drug drawers is formed in the cabinet body; a plurality of layers of flat plates are arranged in the cabinet body; the flat plates are provided with running rails for moving the drug drawers; the running rails are arranged at the bottoms of the drug drawers; the locking assembly comprises electromagnets for controlling the drug drawers to be connected with the cabinet body, and pushing springs for ejecting the drug drawers; the electromagnets are arranged between the drug drawers and the cabinet body, and the pushing springs are further arranged between the drug drawers and the cabinet body; and the electromagnets are connected with a control terminal. With the adoption of the special drug management cabinet, special drugs in the cabinet body can be wholly locked, the drug drawers for storing the special drugs can be pushed out according to prescribing information when one or more special drugs are needed, and the safety locking of other drugs is not influenced.

A connection operation for connecting a portable terminal to a prescribed server device can be carried out in an extremely simple and prompt manner. Thus, for example, an inquiry operation for inquiring about mail reception to the server device can also be performed extremely simply and quickly. A cellular phone ( 20 ) includes a main operation part ( 25 ) and a main LCD ( 21 ) which are coupled with each other in such a manner that they can be opened and closed with respect to each other. A rear key ( 22 ) is arranged on a rear surface of the cellular phone ( 20 ) in such a manner that it can be operated by a user. A sub LCD ( 23 ) is provided on the rear surface of the cellular phone ( 20 ) in such a manner as to be able to display prescribed information based on an operation of the rear key ( 22 ). By detecting when the rear key ( 22 ) is kept depressed for a predetermined time or longer, the cellular phone ( 20 ) is connected to the server device for receiving electronic mails, sothat prescribed information from this server device is displayed on the sub LCD ( 23 ).

A connection operation for connecting a portable terminal to a prescribed server device can be carried out in an extremely simple and prompt manner. Thus, for example, an inquiry operation for inquiring about mail reception to the server device can also be performed extremely simply and quickly. A foldable cellular phone (20) is of a foldable structure including a main operation part (25) and a main LCD (21) which are coupled with each other in such a manner that they can be opened and closed with respect to each other. A rear key (22) is arranged on a rear surface of the foldable cellular phone (20) in such a manner that it can be operated by a user. A sub LCD (23) is provided on the rear surface of the foldable cellular phone (20) in such a manner as to be able to display prescribed information based on an operation of the rear key (22). By detecting when the rear key (22) is kept depressed for a predetermined time or longer, the cellular phone (20) is connected to the server device for receiving electronic mails, so that prescribed information from this server device is displayed on the sub LCD (23).