35 results about "Primary care physician" patented technology

A radio frequency patient identification and information system includes a transponder which may be incorporated in a device which may be strapped to a patient's wrist or ankle, or hung around the patient's neck by a cord, carried as a card or label in the patient's purse or wallet, or embedded under the patient's skin. The transponder, in the form of an RFID tag, operates at a frequency standardized for this application, has a read/write memory of about at least two thousand bits-an amount sufficient to store information related to the patient's complete identification, such as home address, work address, next of kin, the patient's current primary care physicians, important contact telephone numbers, insurance information, complete medical history, all known allergies, and past and presently-prescribed medicines. The tag may be equipped with a transmission enable switch to prevent unauthorized access to the patient's medical history and other potentially sensitive information. An interrogator/reader/writer device is provided at each emergency health care facility and at the office of each health care provider.

A system and method of identifying patients with an increased risk for medication misuse as a result of their physical condition or inability to follow a prescription drug regimen. This is accomplished by an onsite evaluation of the patient, their physical condition and medication usage, including prescriptions, over the counter medications, herbals and food interactions, by a qualified individual. The results of this evaluation are provided to a database that generates a report comprising a patient's vital signs, medication interactions, prescription changes, prescription renewals, discontinued medications, evaluation of a patient's compliance with their medication regimen and education approved for to assist the patient with their compliance for review by the patient's primary care physician, additional physicians treating the patient, authorized organizations, such as HMOs, gardians or other authorized individual. With this knowledge the physician can identify a current or potential problem and can recommend changes to a patient's prescription drug regimen or education regarding drug regimens to correct the problem.

An echocardiogram report generation method and system are disclosed for creating a complete medical report describing an echocardiogram without dictation, transcription or typing. The report is tailored to describe an individual patient and generated in complete grammatically complex sentences in response to the user's input with a text report that is complete and understandable for a primary care physician. The method and system provides the user the parallel options of an anatomical structure approach and a disease-specific approach in order to amplify the description of the echocardiogram in specific areas and give a more meaningful report. The echo report generated by the method and system creates a table of measurements and calculations in compact form, omitting any data fields not used. The method and system guides the user through the various areas of the heart which merit comment on the report and provides clear color coded segments of the heart muscle and provides several heart segment classifications so that the user can use his favored classification scheme. Diagnostic possibilities are provided for inclusion in the report conclusions.

A system for creating, maintaining and selectively accessing medical histories. The system allows a patient and other selected parties to build a medical history, but importantly places the authority to grant access to the medical history solely in the hands of the patient. When the patient's medical history file is created, the patient also pre-authorizes selected parties, including government agencies such as FEMA to have access to at least part of the patient's history. Each selected party is associated with an access module that dictates the level of access the party has to the medical history. Primary care physicians are associated with a full access module, which allows full access to the patient's medical history. Dentists and pharmacies are associated with a limited access module, which limits the party's access to only pertinent portions of the patient's medical history. The present system also includes a fingerprint scanner and/or retina scanner that can be used to identify unconscious patients and patients without an I.D. card.

A comprehensive patient data assessment system and method for use in generating, tracking and analyzing medical data related to healthcare administered by a group of physicians to a specified patient population. The system is operative to track data related to the claims history, case management, pharmacy data, and lab tests/results for each patient treated by each patient's primary care physician preferably through electronic medical records that are accessible over a computer network. The system is operative to generate data indicative of the utilization of healthcare resources utilized to treat each patient within the patient population, as well as ensure that each primary care physician utilizes appropriate codes for each diagnosis and procedure/test administered to each patient. The system further provides for categorization of patients afflicted with chronic conditions that require high-cost care. The systems are exceptionally effective in conserving medical resources, ensuring uniformity in administering healthcare, and achieving optimal patient outcomes.

An innovative tracking software system provides independent proof of primary-care physician (PCP) efforts to improve urgent access to care and coordination of care. PCPs are provided with tools and financial incentives to better manage urgent care requests and thereby provide better service while reducing avoidable hospital utilization (ER and re-admissions) and costs. In particular, independent and accurate measurements of provider performance enable the payment of financial incentives to PCPs.

A medical consultation support system which transfers a structured request for consultation from a primary care physician's client computer to a supervisory host computer. The structured request together with any additional information related to the request, form a machine-readable collection of information. At the supervisory computer, the request is reviewed by a receiving staff physician who designates a specialist and retrieves supporting documentation related to the consultation request from databases of medical information. The supervisory computer then transmits the request for consultation and at least an identification of the selected supporting documentation to the selected specialist for review, and thereafter receives a comment from the selected specialist. The supervisory computer further stores the request for consultation and the comment as a structured case history item in the database of medical information. A consultation may further be a source of continuing legal education credits for the requesting physician.

This invention describes how users can capture digital artifacts from any medical device using their mobile device. Some examples of medical devices included, but are not limited to a medical ID card, Medical ID bracelet, Electronic Medical Records, blood pressure machines, blood glucose, scales, inhalers, INR, prescription bottles and trays, pulse oximeter, etc. Digital artifacts included, but are not limited to a medical ID, basic patient information, patient contact information, emergency contact information, primary care physician information, health insurance information including co-pay and deductibles, prescriptions, office visit summary, appointment cards, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), lab results, blood type, organ/donor status, vital signs, diagnostic data, immunization records, payments and transaction history, pictures, etc

Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system that addresses the need for utilization analysis and performance evaluation of providers in a health care organization. The health care data comprising health plan information of consumers, providers, claims, and hospitals is collected, translated, and organized in a structured relational format and stored in standard tables. The organized health care data is analyzed by calculating consumer statistics for a health plan using the health plan information of the consumers. The claims of the consumers are processed to classify the claims based on age, gender, disease, and comorbid conditions of the consumers. A plurality of costs of the health care organization is determined using one or more of the health plan information. The performance of the providers is assessed using the determined plurality of costs. The providers comprising primary care physicians are analyzed based on entire population of the associated consumers.

The present invention generally relates to the field of medical services and more specifically to the area of chronic disease management. It comprises a new method for providing a disease management service which utilizes nurse practitioners to engage in regularly scheduled virtual evaluation and management “office visits” with patients, using off-the-shelf videophones for real-time video and audio communications. As these disease management services are delivered to the patient while he remains in his home, such convenient access to professional health care brings about a much closer monitoring of the patient's condition than would be otherwise practical, enabling clinicians to make necessary therapeutic modifications in a timely fashion. Engaging patients in such regularly scheduled office visits also causes increased compliance with recommended regimens and lifestyle modifications, resulting in overall improved management of the patient's chronic condition. Patients are enrolled into the service primarily through referrals from their primary care physicians who sign a Collaboration Agreement with the chronic disease management service. The Collaboration Agreement extends the continuity of care for enrolled patients by keeping the primary care physician informed at all times on the health status of their patients and involved in all important clinical decisions regarding patients referred to the service. The secure Internet-accessible clinical documentation and information systems used in the disclosed method make possible a multi-office practice were information can be seamlessly shared and patient workloads can be distributed across multiple locations. Clinical office visit services provided under the disclosed method qualify for reimbursement by public insurers and many private insurers. The disclosed method represents a novel form of medical practice whose area of operation and potential patient base is unbounded by geographic location, since patients may engage in virtual office visits while remaining in their homes, and the information technology infrastructure utilized allows the disclosed disease management service to deliver medical care from any location that has phone service and an Internet or network connection available.

The described invention provides a system and method for clinical outcome tracking and analysis. The clinical outcome tracking and analysis comprises sorting, outcome tracking, quality of life metrics, toxicity to therapy and cost of care. The system and method includes receiving one or more parameters. Exemplary parameters for sorting include sex, age, ethnicity, comorbidities, tobacco use, source of insurance, medical record number, primary care physician, referring physician, hospital, approved service vendors, disease-specific clinical molecular phenotype, therapy intent, stage of therapy, biomarkers, and cost of care.

A system for providing healthcare includes an examination room having a controller configured for communication with a remote healthcare provider, such as a primary care physician, via a telecommunications network, a medical examination chair or table for supporting a patient, and a digital display in communication with the controller and facing the medical examination chair or table. The digital display is configured to display the remote healthcare provider to the patient on the digital display in substantially life size and with direct eye-to-eye contact with the patient. A plurality of digital medical instruments is in communication with the controller for selectively providing diagnostic information of the patient to the remote healthcare provider. An input device is in communication with the controller so that a clinical care coordinator, such as a registered nurse, can selectively control communications between the examination room and the remote healthcare provider.

Methods and devices for tying management of an implantable medical device to the activities of a primary care physician are described, including access control, simplified parameter optimization, support for tuning a device in response to the effects of other treatments in parallel, and support for helping a primary physician and a patient work together to tune device configuration to the activity and performance needs of the patient. In some embodiments, a medical device is self-configuring in a device parameter domain, based on inputs provided in a patient performance domain. The self-configuring of the medical device is based, for example, on an automatically applied transformation of inputs derived from patient performance domain observations into changes in the configuration of the medical device which affect technical parameters of its operation.

The invention discloses a noninvasive glucometer system. The noninvasive glucometer system comprises a glucometer and a smart phone, wherein a blood drawing detecting unit of the glucometer transmitsan acquired signal to a processor, the glucometer is further provided with a non-invasive detection unit and a bluetooth unit, the non-invasive detection unit transmits the acquired signal to the processor, the processor outputs a blood glucose parameter signal to a display and control unit for display, and the bluetooth unit is in communication with a bluetooth module of the smart phone of a userand transmits the blood glucose numerical value to a storage of the smart phone of the user. For the noninvasive glucometer with high accuracy provided by the invention, the glucometer is more intelligent, in combination with the smart phone, the blood glucose testing result can be supervised, urged and recorded, the information is shared, so that family members or primary care physicians can know the conditions of patients in real time, and the medication can be conveniently adjusted in time.

When a support request comment is transmitted from an in-hospital terminal of a primary care physician, a distribution server transmits a support request including initial data to each support terminal which a support medical staff uses. A time limit is set on the initial data. After the transmission of the support request, remarks of participants in a medical support consultation and examination images are distributed only to the participants' support terminals. The time limit for the initial data transmitted to the each participant's support terminal is extended. The time limit for the initial data transmitted to the support terminal of a nonparticipant is not extended. Access to the initial data on the support terminal is disabled when the time limit is reached.

A physician referral management system is provided. The system includes a physician profile database, electronically accessible over at least one network system. The physician profile database stores physician profiles, each of which contain information associated with a physician. The system further includes a physician referral application which is hosted at least partially on a server and electronically accessible over at least one network system to a primary care physician device and a specialist physician device. The physician referral application is configured to facilitate a referral of a patient between the primary care physician device and the specialist physician device, and to allow a user of at least one of the primary care physician device and the specialist physician device to search for physicians based on information contained in the physician profiles. At least a portion of the physician profiles contains information relating to insurance plans accepted by particular physicians.

A device, system, and method optimizes a patient flow. The method is performed at a device of a healthcare organization, the healthcare organization having a healthcare network including a plurality of healthcare providers. The method includes determining a step in a patient flow for a patient of a primary care physician (PCP) associated with the healthcare network based upon first information relative to the patient. The method includes determining a referral of a healthcare provider to perform the step based upon the first information and second information relative to a region associated with the patient and the healthcare organization. The method includes determining whether the referral is acceptable based upon third information relative to the healthcare provider and the healthcare organization. The method includes generating a recommendation including the referral for the PCP when the referral is acceptable.