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A system and method for visually displaying and analyzing criminal and/or public health and safety data for geospatial and/or time variations, including the collection of incident data coupled with geographic and time data, filtering the symptom data based upon a selected time period and geographic range, and creating a visual result based upon statistical modeling including power transform and/or data normalization. According to at least one embodiment, the system for visually displaying and analyzing includes selecting and performing at least one aberration detection method and displaying the result to a user via a visual analytics arrangement.

Multiple health profiles from multiple personal health monitoring systems are compiled. The multiple personal health monitoring systems each monitor a current health profile including physical parameters and environmental parameters indicative of the current health of one of multiple users. The physical parameters and environmental parameters of each of the multiple health profiles are compared to determine health affecting factors for the multiple users, such that health affecting factors of public health are audited.

The present invention relates to solid microparticulate oral pharmaceutical forms whose composition and structure make it possible to avoid misuse of the pharmaceutical active principle (AP) they contain. The object of the present invention is to prevent solid oral drugs from being misappropriated for any use other than the therapeutic use(s) officially approved by the competent public health authorities. In other words, the object is to avoid the voluntary or involuntary misuse of solid oral drugs. The invention relates to a solid oral pharmaceutical form which is characterized in that it contains anti-misuse means, in that at least part of the AP it comprises is contained in coated microparticles for modified release of the AP, and in that the coated microparticles of AP have a coating layer (Ra) which assures the modified release of the AP and simultaneously imparts crushing resistance to the coated microparticles of AP so as to avoid misuse.

Methods for generating and maintaining confidential medical information, and in particular electronic medical records, that are operative to both preserve the secrecy and confidentiality of such information, but further enables medical information to be generated for purposes of research, public health, or healthcare operations. According to a preferred embodiment, confidential medical information is input into a conventional electronic medical records system and maintained in a first format, but is further converted to a second format whereby such information is purged of all patient information and identifiers. Such de-identified data is compiled on a routine basis, such as a daily basis, and forwarded to an entity certified to receive such information pursuant to a research or data use agreement. The invention further comprises methods for providing a prescription benefit via the distribution of prescription medications through mail order wherein such medications are procured from either a domestic or foreign source depending upon cost of the prescription medications.

This application describes an information and resource management system for collecting data from diverse sources and organizing multiple types of data and information to facilitate dynamic multi-dimensional displays that will enhance cognition and situational awareness for diverse user communities. This system may facilitate collaborative cross-agency research and response to public health and safety issues. The system will generate more rapid awareness of potentially critical situations and promote greater awareness of the cost and benefits of alternative courses of action across diverse agencies and organizations serving common populations and communities. The invention includes customized geographically enabled data collection tools and techniques, dedicated databases and parsing schemes that feed into customized data visualization and simulation engines that drive the display of context sensitive interactive environments on a wide variety of computing platforms. The invention provides a novel approach to inter-disciplinary information integration processing, visualization, sharing and decision-making in the domain of public health and safety, disaster management and mitigation.

The invention relates to the field of solid medicaments that are intended for the oral administration of active ingredients. The aim of the invention is to prevent the improper use of solid, oral medicaments for any user other than the therapeutic use(s) officially approved by the appropriate public health authorities. More specifically, the invention relates to a solid, oral drug form which is characturised in that it comprises: A) at least one caking agent; and B) at least one viscosifying agent, such as to prevent the misuse thereof.

A tracking and labeling system for collecting, recording and reporting data on an item as the item experiences changes in state over time. The system has a plurality of node systems connected to the Internet that transmit data to a server with database handling software. As the item is processed at various places and times, the data associated with the item is captured by the node systems and sent to the server database. At various points along the way, labels may be generated to hold a selected portion of the data associated with the item. The labels may be read by offline apparatus, as well as by the node systems. The node systems may also print labels, e.g., in 2D matrix format, for updating the data associated with an item as it is processed. In this manner, the label contains up-to-date information on the item. The system permits the entire chronologically ordered site-specific history of an item to be recalled through a query directed to the server system and therefore can be applied to various applications such as tracking the origin of food products for public health purposes. The server system can be accessed by users on the Internet.

Antibiotics (Abx) are the world's most misused drugs. Antibiotics misuse occurs when the drug is administered in case of a non-bacterial infection (such as a viral infection) for which it is ineffective. Overall, it is estimated that 40-70% of the worldwide Abx courses are mis-prescribed. The financial and health consequences of Abx over-prescription include the direct cost of the drugs, as well as the indirect costs of their side effects, which are estimated at >$15 billion annually. Furthermore, over-prescription directly causes the emergence of Abx-resistant strains of bacteria, which are recognized as one of the major threats to public health today. This generates an immediate need for reliable diagnostics to assist physicians in correct Abx prescription, especially at the point-of-care (POC) where most Abx are prescribed. Accordingly, some aspects of the present invention provide methods using biomarkers for rapidly detecting the source of infection and administrating the appropriate treatment.

The invention relates to the technical field of comprehensive emergency management, in particular to a decision-making and command all-in-one machine based on a digital predetermined plane and an operation method of the all-in-one machine. The all-in-one machine comprises a basic platform layer, a predetermining plane layer, a service application layer and a user layer in the aspect of architecture and adopts the design combining an application system and a hardware platform as a whole, can cope with natural hazards, accidents, disasters, public security, social security and various emergencies, and meets core requirements for analysis, judgment, decision making, scheduling, commanding and emergency management of public security emergency management. By means of integral design of the decision-making function and the command function and the all-in-one architecture combining practical auxiliary decision making of seven decision-making support technologies, the application system and the hardware platform, investment is little, implementation is easy, effects are fast, and professionalization is achieved. The all-in-one machine can be used for an intelligent emergency decision making and command scheduling system.

A system for aggregating and disseminating in-case-of-emergency (ICE) medical information to medical units. The system includes an ICE medical record server that stores medical records of respective subscribers, and automatically receive updates from health service entities visited by subscribers. When contacted by emergency dispatchers or first responders, the server sends subscribers medical information to first responders, emergency management agencies directly, via a dispatcher, or via a computer aided dispatch (CAD) system. The medical information may be arranged, emphasized, and/or filtered in a manner relevant to the on-going emergency. A communication device may wirelessly receive the medical information and pre-populate a pre-hospital care form with the information, which may be further orally annotated by the first responder. The completed PCR may then be sent to a PCR server for subsequent access by medical units that subsequently treat the subscriber. The medical server may further assist a public health agency to disseminate emergency information to selected subscribers, responders, and public health alerting systems. An ICE personal server for storing important personal documents is also disclosed. A PCR server is also disclosed that can disseminate aggregate PCR information in near real-time to an emergency management agency (EMA) system for developing incident response plans during a wide area emergency.

A method and apparatus is disclosed for providing an integrated communication services (ICS) network that permits wireless and wireline data subscribers to share information on a hospital campus using wireless or wireline local area networks, or to seamlessly tap into the facility's central database while in transit away from the hospital. Users interface with the ICS network through the use of a point of care terminal that resembles a clipboard and accepts data entry from a stylus on an touch screen. The central database, referred to as the integrated communications clearinghouse (ICC) is adapted to store a communication profile for every network server on the ICS network. The ICC also maintains a Global Patient Profile (GPP), consisting of a patient profile for every patient ever added to the network. The GPP provides the ICC with the capability of providing aggregated data and demographic information (with or without patient identification), creating “live” public health statistics through a single query to a central server. To access the ICS, a user at a point of care terminal can utilize several paths in order to deliver data to its destination. This may include existing off-the-shelf PCMCIA based peripherals such as: wireless LANS, standard wired Ethernet LAN, a land line Modem, or wireless wide area networks. The wireless wide area networks may also include several data paths such as a circuit switched cellular, or packet based Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD). The actual selection of a particular channel will be service-dependent and a function of the user whereabouts, the desired quality of the connection, and the costs of the connection.

A fabric phase sorptive extractor (FPSE) is a sampling device where a flexible fabric is coated with at least one sol-gel derived film that includes at least two of a metal oxide portion, a siloxy portion, and an organic portion, where the gel has at least some amorphous portions. The FPSE is flexible such that it can be used in an extended form or draped over a solid surface to contact a gaseous, liquid, or solid environment and can be manipulated for placement in a container where the absorbed analyte can be removed from the FPSE for instrumental analysis. The FPSE can have specific functionalities that bind to specific analytes or can provide a general sorbent medium for extraction of a wide range of analytes, such that the sampling device can be employed for sampling analytes with biological, environmental, food, pharmaceutical, bio-analytical, clinical, forensic, toxicological, national security, public health, and/or safety implications.

The invention relates to a biological sample detection vehicle and a vehicular detection system thereof. At present, a mobile lab achieving biosafety level-3 protection level is developed at home and abroad, which is called 'P3 vehicle' commonly, conventional home and abroad P3 vehicle is formed by grouping more than 2 box-type vehicles, and has large size and complicated operation. The invention aims at providing a miniature biological sample detection vehicle which has excellent maneuvering characteristic and biosafety protection function, adapts to epidemic situations or public health incidents and consists of a cockpit (1), a front cabin (9), a rear cabin (22) and an atmosphere sampler (19), wherein the front cabin is an equipment cabin, and the rear cabin is an experimental cabin. The biological sample detection vehicle integrates biological sampling, air pre-alarming and quick detection into a whole, has good maneuvering property and matched functions, has the function of carrying out various biological sampling and pathogenic microorganism detection in the field of epidemic situation in remote rural areas or urban roadways, and can be used for executing a 'bio-control' quick detection task in contingency medical rescue with high efficiency.

The invention relates to a construction method of a public health emergent event domain knowledge base. The method comprises the following steps: analyzing each domain involved by a public health emergent event life cycle, and searching a related document to obtain a corpus; constructing an event frame by extracting attribute information in a sentence; processing text information to form a standard information markup system; taking the obtained attribute information as a seed attribute, designing a seed mode, and selecting new matching related information depending on the seed information to obtain more attribute information; constructing a public health emergent event domain body by using the attribute information. The public health emergent event domain knowledge base constructed by the construction method of the domain knowledge base is more accurate and complete, simple and efficient, a new emergency plan is favorably generated and executed, a standard reference is provided for emergency treatment of emergent events, the emergency treatment efficiency can also be improved, and a reference is provided for next scientific research.

The present invention is directed to a system, components of the system, a method and components of the method for collecting, disseminating and managing information between a data/voice base network and an end user or system. The present invention comprising: (1) an end user device; (2) a device adapter; (3) management surface interface; (4) a series of programmable tools capable of carrying out a desired function; and (5) an information source. The present invention being adaptable to collect, disseminate and manage information relating to public health, financing, banking, E-government, commercial sales, commercial distribution, and others.

Disclosed is a plant antibiotics, prepared by adding each of plant fruits, seeds, kerns, peels, and shells or a mixture thereof at any weight ratio into a retort, heating to 115-150 DEG C, holding the temperature for 1-2 hours; then elevating the temperature to 200-250 DEG C, holding the temperature for 2-3 hours, then elevating the temperature to 350-450 DEG C, holding the temperature for 1-2 hours; collecting the dry distillation liquid of each period, mixing them, standing for 24-72 hours, waiting for stratification, isolating the transparent layer in the middle by siphon, which is the plant antibiotics disclosed. In the said plant antibiotics, the concentration of phenols is no lower than 0.5mg/ml, counted according to the amount of phenol; the concentration of formic acids is no lower than 1.5mg/ml, counted according to the amount of phenylformic acid; the pH value is 2-3.5 measured with an acidimeter. Disclosed plant antibiotics has application value in fields of medical sterilization, public health prevention and treatment, domestic bird diseases prevention, and foodstuff preservation and seasoning.

A method is provided for automatically identifying a disease outbreak indicative of a potential bio-terror attack. Patient records are mined from structured and unstructured clinical sources. The patient records are then analyzed by correlating selected patient data contained in the patient records with disease indicia for each of a plurality of diseases. A probability of a disease outbreak is estimated at least in part based on these correlations. Suspicion may also be indicated if anomalous disease clusters are found. If any of the estimated probabilities exceeds a threshold value, a disease outbreak alert is outputted. The disease indicia may be defined by disease progression models, which may be stored in a disease knowledge base.

The invention provides a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method based on a TaqMan probe, and an LAMP primer and a kit special for the same. The loop-mediated isothermal amplification method based on the TaqMan probe, and the LAMP primer and the kit special for the same are used for detecting a target gene. According to the invention, the TaqMan probe is combined with the LAMP technology to solve the problem of nonspecific amplification fundamentally; the loop-mediated isothermal amplification method is capable of detecting the target gene quickly, conveniently and efficiently at high specificity and high sensitivity under the isothermal condition, thus providing a new technology platform for nucleic acid detection; therefore, the loop-mediated isothermal amplification method can be applied to screening and detecting pathogenic bacteria (such as superbacteria) for grass-roots medical treatment and public health units and various disease preventing and control centers, and has wide market prospect and high economic and social benefits; consequently, the loop-mediated isothermal amplification method is suitable for large-range popularization and application.

The invention discloses an ecological community structure layout method of healthcare gardens. The ecological community structure layout method of the healthcare gardens comprises performing strict classification, precision matching and reasonable application according to growth characteristics, functions and usages of all kinds of healthcare plants, and respectively mass-planting the plants in healthcare gardens of different forms according to needs through scientific design, consummate layout and corresponding compatibility; meanwhile, selecting relevant arbors which are vigorous, good in stress resistance and have pharmacological actions as a frame and utilizing healthcare plants of different varieties, clear functions and high ornamental values as a main body to build an ecological plant community. According to the ecological community structure layout method of the healthcare gardens, aesthetics, medicine pharmacology and environmental psychology are used as guidance, sightseeing gardens with healthcare effects are built through the application of biological measures, the healthcare plants, gardening architecture articles and the like, positive significance on public health maintenance, recreation and body-building, disease prevention and cure, wisdom development, tumor suppression and cancer prevention, body health and longevity, physical and mental health and the like can be obtained, and also social significance of energy saving and emission reduction, low carbon and environmental protection and ecological civilization promotion can be achieved.

The invention provides a public washroom management system based on Lora technology. The system comprises a public washroom internal control system, a Lora gateway and a cloud server. The public washroom internal control system is connected with the cloud server through the Lora gateway. The public washroom internal control system comprises a central processor, a power supply module, a Lora module, a sanitation inspection unit, a human body detection unit, a fault detection unit and a human flow detection unit. The power supply module, the Lora module, the sanitation inspection unit, the human body detection unit, the fault detection unit and the human flow detection unit are connected with the central processor. The invention provides a public washroom management method based on Lora technology. The beneficial effects are that public washrooms are allowed to be used, managed and maintained more efficiently and simply.

A system and method for tracking people affected by a public health crisis, including a plurality of tags having a first portion, a second portion, at least one removable barcode, and an external database. A single tag of the plurality of tags is associated with a person. The first portion provides at least triage information. The second portion provides at least evacuee information. The at least one removable barcode is placed on the at least one other person's tag to indicate relationship information between the person and the at least one other person. At least one of the triage information, the evacuee information, and the relationship information are transmitted from the tag and stored in the external database.