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A system and process for providing a computerized medical and biographical records database and diagnostic information. A medical records database and diagnostic program is stored on a central computer that is accessible to individuals using remotely situated computers connected to a computer network. Individual patient medical and biographical records are owned by individual patients who can enter information in their record as well as grant or deny authorization to others, such as health care professionals, insurance providers and other entities, to review part or all of their record. The diagnostic program provides a series of diagnostic questions to an individual who must respond either "yes" or "no" to each question. Each potential response is weighted relative to its importance to a particular disease diagnosis. Relative weights for all responses to diagnostic questions are summed to identify potential diagnoses to connected to the answered questions. The diagnostic program provides the individual with a list of potential diagnoses as well as permitting the individual to save the information to his or her individual medical and biographical record. The information maintained in the above system and process is utilized for health care financing and insurance.

A system and method are provided for automatically developing and implementing, a comprehensive customized care plan for a patient, to address all of the patient medical and non-medical (e.g., social, quality-of-life, personal) needs, utilizing a wide variety of information: both gathered both personally from a patient by a medical professional and also collected automatically by one or more telemedicine systems. The system and method of the present invention also continually re-assess and dynamically modify the comprehensive care plan, and additionally enable a wide variety of services and benefits to be made available to the patients in a manner automatically customized for their specific needs, with the offered services and benefits being dynamically adjusted as the patient needs change or evolve. In addition, the inventive system provides platform-independent capabilities so that diagnostic systems and devices from various vendors may be freely mixed to provide patients with customized diagnostic monitoring at the lowest possible cost.

The current invention is directed to a system for adaptive medical decision support. The invented system provides a system that allows users to efficiently enter, access, and analyze medical information, without disrupting patient-doctor interactions or medical facility course of business; which assists in all stages of medical assessment and treatment; and which is tailored to the particular medical practice or specialty and taking into account the developing habits, preferences, performance, and individual patient histories, of an individual user. The invention provides a learning capacity configured to learn previously presented data and decisions and predict data or decisions based on data that it receives from the user, thereby adapting its operations to the developing habits, preferences, performance, and individual patient histories of an individual user. The system may also provide a “virtual specialist” feature, whereby the system can be instructed to produce the probable actions or recommendations of particular medical specialists.

A system and method for disease management that effectively eliminates unnecessary layers and / or intermediaries within the healthcare management system by enabling a disease management entity to operate as an extension of a physician's office, and thus, work closely with the patients and the patient's physicians to effectively empower patients towards self-care and a higher level of awareness and understanding of their disease process and treatment. The present system and method utilizes a team of highly trained healthcare professionals and technicians working together with patients and physicians, wherein remote vital sign monitoring equipment, software systems, and standing orders and treatment protocols, are utilized to effectively manage patients with chronic conditions. Additionally, as the disease management entity operates as an extension of a physician's office, the disease management entity is able to coordinate with a payor through the physician's office, and thus provide the payor with positive financial outcomes.

The present invention teaches a medical procedure training system based on a PC platform that provides multimodal education within a virtual environment. The system integrates digital video, three-dimensional modeling, and force-feedback devices for the purpose of training medical professionals medical procedures.

The present invention comprises a method, apparatus and business system for allowing on-line communications with members of a group of recipients for whom the invention has been implemented. A group may, for example, comprise members of a particular business or profession. For example, a group may consist of doctors admitted to practice in the United States. Individual members of the group may or may not have existing internet presences (such as an e-mail address or website). The invention allows online users to communicate with each member of a given group regardless of whether or not the member has an existing online presence. In one or more embodiments, the invention does so by setting up a database of contact information for members of the group, creating an internet presence for each member of the group, creating an online interface allowind a user to access the member's created internet presence, and providing means of communications between the created internet presence and the member recipient.

A voice-activated system for creating medical records enabling the production of individual patient records from stored data bases responsive to specialized voice recognition commands including stored vocabulary and scripts in combination with digital imaging technologies to produce any of medical reports, consultation letters, nurses notes, and patient instruction sheets.

The present invention relates to a systems and methods for selecting agents and combinations of agents for treatment of particular cancer patients or selected groups of cancer patients. These methods of the invention index possible agents and combinations in a ranking indicating the likelihood of their usefulness in the particular patient or group of patients. The indexing depends on chemo-sensitivity / resistance assays data for the agents and combinations themselves, supplemented by reference data obtained from assaying the same and other agents and combinations against clinically similar tumors, and on overall clinical response rates for the agents and combinations. These methods include additional new indexing criteria which supplement or replace previous criteria in order to provide for more complex, informative and quantitative analysis of potential treatments for single patients or groups of patients. The new criteria, and the methods and the present invention generally, are based on new discoveries and insights concerning the action and interaction of chemotherapeutic agents, including for example, recognition of the common heterogeneity of tumors heretofore considered empirically substantially homogeneous. Systems of the invention provide access to significant reference data and implement the methods of the invention in a manner for use by physicians and other health professionals. In further embodiment, these method and systems provide for screening of new agents and new combinations including, perhaps, old agents in a manner that can detect activity even if overall clinical response rates are not encouraging.

A process includes creating a medical record to document a meeting between a patient and a medical professional. A database is created containing a number of key terms related to one or more of the following: ICD-10 billing codes; medical conditions; treatment; or diagnoses. The medical professional asks the patient a question. The question is converted into text. A number of key text terms are identified from the text by determining which words from the text match key terms from the database. The medical record is updated based on the key text terms. The medical professional then reviews the medical record and repeats the prior steps as necessary to complete the medical record.

The computer-implemented system of providing online medical consultation services by a team of medical professionals begins when a user accesses the system website. The user selects the level of consultation services desired and a case submission form is provided to the user requesting information relating to desired medical consultation. The user provides the requested information on case submission form. If additional information is required, it is obtained. When the case is ready for submission, members of the medical professional team are selected for consultation on the case and forwarded the particulars of the submitted case via the Internet. The selected team members review the submitted case particulars and each member provides their medical opinion via Internet. The submitted opinions are recorded and displayed in real time on the system website, to which the user has access. In addition, the submitted opinions to structured questions are compiled to determine if there is a consensus. A graphical representation of the compiled opinions is generated and displayed in real time on the website, as well. This system can provide nearly instant information as to the sum of the opinions of medical experts for a variety of case scenarios and establishes whether, and to what extent, a consensus exists among the consulting medical professionals.

A system provides a daily workflow list that is tailored according to nurse tenure, experience, specialty, licensure and education, for example. An adaptive healthcare workflow and task management system includes a repository of first information indicating clinician tasks and related subtasks for performance by a clinician in providing a particular care service to a patient. The system includes a repository of second information indicating experience and qualifications of multiple different clinicians. A rules processor, in response to a particular clinician identifier and data identifying a clinician task to be performed by the particular clinician in providing a particular care service to a patient, employs the first and second information in adaptively determining a subtask related to the clinician task to be indicated to be performed by the particular clinician based on experience and qualifications of the particular clinician. An output processor provides data for reproduction and presentation to the particular clinician indicating the subtask related to the clinician task to be indicated to be performed by the particular clinician.

A method and system for medical analytics implemented on a computer and designed to aid a medical professional in diagnosing one or more diseases afflicting a patient. In contrast to prior art, the present method is based on using clinical data (m) that excludes subjective qualities of and also excludes prevalence of the one or more diseases (i). The method uses a knowledge base that contains disease (i) models exhibiting clinical data (m). Clinical data present (j) in the patient are input into the computer. Then, clinical data present (j) are matched with clinical data (m) in the knowledge base to enable the computer to compose a differential diagnosis list of ruled in diagnoses (k), where k=1 . . . n, for each of the disease (i) models that exhibits at least one clinical datum (m) that matches at least one clinical datum present (j) in the patient. In a key step, the computer computes a probability P(k) for each of the ruled in diagnoses (k) with the aid of a mini-max procedure that overcomes prior art limitations of the Bayes formulation and permits the analytics method to consider concurrent and competing diagnoses (k). Furthermore, the method composes pairs of clinical data present (j) and absent (r) in the patient to aid the medical professional in evaluating diagnoses and determining the most cost-effective clinical data to collect for conducting an effective and rapid diagnostic quest.

A system which contains real-time specialist on-call data is disclosed. The system allows for the input and searching of specialist on-call data for various health care locations. The system is configured to allow a patient in need of the medical care of a specialist not currently available at the patient's location to search for the nearest health care location(s) with a physician of the desired specialization presently or soon to be on call. Methods of the same are also disclosed.

The invention discloses an intelligent old age nursing industry service management method and system. By means of technologies, such as Internet, Internet of Things and cloud computing, a cloud call center, a GPS, an LBS, a GIS, information communication interface management, a speech synthesis system TTS, security protection energy consumption management, an intelligent terminal and civil old age nursing management are integrated through middleware interfaces. Intelligent old age nursing industry services include a home old age nursing service platform, a comprehensive learning service platform, an old age nursing specialty college platform, an old age nursing base management platform, an old age nursing tourism service platform, an old age entrepreneurial type half-working half-support service platform, a silver hair angel service platform, a unified resource management platform, a civil old age nursing management platform, an e-commerce platform and a financial service platform. Based on the informationized and intelligent service platforms, social resources, government resources and information resources can be effectively integrated, and an old age nursing industry service system can be built, and the old and family members can obtain easily available service assurance.

The invention belongs to the technical field of noise detection, and provides a detection method for pathological voice. The method comprises the following steps of collecting the voice of a patient to be detected, conducting characteristic parameter extraction and selection on the collected voice signal, enabling optimized parameters to enter a constructed classifier model for conducting disorder grade evaluation, and outputting the detected voice disorder grading result. According to the detection method for the pathological voice, a computer and scientific judging standards are used, a professional voice processing algorithm is adopted, a doctor can be partially or completely replaced for diagnosing the patient, the result is used as the diagnosis reference for the doctor, and the contingency of the diagnostic process is reduced to the greatest extent. In addition, the detection method is easy to implement, convenient to use and high in diagnosis accuracy, an ordinary medical worker can master the detection method through simple training, the defect that medical resources are not enough in remote areas and small cities is overcome to some extent, and the disease of the patient can be diagnosed nearby and treated as soon as possible. Moreover, the specific and quantified grading mode is provided for the voice disorder, corresponding data logs are provided at each stage in the treatment process of the patient, the doctor can completely track and know the state of the disease through the data, and the treatment process of the patient is ensured to the greatest extent.

A handheld device, such as a personal digital assistant ("PDA"), can be used at the point-of-care to find an appropriate pair of diagnosis code and procedure code for use in writing an order for further medical procedures for a particular patient. The choice of diagnosis code and procedure code can be checked for conformance with the requirements set forth in a particular set of medical necessity policy rules. In a preferred embodiment, the codes and rules are aggregated by medical specialty so that a specialist can work with solely those codes and rules that are relevant to that particular medical specialty. This abstract is provided as a tool for those searching for patents, and not as a limitation on the scope of the claims.

The invention discloses a cognitive assessment method and system based on virtual reality. The system comprises an information inputting module, an intelligent conversion module, a processor module, a facial induction module, an electroencephalogram induction module and a VR (Virtual Reality) device module. On the basis of a traditional scale, the method overcomes the problems of the traditional scale on the aspects of application, operation, user experience and the like, in addition, the method combines scale assessment, micro-expression information and electroencephalogram information to judge a user cognition situation, a provided assessment result is more comprehensive, detailed and objective and is higher in reliability, and the method is the cognitive assessment method which has the advantages of being automatic in scale selection, simple in operation, good in user experience effects and good in assessment effects. The method exhibits wide applicability, has a low requirement on operation personnel, and is suitable to be popularized and used in basic medical institutions which lack professional medical care personnel.

A medical diagnosis decision support system for assisting a health professional to diagnose a medical condition. The system is first provided with an anchor condition that can be a symptom, a sign, a laboratory test result, or an imaging test results or any combination thereof The system then guides users in a series of predetermined phases regarding abstract or concrete diagnosis groups that should be considered and appropriate data that should be collected during the clinical investigation process. The system suggests history and physical examination clinical data items, laboratory, and imaging tests that should be collected in order to differentiate among alternative diagnoses. In each phase, possible diagnoses are listed and ranked.

A system and method utilizes a heuristic and databases to decode codes of profiles into plain language and to derive inferences from characteristics of the profiles. The system and method may then automatically match the combination of plain language and / or inferences to specific instances of a plurality of content (e.g., job postings and work opportunities, continuing education classes and educational training, other profiles, entrepreneurial prospects, and geographic resources) and provide the matched instances via a user interface.

System and method for a patient controlled electronic (client-server) medical record system that can be used by patients, various healthcare professionals, and even emergency medical services. Patients set up the system, own and control the data, and authorize selected healthcare professionals to enter notes and other medical records (which may be imported from various legacy medical record systems) into the patient controlled system. The healthcare professionals can also retrieve data from the system according to various levels of patient authorization. Security is maintained using a combination of machine readable ID codes and patient PIN numbers, and emergency medical services personnel may also be granted at least lower level access to the system even without PIN codes, which is useful when patients are found in an unresponsive state. Other system functions, including automatic appointment scheduling, automated physician enrollment and referrals, and various messaging functions are also described.

A system for providing expert care to a basic care medical facility (OPCL) from a remote location. The system facilitates real-time, continuous assessment of patients receiving care in an OPCL that is not generally equipped to provide expert medical care on a twenty-four basis. Patient monitoring equipment acquires monitored data elements from a patient monitoring station and transmits the monitoring data over a network to a remote command center. The remote command center also receives other patient data to the extent available from the OPCL. Alternatively, the patient monitored data is sent to a remote command center along with patient data at a pre-established time or when requested by remote command center. The delivery of stored monitoring data and patient data may be expedited if an urgent consultation is warranted. A rules engine continuously applies a patient-specific rule or rule set to the data elements selected from the assessment data from each OPCL monitored patient to determine whether intervention is warranted. Patient-specific rules may be created that are consistent with the capabilities of the OPCL.

Apparatus is provided including an input device, a medical risk database, a data processor, and a communication device. Data entered in the input device, usually by a health care professional, defines a patient data record. The medical risk database associates certain patient data entered into the data record, which increases the risk of a missed medical care opportunity, with additional medical care to address the risk. The communication device responds to the identification of patient data presenting a medical risk by communicating to a health care professional additional medical care selected to identify and take advantage of a medical care opportunity. Templates are also disclosed having “red light green light” indicators that indicate red to prompt consideration of a system and green to indicate it has been considered. A triage template and key information to provide additional information to the diagnosing or treating professional are also provided.

An improved method of evaluating and comparing the cost-effectiveness of healthcare providers across a wide spectrum of specialties and health conditions of their patients. The method includes the steps of determining criteria for determining a provider's relative cost-effectiveness at providing healthcare at a reasonable cost, and then applying those criteria to assign or exclude a provider from a preferred network of healthcare providers that have an established history of providing the same care at a lower cost than other providers.

Computerized methods, systems, and user interfaces for handling one or more radiology orders are provided. Such methods, systems, and user interfaces allow a radiologist, radiological technician, or other healthcare professional to efficiently review and approve, modify, or reject electronic requests from ordering physicians to have patients undergo radiological examination. Such methods, systems, and user interfaces also allow regulators to audit the radiology vetting process to ensure that proper review of radiological examination requests is being conducted. Computerized methods, systems, and user interfaces for automatic electronic notification of ordering physicians of modified or cancelled radiological examination requests are also provided.

The described invention provides a method, a system and non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer program instructions that when executed on a processor cause communicatively linked clinical outcome tracking and analysis modules to perform operations that use CNA-guided care to improve clinical outcomes at a specific patient level and to decrease total cost of care at the population level.Computer program instructions when executed on a processor comprising a first clinical outcome tracking and analysis module causes the first clinical outcome and tracking module to account for biological variance up front by grouping patients in the patient population, thereby effectively removing biological variance as a factor in value of care, and leaving treatment variance as a predominant factor in treatment outcome by receiving, sorting, and classifying personal health information, the latter by generating and assigning a plurality of Clinical outcome tracking and analysis Nodal Addresses (CNAs), each CNA representing a discrete punctuated string of digits comprising a prefix, a middle and a suffix that each represent a set of preselected variables that partition the sorted and classified information into a clinically relevant set of information.The first clinical outcome tracking and analysis (COTA) module tracks consequences of treatment choices and reports on outcomes associated with the use of these CNAs.CNA-guided care, which has two faces, operates through the application of CNAs, and is formed by the triad of a health care provider, a payer, and the patient who is suffering from a disease.The first face, the enabling tool, comprises interactions between a medical care provider, a computer containing a processor comprising a first clinical outcome tracking and analysis (COTA) module, a first client device comprising a second COTA module that is communicatively linked to the first COTA module via a network, and a payer. The payer transmits to the processor comprising the first COTA module via the second COTA module information identifying a health care service under consideration for the patient whose health plan benefits cover the service and other variables selected by the payer. In response, the first COTA module transmits to the second COTA module, (1) the clinical outcome data for the appropriate CNA, (2) the behavioral variance data for each medical provider at the appropriate CNA; (3) a cost report comprising cost data in real time for treating each patient in the patient population assigned to the appropriate CNA; and (4) one or more graphic analyses correlating cost of care to clinical outcome. If this information is sufficient to establish that the medical service is an appropriate delivery or level of service, considering potential benefits and harms to the patient; that the medical service is effective in improving health outcome by improving clinical outcomes and reducing total cost of care; that the service is cost-effective for the medical condition being treated and the clinical outcome, compared to alternative health interventions or no intervention; and that the service follows generally accepted medical practice, the payer then can approve payment to the medical care provider for the service.The second face, which comprises interactions between the computer containing a processor comprising the first COTA module, a second client device comprising a third COTA module that is communicatively linked to the first COTA module via a network and the patient provide for communications between the processor comprising the first COTA module and the communicatively linked third client device comprising the third COTA module that provide information sufficient for a complete medical evaluation of the patient and for assigning a CNA to the patient. The CNA then is used to enable a patient with a condition to select an optimal care plan with a reduced risk of adverse variance and a medical professional based on geography, clinical outcome, cost and other patient-set criteria within the CNA. The assigned CNA can be associated with one or more bundles of predetermined patient care services for treatment of the condition, which can provide a predetermined course of treatment, cost certainty, or both. Once the patient selects a medical professional that meets one or more of geographical, cost and clinical outcome needs of the patient, the first COTA module can be communicatively linked to a computing device at the selected medical professional's office to facilitate scheduling of an appointment.

Systems and methods for identifying health care professionals or physicians having certain prescribed attributes can be employed to identify health care professional or physician influence networks for the purpose of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of a pharmaceutical company's sales force. Such identified physicians can include, for example, influencer physicians, influenced, and high prescribing physicians. The method for identifying such physicians involves the use of a mathematical methodology to analyze surveys to determine the size of a physician population and the influencers therein.

The invention discloses a medical literature classification model training method and device, and a medical literature classification method and device. The training method comprises the steps of extracting to-be-labeled data from a sample literature; labeling the to-be-labeled data by utilizing pre-established classification system and labeling rule base, wherein the classification system and thelabeling rule base are established on the basis of classification requirements of a user on medical literatures, the classification system comprises at least two classification dimensions, each classification dimension comprises at least two literature categories, and each literature category has an associated labeling rule; and training a classification model by taking the labeled data as training data to obtain a medical literature classification model. According to the technical scheme provided by the training method and device and the classification method and device, the literatures areclassified based on the professional classification system and labeling rules, so that the problem that the classification of existing medical literatures is insufficiently refined and professional can be solved.

Upon request, a computer can provide a useful collection of medical coding data to another computer on a network. The collection can be tailored to a particular medical specialty. The collection can be provided in a printable form that relates the various code relationships which may be needed for accurate use of the codes. Various embodiments may provide a book with a separate page for each code that includes the fee for the code, codes that are mutually exclusive with the code, and codes that may be needed in addition to the code. Other useful information can also be associated with the codes provided in the collection. Appropriate fees for codes in the collection can be provided, which may need to be calculated for each medical services provider depending on variables such as a geographic location of the medical service provider.