49 results about "Wellness state" patented technology

A method, medium, and apparatus extracting avatar parameters using an avatar transformation algorithm from health state information measured from a user and generating an avatar using the extracted parameters. In the apparatus, a state analysis unit receives at least one among a bio-signal and questionary information of a user and outputs health state information, a parameter extraction unit extracts parameters defining an avatar image, and an avatar generation unit generates the avatar image using the parameters. By providing the method, medium, and apparatus, it is possible to provide a user with a convenience in recognizing his health state by generating an avatar image describing the user's future health state as well as the user's current health state. Further, it is possible to induce a user to manage his health constantly by maintaining a user's with the avatar image change.

A system and method for providing closely-followed cardiac therapy management through automated patient care is presented. A patient under remote care is enrolled in a monitoring program following commencement of a cardiac therapy regimen to be undertaken by the patient. A wearable monitor, including one or more patient physiology sensors and a wireless interface providing enabling bi-directional data exchange, is provided to the patient. Patient physiometry, including quantitative physiological measures, is periodically collected from the wearable monitor over the wireless interface concomitant to performance of the cardiac therapy regimen. The patient physiometry is evaluated to determine a trend indicating an onset, progression, regression, absence of, and status quo of patient health status.

This application is directed to methods, computer program products, and systems for processing equipment status messages and similar information. In one embodiment, status messages originating from a plurality of pieces of equipment are input and compared to user determined thresholds, and indicators are output reflecting the comparison. The indicators may includes fuel level information, operational capability and maintenance health. A computer program product includes computer readable media for inputting a plurality of the equipment status messages, comparing the equipment status messages with user determined thresholds, and generating a plurality of indicators to display equipment status. A system for viewing the health status of aircraft includes sensors to transmit health status messages, a network arranged for transmitting the messages, a processor arranged to compare health status data with user determined thresholds, and a display to output a health status indicators.

An integrated subject monitoring system facilitates measurement, collection and analysis of data pertaining to the health status of a subject. The system includes a network-coupled computer and subsystems monitoring subject location within a defined space and the curtilage thereof and obtaining measurements of a subject's physiological or behavioral / cognitive parameters within the defined space. Parameter data is obtained primarily passively, without the cooperation or active participation of the subject. A method of monitoring the physiological and behavioral / cognitive health status of an ambulatory subject involves monitoring in a primarily passive fashion, irrespective of the active collaboration of the subject. Subject health indicia parameters are continuously monitored, sampled and recorded. Captured values are compared to initial baseline values established for each of the measured parameters as well as to the trend for the parameter of that subject. Readings falling outside the boundaries trigger a signal to be sent to an appropriate party.

A method for improving the health status of members of an entity by using a program in which members may enroll is provided. The method includes notifying members a pool of rewards available to those who enroll in the program. For each enrolled member, a target physiological condition is established and successive physiological measurements related to the condition are obtained over a period of time. The target physiological condition and the successive physiological measurements are stored in a digital computer system and a computer process is used to determine and store a score of such member's proximity to the target physiological condition based on each such measurement. An award from the pool to one or more enrolled members is granted based on their scores at the end of the period.

The present invention leverages a data gathering service to provide information regarding a system's health state via a computing entity, local and / or remote. This provides an optimized means to aggregate a single network's data and / or multiple networks' data, decreasing the amount of effort required by system administrators to manage health related alerts. In one instance of the present invention, a data gathering service aggregates health data from systems and provides access to this information via a communication means. In another instance of the present invention, aggregated, averaged data is utilized to provide manual and / or automatic control and / or management facilitation of health monitoring related tasks.

A mattress pad that delivers magnetic and cymatic therapy to a resting or sleeping human body. The device consists of a mattress pad composed of various comfort supporting materials incorporating interspersed throughout the pad small transducers to deliver cymatic vibrations and permanent magnets fixed at the center of each transducer to deliver magnetic field therapy. Both the cymatic vibrations and the magnetic field therapy are delivered to the limbs and organs of the body concurrently. The magnetic field also serves as a conduit for the cymatic vibrations providing a magnetic inductive coupling within the cells of the body which assists in restoring the cells to their healthy-state natural resonant frequency.

An exercise management method, apparatus, and system by which a user can appropriately exercise without trainer's help are provided. The exercise management method of a mobile communication terminal in the exercise management system includes receiving an exercise program configured based on user information regarding a user from a trainer console which configures the exercise program, transmitting exercise data included in the exercise program to a health machine, receiving state information indicating a current health state of the user using the health machine from a state sensor when the health machine operates according to the exercise data, determining whether an abnormality occurs in a health state of the user based on the state information, and informing the user of occurrence of the abnormality when the abnormality occurs in the user's health state.

A system that supports multiple contact centers includes a communications network that is coupled between a private network (e.g. MPLS network) and a remote computing environment (e.g. cloud environment). A server system in the remote computing environment monitors health of different network segments (e.g. bandwidth of the connection between the communications network and the remote computing environment, bandwidth of a link used by a tenant to access the private network, etc.). When it is determined that quality of service for voice conversations for one or more contact centers is at risk due to a health status parameter of a network segment reaching a threshold, an appropriate system reaction is triggered. The system reaction may be to offload future calls to a peer remote computing environment to service future calls. The system reaction may also be to cancel outbound campaigns, provide pre-determined “sorry” messages, and the like.

Methods for screening a traveler for an evaluation of the traveler's physical condition or health status by obtaining at least one specimen from the traveler and subjecting the specimen to at least one test that is diagnostic for at least one parameter of the physical condition or health status of the traveler prior to or while the traveler undertakes a journey. Thereafter, the results of the diagnostic test are reported prior to or contemporaneous with the arrival of the traveler at the traveler's destination.

A system and method for the wearable mini-size intelligent healthcare system, comprising one or multiple vital signal sensors, activity sensors, a real-time detection and analyzing module for continuous health monitoring, adjustable user setting mode with the adaptive optimization, data-collecting capability to record important health information, smart audio outputs beep and speech advice to the user through audio path and audio interface, preset and user confirmable alarm conditions via wireless communications network to the appropriate individual for prompt and necessary assistance. The system uses non-invasive monitoring technology for continuous, painless and bloodless health state monitoring. The system also works through the short range RF link with carry-on PDA or cell phone for displaying health information, making urgent contact to support center, doctor or individual, or for information transmission with a healthcare center.

The present invention comprises a method for managing patient health status data. More specifically, a method and system is disclosed for reviewing and analyzing patient health related information and ensuring that it contains all appropriate health status data for the patient. All of a patient's health related information is gathered from available sources. That information is then analyzed to determine whether the appropriate health status data is present in the patient's health information. All appropriate health status data that is unreported in or inconsistent with the patient's health related information is identified. The patient's physician is then presented with suggested supplemental appropriate health status data and the physician's approval or rejection of the suggestion is sought. After the physician's approval or rejection, the patient's health status data is supplemented accordingly, and the data is compiled for future use or processing.

We disclose a health metric validation system in which a first heath metric is taken which is a measurement that is relevant to a user's health status. The first health metric may be used to diagnose a disease. A second metric is collected from the user and used to validate the first health metric. The first health metric and the second metric are entered into a computer which applies a first set of rules to the first health metric and second metric. The computer calculates a weight value and assigns it to the first health metric. The computer applies a second set of rules to the first health metric and its weight value to calculate an indicator value. The indicator value provides an indication of the validity of the first health metric.

The medical information band is an electronic control unit removably attached to a band that may be worn by a user or attached to a medication bottle. The electronic control unit displays all the information of drugs that the user takes, and provides an electronic alert to remind the user when to take the medication, or when the medication has reached its expiration date. The electronic control unit includes a temperature sensor, and alerts the user when the medication must be moved to a different location with a more appropriate storage temperature. Moreover, the electronic control unit may also display the personal information and the health status of the user.

The present invention relates generally to nucleic acid molecules expressed at least in the hypothalamus, liver, mesenteric adipose tissue, or red gastrocnemius muscle conveniently identified using differential display techniques under differing physiological conditions. The nucleic acid molecules are associated with or act as markers for conditions of inter alia a healthy state, myopathy, obesity, anorexia, weight maintenance, diabetes, disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, genetic disorders and / or metabolic energy levels. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a nucleic acid molecule and / or its expression product for use in therapeutic and diagnostic protocols for conditions such as inter alia a myopathy, obesity, anorexia, weight maintenance, diabetes, disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, genetic disorders and / or metabolic energy levels. The subject nucleic acid molecule and expression product and their derivatives, homologs, analogs and mimetics are proposed to be useful, therefore, as therapeutic and diagnostic agents for inter alia a myopathy, obesity, anorexia, weight maintenance, diabetes, disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, genetic disorders and / or metabolic energy levels or as targets for the design and / or identification of modulators of their activity and / or function.

A health management cycling service method and system for a community association has five steps to scheme a personal health management plan according to each inhabitant's conditions of the life history, living environment, and the situations of body and mind. In addition, the business actively monitors and records the progresses of executing his or her personal health management plan to obtain a better management effect. The inhabitant can repeats the five steps to progressively and effectively reduce the number and the level of any abnormal health problem and finally reaching the best healthy situation.

A method, medium, and apparatus extracting avatar parameters using an avatar transformation algorithm from health state information measured from a user and generating an avatar using the extracted parameters. In the apparatus, a state analysis unit receives at least one among a bio-signal and questionary information of a user and outputs health state information, a parameter extraction unit extracts parameters defining an avatar image, and an avatar generation unit generates the avatar image using the parameters. By providing the method, medium, and apparatus, it is possible to provide a user with a convenience in recognizing his health state by generating an avatar image describing the user's future health state as well as the user's current health state. Further, it is possible to induce a user to manage his health constantly by maintaining a user's with the avatar image change.

Systems and solutions for monitoring an electrical device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a monitoring system for an electrical device includes: a utility meter communicatively connected to the electrical device; and at least one computing device disposed within the utility meter, the at least one computing device adapted to monitor the electrical device by performing actions comprising: obtaining operational data about the electrical device; comparing the operational data about the electrical device with predefined operational criteria for the electrical device; determining a health status for the electrical device based upon the comparison of the operational data about the electrical device and the predefined operational criteria for the electrical device; and providing to the utility meter a health status indicator, the health status indicator including an operational status of the electrical device.

A system and a method for performing a cost-utility analysis of pharmaceutical interventions where each pharmaceutical intervention is associated with several potential health states. The system includes a processor and a database. The database contains for each pharmaceutical intervention several utility values associated with each health state and a probability for each potential health state associated with each pharmaceutical intervention. The processor is in communication with the database and determines a mean utility value for each pharmaceutical intervention by correlating each probability associated with each pharmaceutical intervention with the utility value associated with the respective health state. The processor also compares the pharmaceutical interventions the mean utility values of the pharmaceutical interventions by decision analysis.

The present invention relates generally to a nucleic acid molecule which is expressed in at least red gastrocnemius muscle or its equivalent under particular physiological conditions. It is proposed that the nucleic acid molecule is differentially expressed under differing conditions of healthy state, myopathy, obesity, anorexia, weight maintenance, diabetes, disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, genetic disorders, cancer, heart disease, inflammation, disorders associated with the immune system, infertility, disease associated with the brain and / or metabolic energy levels. The subject nucleic acid molecule and / or its expression product is proposed to be used in therapeutic and diagnostic protocols for conditions such as healthy state, myopathy, obesity, anorexia, weight maintenance, diabetes, disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, genetic disorders, cancer, heart disease, inflammation, disorders associated with the immune system, infertility, disease associated with the brain and / or metabolic energy levels or as targets for the design and / or identification of modulators of their activity and / or function.

The present invention is a system for monitoring a health state of a subject. The system is provided with: a measuring unit that chronologically measures the position of the subject in a facility in which the subject resides or stays; and an information processing unit that determines a health state of the subject by determining whether a chronological change in the position of the subject satisfies a predetermined determination condition.

Health management and monitoring predicated on an intermittent calorie restricted health management paradigm is provided. In an illustrative implementation, an intermittent calorie restricted health management program is provided to a participating health management subject so improve the health state of the participating subject (e.g., impact disease states in the health management subject) with or without the participating subject observing weight loss. In the context of health monitoring, in an illustrative operation, the levels of the SIRT-1 protein are measured on the participating health management subject. The measured SIRT-1 protein levels provide an indication of whether the participating health management subject is adhering to the provided intermittent calorie restricted health management paradigm.

The present invention discloses systems and methods for monitoring patients with a chronic disease such as heart failure. The system may include a physiological sensor circuit to sense physiological signals and generate signal metrics from the physiological signals. The system may include a health status analyzer circuit to use the signal metrics to generate one or more stability indicators of patient health status, such as stability of heart failure status. The system may additionally generate one or more health status indicators indicating patient health status such as heart failure progression. A patient disposition decision may be generated using the health status indicators and the stability indicators to provide an indication of readiness for patient discharge from or a risk of admission to a hospital.

A method of diagnosing a state of health of a vision-based lane sensing system. A first misalignment factor is calculated as a function of a vehicle lateral offset and a vehicle heading. A second misalignment factor is calculated as a function of a vehicle speed, an estimated curvature of an expected path of travel, a lane curvature, and the vehicle heading. Histograms are generated for the first and second misalignment factors. A probability of a state of health is determined. A determination is made whether the probability of the state of health is within a predetermined threshold. An angle misalignment of the vision system is estimated. The angle misalignment of the vision system is corrected in response to the determination that the probability of the state of health is within the predetermined threshold; otherwise a warning of a faulty lane sensing system is actuated.

An electrical system includes a voltage bus, battery pack, power inverter module (PIM), electric machine, first contactor, and controller. The PIM is connected to the battery pack and has a capacitor, voltage sensor, and semiconductor switches. The electric machine having phase legs with a corresponding phase winding and resistive path. The first contactor connects the PIM to a positive rail of the bus. The controller opens the first contactor in response to a power-off event, commands a discharge of the capacitor through the resistive paths, diagnoses a state of health (SOH) of the first contactor using a first threshold decay rate of the capacitor output voltage upon opening the first contactor, and executes a control action with respect to the electrical system using the diagnosed SOH. The three possible SOH are unhealthy / hard-welded contactor, unhealthy / soft-welded contactor, and healthy / normally-functioning contactor condition. A vehicle and method are also disclosed.