Health Care Management (e.g., Record Management, Icda Billing)

Health Care Management (e.g., Record Management, Icda Billing) patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

11/23/06 - 20060265248 - Device for automating billing reimbursement
An apparatus for automating billing reimbursement includes an electronic handheld processing device that displays patient demographic information, billing codes and guideline information. The physician selects patient information and is able to sort the patient information by different categories. The physician, after examination of the patient, inputs a billing code which ...

11/23/06 - 20060265247 - Pharmacy admixture management system and method
A pharmacy admixture system and method that validates the admixture preparation process by using bar code scanning to verify users of the system and components of an admixture. The system employs computers, preferably portable and wirelessly connected, with integrated non-contact bar code scanning capability to electronically validate orders, the compounding ...

11/23/06 - 20060265246 - Medication safety system featuring a multiplexed rfid interrogator panel
A medication safety system includes a panel mounted to an IV pole above a multi-channel infusion pump also mounted to the IV pole. The panel includes multiple RFID readers for reading the RFID tags placed on each of the medication containers mounted to the panel. The pump includes a controller ...

11/23/06 - 20060265245 - System and methods for providing medication selection guidance
A system and associated methods provide medication selection guidance at the time of a prescription event for a given patient, or at other times, such as when changes occur in the patient's healthcare plan coverage. In one medication selection guidance method, information is received regarding a clinician-preferred medication prescription related ...

11/23/06 - 20060265244 - Method of determining skin type, choosing skin care products and procedures and promoting skin care products
The invention comprises a system and method for assigning a skin type and/or hair type to an individual, where a preferred example is one of sixteen hair types and one of sixteen skin types. The hair or skin type score uses at least four factors related to the condition of ...

11/16/06 - 20060259328 - Wireless non-invasive analyte measurement device
Systems and method for tracking measurements from a wireless measurement device are provided. A tracking server is in communication with wireless measurement devices deployed in the field and periodically receives usage reports from the measurement devices to ensure timely measurements by the user and to monitor usage of the measurement ...

11/16/06 - 20060259327 - Infusion device data set analyzer
A system and method for evaluating drug data sets is provided. The system and method includes identifying when entries in a current data set differ from a data set comprising an aggregate of entries for a plurality of institutions, and prompting a user to determine if a change in the ...

11/16/06 - 20060259326 - Medical information access and processing system
A medical information access and processing system includes a plurality of different wireless tag reader devices and a plurality of interfaces for receiving tag information, derived from reading a plurality of corresponding identification tags, from the tag reader devices. At least one repository of map information associates tag information received ...

11/16/06 - 20060259325 - Computerized system and methods of adjudicating medical appropriateness
A method for adjudicating and reimbursing a care provider for services provided for a clinical event is provided. The method includes the step of receiving a transaction having a number of clinical data elements. The method also includes the steps of accessing a data store including payer information and determining ...

11/16/06 - 20060259324 - Computerized system and methods for generating and processing integrated transactions for healthcare services
A method for adjudicating and reimbursing a care provider for services provided for a clinical event is provided. The method includes the step of receiving a transaction having a number of clinical data elements. The method also includes the steps of accessing a data store including payer information and determining ...

11/16/06 - 20060259323 - Weight management system
A weight management system includes a control wristwatch including a processor programmed with a weight management program and an RF receiver, a weight scale for collecting weight data from a user and including an RF transmitter for transmitting the weight data to the wristwatch, and a pedometer or heart rate ...

11/16/06 - 20060259322 - Electronic system and method for processing drug prescriptions
Some embodiments of the invention provide an electronically-aided system and method for processing drug prescriptions in a manner that may reduce the number of lost and/or incorrectly filled drug prescriptions without disrupting existing operating procedures within a pharmacy or an inpatient health-care facility. In such embodiments, the potential for human ...

11/09/06 - 20060253303 - Multiple patient monitoring system for proactive health management
A system and method for monitoring a group of patients having a chronic disease or ongoing health condition. The method includes the step of collecting from each patient a corresponding set of measurements of a control parameter of the health condition. Each set of measurements has a collection date. A ...

11/09/06 - 20060253302 - System for facilitating healthcare services for cash paying patients
An online system and process include an Internet search engine and a database used to arrange services between healthcare providers and uninsured or other cash paying patients. The database may include healthcare information pertaining to doctors and dentists who will accept patients having no health insurance and/or paying with cash. ...

11/09/06 - 20060253301 - System and method for managing alert notifications in an automated patient management system
A system and method for managing alert notifications in an automated patient management system is presented. One or more settings specifying patient data collection periodicity are defined. One or more patient data sources operating on a remotely managed patient and selected from at least one of a physiological sensor and ...

11/09/06 - 20060253300 - System and method for managing patient triage in an automated patient management system
A system and method for managing patient triage in an automated patient management system is presented. A criteria for placement of patient data into a display is defined for a plurality of remotely managed patients. The patient data originates from one or more patient data sources operating on each such ...

11/09/06 - 20060253299 - Hospital information system
In a hospital information system of the present invention, it is possible to link between certificated indication contents and implementation result on a flow sheet (a sheet displaying timevarying vital signs, Intake/Output, observations, and measures) by linking doctor's indications between an indication sheet and a flow sheet, which is mainly ...

11/02/06 - 20060247951 - Universal serial bus (usb) based remote health monitoring
A modular self-care health monitoring system which employs a compact microprocessor-based unit such as a video game system of the type that includes switches for controlling device operation and a program cartridge. In accordance with the invention, the program cartridge adapts the microprocessor-based unit for operation with a glucose monitor ...

11/02/06 - 20060247950 - System of health-care information management
A system of management of digital data comprising health, health-care and health-care related information on patients and physicians generate and view by patients and physicians wherein data are managed by computer programs in computers and servers to effect generations and expansions of data by physicians and patients. ...

11/02/06 - 20060247949 - Method for ensuring accuracy of medical patient intake data
A method for ensuring the accuracy of electronic medical patient intake data is disclosed. First, the medical intake data for multiple patients is entered into a computer system. The data for these patients are arranged into a batch. This batch is checked for errors in the intake data at some ...

11/02/06 - 20060247948 - Graphical on-screen bed board with portable patient card
An electronically generated bed board is primarily comprised of a plurality of graphical representations of bed cells each having associated therewith a set of bed attributes and a plurality of graphical representations of patient cards each having associated therewith a set of patient attributes. Each patient card may be displayed ...

11/02/06 - 20060247947 - System and method for verifying the accurate processing of medical insurance claims
In a system and method for verifying the accurate processing of medical insurance claim data generated by a health care provider, a health care provider enters medical insurance claim information (data) into a health care provider terminal. The medical insurance claim data may include patient identification data and treatment data. ...

10/26/06 - 20060241975 - Multi-user remote health monitoring system with biometrics support
A method for monitoring a physiological condition of a user with an apparatus in a computer network is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) storing authorization information in a nonvolatile condition within the apparatus, the authorization information being suitable for identifying at least one of (i) one ...

10/26/06 - 20060241974 - System and method for peer-profiling individual performance
Embodiments of the invention provide a comprehensive, automated system and method for evaluating the performance of individuals or entities employed by an organization, particularly useful in peer-profiling physician performance in multi-facility environments. Embodiments of the invention can dynamically compose a virtual peer or group of peers and perform peer-profiling on ...

10/26/06 - 20060241973 - System and method for employee health and productivity improvement plan
A system and method facilitates an employer to make tax-deferred payments into an employee's account as an incentive to live a healthier lifestyle. The system awards tax-deferred contributions to individuals based on accomplishments in a number of categories. Each category, such as exercise regimen, provides some indication of an individual's ...

10/26/06 - 20060241972 - Medical outcomes systems
A method of measuring the effectiveness of a surgical or medical treatment carried out on a patient population is provided. The method involves the steps of selecting a patient population, deriving pre-treatment score and post-treatment scores for each patient based on their questionnaire responses to quality of life-related criteria, deriving ...

10/26/06 - 20060241971 - My smileguide
An oral health risk assessment and educational tool, which provides demographic, longitudinal and cross sectional health, and attitude data and management of these data sets for clients and users. ...

10/26/06 - 20060241970 - Process and device for health orientation
The invention concerns a process for health orientation of a person comprising (a) measuring at least one body property (physical attribute or vital statistic) of the person, which characterizes a health condition of the person, with at least one measuring device (1, 3, 5, 7); (b) transmitting the at least ...

10/26/06 - 20060241969 - Health cost avoidance system
Complications of various diseases have ascertainable direct costs and indirect costs. A method of projecting direct and indirect cost savings which may be realized from targeted interventions for achieving desired clinical outcomes which may result in the avoidance or mitigation of the complication is provided. Further, a comprehensive patient care ...

10/26/06 - 20060241968 - Ndma scalable archive hardware/software architecture for load balancing, independent processing, and querying of records
A system for storing NDMA data is scalable to handle extreme amounts of data. The system allows components to be added or deleted to meet current demands. The system processes data in independent steps, providing processor level independence for every subcomponent. The system uses parallel processing and multithreading within load ...

10/19/06 - 20060235727 - Knowledge-based disease management system to coordinate and improve patient care
A knowledge-based disease management system and method to coordinate and improve patient care, including a repository of accumulated knowledge and experience from which outcome data are reported and compared. ...

10/19/06 - 20060235726 - System and method for pharmaceutical item and prescription management
A system for managing information about pharmaceuticals, patients and health care providers. ...

10/19/06 - 20060235725 - Method for utilization of computer-assisted diagnosis tools
A computer-assisted diagnosis method and system for assisting doctors in diagnosis of patient aliments includes providing the computer-assisted diagnosis algorithm at a central location and providing client software at a doctor's or user's location for communication with the central location. Image data sets are communicated from the doctor's or user's ...

10/19/06 - 20060235724 - Method and system for providing low cost, readily accessible healthcare
A method for providing low cost, readily accessible healthcare includes providing a healthcare clinic at which a medical service is provided to patients during a visit to the healthcare clinic, receiving patient information from the patient where the patient information does not include insurance information, providing the medical service to ...

10/12/06 - 20060229916 - Systems and methods for selecting and recruiting investigators and subjects for clinical studies
The present invention is directed to an integrated on-line interactive forum that promotes exchange of information among clinical study sponsors, clinical study investigators, and potential clinical study subjects. The forum includes an investigator database that contains information suitable for identification of qualified investigators for clinical studies and a subject database ...

10/12/06 - 20060229915 - Apparatus and method for processing phone-in prescriptions
An apparatus and method are disclosed for processing phone-in prescription requests. The apparatus is in the form of a prescription processing network that includes a prescription processing system and a communication device remotely located from the prescription processing system. The communication device is used to establish a communication channel with ...

10/12/06 - 20060229914 - Method of providing support for, and monitoring of, persons recovering from addictive behaviors, mental health issues, and chronic health concerns
A method of providing support for, and monitoring of, an individual recovering from addictive behaviors, mental health issues, or other chronic health concerns comprises a multi-tiered support system for the recovering individual and monitoring the recovering individual's commitment to recovery. The basic set of activities that may be integrated into ...

10/12/06 - 20060229913 - Method and system for providing timely performance evaluations to students or trainees
A method and system for providing performance evaluations, on a timely basis, to students or trainees, is provided. In one contemplated embodiment, the inventive method and system are used in health care training programs to form an information feedback loop whereby clinical and simulated clinical performance evaluations are inputted, or ...

10/12/06 - 20060229912 - Beauty information providing system
A beauty information providing system, includes: a first computer used in counseling of a customer who visits a merchandise store; a second computer used in counseling of a customer who visits an aesthetic treatment salon; a server connected to the first and second computers via communication networks; evaluation result creating ...

10/12/06 - 20060229911 - Personal control of healthcare information and related systems, methods, and devices
The invention, in one embodiment, is directed to a healthcare information system including: a client interface unit for creating one or more healthcare information documents, a repository in communication with the client interface unit for storing one or more healthcare information documents received from the client interface unit, a registry ...

10/12/06 - 20060229910 - Truly automated online prescription process
The present invention provides a fresh method and system for truly automated online prescription purchases while providing improved security for issuing prescription simultaneously. Within the said online pharmacy network, both patients and doctors (M.D.s) are registered users. Doctors (M.D.s) will be verified by one of the authorities, such as the ...

10/12/06 - 20060229909 - Lifecharts medical information system
The medical information system allows users to store pertinent medical information in a web-enabled data store that can be accessed from anywhere in the world using a web browser, provided the user's unique account number is ascertained and entered. The system allows the user to print a medical card containing ...

10/05/06 - 20060224419 - System and method for medication misuse prevention
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 ...

10/05/06 - 20060224418 - Medical services system and method
A patient care and billing integrated system employs a front-end interface for a real-time simultaneous collection of patient information, and a back end-interface operably connected to the front-end interface for a real-time simultaneous distribution of the patient information for OSS purposes. ...

10/05/06 - 20060224417 - Computer-implemented process for distributing and tracking pharmaceutical samples
Described is a computer-implemented method for distributing and tracking free pharmaceutical samples. The method includes receiving at a Network Administrator a free drug sample data set for a free drug sample promotion program and transmitting the free drug sample data set received at the Network Administrator to a participating dispensary. ...

10/05/06 - 20060224416 - Method and computer program product for predicting and minimizing future behavioral health-related hospital admissions
An accurate predictive model that identifies the patient/members within the healthcare system at high risk of hospital admission for a wide range of morbidities, or co-morbidities, and that allows subsequent intervention to manage those patients identified as high risk to an acceptable level. There is a further need for such ...

10/05/06 - 20060224415 - Pharmacy system data interface system and method
A method for receiving prescription data from a pharmacy is provided. The method includes emulating a device, such as using a pseudo TTY feature of a Unix operating system or a pseudo device of a Windows operating system. A prescription authorization system is then set to transmit data to the ...

10/05/06 - 20060224414 - System and method for providing prescription refills
The invention relates to a system and method for automatically providing prescription refills. In an embodiment, the invention includes a method for filling refill prescriptions for one or more home pharmacies comprising: enrolling the refill prescription records of one or more home pharmacies; calculating an appropriate time to fill refill ...

10/05/06 - 20060224413 - Method and system for providing tele-healthcare by using household medical devices
Disclosed is an on-line healthcare system using a domestic medical device and a method thereof. The on-line healthcare system comprises a portable measurement unit for performing a biological measurement for diagnosing a user's health and converting measured data so as to generate biological measurement information data and/or measurement information data ...

09/28/06 - 20060218009 - Compensated electronic consults
The present invention relates to a system and method for providing health care information to health care providers and for obtaining information pertaining to the practice of a health care provider by providing incentives for provision of such information. ...

09/28/06 - 20060218008 - Comprehensive social program data analysis
A method for administering, monitoring and evaluating a social program to determine whether or not it has been effective for its intended design by allowing the users to easily compare the effectiveness of the proposed outcome indicators being measured with regard to the activities being tracked. ...

09/28/06 - 20060218007 - Method, system and medium for assessing the impact of various ailments on health related quality of life
The present invention relates to a system and method for assessing the impact of an ailment on a health related quality of life domain of a patient using a standardized common metric. The standardized common metric of the present invention enables the impact of various ailments to be compared. ...

09/21/06 - 20060212315 - Automated system and method for health care administration
An information collection and processing system and related automated method for use by an organization providing health care to a given population. The system includes an arrangement for storing information relating to a plurality of contractual relationships existing between the organization, a plurality of health care providers, and a plurality ...

09/21/06 - 20060212314 - Integrated response system
A system for reminding a patient of their doctor's instructions. In the preferred embodiment, the initial data entry is a fax from the doctor's office. The system receives the fax in a fax server and uses an image processor to extract relevant information. The relevant information is sent to a ...

09/21/06 - 20060212313 - Account administration plans and systems
A computer system for facilitating payments from an account according to particular embodiments of the invention is adapted for: (1) facilitating the transmission, to a plan service provider, of a first set of documentation of a first payment that would potentially qualify for reimbursement from the account; (2) receiving, from ...

09/21/06 - 20060212312 - Healthcare notification system
Methods and apparatus enabling organizations with a need to communicate with healthcare providers regarding health-related issues affecting patient health to notify healthcare providers of a health-related issue affecting patient health are disclosed. An electronic notification of the health-related issue is transmitted by one of the organizations to a healthcare notification ...

09/21/06 - 20060212311 - Class of medications is proposed, named rphx®
The invention is based on creating a new Class of medication to be a transitional class between Rx Medication and OTC Medication. The new Class is to be named RPhX, and is primarily authorized and dispensed by a pharmacist. As the patient requests an item in the RPhX class, a ...

09/14/06 - 20060206359 - Method and system for facilitating clinical decisions
A method and system for providing information for facilitating health care and clinical decisions. The method includes receiving input data specifying patient information, comparing that data with one or more predetermined sets of reference data, and determining and displaying the output data. The output data can be displayed graphically, such ...

09/14/06 - 20060206358 - Medical data reporting systems, methods and devices
Systems, devices and methods of delivering electronic medical data to a hospital or doctor's office from a laboratory, clinic, or other remote medical campus where medical data associated with a patient is sent over a network and received at a data delivery device. The data delivery device has access to ...

09/14/06 - 20060206357 - System and method for determining trailing data adjustment factors
Timely projections of product sales for a reporting time period are obtained by combining actual sales data received from reporting stores and estimated sales data for non-reporting stores. The projections are adjusted to account for trailing data, which may be reported after the end of the subject time period. ...

09/14/06 - 20060206356 - Line verification for multi-pump arrays
A system and method for verifying that a medication delivery device is properly programmed to deliver a medication from a medication source. The system and method insure that the right medication is delivered in the right manner to a patient, and is particularly advantageous where multiple medications are being delivered ...

09/07/06 - 20060200366 - System of management of health-care resources
An electronic system of management the health-care resources by the health-care consumers, health-care buyers and physicians. It effects the appropriate payments to physicians for the health-care services rendered by the physicians by allowing the sharing, using and analyzing digital information including certain denominators being provided, used and generated by individual ...

08/31/06 - 20060195340 - System and method for restoring health data in a database
A system and method for restoring health data stored in a database includes storing the healthcare data in a database located in a central server connected to a community of independent sources of the healthcare data for a first plurality of patients; replicating at least a portion of the database ...

08/31/06 - 20060195339 - Multiple resource planning system
A system for managing remote doctor medical request workflow may include a workflow module that optimizes assignments of medical requests to remote doctors based on parameterized doctor and scheduling information and may further include a forecasting module that predicts the hospital credentials, state licenses or doctors needed to fulfill a ...

08/24/06 - 20060190300 - Post payment provider agreement process
A method and business technique for reviewing medical service provider bills, recalculating and providing payment recommendation to a paying party for the bills. The method includes analyzing medical bills and determining erroneous and inappropriate charges on bills. The method provides a payment recommendation using multiple databases and sophisticated mathematical modeling ...

08/24/06 - 20060190299 - Active agent delivery method
A method for active agent delivery is provided which includes orchestrating focus groups and clinical studies and the distribution of educational materials and guidelines for counseling patients with regard to what the patients need to know and what the patients must do in order to both avoid adverse side effects ...

08/24/06 - 20060190298 - Systems and methods for coordinating the flow of events in a health care setting using a workflow module
A method and system of coordinating events that occur between a time that a person enters a health care setting and a time that the person is discharged from the health care setting by generating and operating a health care setting specific workflow module that includes receiving a selection of ...

08/24/06 - 20060190297 - Portable charge capture and inventory management
Portable charge capture/inventory management systems and methods include a system comprising at least one server at a first location. The server of an embodiment includes inventory data and patient data. The inventory data includes information of drugs and supplies of a facility that is a patient treatment facility. The patient ...

08/24/06 - 20060190296 - Method and system for referring healthcare professionals in compliance with various transaction constraints
Techniques for providing public access to a predetermined class of healthcare providers using a plurality of electronic communications systems and in compliance with a predetermined set of regulatory criteria governing the provision of healthcare. The method and system establish an electronic healthcare provider database of regulatory requirements associated with public ...

08/24/06 - 20060190295 - Systems and methods for assessing and optimizing healthcare administration
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 ...

08/24/06 - 20060190294 - Medispatch: a concept for secure medical communication
Medispatch is a proposal for a service to provide an unmet medical need for secure universal communication between patients and their health care providers or facilities. The features of the service are security through encryption, authentication of the sender and receiver of information, and non-repudiation of the information. Through a ...

08/17/06 - 20060184393 - Online medical data collection
A method and system for facilitating the filling out of a medical evaluation form online and/or for facilitating the reviewing of the medical information form online are disclosed. By filling out the medical information form online, the form can be filled out generally anywhere and generally any time prior to ...

08/17/06 - 20060184392 - Healthcare procedure management and clinical alerting system and method
The embodiments of the present invention include a system and method for alerting a user of a potential violation of hospital policies or procedures comprising receiving data identifying a patient and identifying a user administering a particular treatment to the patient, acquiring medical record data of the patient, and generating ...

08/17/06 - 20060184391 - Method for providing consumer choice and equalizing pharmacy provider availability in prescription medication dispensing plans
A method is disclosed whereby consumers enrolled in a prescription benefit plan can obtain prescription medication fulfillment at any participating pharmacy of their choice, regardless of whether the fulfillment is by a retail pharmacy or a mail order pharmacy, and whether the quantity of medication prescribed is for administration over ...

08/17/06 - 20060184390 - Perfect system of compensations for physicians
A system of computerized utilizations of physicians' decisions contain in physician-generated digital health and health-care information arrived and stored in designated computers or servers wherein physicians' decisions computer-automatically direct the utilizations of health and health-care information and data to produce outcomes leading to payments to appropriate physicians. ...

08/17/06 - 20060184389 - Physicians' optimal management of health information
A computerized system comprising computer commands, health and health-care information and fields of distinct health and health-care information identifications adaptable to computer-automatically and continually merge health and health-care information on an individual, individuals or people to modify and expand on health and health-care databases on individual, individuals or people in ...

08/17/06 - 20060184388 - Consumers-buyers-physicians health-care
A system and method of controlling the expenses of health-care resources by companies, corporations, health-care consumers and physicians. The data on health-care consumers and resources being generated or expended by the above parties are available to, accounted for by and communicated among the above responsible parties in a check-and-balance health-care ...

08/17/06 - 20060184387 - Insurance policy renewal chain
A system and method for the automatic linking of expired, current, and future insurance policies is provided. Within each insurance policy is a plurality of conditions frequently used in the determination of an insurance policy premium or rate quote. Such terms are calculated based upon information either associated with or ...

08/10/06 - 20060178908 - Method, apparatus and system for providing targeted information in relation to laboratory and other medical services
According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which information about a medical procedure/test is received. The information about the medical procedure/test may include one or more codes or descriptions relevant to the patient and procedure/test that are used to process, identify or classify the ...

08/10/06 - 20060178907 - Method and apparatus for on-demand directed diet advice
A system for providing on-demand directed diet advice is provided. A dieter computer communicates with a server. The server receives dieter characteristic data input at the dieter computer and stores the dieter characteristic data. The server also stores diet advice data files and associated data files characteristics. The categories of ...

08/10/06 - 20060178906 - Clinical development plan, facility development plan and process development plan knowledge bases
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide three knowledge bases: (1) a clinical development plan (CDP) knowledge base for development of a molecular or cellular Phase I or II clinical trial; (2) a facility development plan (FDP) knowledge base for the economic and functional setup of translational laboratory, clean room ...

08/03/06 - 20060173718 - Medical information card and system and method for using same
A system for ensuring that a person receives individual-specific health care and avoiding adverse drug reactions, generally comprises: an information card on which critical need medical information, specific to said person, is be stored, and a database that can be electronically accessed by the person so that the person can ...

08/03/06 - 20060173717 - Method and apparatus for determining familial risk of disease
Personal and family health history information can be used to assess familial risk of disease. For example, information can be collected about the disease history of a person and the person's first- and second-degree relatives and then analyzed to determine the familial risk of common diseases such as coronary heart ...

08/03/06 - 20060173716 - System and method for real time regional feedback
The present invention relates to a regional health data exchange infrastructure comprising a measurement and feedback framework to enable continuous and automatic quality and safety data collection, dissemination, and reporting. The present invention provides near real time monitoring of healthcare environment at the regional and preferably nationally level, across organization ...

08/03/06 - 20060173715 - Health information system and method
The present invention relates to a distributed computer-based decision support technology for the healthcare industry. It also relates to a systematic knowledge diffusion technology for the healthcare industry. The tool and methodology packages and distributes computation and data processing software components in both centralized and federated fashions to process medical ...

08/03/06 - 20060173714 - Apparatus, system, and method for facilitating compliance with guidelines for pharmaceutical preparations
An apparatus, a system, and a method for facilitating compliance with guidelines for pharmaceutical preparations are described. In one embodiment, a computer-readable medium includes a documentation module to track activities related to pharmaceutical compounding. The computer-readable medium also includes a reporting module to evaluate the activities so as to characterize ...

08/03/06 - 20060173713 - Integrated medical device and healthcare information system
A system integrates diagnostic, therapeutic, monitoring and other devices commonly found in a healthcare environment into a Hospital Information System (HIS) to improve the delivery of healthcare. The system uses intelligent, networked diagnostic, therapeutic, monitoring and other devices to provide device performance and availability information. A medical device management system ...

08/03/06 - 20060173712 - Portable medical information system
A computerized system for monitoring and maintaining the health of a person comprising the steps of (a) obtaining parameter data from the patient and inputting the parameter data into a computer database; (b) analyzing the parameter data using a computerized statistical modeling technique module and a computerized adaptive expert system ...

08/03/06 - 20060173711 - Patient health status data management method and system
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 ...

08/03/06 - 20060173710 - System and user interface supporting item ordering for use in the medical and other fields
A User Interface (UI) system allows a user to select treatment orders efficiently and to search and select particular treatment orders with a reduced number of navigation actions for completion of a physician treatment order, for example. A user interface system enables a user to select items for addition to ...

08/03/06 - 20060173709 - Bodywash additive business methods
The invention encompasses business methods that include supplying an additive for addition to a bodywash, or a bodywash containing such an additive, and receiving payment for the additive or bodywash, as well as encompassing business methods that include designing, testing, and marketing an additive for addition to a bodywash. ...

08/03/06 - 20060173708 - System and method for providing health care
A method of providing health care by establishing a predetermined patient population grouped by geographic regions where the patient population has access to a traveling healthcare professional that may travel to the patient's location. The healthcare professional evaluates and examines the patient using a plurality of technologies including a microprocessor ...

07/27/06 - 20060167721 - Methods for patient care using acuity templates
Methods for determining a post-acute level of care for a patient are provided. A template is provided, the template including categories indicating issues relating to a condition, such as a neurological event, a wound injury, or an orthopedic injury. Each category includes several levels, each level representing a severity of ...

07/27/06 - 20060167720 - Incentive programs for healthcare cards
A computer-implemented method to facilitate a purchase by a cardmember using a transaction instrument, comprising: receiving, at a host computer, a request from a provider for payment authorization for a charge to the cardmember using the transaction instrument; determining whether the charge is for a covered healthcare expense; if the ...

07/27/06 - 20060167719 - Pharmaceutical automation management system and recording medium for recording program data which is necessary for constructing the same and readable in computer
A pharmaceutical automation management system is disclosed. The administrator authentication module authenticates an administrator and registers a login time of the authenticated administrator in a recording medium. The user interface module displays a user interface screen and inputs data through option items which can be selected in the user interface ...

07/27/06 - 20060167718 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing personalized, just-in-time information services
Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing personalized information services. Methods include generating an instance of personalized information including time-sensitive elements, and outputting the personalized information onto a medium that is affixable to a subject with which the personalized information is associated. ...

07/20/06 - 20060161458 - Managed care information system
A method for managing the delivery of preventative care services to a membership of a health care plan includes the steps of: providing a membership database having a profile relating to each member of the health care plan, wherein the profile includes at least age, gender, and treatment history; providing ...

07/20/06 - 20060161457 - Adaptive communication methods and systems for facilitating the gathering, distribution and delivery of information related to medical care
Automated methods and systems are disclosed for persistently facilitating the timely gathering, monitoring, distribution and delivery of information related to medical care where such may include: (1) finding a communications channel for effectively attempting a message delivery to a specific target person at a specified time; (2) adaptively finding a ...

07/20/06 - 20060161456 - Doctor performance evaluation tool for consumers
Presenting information to patients—intuitive, statistically significant bucket rankings in more than one score domain—in response to requests for medical providers associated with their choice of medical conditions or treatments, and other restrictions. Statistically significant intuitive bucket rankings (such as “*” to “****”) from relatively limited data on medical providers, and ...

07/20/06 - 20060161455 - Method for management of fitness, health and/or wellness specialist services
One aspect of the present invention provides for a process and method of management of fitness, health and/or wellness specialist services based on the time needs and/or wants of an individual. This aspect comprises the steps of creating an account balance of specialist minutes by purchasing a block of specialist ...

07/20/06 - 20060161454 - Doctor express care card
The Doctor's Express Care Card is a health processing method that includes an all inclusive payment and alternative health care delivery system. The providers agree to accept negotiated fees for recognized CPT Codes, (Physicians' Current Procedural Terminology-CPT 2005). This new and unique process is a useful solution to the health ...

07/20/06 - 20060161453 - Authenticating prescriber identity to enable electronically ordering drug samples from a drug sample fulfillment platform
An fully online process to facilitate the fulfillment of drug samples to prescribers is described. With the present invention, a prescriber may order physical drug samples online by undergoing an authentication process that is in lieu of requiring a signature match. In the invention, the ordering of drug samples is ...

07/13/06 - 20060155579 - Medical image viewing management and status system
A system identifies, flags and tracks images and series of images previously accessed by a healthcare worker. A system for tracking medical image viewing by a user includes at least one repository storing data representing multiple medical images of a particular patient available for use in preparing a report. A ...

07/13/06 - 20060155578 - Privacy entitlement protocols for secure data exchange, collection, monitoring and/or alerting
Methods, systems and related computer products for providing entitlement controlled levels of collaborative exchange of data using a computer network of Subscribers and Publishers, are configured to: (a) define a set of different privacy levels, each privacy level having associated data sharing parameters that control a participating Publisher's ability to ...

07/13/06 - 20060155577 - System and method for anatomically based processing of medical imaging information
One anatomically based medical information processing procedure involves acquiring one or more medical imaging data sets, and dividing and/or merging particular medical imaging data sets to form one or more anatomically based data sets. An anatomically based data set may comprise medical imaging data corresponding to an anatomical region that ...

07/13/06 - 20060155576 - Configurable particle system representation for biofeedback applications
A method to increase the ease and effectiveness of biofeedback by dynamically representing physiological indicators on a computer display using a configurable particle system. This particle system consists of a number of similar objects, each object having properties such as location, velocity, lifetime, color, image, transparency, size, and shape, where ...

07/06/06 - 20060149598 - Reproduction test service apparatus for medical systems, maintenance support information management apparatus, x-ray ct system, and maintenance service center apparatus
In order to reproduce the past operations of a medical system, a reproduction test service apparatus stores a plurality of past log files directly or indirectly supplied from the medical system in a log file storage unit and reproduces the past operations of the medical system on a pseudo X-ray ...

07/06/06 - 20060149597 - System and method for real time viewing of critical patient data on mobile devices
A data processing tool for the viewing of real-time, critical patient data on remote and/or mobile devices. The tool efficiently renders graphical data on the screen of the remote device in a manner that makes it practical for the health care provider to accurately and timely review the data for ...

07/06/06 - 20060149596 - Method and system for evaluating a physician's economic performance and gainsharing of physician services
The invention relates to a method and system of physician economic performance evaluation in which the relative medical difficulty associated with patients admitted by a particular physician is determined and, given that measurement, judgments made concerning the relative amount of inpatient resources that the physician required. Also, one application of ...

07/06/06 - 20060149595 - System and method of integrating information related to health care savings accounts and health care plans
A system, method, and software module that integrates a subscriber's health care savings account information with the subscriber's health plan information, and provides the integrated information to the subscriber upon request, and performs a multitude of other functions. The integration software module also performs additional functions such as facilitating transactions ...

07/06/06 - 20060149594 - Health care facility admission control system
A system and method for admitting a patient to a health care facility is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a computer having a memory and a cache storage area; connecting a proximity sensor to said computer; beginning a computer session for the patient; inputting personal data relating ...

07/06/06 - 20060149593 - Computerized system and method for managing personnel data in a healthcare environment
The invention relates to a system and method in a computing environment for managing healthcare personnel data elements for at least one healthcare professional. In accordance with one method of the invention, first and second healthcare personnel data elements for a healthcare professional are received from first and second primary ...

07/06/06 - 20060149592 - Computerized system and method for providing personnel data notifications in a healthcare environment
The invention relates to a system and method in a computing environment for providing healthcare personnel data notifications for at least one healthcare professional. In accordance with one method of the invention, a request for notification of the presence of a variance condition for a healthcare professional is received, and ...

07/06/06 - 20060149591 - System and methods for distributed analysis of patient records
A system and associated methods provide healthcare entities with analyzing capabilities for records of a patient population. The analyzing process seeks to find matches between a piece of clinical knowledge introduced to a healthcare entity and data contained in the patient population records. According to one method, a service generates ...

07/06/06 - 20060149590 - System and method for capture of qualified compliance data at point of clinical care
A system and related techniques generate and maintain a set of compliance-qualified data schemas or templates for deployment in a hospital or other clinical setting. According to conventional implementations, the clinical data required by regulatory reporting bodies such as CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), JCAHO (Joint Commission on ...

07/06/06 - 20060149589 - System and method for clinical workforce management interface
A system and related techniques generate and present a clinical workforce management interface to assign nurses, technicians, therapists and others in a hospital or other clinical setting. According to embodiments, the interface may present components including an aggregate patient population profile which lists individual patients in a unit, as well ...

07/06/06 - 20060149588 - Computerized system and method for documenting patient vital signs during blood product administration and transfusion
A computerized system and method for processing patient vital signs during blood product administration in a computerized healthcare environment is provided. A blood product to be administered to a patient is identified. The patient is identified. Vital signs for the patient are received during blood product administration by a healthcare ...

07/06/06 - 20060149587 - Automated system and method for processing prescriptions
An automated system and method for processing prescription requests is disclosed, whereby a patient or physician enters a prescription request to an automated pharmacy prescription processing system. For example, a request for a new or refill prescription can be transmitted from a physician's office to the prescription processing system as ...

06/29/06 - 20060143047 - Clinical trial management system
A system for designing and monitoring clinical trials includes a main database of information concerning prior clinical trials and resources available to conduct future clinical trials. In part information in the main database is obtained through data links to other databases in the enterprise, e.g., human resources and finance databases. ...

06/29/06 - 20060143046 - Medical support system
The present invention provides a medical support system capable of properly supporting entry of medical information by a medical professional. A medical support system stores, as medical data, first medical information entered by a medical professional as an operator, and second medical information entered without direct intervention of the medical ...

06/29/06 - 20060143045 - Apparatus and method for the mobile visual display and modification of bed management information and patient placement information
An apparatus and method for using a mobile computer device for graphically displaying and modifying information in a manner to enhance comprehension of the information and allowing for the mobile and decentralized management of information to be accomplished, wherein such information may be related to bed management and patient placement ...

06/29/06 - 20060143044 - Characteristic-based health care resource scheduling method and apparatus
A technique for scheduling health care resources accesses performance data for any relevant resources required or desired for carrying out a procedure. The resources may include equipment, facilities, personnel, service providers, and so forth. The performance data may include indications of durations required for each of the resources for the ...

06/29/06 - 20060143043 - System and method for orchestrating clinical collaboration sessions
A system and associated methods for orchestrating a collaboration session are disclosed. One method involves orchestrating a collaboration session between a requesting clinician and another clinician where information is exchanged electronically. According to the method, requests for collaboration sessions are received by a computer system from the requesting clinician, with ...

06/29/06 - 20060143042 - System and method for cost accounting in a healthcare environment
The present invention is directed to a method and system for generating cost accounting data. The method may include retrieving information including descriptive attributes that represent content captured during patient care. The method may additionally include associating each descriptive attribute with a cost. A system may be provided for generating ...

06/29/06 - 20060143041 - System and method for managing medical facility procedures and records
The invention facilitates the efficient administration of medical offices and patient records including visual coordination of room, patient, and task status indicators. The invention also enables improved document review and transcription management. ...

06/22/06 - 20060136265 - System and method for managing restorative care
An automated system and method for managing restorative care programs in a long-term care environment is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a device or process for generating an up-to-date assignment sheet upon detecting a change in a resident's condition. In one embodiment, the device or method includes a ...

06/22/06 - 20060136264 - System and method for improved health care access
Accordingly to one exemplary embodiment, in a computerized system allowing consumers to view health care opportunities from a plurality of different health care providers, a method comprises providing for viewing a health care opportunity offered by a health care provider. The health care opportunity has a price. The method further ...

06/22/06 - 20060136263 - System and method for automatically verifying multiple laboratory test results in a computerized environment
The present invention relates to a method of holding laboratory test results in a computerized environment. The method receives a laboratory test result for a healthcare order for a patient. The healthcare order comprises multiple laboratory tests. The method determines whether all of the test results for the healthcare order ...

06/22/06 - 20060136262 - System and method for creating and maintaining dynamic offset times for healthcare orders in a computerized environment
A system and method for determining the start time of one or more healthcare orders in a computing environment is provided. A start time of a healthcare plan is received. The healthcare plan comprises two or more healthcare orders for a patient. A first offset time for a first healthcare ...

06/22/06 - 20060136261 - System and method for maintaining the association of healthcare orders from a healthcare plan in a computerized medical administration record
A system and method for maintaining association of healthcare medication orders in a healthcare plan in a computerized environment are provided. A first and second medication order are received for a healthcare plan for a patient. The first and second medication orders for the healthcare plan for the patient are ...

06/22/06 - 20060136260 - System and method for associating healthcare orders in a healthcare plan in a computerized environment
A system and method for maintaining association of healthcare orders in a healthcare plan in a computerized environment are provided. A first and second order received for a healthcare plan for a patient. The first and second orders for the healthcare plan for the patient are associated with one another ...

06/22/06 - 20060136259 - Multi-dimensional analysis of medical data
A technique is disclosed for identifying medical data entities and for analyzing them for classification in accordance with a defined domain definition. The domain definition may be user-defined and may include a plurality of logical associations by which the data entities are classified. A one-to-many classification of the entities facilitates ...

06/22/06 - 20060136258 - Health care incentive system and method for operating a health care incentive system
A health care incentive system comprises a means for accumulating health care information and means for analyzing the health care information in order to develop a set of commitments for the individual in the health incentive program. If the individual achieves the commitments over a predetermined period of time, an ...

06/15/06 - 20060129431 - Physicians-patients-health-care-buyers accounting system
A computer-automated system of using first data in digital text data derived from digital voice data comprising health and health-care information to extract second data in databases comprising health and health-care information and corresponding individual monetary values for accounting compensations for individual physicians and accounting health-care expenses of individual patients ...

06/15/06 - 20060129430 - Method and apparatus for automated generation of a patient treatment plan
A method and apparatus for generating a patient treatment plan includes processing that begins by providing a list of health care services to a patient and/or care provider. The processing continues by prompting for input of digital information regarding the patient when health care services applicable to addressing the patient's ...

06/15/06 - 20060129429 - Clinical assessment and diagnostic tool for use with peristaltic pump
A method of storing on a remote storage device protocol information for a drug for administration via a peristaltic pump is disclosed. A communications path between the peristaltic pump and the remote storage device is provided. The protocol information for the drug is entered into the peristaltic pump. The protocol ...

06/15/06 - 20060129428 - Systems and methods for predicting healthcare related financial risk
A system for predicting healthcare financial risk including the process of accessing patient data associated with one or more patents, accessing geographic and healthcare system data, filtering the patient data, geographic data, and healthcare system data into clean data, and applying a predictive risk model to the clean data to ...

06/15/06 - 20060129427 - Systems and methods for predicting healthcare related risk events
A system for predicting healthcare risk events including the process of accessing patient data associated with one or more patents, accessing geographic and healthcare system data, filtering the patient data, geographic data, and healthcare system data into clean data, and applying a predictive risk model to the clean data to ...

06/15/06 - 20060129426 - Systems and methods for consumers to purchase products
A method is provided for purchasing products and services. A service provider system offers products for sale through the service provider system directly and also through associated merchants that are authorized to be associated with the service provider system. Members are enrolled in the service provider system. Medical discount cards ...

06/15/06 - 20060129425 - Method of curbing health-care costs
A method of curbing the health-care costs comprises processes wherein physicians use digital speech recording devices and speech recognition softwares to reduce the business costs, curtailing wasted time and interferences and hassles impose on the physicians and health-care consumers and buyers while increasing their productivity and returns. The method also ...

06/08/06 - 20060122867 - Method of providing care to a patient
The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing care to a patient, comprising a patient care device having a number of configuration databases stored in a memory in the device. Each configuration database preferably includes protocols, operating limits, rule sets and/or operating features that collectively define ...

06/08/06 - 20060122866 - Medication compliance system and method
A system and method for procuring increased medication compliance having at least an inbound functionality and an outbound functionality. The inbound functionality allows a patient to contact the system and request information regarding a particular medication and the outbound functionality preferably provides at least a reminder system. Preferably, the system ...

06/08/06 - 20060122865 - Procedural medicine workflow management
A procedural medicine workflow system collects data relating to medical procedures, organizes workflows, and allows statistics to be gathered on such procedures. The system includes a data management subsystem, a span of procedure subsystem, a work organization subsystem, and a business management subsystem. The system allows information from disparate sources ...

06/08/06 - 20060122864 - Patient management network
An intelligent patient management system collects data from a variety of sources, processes that information, and provides relevant information to an appropriate caregiver in context at the proper time. The system has multiple information sources available from which to gather additional information based upon conclusions drawn or issues identified from ...

06/08/06 - 20060122863 - Patient management network
An intelligent patient management system collects data from a variety of sources, processes that information, and provides relevant information to an appropriate caregiver in context at the proper time. The system has multiple information sources available from which to gather additional information based upon conclusions drawn or issues identified from ...

06/01/06 - 20060116909 - Compensated electronic consults
The present invention relates to a system and method for providing health care information to health care providers and for obtaining information pertaining to the practice of a health care provider by providing incentives for provision of such information. ...

06/01/06 - 20060116908 - Web-based data entry system and method for generating medical records
An apparatus and method for generating a patient's medical record. The apparatus comprises a data input component that executes through a plurality of clinical, tree-like pathways that are traversed as data describing the patient's condition is entered, for example, by the physician during a clinical examination. At each node, the ...

06/01/06 - 20060116907 - System and method for improving performance of authorization for prescription drugs
A method is provided for utilizing a history database to process a prescription drug authorization request. One embodiment, among others, comprises the steps of: searching an authorization criteria database, producing authorization category records matching a drug identifier; for each of these records, adding a history record; receiving an authorization request; ...

06/01/06 - 20060116906 - Health care cash management and accounts receivable factoring
A Financial Management Company (FMC) purchases qualified receivables and other claims generated by a medical practice's performance of certain diagnostic and other medical testing services utilizing medical testing equipment leased through the FMC. Advance payment for the purchased accounts receivable (A/R) is made to the medical practice by the FMC ...

06/01/06 - 20060116905 - In-room / in-home expedited delivery of prescription services
A method is described for processing a prescription request for a customer that includes information about the geographic location of the customer. The method includes receiving the request at a prescription claims processing center, including the information about the geographic location of the customer. A prescription service provider that operates ...

06/01/06 - 20060116904 - Wound electronic medical record system
Methods and apparatus for storing and reviewing wound data are shown using a digital datasheet, or wound electronic medical record (WEMR). The WEMR is preferably presented via a single page containing all data that should be considered by a wound healing provider, as predetermined by protocol. This includes, but is ...

06/01/06 - 20060116903 - Systems and methods for providing insurance coverage to a customer
A method of providing insurance coverage to a customer comprising the steps of: (1) selling a debt protection contract to a customer; and (2) in response to the customer purchasing the debt protection contract, providing third-party-paid insurance coverage to the customer at no substantial cost to the customer. This may ...

06/01/06 - 20060116902 - Method and apparatus for workflow
A method and apparatus for the management of radiological images generated by mobile radiological imaging systems. A Mobile Access Station (MAS) server is coupled to a hospital's data management systems. The MAS server is coupled to a mobile radiological imaging system via a MAS client. The MAS server receives study ...

05/25/06 - 20060111941 - Automated patient management system
A system for making the process of registering at and receiving treatment in a healthcare facility more efficient and safe has been developed. The system utilizes computer communications network-based systems, software, various input and output stations, and a patient identification card (e.g., Loyalty Card) that work together to allow (a) ...

05/25/06 - 20060111940 - Method and apparatus for assessing credit for healthcare patients
According to one example embodiment, there is provided a method and an apparatus to evaluate the credit of a healthcare patient. The example embodiment provides methods and computer systems programmed to use multiple variables that are known about a patient prior to a service being rendered to segment the patient ...

05/25/06 - 20060111939 - Apparatus and method for making hospital staff assignments
An apparatus and method for receiving data, organizing the data, and constructing hospital staff assignments based on the data. Where hospital staff assignments are instructions that designate which hospital staff members are responsible for which hospital beds. An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a data source, a ...

05/25/06 - 20060111938 - Method of delivering diagnostic services
The Invention is a method of providing medical diagnostic services. An examination provider subscribes to a subscriber network and receives examination equipment, protocols and training during the term of the examination provider's subscription as a benefit of that subscription. The examination provider conducts physical examinations of patients utilizing the examination ...

05/25/06 - 20060111937 - System and method for perspective-based procedure analysis
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for using medical perspectives to improve medical workflow. Certain embodiments of a system for using medical perspectives for improved screening analysis include a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) workstation capable of being used for reviewing images and at ...

05/25/06 - 20060111936 - Container system and method for hosting healthcare applications and componentized archiecture
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved medical workflow and interfacing in a healthcare environment using a unified interface framework. In an embodiment, the system includes a unified user interface allowing access to a plurality of medical components, wherein the unified user interface coordinates ...

05/25/06 - 20060111935 - System and method for customizing workflow using standard formats for information transfer
Embodiments of the present system and method relate generally to standardized electronic communications in a healthcare setting. Certain embodiments of the system include a healthcare information acquisition and management system capable of using information that conforms to an industry standard format for information transfer, an order scheduling system capable of ...

05/25/06 - 20060111934 - Virtual share exchange apparatus and method
A method and apparatus that includes a method and apparatus for pooling resources into a common fund such that the risk benefit is held low by assigning rating to the individual members as well as allowing people with similar characteristic or profiles to participate in the pool. ...

05/25/06 - 20060111933 - Adaptive medical decision support system
A method and system for providing diagnostic and treatment information to a health professional is disclosed. A set of diagnostic and treatment rules are applied to patient specific information inputted by the health professional during an adverse medical event. The system then selects and delivers appropriate diagnoses and treatment algorithms ...

05/18/06 - 20060106643 - On-line subscription system and method
A system and a method of providing on-line subscription services from a subscription server to a user of a mobile terminal through the Internet. The subscription server receives from the mobile terminal user-specific information relating to the user's mobile terminal capabilities, the user's preferences of products, and the user's financial ...

05/18/06 - 20060106642 - Systems and methods for matching, naming, and displaying medical images
A method of matching medical images according to user-defined matches rules. In one embodiment, the matched medical images are displayed according user-defined display rules such that the matched medical images may be visually compared in manner that is suitable to the viewer's viewing preferences. ...

05/18/06 - 20060106641 - Portable task management system for healthcare and other uses
A mobile monitoring and communication system integrates communication services (text, voice, video, and data) with medical information (e.g., patient medical record, patient demographics, reason for procedure, workflow information, etc.) within a radiology department, for example. A medical information system for use with portable processing devices involves a portable processing device ...

05/18/06 - 20060106640 - Medical credit assurance method
A business method that provides for payment of medical expenses for members of an association, comprising, establishing contractual agreements between the association and a multiplicity of medical service providers that are obligated to provide medical services to members of the association at rates that are pre-negotiated or otherwise agreed to ...

05/18/06 - 20060106639 - System and method for providing pharmaceutical data in a secure and affordable manner
A system and method for evaluating the performance of a first at least one of a plurality of outlets is provided. The system includes a computer system configured to execute a data access application, wherein the data access application includes a plurality of user accounts, wherein each of the plurality ...

05/11/06 - 20060100906 - Client driven healthcare system and process
An advanced primary nurse care system and process is disclosed which is client-driven for processing a number of clients in a timely manner with enhanced healthcare outcomes. The system and process are sized to provide an optimum patient flow and healthcare. The system includes a computer network having a central ...

05/11/06 - 20060100905 - Claim data processing system
A system for processing claim data related to provision of healthcare to a patient includes an interface processor for receiving data related to a claim for provision of healthcare to a particular patient and including a claim type identifier. At least one repository includes predetermined claim generation rules for use ...

05/11/06 - 20060100904 - System for providing rank information of medical service satisfaction and method thereof
Provided is a medical service satisfaction rank information providing system that computes and provides quantified statistical rank information according to a medical institution/department/doctor upon a user request based on medical service satisfaction points inputted by a user that received a medical service and recommendation points for each medical institution/department/doctor inputted ...

05/11/06 - 20060100903 - Method of enhancing the efficiency of a pharmaceutical business
A method of doing business is disclosed whereby the process for selecting drug candidates is improved. The method involves the application of a technology which makes it possible to determine metabolic processes involved in the formation of any glucose-based metabolite. A precursor molecule is labeled with a stable carbon (13C) ...

05/11/06 - 20060100902 - Medical triage system
A method of determining a triage disposition for a person includes providing a plurality of triage categories that includes questions grouped into a plurality of tiers ranked according to urgency. Each of the plurality of tiers corresponds to one of a set of triage dispositions. At least a first relevant ...

05/11/06 - 20060100901 - Providing adaptive medical triage
A method of adaptively operating a medical triage system includes triaging a plurality of persons using a set of triage questions to select particular dispositions from a plurality of triage disposition. Triage-related data is acquired as a result of the triaging of the plurality of persons. The triage-related data is ...

05/11/06 - 20060100900 - Healthcare content delivery method
According to the present invention, a healthcare content delivery method is provided. The healthcare content delivery system provides in-depth information and detail on medical conditions, pre- and post-operative procedures and more, all from a healthcare professional's own office or web presence. ...

05/11/06 - 20060100899 - Portable terminal device and life style disease patient-medical institution cooperation system
There is provided a portable terminal device, and a lifestyle-related disease patient—medical institution cooperation system, which collects a user's biological data and life data, so that it is possible to quickly receive advice from a specialist, and data accumulation and analysis over a long period is possible, to accurately comprehend ...

05/04/06 - 20060095299 - Monitoring adherence to evidence-based medicine guidelines
A medical rating system may include a set of rules of good medical practice, a rating agency providing a rating and a rating indicator based in part on the physician's adherence to rules of good medical practice. ...

05/04/06 - 20060095298 - Method for horizontal integration and research of information of medical records utilizing hippa compliant internet protocols, workflow management and static/dynamic processing of information
A system for management of patient data and simplifying the workflow of attending physicians, residents, nurses, etc. The system is implemented in three software modules: 1) a workflow management module for information entry, manipulation and output (workflow forms management); 2) a query module for data research; and 3) a billing ...

05/04/06 - 20060095297 - Skin assessment kiosk
A kiosk provides topical skin assessment surveys and skin care selection. The topical skin assessment survey is performed by a self-guided interactive program using a plurality of UVA lamps which illuminate trouble spots on the skin that cannot be seen in a natural light environment. In addition to a topical ...

05/04/06 - 20060095296 - System and method for improved data retrieval in a clinical reporting environment
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for interfacing with clinical data. The system and method provide for data acquisition independent from data operations. An input unit may acquire a command from a user. The command is communicated to a data engine unit. The data engine ...

05/04/06 - 20060095295 - Method and system of pre-registration for vaccines
A pre-registration scheme for vaccines allows near certain delivery to an end user. In one example embodiment, this is accomplished by receiving user information including a name and identifiable information. A user information validation screen, including a field requesting a name and identifiable information, is then displayed. The user information, ...

05/04/06 - 20060095294 - Computerized method and system for documentation-based coding
Computerized methods and systems for professional evaluation and management coding of a patient visit based upon documentation are provided. Such methods and systems increase efficiency and enhance the quality of clinician documentation by permitting automatic coding as a byproduct of documentation and eliminating the necessity for an after-the-fact check of ...

04/27/06 - 20060089859 - Information management and material distribution for sterilization facilities
An automated system for management of information and distribution of materials associated with sterilization procedures includes a network server and client computers that communicate via a computer network. The client computers are distributed among sterilization facilities that require sterilization services. The network server exchanges a variety of information with the ...

04/27/06 - 20060089858 - Means and method of applying rfid and pki technologies for patient safety
A system and a method for applying RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) technologies for patient health safety to install RFID tag and RFID reader on the medicine-storing appliance. By sensing the RFID tag on medicine, the RFID reader stores the medical records such as medicine usage ...

04/27/06 - 20060089857 - Transcription data security
A computer program product for use with dictated medical patient information resides on a computer-readable medium and comprises computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to analyze the dictated information, identify likely confidential information in the dictated medical patient information, and treat the likely confidential information disparately from likely non-confidential information ...

04/27/06 - 20060089856 - Integrated pharmaceutical dispensing and patient management monitoring
A pharmaceutical monitoring system includes a communication system, a host, and an interrogator/transmitter unit. The communication system is configured to upload patient drug parameters from a pharmaceutical information source to the host, and the interrogator/transmitter unit is configured to download the patient drug parameters from the host via the communication ...

04/27/06 - 20060089855 - Medication management system
A medication management system (MMS) includes a medication management unit (MMU) associated with a medical device. The MMU downloads a medication order to the medical device only if information from a first input matches information from a second input. The medical device receives delivery information only from the MMU. The ...

04/27/06 - 20060089854 - Medication management system
A medication management system (MMS) includes a medication management unit (MMU) associated with a medical device. The MMU downloads a medication order to the medical device only if information from a first input matches information from a second input. The medical device receives delivery information only from the MMU. The ...

04/27/06 - 20060089853 - Multi-agent distributed environment for a hierarchical medical environment
The invention presents a system and a method that allows clients to communicate with their service providers. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the clients are patients, the service providers are health care professionals (HCP), and the system is used for intelligent remote health care monitoring. Components of the ...

04/20/06 - 20060085228 - System of conserving health-care buyers' resources
A system of conserving health-care resources of health-care buyers and health-care consumers comprises the displays and uses of health-care consumers' health and health-care data based on which physicians and patients interact using a network of computers and servers to effect the allocations, uses and conservations of health-care resources of health-care ...

04/20/06 - 20060085227 - System and method for patient-worn monitoring of patients in geographically dispersed health care locations
A patient-worn monitoring system and method for geographically dispersed health care locations. A patient-worn monitoring system comprises a network, a body-worn monitoring station, a monitoring station server, a remote command center, and a rules engine. The network comprises a first sub-network and a second sub-network. The body-worn monitoring station comprises ...

04/20/06 - 20060085226 - Emergency identification, medical treatment and records access authorization media
The single notice or notification of the present invention, whether in printed or electronic media form, provides an authorization to treat in accordance with the guidelines set out by the patient and to contact those persons and entities designated by the patient including medical conditions, medications being taken and allergies ...

04/20/06 - 20060085225 - System and method for managing a patient with chronic disease
A computerized method for managing a patient, particularly one suffering from a chronic disease, is disclosed. ...

04/20/06 - 20060085224 - System for evaluating skills of to-be-examined person
According to a question displayed on a computer screen, a to-be-examined person selects, out of constituent elements (components) displayed on the screen, constituent elements that he considers optimum for the question and then makes a design by constructing them on the screen, and the content of the design on the ...

04/20/06 - 20060085223 - System and user interface for presenting treatment information
A workflow system and user interface coordinates information concerning a course of treatment of a patient, as well as data from a treatment device and links appointment data from a scheduling system with actual treatment activity information in order to show a complete timeline of a course of treatment. A ...

04/20/06 - 20060085222 - Healthcare administration transaction method and system for the same
A system for automated processing of encounter and billing data while in a roaming environment, comprising a static system that creates appointment and encounter slots, and reserves a space for data from a missing patient encounter, and a wireless system that includes (1) a handheld device that receives and displays ...

04/20/06 - 20060085221 - Universal charge routing system for medical billing
A medical charge router receives charge information from a variety of sources and converts it to a standard charge format for automated processing and routing to one of multiple billing programs. ...

04/13/06 - 20060080148 - System and method for creating a retirement plan fun