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 funded with a variable life insurance policy and/or a variable annuity policy
A retirement plan is created using variable life insurance contracts and/or variable annuity contracts. Actuarial data used to create the retirement plan is entered via at least one user interface and processed. Based on the actuarial data, a variable life insurance policy and/or a variable annuity policy is generated for ...

04/13/06 - 20060080147 - Method of purchasing a product to avoid adverse selection
A method for providing automatic purchase of products, such as insurance products, by one or more third parties acting on behalf of a purchaser and for automatic deductions from an income source to pay for the product utilizes stored data regarding the products, information provided to a purchaser from the ...

04/13/06 - 20060080146 - Method to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of health care by directing patients to healthcare providers who are using health information systems
Method to identify health information systems based on compatibility and capability of improving quality, safety and cost effectiveness of health care, to identify healthcare providers who are using such technology and to assist patients to find these healthcare providers. Provides the unexpected benefits of accelerating the adoption of health information ...

04/13/06 - 20060080145 - Method for reviewing electronic patient medical records to assess and improve the quality and cost effectiveness of medical care
Process and system for the review of electronic medical records to detect potential problems with healthcare including inappropriate medication use, missed opportunities for beneficial medication use and missed opportunities for appropriate healthcare screening. The review is done by a computer program which applies up to date evidence based medical information. ...

04/13/06 - 20060080144 - System and method for providing healthcare management
A system and method for purchasing and managing healthcare is provided. Generally, the system has a healthcare account manager with a database having user identification, accounts of credits associated with the user identification, healthcare service provider identification, and unit amounts associated with the healthcare services. The system also has a ...

04/13/06 - 20060080143 - Radiography system and management program thereof
A radiography system includes: a plurality of radiographic image detecting apparatus to obtain radiographic image information of a subject by radiography of the subject; a radiography operation control apparatus to control a radiography operation of at least one radiographic image detecting apparatus among the plurality of radiographic image detecting apparatus; ...

04/13/06 - 20060080142 - System for managing patient clinical data
A system dynamically refreshes stale patient clinical data during a clinical workflow sequence of tasks concerning treatment ordering, patient diagnosis, or patient condition assessment and warns a clinician if patient clinical data has changed since starting a work session. A system for managing patient clinical data includes at least one ...

04/13/06 - 20060080141 - Method and apparatus for processing a context change request in a ccow environment
A method and apparatus for use in a computer system comprising at least two software applications sharing context in accordance with a Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW) standard, wherein a context change may be requested by a user of at least one of the at least two software applications. In ...

04/13/06 - 20060080140 - System and method for providing a clinical summary of patient information in various health care settings
A system and method for providing a clinical summary of patient data in a health care setting. The system and method comprises a graphical user interface in communication with a health information system for accessing patient data. The graphical user interface is capable of displaying a clinical summary of patient ...

04/13/06 - 20060080139 - Preadmission health care cost and reimbursement estimation tool
A cost estimation tool, preferably a handheld computer, prices and evaluates the financial impact of new residents' prior to admission. Immediate access to this information and built-in therapeutic substitution and clinical advisories provides the opportunity to optimize pharmaceutical regimens prior to admission. In addition, an abbreviated Resource Utilization Group (RUG) ...

04/13/06 - 20060080138 - Method for providing health care products and services
A method for a retail establishment to provide health care products and services to health care consumers by employing a trained medical professional, such as a physician's assistant, nurse, nurse practitioner, physical therapist or a certified athletic trainer, as a customer assistant. The goods and services provided by the customer ...

04/13/06 - 20060080137 - Usb med stick with personal medical history
The invention uses the technology of the common USB (flash) drive to hold a person's medical history and can be carried on a key chain or in your pocket or purse. The medical history is entered by the owner of the USB drive and is protected by a user ID ...

04/06/06 - 20060074716 - System and method for providing customized interactive and flexible nutritional counseling
A system provides via multiple communications channels flexible nutritional counseling that encourages users to adhere to a sensible diet. The system may recommend a compliant meal having nutritional content that is within certain dietary parameters applicable to the user. However, the system may also recommend a non-compliant meal having nutritional ...

04/06/06 - 20060074715 - Method and system for identifying and anticipating adverse drug events
The present invention is a system and method for anticipating potential Adverse Drug Events (ADE) in a patient's medication regimen by integrating data typically located in laboratory and pharmacy information systems and filtering the data using predefined criteria. The present invention includes a system for anticipating a possible ADE through ...

04/06/06 - 20060074714 - Workflow tracking based on profiles
Monitoring an instance of a workflow based on tracking profiles associated therewith. The workflow generates events which are captured by an event filter according to the tracking profiles. Users create the tracking profiles to specify event types of interest to the users. The event filter receives the events from the ...

04/06/06 - 20060074713 - Patient identification card system and method for efficient medical care
A patient identification card system and method for efficient medical care. The present invention provides an improved patient identification card system for efficient medical care including a patient card, a patient card access device, and a medical report. The present invention also provides an improved patient identification card system for ...

04/06/06 - 20060074712 - Systems and methods for supplying a useful collection of medical coding data
Upon request, a computer can provide a useful collection of medical coding data to another computer on a network. The collection can be tailored to a particular medical specialty. The collection can be provided in a printable form that relates the various code relationships which may be needed for accurate ...

04/06/06 - 20060074711 - System and method for handling multiple radiology applications and workflows
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for using medical perspectives to improve management of multiple applications and workflows. In an embodiment, the system includes a plurality of medical applications providing information to a user, a plurality of perspectives, and a medical perspectives manager for associating ...

04/06/06 - 20060074710 - Healthcare revenue cycle management system
A healthcare revenue cycle management analytics system enables healthcare business professionals to perform multidimensional data analysis without the assistance of IT or analyst intermediaries. The system provides a user interface which presents views selectable by a user from a plurality of built-in views relevant to healthcare revenue cycle management. The ...

04/06/06 - 20060074709 - Method for providing a remote diagnostic
A method for providing medical diagnostic equipment in a patient's home to permit remote assessment by a medical practitioner is described. A need for a particular diagnostic equipment to be set up in the patient's home is identified. a request is placed for diagnostic equipment to be allocated to the ...

04/06/06 - 20060074708 - Methods for grouping and maintaining low liability risk professionals
A method for assembling and dynamically maintaining a group of professionals having relatively low probability of being charged with professional malpractice using a standardized customer satisfaction survey by monitoring customer satisfaction for such candidate member of the group over a period of time to evaluate and document the predominant satisfaction ...

03/30/06 - 20060069591 - Dental image charting system and method
A computer system and method is disclosed that generates panoramic dental images and related dental charts. The system allows a user to specify which images the system should use for generating the panoramic image. The system then generates a panoramic image. An image-based chart and a graphic-based chart can be ...

03/23/06 - 20060064324 - Video visitation system and method for a health care location
A video visitation system and method for dispersed health care locations. A patient data server, a teleconferencing server, a patient visual monitoring system and a visitor visual monitoring system are connected to a network. A patient data server receives patient data indicative of the condition of a patient and serves ...

03/23/06 - 20060064323 - Data management center for patient monitoring
A system for providing users access to information of health parameters on patients. The system includes a modem for receiving digital data from one or more patient sources on the health parameters of the patients and a management computer. The management computer processes the digital data and provides clinical statistics ...

03/23/06 - 20060064322 - Online education resource for patients with metabolic syndrome
A prevention or intervention program for Metabolic Syndrome interposes a trusted mediator group between a seller of a biomedical product or service and provider-patient interactions in a healthcare setting, wherein the seller directly or indirectly engages the services of the trusted mediator group, and ordinarily for consideration. The trusted mediator ...

03/23/06 - 20060064321 - Medical image management system
A medical image management system includes: a storage storing a medical image; a radiogram interpretation terminal reading and displaying the medical image from the storage according to instruction inputted by a radiogram interpretation doctor; a schedule storage unit for storing schedule information setting a date and time when each radiogram ...

03/23/06 - 20060064320 - System and method for centralized management and monitoring of healthcare services
A centralized healthcare management and monitoring system and service including a healthcare management server computer interconnected to a computer network, having a first repository of records with patient healthcare information and a second repository with predetermined compliance rules with information regarding an interaction between multiple entities associated with the healthcare ...

03/23/06 - 20060064319 - Method for telemedicine services
A method is provided for delivery of Telemedicine services that qualify for reimbursement by at least one of Medicare, Medicaid and private medical insurer. A Certified Medical Practitioner at a distant site provides service telecommunicatively to a patient located in a rented space at a qualifying originating site. Telecommunications are ...

03/23/06 - 20060064318 - Method for managing a metric for use on a diagnostic medical modality and apparatus and method for conducting a medical investigation
A method (200) for remotely managing a metric (12) adapted for use on a diagnostic medical modality (21) is provided. The diagnostic medical modality (21) is responsive to a software program (38) which, when executed, causes the diagnostic medical modality (21) to conduct a medical investigation based on the metric ...

03/16/06 - 20060059018 - Medical practice management method, and portable terminal, management server, and medical practice management system using the same
A medical practice management system of the present invention acquires schedule information on a medical practice to be administered to a patient. Information on medical equipment corresponding to the acquired schedule information is selected from among pieces of information on medical equipment to be used in medical practices, stored in ...

03/16/06 - 20060059017 - Method and system for performing post-marketing surveillance of drugs using pharmacy-based cohorts
A database contains confidential patient information. A researcher conducting a post-marketing study provides selection criteria to a maintainer of the database. The maintainer uses the selection criteria to select a cohort of potential post-marketing study subjects. The maintainer sends a questionnaire to each subject in the cohort. Optionally, the maintainer ...

03/16/06 - 20060059016 - Verifying personal authority without requiring unique personal identification
Methods and systems are disclosed for managing confidential information (116). In some cases, a group characteristic description (512) is submitted (304), in conjunction with the submission (306) of confidential information, for storage in an electronic repository (510). A code (522) is supplied (308) in response. The electronic repository is free ...

03/16/06 - 20060059015 - Computer installation for establishing a diagnosis
A method and computer installation for communicating with one or more other computer installations with a processor, and memory with data and instructions stored therein so that the processor can execute a predetermined program. The program enables the processor to receive the following data: anamnesis data for a client; physical/diagnostic ...

03/16/06 - 20060059014 - Interactive system for confirming the sexual health status of an individual
An interactive system for exchanging information about an individual's sexual health status and method for confirming sexual health status of individuals. Basically the system involves means for registering and storing an individual's sexual health status along with his/her personal identity and means for online access to an individual's sexual health ...

03/16/06 - 20060059013 - Attached personal information device
An information storage device may be semi-permanently attached to a wearer. The device can include an outer casing configured to be compatible with long term contact with a human body. A data storage component may store information of the wearer and a transceiver may wirelessly communicate information from the data ...

03/16/06 - 20060059012 - Automated medical record creation system
A system and method for creating and editing a medical database containing patient histories allows users to prepare a medical chart through color coded templates using interactive graphical user interfaces (GUIs). ...

03/09/06 - 20060053036 - Distributed remote asset and medication management drug delivery system
A system and method for communicating and validating patient information including medication delivery information in a care-giving facility is provided. A medical transaction carrier is used to communicate information regarding medication delivery and other patient information between a control system in communication with the care-giving facility's other information systems and ...

03/09/06 - 20060053035 - Healthcare personnel management system
A system manages load-balancing of assignment of tasks to healthcare workers. The system assigns patient treatment related tasks to healthcare workers using an interface processor for receiving information identifying treatment services required to be delivered to a patient. A worker assignment processor, in response to the information identifying the treatment ...

03/09/06 - 20060053034 - System and method for providing a real-time status for managing encounters in health care settings
A real-time status system for managing encounters in a health care facility is disclosed. The real-time status system includes a graphical user interface in communication with a health care scheduling system for accessing encounters, scheduling information for the encounters, and tracking information for the encounters. The real-time status of the ...

03/09/06 - 20060053033 - Method and system for managing a membership based health care program not utilizing primary care insurance
A system and method for managing an electronically-implemented membership based health care program without utilizing primary care medical insurance includes providing a health clinic having doctors to provide medical services to its members. An electronic database which may be connected to computer network manages member records, including a purchase arrangement ...

03/09/06 - 20060053032 - Method and apparatus for reporting national and sub-national longitudinal prescription data
A method and logic arrangement for analyzing prescription data is provided. The method includes receiving an indication of a selected report type, accessing at least one of product oriented longitudinal data (202), patient oriented longitudinal data (204) and prescriber oriented longitudinal data (206) based at least in part on the ...

03/02/06 - 20060047537 - Referral request system
A method for electronically managing patient referrals includes, in a network of interconnected computers, submitting a referral request by a first provider, accepting the referral request by a second provider, obtaining an insurance approval of the referral request, importing a medical record for a patient from a external system, exporting ...

02/23/06 - 20060041451 - Lighting simulation for beauty products
The present disclosure relates to simulating one or more lighting environments, allowing consumers to select and/or learn about beauty products and/or other products having and/or causing an appearance that varies depending on lighting conditions. Simulated lighting environments can also be used for development and testing of beauty products by determining ...

02/23/06 - 20060041450 - Electronic patient registration system
According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic patient registration system and method including a registration mechanism and process for collecting user data, an authorization mechanism for eliciting user authorization and acknowledgment, and an indexing mechanism for organizing and associating the collected information. The present invention also provides ...

02/16/06 - 20060036470 - Systems and methods for providing a pharmacy management analysis report
A pharmacy management analysis report as generated by the steps of introducing servicing information for a plurality of prescriptions filled by an individual pharmacy into a program, and automatically summarizing in a reader friendly format the activities of the pharmacy along with comments as to overall performance of the pharmacy. ...

02/16/06 - 20060036469 - Kit and method for evaluating proper administration of medications
A method and kit as disclosed relate to at least one medication order display bearing medication indicia and administration indicia, and at least one medication administration record worksheet display bearing a transcription area and a medication administration record area. A group of practice medications including medications designated by the medication ...

02/09/06 - 20060031100 - Method of providing per dose delivery of veterinary oncology chemotherapy and immunotherapy agents and nutritional formulations
A method of providing per dose delivery of veterinary oncology chemotherapy and immunotherapy agents and nutritional formulations provides such delivery without waste and with enhanced convenience. In a described embodiment, the method includes input by a treating veterinarian of a diagnosis and characteristics of a specific patient. The diagnosis may ...

02/09/06 - 20060031099 - System and methods for administering bioactive compositions
Bioactive agents are dosed by a jet dispenser using inkjet technology, such as that used in printing devices. A controller may control delivery of one or more drugs, timing of drug administration, or change drug regimens in response to a changing medical condition of a patient or information received from ...

02/09/06 - 20060031098 - Secure network gateway for accessible patient data and transplant donor data
A method of organizing and making available transplant donor data, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a secure database to store transplant donor data; (b) providing access to a selective third party to at least one of upload and view transplant donor data and download and view transplant ...

02/09/06 - 20060031097 - Practice management system
The disclosure is directed to a computer-implemented method of generating a prescription refill. The method includes providing a patient interactive interface, receiving a prescription refill request via the patient interactive interface, initiating a refill authorization request associated with the prescription refill request, and receiving a refill authorization. ...

02/09/06 - 20060031096 - Clinical documentation tool with protected and revisable text expansion
Automatic text generation is marked in a text document to allow later re-invocation of automatic text generation to revise the expanded text and to ensure integrity in capture of machine interpretable data generated during automatic text generation. ...

02/09/06 - 20060031095 - Clinical workflow analysis and customer benchmarking
A method and apparatus is provided for analysis of the utilization of a technical medical device, such as a computer tomography, by a medical facility is provided. Recording of the use of the device is performed with time stamp information and a comparison of the use is made to other ...

02/09/06 - 20060031094 - Medical data management system and process
Systems and processes for managing data relating to one or more medical or biological conditions of a plurality of subjects (such as patients) over a wide area network, such as the Internet, may be employed for diabetes subjects or subjects with other medical conditions requiring monitoring and/or treatment over time. ...

02/09/06 - 20060031093 - Computerized method and system for communicating agreements and/or discrepancies in image interpretation
A computerized method for communicating agreements and/or discrepancies in image interpretation, e.g., diagnostic image interpretation, is provided. The method includes receiving a first interpretation of a diagnostic image, receiving a second interpretation of the diagnostic image, determining whether there is a discrepancy between the first and second image interpretations, and ...

02/02/06 - 20060026038 - Medical practice information management system, medical practice operation assistance terminal, medical practice information management method, medical practice operation assistance method, storage media storing medical practice information management pro
A medical practice operation assistance terminal according to the present invention comprises a medical practice acquisition unit which is capable of transmitting an acquisition request of a medical practice to a data base storing information relating to medical practice(s), and acquiring the medical practice(s) related to the acquisition request; a ...

02/02/06 - 20060026037 - Online doctor/patient lead system and associated methods
A computer implemented online patient lead system includes a medical service provider database storing information for medical services offered by medical service providers, and a patient interface module cooperating with the medical service provider database for prompting and receiving patient input data over the Internet relating to a selected medical ...

02/02/06 - 20060026036 - System and method for simultaneously optimizing the quality of life and controlling health care costs
A method and system for optimizing health expenditure by an organization including developing a Cohort-based personnel model for the organization; determining lifecycle health costs based on the personnel model; evaluating impact of a lifestyle program, a best health practices program, and an employee benefits program on the life cycle health ...

02/02/06 - 20060026035 - Computer aided interactive medical management information and control system and method
A computer aided interactive medical management information and control system and method includes one or more devices and a computing platform and associated software that assists the health care provider in performing a treatment on a patient. Output information of equipment relevant to performing the treatment is integrated with reference ...

02/02/06 - 20060026034 - System and method for conducting a clinical trial study
Described is a method and system for conducting a clinical trial. Medical data is obtained from a patient participating in the clinical trial. Then, the medical data and at least one identifier are transmitted, via a communications network, for storage at a remote server. The at least one identifier links ...

01/26/06 - 20060020493 - Ontology based method for automatically generating healthcare billing codes from a patient encounter
A healthcare related method corrects on non-standard input data in a syntax processing block with reference to one or more healthcare lexicons, and a resulting corrected data file is thereafter used by an ontology processing block to reference an ontology and generate a standardized output including one or more healthcare ...

01/26/06 - 20060020492 - Ontology based medical system for automatically generating healthcare billing codes from a patient encounter
A healthcare related system is disclosed in which non-standard input data is corrected in a syntax processing block with reference to one or more healthcare lexicons, and a resulting corrected data file is thereafter used by an ontology processing block to reference an ontology and generate a standardized output including ...

01/26/06 - 20060020491 - Batch processing method for patient management
A method for managing data from remotely located patients features batch processing. Patient files are batched in groups to increase workflow efficiency of a caregiver clinic. Scheduling of remote data transmission; accessing, reviewing and evaluating the data; and billing are carried out using a batch processing approach. ...

01/26/06 - 20060020490 - Database and model for monitoring and predicting outcomes with vascular access devices
A method is provided for monitoring and predicting usage and health outcomes with respect to the utilization of vascular access devices. ...

01/19/06 - 20060015370 - Flow management analysis system and method for healthcare related business
The present invention provides a method of analyzing a business flow process within an healthcare organization comprising. One or more working units are mapped within the organization. A relationship between the one or more working units is mapped. Data is collected from the one or more working units. A flow ...

01/19/06 - 20060015369 - Healthcare provider recommendation system
An online database of patient-to-patient healthcare provider recommendations is provided. This database may provide a resource for choosing a physician, and a community of support for those facing medical challenges. Patients who have had a positive experience with a physician can register this physician online, and subsequent patients can search ...

01/19/06 - 20060015368 - Portable method and device for personal medical record compilation and retrieval
A medical information device includes a portable USB memory drive adapted for detachable connection with a USB port of a computer. A current medical profile Portable Document Format (PDF) file is stored on the portable USB memory drive unencrypted and without password protection. The current medical profile PDF file contains ...

01/19/06 - 20060015367 - System for data analysis
A method and apparatus for analysing data allowing accurate, up to date analysis of the performance of hospitals or hospital trusts as the data is entered into the system. The method and apparatus is optimised for analysing data in such a way as to produce graphical representations allowing easy recognition ...

01/12/06 - 20060010014 - Remote health monitoring and maintenance system
A system and method is described that enables a health care provider to monitor and manage a health condition of a patient. The system includes a health care provider apparatus operated by a health care provider and a remotely programmable patient apparatus that is operated by a patient. The health ...

01/12/06 - 20060010013 - Image database system
It is an object of the present invention to provide an image database system capable of easily correlating medical image data with the object part of the medical opinion data interpreted at the time of preparing the medical opinion data and accurately evaluating the diagnosis. A viewer includes: position specification ...

01/12/06 - 20060010012 - Portable medical information device
The present invention provides a system and method of providing personal and medical information in a portable manner. The present invention also allows the user to easily update and modify the information contained in the device. Briefly, a storage element, preferably having a standard computer interface, most preferably a USB ...

01/12/06 - 20060010011 - Dynamic medical data acquisition
A medical data acquisition processing platform and method of operation for use in capturing medical data relating to one or more medical events. The processing platform including a processing system having a plurality of defined interface elements for acquiring medical data. Each of the defined interface elements provides one of ...

01/12/06 - 20060010010 - Method for recommending an acne treatment/prevention program
The invention relates to an acne profile of an individual comprising an acne quality of life score which is determined by obtaining and analyzing acne quality of life information. The profile may also optionally contain an acne severity score which is determined by obtaining and analyzing acne severity information and/or ...

01/12/06 - 20060010009 - Medication card and system
A globally-accessible computerized system for data management of medications for a plurality of patients. The system allows for medication specific data of the patient to be stored and modified such as the name of the medication, an image of the medication, the form of the medication, the route of administration, ...

01/12/06 - 20060010008 - Card record sytem
A system for storing record information associated with an identifier for an entity, so that the entity can request that the record information be relayed to or from a terminal communicating with the system by presenting a device acting as the identifier for the entity. ...

01/12/06 - 20060010007 - Process for using smart card technology in patient prescriptions, medical/dental/dme services processing and healthcare management
An integrated process for using smart card technology in patient prescriptions, medical/dental services processing, billing and paying, healthcare management and provision of emergency medical/dental information based on a single, comprehensive, unified system, integrating and interconnecting medical/dental health providers, pharmaceutical providers and manufacturers, insurance companies and other healthcare payers, the Centers ...

01/05/06 - 20060004608 - Computer architecture and process of patient generation, evolution, and simulation for computer based testing system
A computer implemented simulation and evaluation method simulates interventions to a patient by a user, and evaluates the interventions responsive to predetermined criteria and the interventions. The method includes defining a test area to evaluate the user to at least one of predetermined criteria and a user profile, selecting genetic ...

01/05/06 - 20060004607 - Personalized health history system with accommodation for consumer health terminology
Personalization of access to health or benefit-related information on a computer network is provided based upon a health history of a user. In one implementation, personal health or benefit-related information about the user is obtaining from the user operating a client computer. The health or benefit-related information includes one or ...

01/05/06 - 20060004606 - Time management system for medical applications, particularly in a hospital setting
For rationalizing medical treatments in the hospital setting, particularly for improving the utilization rate of examination and therapy equipment and to avoid long waiting times, a time management system (1) is disclosed having at least one treatment station (2a-2c) coupled with an appointment-scheduling module (3) for storing appointments (T1, T2) ...

01/05/06 - 20060004605 - System and method for a comprehensive interactive graphical representation of a health care facility for managing patient care and health care facility resources
A system and method for a comprehensive interactive graphical representation of a health care facility for managing patient care and health care facility resources. The system comprises an integrated enterprise health care information system including at least one data repository for storing data and at least one graphical user interface ...

01/05/06 - 20060004604 - Method and system for providing a service to a person
A method and system for managing information related to providing health care services, which includes recording on a portable electronic device a time at which the service begins to be provided, retrieving from a person to which the service is provided a first identifier corresponding to the person, associating the ...

01/05/06 - 20060004603 - Chronic disease management system
A health care management system and method for chronic disease management such as diabetes management, hypertension management and like chronic diseases. The system is utilized by both patients and clinicians to manage the patients' chronic diseases and for clinicians to better manage a population of patients. ...

12/29/05 - 20050288965 - Role-based approach for managing patient care information generated by healthcare provider
A role-based approach is provided for managing patient care information generated by healthcare providers. A team is comprised of multiple healthcare providers, each of whom has primary responsibility, i.e., a role, for a list of patients. The team is also responsible for a specific list of patients. Patients associated with ...

12/29/05 - 20050288964 - Health care eligibility verification and settlement systems and methods
Devices, systems, and methods for processing healthcare and financial transactions are provided. A point-of-care terminal for processing a healthcare transaction by a healthcare provider includes a reader configured to read information from a healthcare eligibility and settlement presentation instrument associated with a patient, and a processor configured to process a ...

12/29/05 - 20050288963 - Method and system for managing collateral or property risk in a secured loan or lease portfolio
A method for managing collateral or property risk in a secured loan or lease portfolio includes monitoring the insurance status of each individual loan or lease. If insurance is not maintained as agreed by the borrower or lessee, a loan default or property protection fee is added to the loan ...

12/22/05 - 20050283385 - Individualized healthcare management system
Method and system for providing individualized healthcare to a patient having a chronic disease over the Internet are disclosed. The system includes at least a computer server for executing application programs where the computer server includes storage means for storing patient information in at least a database server and means ...

12/22/05 - 20050283384 - System and method for assisting a care partner in monitoring a patient with chronic disease
Method and system for assisting a care partner in monitoring a patient with chronic disease are disclosed. The system includes at least a computer server for executing application programs, where the computer server includes means for storing patient and care partner information in at least a database server, and where ...

12/22/05 - 20050283383 - Method of developing patient referrals using the internet
A Web-based software application that implements a method for referring Internet users to healthcare providers. Internet users are able to access healthcare information on a Website. Internet users may be attracted to the Website by various forms of advertisements, including print, television, radio, direct mail, Internet, or other forms of ...

12/22/05 - 20050283382 - System and method for managing and tracking the location of patients and health care facility resources in a health care facility
Disclosed is a system and method for managing and tracking the location of patients and health care facility resources, including but not limited to health care practitioners, health care equipment, patient charts and other items in a health care facility. The system comprises a health care information system having at ...

12/22/05 - 20050283381 - System and method to manipulate identification data of medical images and data sets for quality assurance
Identification information is overwritten onto a defined region of a medical image or examination data. Original data formerly occupying the overwritten region is saved and stored on a server, and associative information identifying the storage location of the original data is determined and optionally written into the defined region. The ...

12/22/05 - 20050283380 - Delivery service for a health management system
A health delivery service includes a base terminal for self-testing with a remote on-line connection to a Medical Management Center (MMC). A customer provides biological fluids to the base terminal for analysis. The base terminal sends test data to the MMC. The MMC processes and evaluates the results in real ...

12/15/05 - 20050278196 - System and method for developing and utilizing member condition groups
A system and method for developing and utilizing member condition groups (MCGs) determines whether an individual has been diagnosed with one or more diagnostic codes from a predetermined group of diagnostic codes. Each diagnosed individual is associated, based on the one or more diagnostic codes, with one or more member ...

12/15/05 - 20050278195 - Method for scheduling viewing of a live medical procedure
A method for scheduling and viewing a live medical procedure is disclosed. The method may be practiced utilizing a system that includes: an image acquisition component, such as one or more video cameras, located at a site of the live medical procedure; a viewing component, such as a computer monitor, ...

12/15/05 - 20050278194 - 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 ...

12/08/05 - 20050273363 - System and method for management of medical and encounter data
The disclosure is directed to a method of facilitating a medical workflow. The method includes receiving patient data via a first user interface device; providing a first medical data entry interface to a second user interface device; and providing a second medical data entry interface to the second user interface ...

12/08/05 - 20050273362 - Method and system for generating medical narrative
In one particular embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a system including a processor and storage. The storage is accessible by the processor and includes medical findings data and computer-implemented program instructions. The medical findings data include a discrete input. The computer-implemented program instructions are configured to access the medical ...

12/08/05 - 20050273361 - System and a method for an audit and virtual case management of a business and/or its components
The present invention provides a system and a method for an audit of a business and/or its components. More specifically, a formula is provided that may track errors in a health care business, such as financial, department specific, and/or clinical/medical. The errors may be coded and categorized by persons other ...

12/08/05 - 20050273360 - Medical bill analysis and review
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 ...

12/08/05 - 20050273359 - System and method of evaluating preoperative medical care and determining recommended tests based on patient health history and medical condition and nature of surgical procedure
A health care screening system obtains patient health history and analyzes data to determine recommended preoperative medical testing. The patient's medical condition are obtained through patient responses to a questionnaire. The surgical procedure is provided by a physician. A first evaluation table of surgical procedures and corresponding preoperative medical tests ...

12/01/05 - 20050267781 - Environmental impact estimation method and apparatus
An environmental impact estimation method comprising storing information related to reuse and recycle objects in a memory unit, performing life cycle modeling to make a life cycle model, the life cycle modeling including reading information related to the reuse and recycle objects, selecting some of the reuse and recycle objects ...

12/01/05 - 20050267780 - Methods and systems of automating medical device data management
Methods and systems automating medical device data management are provided. The subject methods and systems are implemented by or include a software program loadable on a host system. The software program is configured for polling medical devices located within a detectable range of the host system; detecting a medical device; ...

11/24/05 - 20050261939 - Pharmacy benefits calculator
A Pharmacy Benefits Calculator reads in an insured's prior pharmacy claims history and then calculates said insured's anticipated out-of-pocket costs for one or more pharmacy benefits plans that said insured is eligible to enroll in. Provision is made for an insured to modify their anticipated future pharmacy needs. Provision is ...

11/24/05 - 20050261938 - Method for remote authentication of pharmaceutical products
A method for authenticating a pharmaceutical product, the pharmaceutical product being associated with packaging having disposed thereon or therein coded data including a number of coded data portions, each coded data portion being indicative of an identity of the pharmaceutical product and at least part of a digital signature of ...

11/24/05 - 20050261937 - Pharmaceutical procuct packaging
A method of producing pharmaceutical product packaging. The method includes, determining a serial number associated with a pharmaceutical product, generating, using the serial number, an identity, and generating, using the identity, a digital signature of at least part of the identity. The identity and signature are then used to generate ...

11/24/05 - 20050261936 - Interactive pharmaceutical product packaging
A method of allowing a user to interact with a pharmaceutical product, the pharmaceutical product being associated with packaging having disposed thereon or therein coded data, at least some of the coded data being indicative of at least an identity. The method includes having a computer system receive indicating data ...

11/24/05 - 20050261935 - Pharmaceutical product tracking
A method of tracking a pharmaceutical product, the pharmaceutical product being associated with packaging having disposed thereon or therein coded data including a number of coded data portions, each coded data portion being indicative of an identity of the pharmaceutical product. The method includes having a computer system receiving indicating ...

11/24/05 - 20050261934 - Variable encryption scheme for data transfer between medical devices and related data management systems
The present invention provides for an encryption apparatus, system, and method in which data from an Implantable Medical Device (IMD) and a data center could be transferred based on a differentiated encryption system. The encryption scheme allows for the differentiation, segregation, and classification of data at required or needed levels ...

11/17/05 - 20050256744 - System for accessing employee-related occupational healthcare information
A system for providing patient-employee related healthcare information in a secure environment and inputting such information according to an employer designated protocol. Once the patient-employee has been evaluated and treated by an industrial/occupational healthcare specialist, information concerning the evaluation and treatment is forwarded to a secure data storage facility. Access ...

11/17/05 - 20050256743 - Medical imaging-quality assessment and improvement system (qaisys)
The business method known as QAISys (Quality Assessment and Improvement System) is a process that rates comprehensively and continually the quality of medical images as determined by the interpreting radiologist. The output of this system conveys feedback from the radiologist to the performing technologist and his/her supervisor. This feedback enables ...

11/17/05 - 20050256742 - Data encryption applications for multi-source longitudinal patient-level data integration
Software applications are provided for integrating individual multi-sourced patient healthcare transaction data records in a longitudinal database. The data records are processed in a manner which preserves patient privacy by encrypting patient-identifying attributes in the data records and thereby rendering sensitive personal information inaccessible. The applications, which may be organized ...

11/17/05 - 20050256741 - Mediated data encryption for longitudinal patient level databases
A system and method for the assembly of a longitudinally linked database of patient healthcare data records involve a neutral implementation partner to ensure that sensitive patient-identifying information contained in the data records is secure at all times. The implementation partner is deployed to mediate processing of the data records ...

11/17/05 - 20050256740 - Data record matching algorithms for longitudinal patient level databases
A method is provided for assigning longitudinal linking tags to de-identified patient data records by matching the patient data records with reference data records. The de-identified patient data records may include both encrypted and non-encrypted data attributes. Different possible subsets of the data attributes are categorized in a hierarchy of ...

11/17/05 - 20050256739 - Radio frequency 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 ...

11/17/05 - 20050256738 - Methods and systems for identifying health care professionals with a prescribed attribute
Systems and methods for identifying health care professionals or physicians having certain prescribed attributes can be employed to identify health care professional or physician influence networks for the purpose of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of a pharmaceutical company's sales force. Such identified physicians can include, for example, influencer physicians, ...

11/17/05 - 20050256737 - System and method for facilitating meetings between pharmaceutical sales representatives and physicians
A networked system for facilitating meetings between pharmaceutical sales representatives includes a registration module configured to enable registration by subscribers. Subscribers may include one or more pharmaceutical sales representatives, medical professionals and caterers (also referred to herein as restaurants, irrespective of whether or not they deliver food). The system also ...

11/10/05 - 20050251422 - System and method for near real-time coding of hospital billing records
A method for real time communications between doctors and hospital personnel to resolve patient documentation issues by providing an imaged replica of a paper medical record that is being prepared by one or more doctors to one or more hospital personnel while the paper record is being prepared by the ...

11/10/05 - 20050251421 - Providing video interpreting services
Remotely provided interpretation services enable a patient to communicate with one or more care providers in a health care organization. An interpreter can see and hear the communication between the patient and care provider, and interprets on behalf of the patient from a remotely located facility or decentralized location such ...

11/10/05 - 20050251420 - System and method for managing an office
A system and method for managing an office involve an integrated website on a remote server computer. The website is accessed remotely by a user using conventional computer hardware. All office management software and graphic user interfaces are stored on the server computer, which is connected to the user's hardware ...

11/10/05 - 20050251419 - Eeg prediction method for medication response
The present invention includes a system and method for computerized analysis of a patient's electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded by electrodes placed on the scalp, for the purpose of predicting patient response to medications and therapeutic agents commonly used in psychiatric practice. The prediction of the responses to medications (adverse, no effect, ...

11/10/05 - 20050251418 - System and method for processing ad hoc orders in an automated patient care environment
The present invention is directed to a method and system for managing patient care in order to minimize caregiver error and to accommodate ad hoc entry of orders. The system may be driven by machine readable identifiers. The identifiers may include bar codes. The system may include a portable computing ...

11/10/05 - 20050251417 - Physicians' remote charge capture system
A patient management method for hospital-based physicians includes a remote computer server storing certain minimal information regarding patients of one or more physicians. The remote server is linked over a computer network to one or more physician-accessible computers remote from the computer server. Physicians can access such patient information over ...

11/10/05 - 20050251416 - Methods for improving the clinical outcome of patient care and for reducing overall health care costs
The current invention is directed to improved methods for providing health care and for reducing the costs of health care. Additionally, the methods of the current invention are designed to improve the clinical outcome for the patient. The methods of the current invention provide financial incentives to both the patient ...

11/10/05 - 20050251415 - System and method for consultation on dermatological disorders
The system and method of the present invention enables obtaining a consult report from a specialist located at a remote location. The disclosed invention is described in terms of an Internet-enabled communication system facilitating sending patient information to a consulting teledermatologist. The response from the consulting teledermatologist is a completed ...

11/03/05 - 20050246201 - Health services delivery system with incentives
A system of health care service and an associated method of the administration thereof to a plurality of subscribers including a providing entity organizationally structured to implement a health care program which includes categorizing subscribers desirous of health care service, including preventative services, into a plurality of predetermined profiles. The ...

11/03/05 - 20050246200 - System, method, and computer program product for healthcare management
A system and method for healthcare process re-engineering including a managed care non-hospital referral process. One embodiment includes a healthcare workflow manager, which manages the healthcare process and management of relevant healthcare data. Further, various embodiments utilize an electronic identifier “smartcard” for healthcare management or other electronic identifier fulfilling the ...

11/03/05 - 20050246199 - Health and wellness station
A health and wellness station having a plurality of emergency response resources incorporated into a single unit is provided to a customer. A method is provided of deploying the health and wellness station and includes the steps of determining components for the health and wellness station, providing a station having ...

11/03/05 - 20050246198 - Method for increasing efficacy and reducing cost of providing post-acute-care medical treatment to hospitalized aliens
A method for reducing a local hospital's complications and cost of providing extended medical treatment to hospitalized aliens. Under current regulations, indigent aliens needing expensive long-term medical care are often treated in a local hospital for the duration of that care because the alien cannot be lawfully discharged. The alien ...

10/27/05 - 20050240442 - Fraud-resistant prescription drug compliance system with resuable discount means and third party adjudication
A prescription drug compliance and reusable discount system having enhanced fraud prevention capability for sponsors that provides reminders and offers incentives to patients to continue the taking of prescription medications. ...

10/27/05 - 20050240441 - Hospital information system and program thereof
A hospital information system according to the present invention lets an RF reader 12 comprised by a PDA 8 read tag information, once for all, recorded by RF tags either attached to, or embedded in, plural kinds of a plurality of patient wrist bands, injection medicine bottles, patient charts, medical ...

10/27/05 - 20050240440 - Lexicon model and method
Medical reports are a key component of a patient's medical history. Medical reports, however, often contain lexicon that is inconsistent and of insufficient detail leading to problems in analyzing the medical reports. Additionally, creating detailed medical reports can be very time consuming. The present method for creating a medical report, ...

10/27/05 - 20050240439 - System and method for automatic assignment of medical codes to unformatted data
A system and method for automatic assignment of medical codes to unformatted data is, for example, a computer software module or engine. The engine automatically assigns medical codes such as ICD codes (ICD9 and ICD10 as well as other versions) to unformatted or uncoded medical documents (e.g. medical notes, discharge ...

10/27/05 - 20050240438 - Method and system for improving health status of members of an entity
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 ...

10/27/05 - 20050240437 - Information retrieval system and method thereof
The information retrieval system, method and computer product of the present invention is an automated background process that requires no integration programming, manual mapping, or user intervention. In one embodiment, a task is initiated and communicated to at least one physician system having a text data collection. The task can ...

10/27/05 - 20050240436 - Method for creating an individual supplement recommendation
A method for creating an individual supplement recommendation for the targeted administration of certain micro nutrients in the human and animal organism determines the efficiency of the body's own antioxidative system is established by determining the effectiveness of at least one of three different body-own indicator groups, whereby, after the ...

10/27/05 - 20050240435 - System and methods for producing medical information reports
A method of producing a medical information report corresponding to one or more facilities comprising the steps of, entering data into a computer corresponding to a patient of the facility; automatically analyzing the entered data and assigning one or more patient care codes, using one or more predetermined criteria, to ...

10/27/05 - 20050240434 - System and method of implementing multi-level marketing of weight management products
A system and method of driving weight management product sales in a multi-level marketing environment using a body impedance data acquisition device, a weight management software program, nutritional supplements and a standardized sales pathway software program, resulting in direct sales, lead generation and new distributor sign up. A prospect's personal ...

10/20/05 - 20050234743 - Medical examination or treatment device
Medical examination and/or treatment apparatus (1, 3), designed to perform various patient-related machine activities, specifically image acquisition and/or analysis and/or storage, as part of a patient examination and/or treatment or subsequent processing and/or documentation of examination and/or treatment information, said apparatus (1, 3) being designed to automatically record the start ...

10/20/05 - 20050234742 - Incentive based health care insurance program
Apparatuses, systems, programs, and/or methods of administering an incentive health care insurance program are provided. In one aspect, the apparatuses, systems, programs, and/or methods comprise offering one or more incentives to a participant of a health care insurance program to complete a health risk assessment questionnaire or a biometric measurement ...

10/20/05 - 20050234741 - Electronic appointment scheduling for medical resources
A programmable rules-based interface between a patient and an electronic medical record EMR allows controlled patient access to the EMR allowing increased patient participation in the healthcare process. The interface allows the patient to directly schedule appointments for procedures, while filtering requests from patients who are not eligible for a ...

10/20/05 - 20050234740 - Business methods and systems for providing healthcare management and decision support services using structured clinical information extracted from healthcare provider data
Business methods and systems that are provided use knowledge-based expert systems for mining (extracting) highly structured clinical information from various structured and unstructured sources of healthcare provider data. In one business method for on-line healthcare management and decision support, a service provider maintaining a collection of structured clinical data, the ...

10/20/05 - 20050234739 - Rule management method and system
A rule processing method includes defining a target group of patients chosen from a group of existing patients. An action to be taken concerning one or more patients within the target group of patients is defined, and an execution time for the action is scheduled. ...

10/13/05 - 20050228698 - Wrist-worn data recorder
A wrist-worn data recorder is provided that enables the recording of a subjective diary of a user's medical condition. It comprises a processor that receives a clock signal from a clock-signal generator and receives user inputs from a plurality of user-input buttons. Each button corresponds to a predefined condition of ...

10/13/05 - 20050228697 - Examination appointment method and system, and server to be used for the same
An examination appointment method that facilitates an operation of making an examination appointment from a clinic to a hospital for a patient to be examined in a hospital having a large-scale examination device. Further, practices such as examination and interpretation can be performed in cooperation. The method includes the steps ...

10/13/05 - 20050228696 - Method of making appointments for medical examinations for patients in medical facilities and appointment-making system
The present invention is directed to a method of making a medical examination appointment and a system that implements such a method. In such a system, performance data is stored for each instance of examination. Based on the stored performance data, the number of appointments acceptable for each time frame ...

10/13/05 - 20050228695 - Hospital management apparatus and method, and computer-readable medium
A hospital management apparatus connected to a plurality of medical devices installed in a hospital through a local area network so as to manage said plurality of medical devices, said hospital management apparatus comprises: an anti-virus unit that provides anti-virus measures for said plurality of medical devices; and an accounting ...

10/13/05 - 20050228694 - Processing of documents with medical and other waste
The invention relates to methods and apparatus for processing documents with medical and other waste. The method includes the steps of supplying the documents to an apparatus adapted to shred documents and medical waste, shredding the documents, and discharging the shredded documents from the apparatus. The apparatus has little or ...

10/13/05 - 20050228693 - Data exchange web services for medical device systems
A remote monitoring medical device system includes a medical device system which may further include an implantable medical device and/or an external medical device having a communication connection and one or more remote data handling systems having compatible communication connections such as a centralized database located on a host server ...

10/13/05 - 20050228692 - Incentive based health care insurance program
Apparatuses, systems, programs, and/or methods of administering an incentive health care insurance program are provided. In one aspect, the apparatuses, systems, programs, and/or methods comprise offering one or more incentives to a participant of a health care insurance program to complete a health risk assessment questionnaire or a biometric measurement ...

10/13/05 - 20050228691 - Automated wellness system managing personalized fitness programs
A method for providing personalized wellness programs can include the step of receiving participant metrics, the metrics including data elements indicative of a plurality of mental and physical attributes relating to wellness of an associated participant. Numerical weights can be assigned to selective ones of these metrics. A wellness program ...

10/13/05 - 20050228690 - Generic architecture for adaptable software
This invention concerns adaptable software. In particular it concerns a method for constructing an adaptable soft-ware application. A first step involves instantiating a first set of knowledge elements (kitems) related to the type of business objects or operations which will be handled by the adaptable software application, from a knowledge ...

10/06/05 - 20050222874 - Sensitive drug distribution system and method
A drug distribution system and method utilizes a central pharmacy and database to track all prescriptions for a sensitive drug. Information is kept in the database regarding all physicians allowed to prescribe the sensitive drug, and all patients receiving the drug. Abuses are identified by monitoring data in the database ...

10/06/05 - 20050222873 - Systems, methods and user interfaces for management and configuration of medical patient monitoring
Systems, methods and user interfaces for configuration of medical patient monitoring and configuration systems are disclosed. At a central database in which patient information, health care provider information and health care group information may be stored, patient information is associated with health care provider information, which is associated with health ...

10/06/05 - 20050222872 - Information processing system, medical system and information processing method
An information processing system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses for performing an information process according to a program, the plurality of information processing apparatuses being connected to each other through a network, wherein a plurality of types of application programs corresponding to a plurality of types of processing ...

10/06/05 - 20050222871 - Medical image creating system, medical image creating method and display controlling program
In controller 3 which controls a reader reading radiographic image recorded in a cassette, display controlling means 13 is provided, wherein pre-registration mode in which radiographing is conducted to acquire an image after correlation between body part information and a cassette is registered as radiographing reservation information, a post-registration mode ...

10/06/05 - 20050222870 - Web-based data submission for nursing quality indicators
A system for surveying nursing quality of nursing units at multiple healthcare facilities via a network includes a first Web client, a second Web client, a third Web client, a database, and a Web server. A staff member of a first nursing unit of a first healthcare facility is prompted ...

10/06/05 - 20050222869 - Double blind evaluation method for malpractice claims
Eliminating actual and potential bias from a malpractice claim evaluation process utilizes a double blind evaluation method, which includes the steps of retention by an entity having a direct or indirect interest in the claim of a neutral third party to obtain an independent evaluation of the claim, acquisition by ...

10/06/05 - 20050222868 - Method for minimizing the cost of post-treatment follow-up and diagnostic tests
and c.) delaying each subsequent testing date until the cost per detected relapse is below a probability threshold of C/T. ...

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10/06/05 - 20050222867 - System and method for administering health care cost reduction
A system and method for the efficient administration of health care plans, particularly as to the reduction and/or elimination of avoidable medical costs for select individuals who participate in the plan, is disclosed. Existing health care data is processed to determine an indication as to the relative desirability of an ...

10/06/05 - 20050222866 - Methods and systems for managing the administration of multiple medications
A method for managing the administration of multiple medications may include gathering all medications to be administered, ascribing a unique identifier to each separate medication, and placing the ascribed unique identifier on a container associated with each separate medication. The method may further include compiling on a first visual medium ...

09/29/05 - 20050216309 - Sensitive drug distribution system and method
A drug distribution system and method utilizes a central pharmacy and database to track all prescriptions for a sensitive drug. Information is kept in the database regarding all physicians allowed to prescribe the sensitive drug, and all patients receiving the drug. Abuses are identified by monitoring data in the database ...

09/29/05 - 20050216308 - Drug document production system
A document production system is provided for preparing documents and managing a database of information pertaining to investigational studies of medical products. The document production system includes a data management user interface for providing user access to the database and for retrieving information from the database as specified by selected ...

09/29/05 - 20050216307 - Pharmaceutical treatment effectiveness analysis computer system and methods
A computer-implemented system and method analyzes the effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments for medical conditions utilizing real time prescription compliance records. Information related to medical history of a patient can be reviewed while simultaneously reviewing prescription compliance records for the same patient. Trends in a target or non-target medical parameter can ...

09/29/05 - 20050216306 - Evidence-based extender system
A system for efficiently providing professional services (an “EBE system”), which is based the concepts of evidence-based medicine and the physician extender model. The EBE system combines and expands these concepts to enable services, which traditionally could only be provided by costly professionals, to be provided by lower cost “extenders.” ...

09/29/05 - 20050216305 - System for preparation and transmission of specification for customized prostheses
In a system for transmitting specifications for a customized prosthesis, particularly a surgical implant such as a femur prosthesis, an order is first transmitted comprising clinical data for a patient from a client (12) to a server (10). Diagnostic information for the patient is then transmitted from a diagnosis unit ...

09/22/05 - 20050209886 - System and method for tracking patient flow
The invention provides a system and method for tracking the progress of patient in a healthcare or medical facility, including an emergency room or department. The system requires minimal additional input of data from busy facility personnel or administrators. Tracking of patients is accomplished using RFID tags with unique identification ...

09/22/05 - 20050209885 - Automatic processing and management of referrals of specialty healthcare services
According to various embodiments, methods and systems are provided for facilitating and managing communications between healthcare service referrers and healthcare service providers. Such communications are transacted via digital networks in connection with a healthcare information system. Referral of various diagnostic and therapeutic specialties is tracked from the initiation by the ...

09/22/05 - 20050209884 - Method, system and computer program product for providing medical information
A method for providing medical information including receiving a notification from a medical employee that a medical situation has occurred. The notification is received at a user system. A request is received at the user system from the medical employee for medical data about a patient involved in the medical ...

09/22/05 - 20050209883 - Blood processing information system with blood loss equivalency tracking
A blood component collection system with data manipulation and optimization capabilities. The system comprises a central database, a data manipulation device, and a communication subsystem connected to the central database and the data manipulation device, and one or more extracorporeal blood processing machines. The central database maintains records of total ...

09/22/05 - 20050209882 - Clinical data processing system
A system for use in processing clinical data includes an input processor for receiving user identification information. A display generator initiates generation of data representing an image for display including, an item of clinical data of a particular patient and an image element enabling a user to enter data identifying ...

09/22/05 - 20050209881 - Method of tracking home-healthcare services
A method and apparatus are provided for collecting information by an organization on home health-care provided to a plurality of care recipients by a plurality of caregivers. The method includes the steps of accepting a call through a call connection by an interactive voice response unit from a caregiver of ...

09/22/05 - 20050209880 - Integrated healthcare information system
An integrated healthcare network provides a clinical documentation functionality fully integrated with a financial tracking functionality. The integrated healthcare network provides a fully flexible and customizable clinical documentation capability. This allows healthcare providers to accommodate various needs which arise during the course of diagnosing and treating individual patients. The financial ...

09/22/05 - 20050209879 - Method and system for centralized medication fulfillment
A method and system for providing multiple medication products to a patient (for simultaneous ingestion or insertion into a live body by the patient) through a centralized medication product fulfillment facility, on an individualized, patient specific custom basis, in a cost effective, expedient manner which results in the maximization of ...

09/15/05 - 20050203775 - Automated reporting, notification and data-tracking system particularly suited to radiology and other medical/professional applications
An interactive web-based software solution and application service provider (ASP) program called RADAR™ enables instant notification and alert responses from busy physicians, healthcare providers, and other professionals. The RADAR system is a complete risk management program for healthcare and other communication solutions, providing alert and data management and tracking for ...

09/15/05 - 20050203774 - System and method for providing custom fabricated products and catered dental referrals from a retail site
A system and method for providing a consumer with dental services and products from a retail location, such as, for example, a local shopping mall. The dental service or product may include a teeth whitening product or service. The retail location is operated by a registered dental assistant or hygienist ...

09/15/05 - 20050203773 - Systems and methods for risk stratification of patient populations
A statistical processing system includes a server operably configured with program instructions implementing a plurality of statistical models to at least one of (a) predict a health outcome based on questionnaire responses, (b) assist a patient's choice of therapeutic modality based on questionnaire responses, and (c) assess a health risk ...

09/15/05 - 20050203772 - Examination appointment method and examination appointment system
An examination appointment method capable of reducing a burden for printing out hospital information and map images of an examination appointment destination. The method is used in an examination appointment system which is configured by connecting a client terminal and a server provided in a data center via a network ...

09/15/05 - 20050203771 - System and method to develop health-care information systems
A method of and a system for development of health care information Systems (HIS) are disclosed. The method includes providing software programming interfaces for development of application modules, communication interfaces for establishing communication between various modules, and resource management interfaces for allocation of resources such as memory. The system comprises ...

09/15/05 - 20050203770 - Medical care experience
The invention relates to a method enabling a person to obtain information on medical care equipment (A), the method comprising a step of offering the option to indicate the medical care equipment (A) on a user interface (1), comprising a step of transmitting, on receipt of the indication of the ...

09/08/05 - 20050197864 - Imaging system protocol handling method and apparatus
A technique is disclosed for providing programs, such as operational protocols, to medical diagnostic institutions and systems. The protocols are created and stored on machine readable media. A description of the protocols is displayed at the diagnostic institution or system. A user may select a desired protocol or program from ...

09/08/05 - 20050197863 - Method of making examination appointment, server using the same, and program for making examination appointment
A server causes an examination request addressee terminal to display contents of examination appointment together with a medical image of a patient as a target of examination. The server includes a first storing unit for storing medical image data; a second storing unit for storing examination appointment data; a first ...

09/08/05 - 20050197862 - Medical data analysis system
Prediction methods including statistical and artificial intelligence methods to predict the prescribing behavior and characteristics and size of patient populations under the care of health care providers from limited data, based on processes developed on integrated medical and pharmaceutical claims data. Prescribers can be classified into groups and subgroups, and ...

09/08/05 - 20050197861 - Examination management system and examination management method
An examination management system of the present invention comprises implemented information inputting means for inputting implemented information related to a content of implementation of medical conduct in which the conduct is implemented regarding the examination, implemented information storing means for storing therein the implemented information input by the implemented information ...

09/08/05 - 20050197860 - Data management system
A data management system includes a server system and a data forwarding unit for forwarding data to the server system via a public network. The server system includes a storage system for storing data, an information system for storing information on data managed by the data management system, and a ...

09/08/05 - 20050197859 - Portable electronic data storage and retreival system for group data
Methods and apparatus for providing and using a portable electronic data storage and information retrieval system for healthcare and/or other types of applications are described. Each portable storage device (PSD) (e.g., smart card) for a group, e.g., household, allows the storage and retrieval of household level information in addition to ...

09/08/05 - 20050197858 - Web enabled image extension system
The Web Enabled Image Extension (WEIX) system provides extended access to patient medical scan images from the capabilities of traditional Computer Imaging systems. The WEIX system employs a Secure Web Server with add-on modules to provide a variety of user-level access. The WEIX system leverages this user-level access to create ...

09/01/05 - 20050192841 - Method and system for collecting information before user registration
A collection system for collecting medical information. The collection system comprises a collection server and multiple collection kiosks. A collection kiosk is a computer system attached to various devices for collecting medical information. The collection kiosks may be located at various locations, such as in drug stores or pharmacies. A ...

09/01/05 - 20050192840 - Device for providing medical consultation services
Device for provision of medical consultancy services, in which experts, especially radiological experts of clinics or universities for example, provide practical assistance to less specialized system operators such as doctors, MTAs or such like for optimum operation of medical examination or treatment devices, with both an expert's computer (10) as ...

09/01/05 - 20050192839 - Method and system for managing paperless claim processing
This invention pertains to a method for managing medical insurance claim's processing and bill payments whereby information related to a medical bill file having medical data, payment data and administrative data incorporated into a bill and associated attachment forms a logical association. Thereafter, each association is controllable such that access ...

09/01/05 - 20050192838 - Systems and methods for accessing and distributing medical information
Systems and methods for gathering, utilizing, and/or distributing medical information. In some cases, the systems include a means for receiving medical information from a plurality of sources. Such sources can include, but are not limited to, a physician, a patient, and an implantable medical device. The systems further include a ...

09/01/05 - 20050192837 - Systems and methods for uploading and distributing medical data sets
Systems and methods for gathering medical data. In some cases, the systems comprise a server with a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium includes instructions executable to provide an access tool via a communication network. The access tool includes instructions executable to receive a first data set from an ...

09/01/05 - 20050192836 - Systems and methods for delivering and gathering medical diagnostic data
Systems and methods for delivering and gathering medical diagnostic data. In some cases, the methods include receiving a data set originating from an implantable medical device and identifying a review group associated with data set. The review group can include one or more members that can be, for example, versed ...

09/01/05 - 20050192835 - Dental data mining
Systems and methods are disclosed providing a database comprising a compendium of at least one of patient treatment history; orthodontic therapies, orthodontic information and diagnostics; employing a data mining technique for interrogating said database for generating an output data stream, the output data stream correlating a patient malocclusion with an ...

08/25/05 - 20050187793 - Prescription benefits network mechanism
A method and apparatus for managing medical costs including prescription medicines is disclosed. A variety of cost-saving mechanisms are contemplated, which will be provided to purchasers via a specialized magnetic card. ...

08/25/05 - 20050187792 - Optical prescription card
According to the invention, a method for distributing drug interaction information for pharmacological compounds is disclosed. In one step, a request is received for a pharmacological compound for administration to a party. A list is received that includes a plurality of other pharmacological compounds associated with the party. A listing ...

08/25/05 - 20050187791 - Method of dispensing pharmaceuticals
A method for electronically assisting in dispensing pharmaceuticals to long-term patient care facilities is provided. The method includes entering data associated with a prescription order into a system including an intervention database. Based on features of the order, an intervention from the intervention database is associated with the order, the ...

08/25/05 - 20050187790 - Reusable discount card and prescription drug compliance system
A prescription drug compliance and reusable discount system having enhanced patient privacy that provides reminders and offers incentives to patients to continue the taking of prescription medications. ...

08/25/05 - 20050187789 - Advanced patient and medication therapy management system and method
A patient medication consumption and prescription regimen management system. The system includes a containment unit that is configured to accessibly house medication. The containment unit includes a control system that monitors patient medication consumption, and provides reminders to the patient to take scheduled doses of medication(s). The system further includes ...

08/25/05 - 20050187788 - Method for monitoring the disribution channel of a precription drug
The present invention is directed to a method for monitoring the distribution channel of a pharmaceutical drug, wherein the method allows governmental agencies to spot any wrongdoings by any parties in the distribution chain. ...

08/25/05 - 20050187787 - Method for payer access to medical image data
A business method provides access to digital medical image data generated by up to a plurality of imaging facilities to a payer. The business method includes receiving digital medical image data generated by the imaging facilities using a gateway at each imaging facility. The received-digital medical image data is transmitted ...

08/18/05 - 20050182660 - Business method and system for providing an on-line healthcare market exchange for procuring and financing medical services and products
An on-line health market exchange (HME) service method and system is provided which, in addition to hosting an on-line medical services auctioning system, includes interactive tools for arranging financing of successful bids, performing on-line research of proffered services and providers, as well as participating on-line in other healthcare related negotiations ...

08/18/05 - 20050182659 - Cost sensitivity decision tool for predicting and/or guiding health care decisions
Methods, devices and systems are disclosed that may be used as a predictive tool for disease surveillance, may be implemented for cost management of delivered health care within a managed care structure, and may be implemented for market simulation for product testing or introduction. ...

08/18/05 - 20050182658 - Method of improving a clinical study
A method is proposed for improving a clinical study. The method includes obtaining criteria for the clinical study, and comparing clinical data to the obtained criteria using a computer device. Thereafter, using the computer device, performance measures are derived based upon the comparisons. These derived performance measures are then usable ...

08/18/05 - 20050182657 - Method and system for measuring quality of performance and/or compliance with protocol of a clinical study
A method is proposed for determining clinical study compliance. The method includes obtaining criteria for the clinical study and accessing stored clinical data relating to the clinical study. Thereafter, the criteria and clinical data are correlated to determine a measure of compliance with the criteria of the clinical study. ...

08/18/05 - 20050182656 - On-line prescription service system and method
The present invention provides a completely automated system and method, whereby the prescription can be created, delivered to the pharmacy, and filled via a computer network. The system and method of the present invention produce accurate prescriptions in a legible format, forward the prescription via electronic means to a pharmacy, ...

08/18/05 - 20050182655 - System and methods to collect, store, analyze, report, and present data
A system and method for collecting and processing surgical data as provided. Hospitals act as local sites and collect data associated with surgical procedures performed therein. The local sites send data to a central site which processes the data and provides recommendations back to the local sites. The recommendations are ...

08/18/05 - 20050182654 - Systems and methods for providing treatment planning
A virtual health-care community is disclosed. The community includes a network to communicate information relating to the community; one or more treatment consultants coupled to the network; one or more treating professionals coupled to the network; and a server coupled to the network, the server storing data for each patient ...

08/18/05 - 20050182653 - System and method for improving and promoting compliance to a therapeutic regimen
The present invention provides a method and system for improving patient compliance to prescribed therapeutic regimens by allowing the patient to participate in a system, the system being firstly authorized by the patient to initiate communication with the patient should the patient become non-compliant with the prescribed regimen. The system ...

08/11/05 - 20050177397 - Network and methods for integrating individualized clinical test results and nutritional treatment
The present invention provides networks and method for linking consumers and nutritional pharmacologists offering personalized nutritional information through a central network site. The network includes a central integration site through which network members communicate with each other. The central integration site stores two or more databases in the storage medium. ...

08/11/05 - 20050177396 - Method and apparatus for performing concurrent patient coding for hospitals
A hospital documentation system that allows for the electronic capture of data for patient forms. The electronic forms constitute a medical record for the patient. The record is stored and is available electronically to users throughout the institution, both on site and off site as long as a connection to ...

08/11/05 - 20050177395 - Programming medical pumps with electronic standing order template
A method of programming a medical pump, the method comprising: selecting a therapy from a memory; upon selection of a therapy, selecting a therapeutic agent for delivery; and generating a standing order, the standing order including data for controlling operation of the medical pump. ...

08/11/05 - 20050177394 - Examination management system and examination management method
An examination management system according to the present invention comprises implemented information input means for inputting implemented information including information related to a content of implementation of medical service, implemented regarding an examination and information related to a report about the medical service, implemented information storing means for storing the ...

08/11/05 - 20050177393 - Method and system of rule-based triage
A method and system for ordering treatment or transport of victims of a mass casualty incident, prior to the incident, by establishing simulated casualty severity scores for each of the victims and considering the casualty severity scores and simulated resource availability. The order of treatment is provided on a card, ...

08/11/05 - 20050177392 - Electronic prescription handling system
An electronic prescription handling system includes a first computer configured to transmit a prescription, a server configured to receive the prescription, a first pharmacy having a first pharmacy computer, wherein the first pharmacy computer is configured to retrieve the prescription and transmit a first bid for the prescription to the ...

08/11/05 - 20050177391 - Health management system and health management program
A healthcare apparatus (1) comprises input means (b1-bn, e1-en, 10, 13) for inputting a plurality of types of data to be used for the healthcare or diagnosis of a subject, storage means (19) for storing the data, and analyzing means (21) for analyzing the presence of correlation between the data. ...

08/04/05 - 20050171814 - Examination management system
An examination management system according to the present invention compares an examining information relating to a predetermined examination with an examining target information corresponding to the examination, when the examination is conducted. If a predetermined condition is met, an input of the matter as the result of the comparison is ...

08/04/05 - 20050171813 - System for identifying and sorting orders
A method of discriminating between orders is comprised of evaluating a queue of orders based on whether each prescription within each order can be filled in an automated or non-automated manner. A set of workstations for each prescription is then determined based on the evaluating. For those orders that can ...

07/28/05 - 20050165625 - Method and apparatus for providing a laboratory information management system for use in an e-commerce environment
An infrastructure for an ASP-LIMS (Application Service Provider-delivered Laboratory Information Management System) is disclosed. For example, the system may provide hardware infrastructure for the ASP (e.g., one or more servers, and network connectivity), libraries of related workflow modules, applications specific to processing laboratory and/or clinical data, embedded DSS (Decision Support ...

07/28/05 - 20050165624 - System and methods for providing a healthcare industry trade show via internet
A system or method for providing a 3-D virtual healthcare industry trade show via internet including at least one server computer for collecting, assembling, storing, correlating, or otherwise processing information desired by a participant of the healthcare industry, and at least one other computer used by the participant of the ...

07/28/05 - 20050165623 - Systems and methods for encryption-based de-identification of protected health information
Systems and methods are provided for protecting individual privacy (e.g., patient privacy) when individual data records (e.g., patient data records) are shared between various entities (e.g., healthcare entities). In one aspect, systems and methods are provided which implement secured key encryption for de-identifying patient data to ensure patient privacy, while ...

07/28/05 - 20050165622 - Medical diagnostic testing device with voice message capability
A medical diagnostic testing device is provided with a voice message capability to record one or more voice messages associated with a test result. When a stored test result is retrieved and displayed, the medical diagnostic testing device also plays the one or more recorded voice messages associated with the ...

07/21/05 - 20050159983 - Rules-based health care referral method and system
An Internet-based system and method facilitates interactive placing and acceptance of patient referrals within a health care community. A referring health care provider accesses the proposed specialty clinic or other provider through the system, identifies the patient and pertinent medical conditions, and responds to interactive queries put by the system ...

07/21/05 - 20050159982 - Laboratory instrumentation information management and control network
An interface point network (IPN) and a method for communication with a laboratory information system using an IPN, wherein the IPN includes at least one host computer in communication with at least one laboratory instrument, the laboratory information system and an interface point server in communication with the host computer ...

07/21/05 - 20050159981 - Hospital information system
A hospital information system for managing clinical path information constituted of a plurality of medical service information each indicating a schedule regarding a medical service for a patient, comprising: an obtaining unit for obtaining the clinical path information; a converting unit for converting the clinical path information into medical service ...

07/21/05 - 20050159980 - Method of empowering consumers-controlled health-care
A method of gauging, monitoring and forecasting trends relating to the disbursements, managements and budgets of the health-care funds from which payments and disbursements are made to physicians and other health-care providers by a health-care consumer and health-care consumers purchasing and consuming health-care services from the physicians and health-care providers. ...

07/21/05 - 20050159979 - Systems and methods for succinctly presenting clinical trial information
A presentation system for succinctly presenting information contained in a clinical trial report can include a summary report, having information displayed thereon in a plurality of spatially distinct, predefined regions. Each of the predefined regions has an information type associated therewith. The plurality of spatially distinct, predefined regions include: a ...

07/21/05 - 20050159978 - Method of modulating health-care expenses
A system of empowering a person or a company who is the consumer-buyer of health-care to directly take charge of and exert control on own's health-care utilizations and expenses. The system permits and facilitates a person or a company to use and manipulate the knowledges and data on health-care utilizations ...

07/21/05 - 20050159977 - System and method for facilitating compliance and persistency with a regimen
A system and method for facilitating compliance and persistency with a regimen, such as a medical regimen. An individual provides the system with contact information which is used by the system to address the issue of forgetfulness as a regimen failure source by providing a self-directed contact facility that facilitates ...

07/14/05 - 20050154613 - System and method for creation of operative notes for use in surgical facilities
Disclosed is a computer program and method of generating operative notes by a surgeon after a surgical procedure. The software and method include the steps of 1) displaying a list of patient cases for which operative notes need to be created, 2) displaying a procedure performed for one of the ...

07/14/05 - 20050154612 - Communication server for an instrument management system
A communication server for interfacing an antimicrobial treatment device with an instrument management system. The server allows an instrument tracking system to receive and request data from a wide variety of antimicrobial treatment devices. ...

07/07/05 - 20050149360 - Object based image retrieval
A computer-aided image comparison, evaluation and retrieval system compares objects and object clusters, or images. User controlled or automatic filtering to enhance object features may be performed prior to object definition/detection. The query image may be substantially continuously displayed during the image filtering and object definition processes. Scoring to suspected ...

07/07/05 - 20050149359 - Method, apparatus and computer readable medium for identifying health care options
The present invention is directed to methods, apparatuses and computer readable media for identifying health care options that benefit patients and reduce costs associated with providing health care for those patients. ...

07/07/05 - 20050149358 - Rfid tracking of anesthesiologist and patient time
RFID-based system for tracking billable anesthesiology time in a surgical environment employs hand-held RFID reader devices that record and store timed anesthesia events for each surgical patient. Each patient is assigned a reader device, uploaded with patient data. Each anesthesiology professional has an identifying RFID transponder, and room transponders are ...

07/07/05 - 20050149357 - Computerized system and method for generating and satisfying health maintenance item expectations in a healthcare environment
A computerized method and system for automatically determining whether an expectation for a health maintenance item has been satisfied is provided. The system generates an expectation for a health maintenance item for a person and the automatically determines whether the expectation has been satisfied. In another embodiment, a computerized method ...

07/07/05 - 20050149356 - System and method for management of clinical supply operations
A system and related techniques generate and track clinical supply orders, policies, individual or aggregate consumption and automated billing, ordering and fulfillment functions via an integrated clinical platform. A patient supply record may be generated for individual patients which traces the consumption of surgical, disposable, pharmaceutical and other supplies throughout ...

07/07/05 - 20050149355 - System and method for management of clinical supply operations
A system and related techniques generate and track clinical supply orders, policies, individual or aggregate consumption and automated billing, ordering and fulfillment functions via an integrated clinical platform. A patient supply record may be generated for individual patients which traces the consumption of surgical, disposable, pharmaceutical and other supplies throughout ...

07/07/05 - 20050149354 - System and method for management of clinical supply operations
A system and related techniques generate and track clinical supply orders, policies, individual or aggregate consumption and automated billing, ordering and fulfillment functions via an integrated clinical platform. A patient supply record may be generated for individual patients which traces the consumption of surgical, disposable, pharmaceutical and other supplies throughout ...

07/07/05 - 20050149353 - Selecting apparel for surgical procedures
The present invention relates to a method of selecting apparel products for surgical procedures. The method includes executing program code in a data processing system in order to determine surgical procedures that are associated with a type of apparel; selecting one of the surgical procedures; and executing program code in ...

07/07/05 - 20050149352 - Computerized system and method for generating an immunization schedule in a healthcare environment
A computerized method and system for generation an immunization schedule for a person in healthcare environment is provided. The system receives a request for an immunization schedule for a person and obtains information from an electronic medical record of the person stored within a comprehensive healthcare system. The system obtains ...

07/07/05 - 20050149351 - Method of businessman hospital inquiring system
In 2003, Angel and Gelange in US achieved a Nobel Economical Award for their ARCH and conformity method. An ARCH indicates changing and waving as time change, no stability and heterogeneity variation number model in self-return condition, which emphasizes variation number conception of no stability period in economic action. This ...

07/07/05 - 20050149350 - Patient information management system and method
A patient information management system and method form managing patient information is provided. A first identifier for storing patient identification data in a remotely readable form and a second identifier associated with a medical device for storing patient medical information in a remotely readable form are provided. At least one ...

07/07/05 - 20050149349 - Method of processing clinical materials for medical research
A method processing clinical material for medical research includes receiving samples and accompanying records and providing them with a removable label that is placed over information originally provided on the sample, records or other material. The removable label includes an identifying patient code, but arbitrary to the actual identity of ...

06/30/05 - 20050144042 - Associated systems and methods for managing biological data and providing data interpretation tools
The invention includes associated systems and methods for managing a patient's biological data and providing a data interpretation tool for the biological data via a network. One aspect of an embodiment of the invention includes a method comprising providing at least one indicator variable associated with a portion of a ...

06/30/05 - 20050144041 - Method of matching seasonal vaccine supply with seasonal demand using a consumer-driven, pre-production, vaccine reservation system
An automated, consumer-driven, pre-production, seasonal vaccine reservation system for facilitating the efficient production, distribution, and/or administration of health-critical, long-production-lead-time seasonal vaccines (or other pharmacological agents), whereby use of such a consumer-driven vaccine reservation system provides a highly effective means for substantially ensuring or guaranteeing that consumer demand for seasonal vaccine ...

06/30/05 - 20050144040 - Method and system for providing customized skin care products at point of sale
The invention relates to a business model for providing customized skin care products compounded at the point of sale from preservative- and stabilizer-free super nutrients of proven efficacy as anti-aging substances and as treatment of the cause of unhealthy skin. The invention is intended to rejuvenate the cosmetic departments of ...

06/30/05 - 20050144039 - System and method for healthcare management
A healthcare management system for automatically generating a patient-specific health problem list for assisting physicians at the time of prescribing. The system receives information regarding insurance claims for medical services, on a basis of which a control unit determines ailments with which patients are potentially afflicted. The system may also ...

06/30/05 - 20050144038 - Patient care management systems and methods
A patient care management system for assisting a physician in monitoring drug use by a patient. The system receives drug dispensation data for a drug, on the basis of which the system determines drug supply availability data. The drug supply availability data is indicative of periods of time during which ...

06/30/05 - 20050144037 - Automatic system for medicaments
a data output device (9) for outputting information determined with the aid of the comparison module (8). ...

06/23/05 - 20050137909 - Medical apparatus lease system for which fees are paid depending on usage status and medical apparatus compatible therewith
A medical apparatus is provided which includes a usage detecting section which operates in connection with an operation of a medical device. A counting section stores a value corresponding to a number of operations of the usage detecting section. ...

06/23/05 - 20050137908 - Methods and apparatus for externally controlling a software application to create new application behavior
One embodiment is a method for use in a system comprising a plurality of software applications relating to healthcare and a context manager to facilitate sharing of a context between at least two of them, the context comprising a plurality of subjects including a patient subject and a user subject. ...

06/23/05 - 20050137907 - Naturally expressed medial procedure descriptions generated via synchronized diagrams and menus
A computing device-based system and method are described for generating a medical procedure description recorded into the system by a physician. The system and method manipulate a set of database records comprising medical content which is naturally descriptive of clinical procedures and clinically accurate diagrams which are naturally descriptive to ...

06/23/05 - 20050137906 - Computerized method and system, and computer program product for patient selection for a medical procedure
In a computerized method, system and computer program product for patient selection first, using a number of sample data sets that contain medical data describing a patient as well as at least one probability of success and one duration of a medical treatment, a decision tool is created and made ...

06/23/05 - 20050137905 - Method and system for producing an updated and reliable health forecast guide
A method and system (10) is provided for collecting a substantial amount of health-related data to create an updated and reliable health forecast guide. In one embodiment, the system (10) includes a central server (14) for storing health-related data and creating the health forecast guide based on the health-related data. ...

06/16/05 - 20050131741 - Electronic medical records system with active clinical guidelines and patient data
An active guidelines capability or component is linked to a computerized patient record system to integrate the use of clinical guidelines in the workflow of clinicians treating patients. Many healthcare entities maintain sets of clinical guidelines describing recommended treatment or analysis options for patients displaying sets of symptoms or for ...

06/16/05 - 20050131740 - Management tool for health care provider services
The present invention provides a system and method for controlling home health care services while improving the consistency and reliability of such services. The present invention also improves the productivity of the caregivers so that costs are reduced and care is improved. Such improvements reduce costs and provide more time ...

06/16/05 - 20050131739 - Methods for monitoring severity of panic attacks and other rapidly evolving medical events in real time
The present invention provides novel methods of recording a medical event in real-time. One aspect of the invention comprises providing a subject an electronic diary for recording one or more aspects of a medical event, wherein the diary electronically records a time at which entries to the diary are made ...

06/16/05 - 20050131738 - System and method for handling medical information
In at least one embodiment, the invention includes a system and method for creating a longitudinal medical record for an injured being. In at least one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of mobile computing devices. Each mobile computing device preferably includes at least one user interface wherein the user ...

06/16/05 - 20050131737 - Method and system for automating occupational health and safety information management
An electronic medical record module receives data concerning patient medical visits resulting from occupational health or safety incidents processes the data based on pre-defined OSHA logic to automatically identify one or more patient medical visits that are OSHA-recordable, and outputs a plurality of different reports including patient medical visits that ...

06/16/05 - 20050131736 - Activity monitoring
Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, devices, and systems to monitor activity. One method to monitor activity includes monitoring a sensor activated by an individual. The method also includes recording activation of the sensor, determining a behavior routine of the individual based on recorded activations of the sensor, ...

06/16/05 - 20050131735 - Computerized system and method for identifying and storing time zone information in a healthcare environment
A computerized method and system for determining and storing a time zone for healthcare information for a patient is provided. The system receives healthcare information for a patient and obtains a time zone rule that applies to the healthcare information. The system utilizes the time zone rule to determine a ...

06/16/05 - 20050131734 - Clinical laboratory management systems, management apparatuses, and recording media
A clinical laboratory management system is described that includes an analyzer for analyzing a sample, and a management apparatus connected to the analyzer. The management apparatus includes (a) a storage means for storing a result of an assay output from the analyzer, analyzer identification information for identifying whether or not ...

06/16/05 - 20050131733 - Sealable individual bar coded packets
A foldable and sealable packet is provided which contains a bar coded symbol, such as a RSS/CS bar code. The packet preferably also contains human readable information. In one embodiment the packet is used to contain medication for a patient. In such case, patient caregiver instructions are received electronically, medication ...

06/09/05 - 20050125256 - Medical information system
A medical information system receives patient data and information from various sources and displays such information in a variety of formats for use by members of a medical team in a hospital, clinic, or office. The system receives patient information from doctors, pharmacists, patient monitoring equipment, testing laboratories, and/or computer ...

06/09/05 - 20050125255 - Interactive system
A digital system for providing services to a patient in a health care environment, such as a hospital, includes a display element to display data, a control element operable by a user to select desired data and activate the display element, and a remote data store means such as servers ...

06/09/05 - 20050125254 - Key maintenance method and system
A key maintenance method and system includes maintaining, in a datastore, a first-level access key that grants, to a medical service provider, a level of access to a set of medical records of a patient. The first-level access key is retrieved and a second-level access key is generated by modifying ...

06/09/05 - 20050125253 - System and method for using medication and medical condition information in automated insurance underwriting
A system and method is provided for using medication and medical impairment information in automated insurance underwriting. A method in accordance with embodiments of the invention may comprise the steps of identifying medication information provided by an applicant, identifying medical condition information provided by the applicant, assessing a consistency between ...

06/09/05 - 20050125252 - Bridged patient / provider centric method and system
A key organization method and system includes receiving a first access key that grants a patient-defined level of access to a first set of medical records, receiving a second access key that grants a patient-defined level of access to a second set of medical records, and storing the first and ...

06/02/05 - 20050119917 - Unified medical information management system and method thereof
Disclosed is a unified medical information management system and method capable of sharing and utilizing medical information that includes personal diagnosis and treatment information in conjunction with medical facilities and their associated companies, as well as interfacing medical records between the medical facilities and personal communication apparatuses by way of ...

06/02/05 - 20050119916 - Waste sensor for a disposable container
A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of disposable containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations, each of which houses a number of disposable ...

06/02/05 - 20050119915 - Disposable container for use in a waste sorting system
A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of disposable containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations, each of which houses a number of disposable ...

06/02/05 - 20050119914 - System and method for analyzing medical treatment data
A system and method for compiling and analyzing treatment parameters associated with medical treatments provided to a plurality of patients is provided. A report of the analysis may be provided to a technician or physician for determining medical treatment guidelines representing acceptable values for a selected treatment parameter in accordance ...

06/02/05 - 20050119913 - Subscription-based dynamic content update
A subscription-based dynamic content update system including a content update sub-system including a session manager operative to associate a web page currently active at a client and having at least one specialized content area with a subscription for content therefor, a subscription manager operative to create the subscription on a ...

06/02/05 - 20050119912 - Clearinghouse that enables physicians to submit prescriptions securely over the internet to a pharmacy patients can also access their prescription data over the internet
This invention creates an internet-based clearinghouse that enables physicians to electronically create, store, modify, view, and transmit prescriptions using the public internet. Additionally the clearinghouse allows the physician, pharmacy, and patient to communicate electronically on matters regarding prescriptions. All data stored in the prescription database will be accessible to registered ...

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