Data handling system

Methods and systems for recording verifiable documentation

Systems and methods for collecting information, verifying authenticity of such information, processing, maintaining, and managing such information are described. The system can be a standalone unit or can comprise a combination of various units configured to function together.

Platform for optimizing data driven outcomes

A system, method, server, and computer readable medium for tracking outcome specific data. Input establishing accounts for providers serving clients is received. The accounts are stored in a server. Each of the clients is assigned to one or more of the providers in response to selections from an administrator. Data associated with each of the clients received from the providers is compiled utilizing computing or communications devices in communication with the server. The compiled data is presented visually in response to a user request.

Method and system for organizing, storing, connecting and displaying medical information

Medication compliance device.

Medication compliance device.

Method and system for organizing, storing, connecting and displaying medical information

Medication compliance device.

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MEDICINE DONOR

SYSTEMS AND PROCEDURES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF INFORMATION CONCERNING MEDICAL LIQUIDS AND CONTAINERS FOR IT

SYSTEMS AND PROCEDURES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF INFORMATION CONCERNING MEDICAL LIQUIDS AND CONTAINERS FOR IT

A SYSTEM AND A PROCEDURE FOR THE PROCESSING OF FEMALE PATIENT FORMATIONS

SYSTEMS AND PROCEDURES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF INFORMATION CONCERNING MEDICAL LIQUIDS AND CONTAINERS FOR IT

SYSTEM AND PROCEDURE FOR THE OPTIMIZED CONTROL OF PCAUND PCEA SYSTEMS

SYSTEM FOR THE MONITORING OF HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND FITNESS

PROCEDURE AND DEVICE FOR SELECTING A REGULATION FOR ORTHODONTI EQUIPMENT

MEDICAL DEVICE AND PROCEDURE OF CONTROL OF THE DEVICE WHICH FROM A PATIENT TO THE SELF TREATMENT ARE USED

SYSTEM AND PROCEDURE FOR THE AUTOMATIC KOMMISSIONIEREN

SCHEDULE FOR MEDICAL USE AND SYSTEM AND PROCEDURE FOR THIS

INFUSION PUMP WITH ELECTRONICALLY LOADABLE ONE MEDICINE LIBRARY

SYSTEM FOR THE SUPPORT OF A MEDICAL SELF TREATMENT, WHICH COVERS A MAJORITY OF STEPS

SYSTEM AND PROCEDURE FOR THE CLINICAL INTENSIVE CARE USING TREATMENT PATTERNS

FLEXIBLE COMPUTER-AIDED ONES PHARMACEUTICAL COGNITIVE ONES CARE, SERVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PROCEDURE

PROCEDURE FOR THE SCREENEN OF GENOMI DNS, INSBESONDERER WITH MORE TRANSGENER AND PURPOSEFUL MUTAGENESE

MEDICINE DONOR

PROCEDURE FOR THE SCREENEN OF GENOMI DNS, INSBESONDERER WITH MORE TRANSGENER AND PURPOSEFUL MUTAGENESE

MEDICINE DONOR

MEDICINE DONOR

PROCEDURE FOR THE SCREENEN OF GENOMI DNS, INSBESONDERER WITH MORE TRANSGENER AND PURPOSEFUL MUTAGENESE

MEDICINE DONOR

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PROCEDURE FOR THE SCREENEN OF GENOMI DNS, INSBESONDERER WITH MORE TRANSGENER AND PURPOSEFUL MUTAGENESE

MEDICINE DONOR

MEDICINE DONOR

PROCEDURE FOR THE SCREENEN OF GENOMI DNS, INSBESONDERER WITH MORE TRANSGENER AND PURPOSEFUL MUTAGENESE

MEDICINE DONOR

PROCEDURE FOR THE SCREENEN OF GENOMI DNS, INSBESONDERER WITH MORE TRANSGENER AND PURPOSEFUL MUTAGENESE

PROCEDURE FOR THE SCREENEN OF GENOMI DNS, INSBESONDERER WITH MORE TRANSGENER AND PURPOSEFUL MUTAGENESE

PROCEDURE FOR THE SCREENEN OF GENOMI DNS, INSBESONDERER WITH MORE TRANSGENER AND PURPOSEFUL MUTAGENESE

MEDICINE DONOR

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PROCEDURE FOR THE SCREENEN OF GENOMI DNS, INSBESONDERER WITH MORE TRANSGENER AND PURPOSEFUL MUTAGENESE

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System and method for collection confirmation and sample tracking at the clinical point of use

A system for confirming acquisition of a fluid sample is provided. The system includes a wearable electronic device configured to be worn by a user. The device has a housing, at least one imaging sensor associated with the housing, a data transmission interface for sending data to or receiving data from an external electronic device, a microprocessor for managing the at least one imaging sensor and the data transmission interface, and a program for acquiring and processing images acquired by the at least one imaging sensor. The system further includes a sampling device for collecting a fluid sample in a sample container and at least one identification tag attached to or integrally formed with the sampling device or sample container. The at least one identification tag includes or is associated with a tracking code. L i I o - ...

Methods for analysis of digital data

Methods for producing an enriched reference data map useful for identifying critical factors for the development of a condition of interest are disclosed. The reference data map may be used to assess the risk or likelihood of a condition of interest being realized. In the context of medicine or genetics, the methods of the invention may be used to produce a risk assessment roadmap useful for identifying elements (biomolecular constructs, biological interactions, and biological pathways) that are critical to the development of a particular disease or syndrome. The roadmap may be consulted to design treatment methods having the greatest likelihood of successfully treating or preventing the development of a disease or syndrome. Also disclosed are methods for using such a risk assessment roadmap to evaluate a specific configuration of elements for determining the changes in the configuration of elements that will result in the achievement or the avoidance of a defined condition of interest.

HARDWARE BLOCKCHAIN CONSENSUS OPERATING PROCEDURE ENFORCEMENT

A computer-implemented method including in a record entry hardware system receiving, at blockchain management circuitry (BMC) configured to perform processor level operations, a record entry from node circuitry, the record entry including a medical claim value, obtaining a certificate configured to grant access to a portion of a blockchain, the obtaining a certificate responsive to an identity of the node circuitry, accessing the blockchain, determining that the record entry applies to the portion of the blockchain, accessing, in memory within the BMC, a definition for a consensus operating procedure, the consensus operating procedure responsive to the blockchain and the identity of the node circuitry, and including integrated security rules, applying the consensus operating procedure to generate a new accumulated value, the new accumulated value generated by performing, by the BMC, a processor-level operation including performing an add operation using a previous accumulated value and ...

System and method for assuring patient medication and fluid delivery at the clinical point of use

A system for confirmation of fluid delivery to a patient at the clinical point of use is provided. The system includes a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device has a housing; at least one imaging sensor associated with the housing; a data transmission interface; a data reporting accessory for providing data to the user; a microprocessor for managing the at least one imaging sensor, the data transmission interface, and the data reporting accessory; and a program for acquiring and processing images from the at least one imaging sensor. The system further includes a fluid delivery apparatus; and one or more identification tags attached to or integrally formed with the fluid delivery apparatus. The program processes an image captured by the at least one imaging sensor to identify the one or more identification tags and acquires fluid delivery apparatus information from the one or more identification tags.

BIOMEDICAL DEVICES FOR BIOMETRIC BASED INFORMATION COMMUNICATION

Methods and apparatus to form a biometric based information communication system are described. In some examples, the biometric based information communication system comprises biomedical devices with sensing means, wherein the sensing means produces a biometric result. The communication system may convey the biometric results to a processing system which may include resources such as servers to store the results in personalized databases. A biometric measurement result may trigger a communication of a biometric based information communication message based on the current measurement and historical measurements. 2813401vl z'110 120 -2 105 ...

Metadata tree of a patient with lockboxes

A method performed by a processing system includes encrypting an electronic health record of a patient using a record key, encrypting a portion of a node of a metadata tree of the patient with a node key, the portion including a reference to the encrypted record in an encrypted data store, and updating the metadata tree for the patient to include the encrypted node and a node key lockbox with the node key.

System and method for management of medical records

A computer-implemented method (640) and system (100) for sharing patient healthcare information among providers of health services to a patient includes a database (104) configured to contain patient records. The records include an electronic health record (EHR) (606) of the patient, associated with one or more EHR subrecords (608). The database is also configured to contain a plurality of health service provider records (626), and at least one health service network (624) associated with the patient EHR. The network comprises records of one or more health service providers. Each EHR subrecord is associated with an access control structure (630) defining access permissions granted to health service providers in the health service network. In a method according to the invention, a request for access to an EHR subrecord of the patient is received (642), and a health service provider record corresponding with a source of the request for access is identified (644). The access control structure ...

Infusion planning system with clinical decision support

An infusion planning system providing clinical decision support for dynamic patient treatment scheduling. The infusion planning system includes a graphical user interface and a rescheduling assistance engine. The graphical user interface presents a time schedule display graphically representing a plurality of patient treatments over time including at least one infusion delivery profile graphic associated with an ordered infusion. The rescheduling assistance engine includes a user interface display providing a plurality of selectable schedule updates each comprising a set of recommended changes to the patient treatments in compliance with rules governing the patient treatment. The rescheduling assistance engine also provides a selectable graphical visual preview of each of the selectable schedule updates in some embodiments.

Variable life protection based on dynamic inputs

A method to dynamically adjust a premium of an insurance policy is disclosed. At least one of an entity input data or an environmental input data is updated by a dynamic insurance provisioning system, the entity input data being an input data that is specific to an entity insured by the insurance policy and the environmental input data being additional input data that is not being specific to the entity. A determination is made as to whether a risk associated with providing the insurance policy has changed based on the updating of the at least one of the entity input data and the environmental input data. Responsive to the determination, the premium of the insurance policy is recalculated.

A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING A USER IN A MEDICAL SELF TREATMENT, SAID SELF TREATMENT COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ACTIONS

This invention relates to a method of assisting a user in a medical self treatment, said self treatment comprising a plurality of actions, said method comprising the steps of collecting in a one or more databases data representing values of parameters relevant for said self treatment, and the step of processing said one or more databases to provide for alternative choices between two or more actions and a corresponding value for each two or more actions. The invention also relates to a computer system having means for performing the method according to the invention, and a computer readable medium having a program recorded thereon, where the program when executed is to make the computer execute the method according to the invention.

ADAPTIVE WAVEFRONT MODULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REFRACTIVE LASER SURGERY

A method for optimizing a prescription for laser-ablation corneal treatment includes the steps of receiving a measured correction prescription for a current patient having a classification element associated therewith, the prescription having been measured using wavefront determination. A database of treatment outcomes on a plurality of previously treated patients is accessed, each treated patient outcome having associated therewith at least one classification element and comprising a preoperative wavefront- determined correction prescription and a postoperative visual profile. From the treatment outcomes in the database is calculated an average difference between the preoperative prescription and the postoperative profile for at least some of the previously treated patients having a classification element in common with the current patient. Finally the current patient correction prescription is adjusted commensurate with the calculated average difference to form an optimized prescription ...

METHODS OF IDENTIFYING PATIENTS AT RISK OF DEVELOPING ENCEPHALITIS FOLLOWING IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

METHOD FOR MEASURING THE INCIDENCE OF HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTIONS

A MEDICAL DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING A CLINICAL SYSTEM INTERFACE

DIAGNOSIS METHOD OF HEPATIC STEATOSIS USING BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS

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.

METHOD OF ACQUIRING DATA

The invention discloses a method of acquiring, storing and transmitting data, which includes the provision of a database having at least three record sets in which data, such as medical examination data, can be accurately stored in suitable numerical format.

SYSTEM FOR MONITORING HEALTH, WELLNESS AND FITNESS

A detecting, monitoring and reporting system includes a sensor device (10) which generates data indicative of physiological parameters of an individual and data derived therefrom when placed in proximity with the body. A remote central monitoring unit (30) generates analytical status data from the data indicative of physiological parameters, the derived data, and analytical status data that has previously been generated. A data storage device stores the data received and generated by the central monitoring unit (30). The system includes means (50, 55) for establishing electronic communication between the sensor device (10) and the central monitoring unit (30), and means for transmitting the data to a recipient. The sensor device (10) may also generate data indicative of contextual parameters of the individual, which may then be used when generating the analytical status data. The system may be used for monitoring and providing feedback relating to the degree to which an individual has followed ...

INFUSION THERAPY FLOW RATE ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

Disclosed is a system and method for assisting in verifying the right medication is provided to the right patient, in the right dose, at the right time, and via the right route. The method may include using a scanner to provide first, second, and third signals to a central computer (108) having data defining a first flow rate and first flow rate tolerance. First signal may include data identifying a medication. Second signal may include data identifying a second flow rate. Third signal may include data identifying the volume of medication in a medication container (124). Central computer (108) authorizes the second flow rate if the second flow rate is withing the first flow rate tolerance. An infusion pump (120) receives new operating parameters to implement the second flow rate if the central computer (108) authorizes the second flow rate and the central computer (108) documents initiation of the second flow rate using a time source.

A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING HOSPITAL PATIENT CARE BY PROVIDING A CONTINUAL MEASUREMENT OF HEALTH

... ²²²A system for improving hospital patient care by generating a Health Score. The ²system includes an interface module for receiving incoming medical data from a ²patient, a transformation module for transforming each of the medical datum ²into a transformed Health Score value, and a combination module for combining ²the transformed Health Score values corresponding to each of the medical datum ²into a single Health Score. A presentation and comparison module displays the ²Health Score as a Health Score plot over a predetermined time frame, such that ²a user may identify health trends in a patient by evaluating said Health Score ²plot.² ...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND MANAGING LIVESTOCK

Operations in a livestock facility can be automated and made more efficie nt by utilizing an interrogator system that reads and writes data to tags as sociated with livestock. For instance, gates can be automated to sort livest ock based on data read by interrogators from tags and livestock can be ident ified for examination when data suggest that their behavior deviates from ex pected or normal behavior. The tag associated with a livestock can carry and accumulate information across multiple facilities throughout the livestock production and processing cycle. Gathering information across facilities all ows for more informed decision making and a more cooperative approach to imp roving the livestock production and processing cycle.

SELF-IMPROVING METHOD OF USING ONLINE COMMUNITIES TO PREDICT HEALTH-RELATED OUTCOMES

The invention is directed, in part, to method of using self-reported health data in online communities to predict significant health events in life-changing illnesses to improve the lives of individuals and to improve patient self-management. The invention provides a method for providing real-time personalized medical predictions for an individual patient. The method includes: providing a database containing patient information for a plurality of other patients including one or more attributes for each patient in the database; constructing a model of a disease based on disease progressions for the plurality of patients; receiving a request from the individual patient, the patient associated with one or more attributes; and making a real-time prediction for the individual patient based on the mode and the individual patient' s attributes.

A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING PROVIDERS OVER THE INTERNET ON SHORT NOTICE

A system for allowing members or prospective members to simultaneously contact multiple providers to secure an appointment on short notice. The system also enables the provider to view or obtain requests for appointments from members who the provider may not have previously met and/or served. The system further enables a facilitator (304) to monitor the communication exchanges between members and providers and to intervene directly if needed. The system includes a web application, a provider network, facilitator, a database server, a web server, and a database. The web application includes a web site that facilitates interaction between members, providers, the facilitator and the system. The web site also includes a list of common medical terms, phrases, and pharmaceuticals that are cross-referenced in multiple languages. The provider network processes information provided by users of the system and the database stores information processed in the system.

DEVICE FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE SELECTION OF A COMPRESSION ORTHESIS AND IN ADAPTING SAME TO THE MORPHOLOGY OF A LIMB

Ce dispositif comprend : des moyens (26) pour établir un premier fichier de données représentatives des caractéristiques morphologiques du membre (30), comprenant les coordonnées tridimensionnelles d'un maillage de points (68) à différentes cotes; des moyens (10) pour établir un second fichier de données représentatives des caractéristiques dimensionnelles et rhéologiques de l'orthèse definies à différentes cotes; des moyens (48) de simulation de contention, aptes à determiner, à partir des données des premier et second fichiers, des valeurs de pressions de contention susceptibles d'être exercées par l'orthèse sur le membre en une pluralité de points dudit maillage ; et des moyens (50) de présentation sous forme graphique des valeurs de pression ainsi déterminées, notamment par superposition à une représentation graphique 3D du membre, ou d'une section de celui-ci, d'un codage en fausses couleurs ou en niveaux de gris de la pression calculée.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A CONVENIENTLY ACCESSIBLE MEDICAL HISTORY

A method and system for creating a conveniently accessible medical history. An information-input node receives medical information and transmits it through an information-transmission connection to a record-creating node, which is remote from the information-input node. The record-creating node is for receiving the information through the information-transmission connection, for configuring it into a medical history record, and for transmitting the medical history record. There is also a record output node, remote from the record- creating node, for receiving the medical history record. The record may be stored on a portable readable storage medium.

PATIENT DATA MINING FOR DIAGNOSIS AND PROJECTIONS OF PATIENT STATES

A method and system for determining patient states is provided. The method includes the steps of data mining a patient record using a domain knowledge base relating to a disease of interest (502); inputting the mined data into a model of the disease of interest (512); and determining a state of the patient based on the model (514). The system includes a data miner (350) for mining information from a patient record (310) using a domain knowledge base (330) relating to a disease of interest; and a processor (402) for creating a patient model of the disease of interest, processing the mined data in the model to determine a current state of the patient and future states for different courses of treatment, and recommending a therapy based on the determined future state.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED PROTECTION AND CONTROL OVER THE USE OF IDENTITY

A method of protecting use of an entity's identity is provided. The method comprises setting a status of the identity to a first state, the first state defining a scope of permitted use of the identity, changing, in advance of an intended use of the identity, the status to a second state defining a scope of permitted use of the identity that is different from the first state, requesting use of the identity after the changing; and returning, after the requesting, the state back to the first state.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLOSED-LOOP PHARMACEUTICAL DELIVERY

A method of dispensing a pharmaceutical senses electrical signal representative of a physical condition of a patient and dispenses a therapeutic drug to the patient from a drug delivery appliance (100) in response to either the electrical signal or a second signal from a health care provider.

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ADMINISTERING, TRACKING AND MANAGING OF CLAIMS PROCESSING

A system and method of administering, tracking and managing of claims processing.

A SYSTEM SUPPORTING EXCHANGE OF MEDICAL DATA AND IMAGES BETWEEN DIFFERENT EXECUTABLE APPLICATIONS

A system, for exchanging medical image data between different processing systems, includes a central repository and an interface. The central repository stores configuration information including entity related information and authorization information. The authorization information associates a user with an indicator of authorization to access particular patient medical records. Multiple different processing systems of corresponding different entities use the configuration information to access medical image data repositories of the corresponding different entities and to enable exchange of medical image data between the different entities. The interface receives, from a first processing system of a first entity, a user initiated request to access a medical image repository of a second processing system of a second entity. The interface accesses the central repository in retrieving configuration information. The interface communicates the retrieved configuration information to the first ...

BAMBAM: PARALLEL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING DATA

A method of providing a health care service includes providing access to an analysis engine that is informationally coupled to a medical records storage device. The medical records storage device stores a differential genetic sequence object for a patient. The method further includes producing, by the analysis engine, a patient-specific data set using presence of a local differential string or constellation of a plurality of local differential strings in the differential genetic sequence object for the patient. The method further includes producing, by the analysis engine, a patient-specific instruction based on the patient-specific data set.

IMPROVED SECURITY INFUSION PUMP WITH BAR CODE READER

A medical infusion pump (10) with a bar code reader (62) having simplified and enhanced security features. The infusion pump (10) with bar code reader (62) is comprised of an infusion pump with a housing (11), a control display screen (40) and control software for operating the infusion pump according to input infusion data. A bar code reader (62) is contained in the infusion pump housing (11) and operatively attached to communicate scanned bar code infusion data to the pump display screen (40) and to the control software. At least one initialization button (56) for starting execution of a bar code scanning program is operatively connected through circuitry in the pump, the program activating the bar code reader (62) to scan for an authorized user code, for an authorized user ID code (90), for a patient ID code (72), and for infusion data (76, 78, 80) compatible for operating the infusion pump (10). Acceptable scanning of authorization code, authorized user ID code (90), patient ID code ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING RECIPROCATIVE SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXCHANGES

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PORTABLE MEDICAL MOTORING AND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM

COMPUTER INSTALLATION FOR ESTABLISHING A DIAGNOSIS

PERSONALIZATION SOFTWARE FOR IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICE PATIENTS

A system for on-line psycho-physiological profiling and support implementing a personalization engine operating in a plurality of network systems. An implanted medical device (IMD) in data communication with the personalization engine provides physiological, therapy and diagnostic data pertinent to the patient. Based on one or a combination of explicit, implicit and transactional input from the patient and in consideration of the IMD data underlying therewith, the patient is guided to consult with the most pertinent database.

SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF HEALTH CARE DATA

An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system (10), a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system (10) has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and is configured to extract the health care data from the first computer system (10). The rules engine normalizes the extracted health care data to a predefined format. The rules engine defines a plurality of health care data fields in the predefined format, as well as a plurality of relationships between fields of normalized data.

SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING DRUG INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATING WITH MEDICATION DELIVERY DEVICES

... ²²²A medical pump configuration and activity logging system includes a remote ²computer in ²communication with a plurality of infusion pumps to be configured for use in ²clinical ²care areas within a medical facility. A memory associated with the computer ²stores ²pump activity log information and a drug library that includes pump ²configuration ²information. A user interface with a display allows the user to input and ²store in an ²active worksheet customized entries into the drug library. Data entry schema ²rules in the ²memory validate individual entries in real time as they are being input and ²the user is ²notified on the display instantaneously as soon as a data entry schema rule is ²violated. ²The rules include manufacturer-defined capabilities for the target pump and ²other ²self-validation rules.² ...

IMPROVED IMAGE ACQUISITION FOR MEDICAL DOSE PREPARATION SYSTEM

Use of improved image acquisition for a medical dose preparation system. The medical dose preparation system may include a work station for capturing medical dose preparation images (e.g., to document preparation of a mediation dose). The medical dose preparation image may be captured by a video data stream processor capable of performing an auto cropping technique on a video data stream received from an image device. Accordingly, memory resources may be more efficiently employed while maintaining high quality medical dose preparation images.

MEDICAL DEVICE

A medical device includes a treatment module configured to apply a medical treatment and one or more storage devices storing a device identifier that identifies the medical device. The medical device also includes one or more processing devices configured to control the treatment module to apply a medical treatment, collect compliance information that reflects a patient's compliance with a treatment regimen, access the device identifier from the one or more storage devices, and send the collected compliance information with the accessed device identifier to a server system. The server system is configured to receive the compliance information and the device identifier, determine a patient identifier based on the device identifier, store the compliance information in association with the determined patient identifier, and provide access to the compliance information in response to an inquiry.

PATIENT-INTERACTIVE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND DATABASE

A patient-interactive health care management system provides means for healthcare services rendered by a physician to a patient to be confirmed by the patient immediately after the healthcare services are rendered. The patient is provided the ability to verify the accuracy of an invoice for the rendered services/goods and provide an assessment of the rendered services/goods. In an example embodiment, the patient provides this information via an information station located at the healthcare facility in which the healthcare services/goods are rendered. The information gathered from the patient is provided to the party responsible for paying for the rendered healthcare services/goods. In an example embodiment, the paying party compares the patient provided information with the invoice received from the healthcare provider to assess the accuracy of the invoice. A patient account is established containing, in part, the information gathered from the patient.

VALIDATING A METADATA TREE USING A METADATA INTEGRITY VALIDATOR

A method performed by a processing system includes reconstructing a metadata tree of a patient from a metadata tree journal, the metadata tree including a plurality of references to a corresponding plurality of encrypted electronic health records of the patient in an encrypted data store, and validating the metadata tree by comparing first integrity information of the metadata tree to second integrity information corresponding to the metadata tree journal provided by a metadata integrity validator.

POINT OF SALE VERIFICATION SYSTEM

A prescription management system receives prescription information and manages containers filled with the prescription. The prescription is stored in the container and the container is attached to a tracking device storing prescription information. The tracking device is managed by the prescription management system and a tracking device, located on the container, that stores prescription information. Prior to dispensing the prescription to the customer, the prescription information stored on the container is verified with the customer by the prescription management system to ensure the correct container was retrieved.

WORKFLOW SERVER FOR MEDICAL RECORDS IMAGING AND TRACKING SYSTEM

... 2138517 9400820 PCTABS00030 A computer system with a workflow server that provides for automatic and prioritized assignment of work involving processing of medical information records (202) to particular resources in a hospital. When medical records are no longer needed, it may be written by the file server on to optical disk (230). A page table (28) may also receive data on medical records (202) via MIS integration block (290). Documents are accessed via the file server at coding/abstracting workstation (214) or via work-station (216). A plurality of such workstations may be attached to the file server to perform chart coding/abstracting and chart deficiency completion. Documents may also be accessed at print station (218) and printed on printer (260).

Combined Cards- map coverings -Reader System.

Die Erfindung betrifft ein Karten-Kartenlesegerät-System (100) mit einer Karte (1) und einem Lesegerät (3), wobei die Karte (1) einen Karten-Teilcode (6b) trägt und eine Kartenhülle (2) einen Kartenhüllen-Teilcode (6a) trägt und dass die Karte (1) in einer Verschieberichtung (8) in der Kartenhülle (2) verschiebbar ist und der Karten-Teilcode (6b) und der Kartenhüllen-Teilcode (6a) in einer Verschiebeposition (9) einen Gesamtcode (7) ergeben.

METHOD OF FORMING PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR PREDICTING HEALTH STATE

СИСТЕМА ВЕДЕНИЯ ИСТОРИИ БОЛЕЗНИ И СПОСОБ ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЯ ЕЕ

Представленные примеры осуществления изобретения включают создание виртуальной истории болезни соответствующего пациента. Справочная информация, относящаяся к медицинским документам о состоянии здоровья пациента, хранится в базе данных, содержащей справочную информацию о пациенте, на базе стандартного медицинского кода, указанного в медицинской документации. Справочная информация в базу данных справочных документов вносится системой ведения историй болезни. Система ведения историй болезни создает виртуальную историю болезни, относящуюся к пациенту, на основании справочной информации.

УСТРОЙСТВО ДЛЯ СОДЕЙСТВИЯ В ВЫБОРЕ КОМПРЕССИОННОГО ОРТОПЕДИЧЕСКОГО ПРИСПОСОБЛЕНИЯ И ДЛЯ АДАПТАЦИИ ЭТОГО ПРИСПОСОБЛЕНИЯ К МОРФОЛОГИЧЕСКИМ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКАМ КОНЕЧНОСТИ

Предлагаемое устройство имеет в своем составе средства (26), предназначенные для формирования первого файла данных, являющихся репрезентативными для морфологических характеристик конечности (30), содержащего координаты в трехмерном пространстве сети точек (68) на различных уровнях; средства (10), предназначенные для формирования второго файла данных, являющихся репрезентативными для размерных и реологических характеристик ортопедического приспособления, определяемых на различных уровнях; средства (48) моделирования сдавливания, дающие возможность определить на основе данных первого и второго файлов величины компрессионного давления, способного воздействовать со стороны этого ортопедического приспособления на данную конечность в множестве точек упомянутой сети; средства (50) представления в графической форме определенных таким образом величин компрессионного давления, в частности, путем наложения на трехмерное графическое представление конечности или на поперечное сечение этой конечности ...

INTELLIGENT TOKENS FOR AUTOMATED HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Methods and systems for accessing information stored in an electronic patient record are disclosed. A memory stores a set of medical logic instructions which code for retrieval of multiple items of information stored in the electronic patient record for a given patient. Optionally, the instructions code for a rules-based interpretation of information stored in the electronic patient record, such as instructions that apply criteria in a quality scoring system and generate a score. The medical logic instructions are associated with an “intelligent token”, i.e., a character string such as |DIABETES|, |ASTHMA| or |PROGRESS|. The invoking of the intelligent token triggers execution of the medical logic instructions and retrieval of the information from the database. The intelligent tokens can be embedded into document templates, or selected or entered by the user as part of a document creation process. 1. An automated health care information system , comprising: a database storing an electronic patient record; a workstation having a user interface for displaying information stored in the electronic patient record , the display further including a display of a user interface tool for the user to select or invoke , either directly or indirectly , an intelligent token; the intelligent token comprising a character string that is associated with a set of medical logic instructions , the medical logical instructions coding for retrieval of multiple items of information stored in the electronic patient record for a given patient; wherein invoking of the intelligent token in the automated health care information systems triggers execution of the set of medical logic instructions and retrieval of the multiple items of information stored in the electronic patient record.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the intelligent token is associated with at least one of a) a chronic disorder; b) acute care claim 1 , and c) a patient's current medical status.3. The system of claim 2 , ...

ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD DOCUMENTATION WITH PUSH AND PULL OF DATA TO AND FROM DATABASE

A medical records software apparatus and method is described that allows a clinician, e.g., nurse or doctor, to combine entry of new patient orders, prescriptions, flowsheet observations, etc. into the documentation process or workflow. A documentation user interface is provided that pulls patient data from a database into the display. The user can select on the user interface a category of a patient record, e.g., Significant Events or Orders, view or edit prior entries in the database in these categories, and add additional documentation for that category. The documentation is written or pushed to two areas of the database, one devoted to patient documentation and a second area corresponding to the selected category, e.g., Orders. The method and apparatus improves workflow efficiency and promotes a smooth transition from the thought process of the clinician to the ordering or prescription process, without the need for changing venues or screen displays. 125-. (canceled)26. An information apparatus for use with a networked database , comprising:(a) a computing device having a processor and a machine readable medium containing machine readable code for performing a computer implemented method and executable by the processor of the computing device,(b) wherein the computing device is configured for network communications with the networked database for accessing data from and storing data in the networked database, and [ (A) one or more user interface areas configured to allow for creation of a structured note representing documentation, and', '(B) one or more user interface areas configured to allow for selection, during the creation of the structured note, of one or more categories for which data is stored in the networked database,, '(i) providing a user interface including,'}, '(ii) receiving, via the user interface provided in said step (i), a selection of one or more of the categories,', '(iii) accessing data that has been previously stored in the networked ...

Method for Implementing a Controlled Medical Vocabulary

A method of implementing a controlled vocabulary may include the steps of generating the controlled vocabulary by forming a list of medical terms and associated descriptions; creating a list of codes internal to the controlled vocabulary; and storing the codes, the medical terms, and the descriptions in a format suitable for use in the patient longitudinal electronic medical record environment. In addition, a sound wave may be captured as an electronic file, translated into text, and stored as a patient medical record event. The patient medical record event may be parsed for context and may be tagged with one or more source vocabularies, and a code internal to the source vocabulary may be provided. Event context and source vocabulary findings may then be used as discrete elements to add to the longitudinal patient electronic medical record environment. 1. A method of implementing a controlled vocabulary , comprising:generating said controlled vocabulary by forming a list of medical terms and list of associated descriptions;creating a list of codes internal to said controlled vocabulary; andstoring said codes, said medical terms, and said descriptions in a format suitable for use in a longitudinal electronic medical record;wherein said controlled vocabulary maps to at least one of a reference terminology or an administrative terminology.2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein each domain within said longitudinal electronic medical record is tagged with said elements of controlled vocabulary and said codes.3. A method according to claim 1 , wherein said medical terms are derived for substantially all parts of a patient medical record claim 1 , comprising problems claim 1 , medications claim 1 , plans claim 1 , history items claim 1 , and subjective findings.4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein elements of said controlled vocabulary in one domain within said longitudinal electronic medical record are in a many-to-many relationship with elements of said ...

IDENTITY MATCHING OF PATIENT RECORDS

A system for matching a pair of patient records as belonging to the same individual or patient is disclosed. A set of matching rules () represents persistent characteristics of clinical properties of patients. A clinical property extractor () is used for extracting at least one first clinical property from clinical information contained in the first patient record () and at least one second clinical property from clinical information contained in the second patient record (). A match detector () is used for detecting whether the first patient record () and the second patient record () relate to the same patient, based on the first clinical property, the second clinical property, and the set of matching rules . A demographic property extractor () is used for extracting demographic data. 1. A system for matching a pair of patient records as belonging to the same individual or patient , wherein the pair of patient records comprises a first patient record and a second patient record , the system comprising:a set of matching rules representing persistent characteristics of clinical properties of patients;a clinical property extractor for extracting at least one first clinical property from clinical information contained in the first patient record and at least one second clinical property from clinical information contained in the second patient record;{'b': '4', 'a match detector for detecting whether the first patient record and the second patient record relate to the same patient, based on the first clinical property, the second clinical property, and the set of matching rules ;'}{'b': '6', 'a demographic property extractor () for extracting first demographic data from the first patient record and second demographic data from the second patient record, wherein the match detector is arranged for performing the detecting also based on the first demographic data and the second demographic data, wherein the match detector comprisesa demographic match evaluator for ...

Method and Apparatus for Coordinating Healthcare of Patients

Methods and systems for coordinating care of patients are disclosed, including enrolling a patient onto a communication facilitator application; storing an electronic record pertaining to the patient; establishing a patient healthcare team group for sending and receiving messages; storing a list of one or more members of the patient healthcare team group in the electronic record; receiving from the patient or the one or more members of the patient healthcare team group a message directed to one or more members of the patient healthcare team group; checking if the message is a permitted communication between the patient or the one or more members of the patient healthcare team group and the one or more members of the patient healthcare team group; and if the message is a permitted communication, directing the message to the one or more members of the patient healthcare team group. Other embodiments are described and claimed. 1. An apparatus for coordinating care of patients , the apparatus comprising:one or more processors;system memory coupled to the one or more processors;one or more non-transitory memory units coupled to the one or more processors; and enrolling a patient onto a communication facilitator;', 'storing an electronic record pertaining to the patient on the one or more non-transitory memory units;', 'establishing a patient healthcare team group for sending and receiving group messages within and/or between the patient and the patient healthcare team group, the patient healthcare team group being associated with the patient;', 'storing a list of one or more members of the patient healthcare team group in the electronic record;', 'receiving from the patient or the one or more members of the patient healthcare team group a message directed to the patient or the one or more members of the patient healthcare team group;', 'checking if the message is a permitted communication between the patient or the one or more members of the patient healthcare team group ...

Method and arrangement for the computer-assisted structuring of medical examination data

An arrangement for computer-assisted structuring of medical examination data is provided. The arrangement has a device for receiving at least one medical examination data record including at least one image data record created with a radiological imaging device, a device for receiving medical video data from external video sources, a device for converting the medical video data into a medical standard format in which a time stamp of the video data generation is stored, a device for storing the converted video data and the at least one examination data record, and a device for outputting the video data and examination data record. The video data and the at least one image data record can be arranged according to their time stamp.

GRAPHICAL TOOL FOR MANAGING A LONGITUDINAL PATIENT EPISODE

Systems and methods are disclosed for graphical-based management and documentation of longitudinal care episodes. As one example, a system to manage a longitudinal care episode for a patient can include a patient data aggregator, executable by a processor, to provide context data for the patient, at least a portion of the context data including patient data associated with multiple phases of the longitudinal care episode. A tool manager can translate user interactions with an associated graphical user interface (GUI) into corresponding discrete concepts. The corresponding discrete concepts can be stored in memory as part of longitudinal episode data for the patient, the longitudinal episode data being generated based on the context data and in response to user interactions with the GUI to facilitate documentation and management of the longitudinal care episode. 1. A system to manage a longitudinal care episode for a patient , comprising:a patient data aggregator, executable by a processor, to provide context data for the patient, at least a portion of the context data including patient data associated with multiple phases of the longitudinal care episode;a tool manager, executable by the processor, to translate user interactions with an associated graphical user interface (GUI) into corresponding discrete concepts, the corresponding discrete concepts being stored in memory as part of longitudinal episode data for the patient, the longitudinal episode data being generated based on the context data and in response to the user interactions with the GUI to facilitate documentation and management of the longitudinal care episode.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the tool manager further comprises a concept engine claim 1 , executable by the processor claim 1 , to link programmatically the corresponding discrete concepts together in an ordered construct representing the longitudinal episode data throughout each of the multiple phases the longitudinal care episode.3. The ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING STAKEHOLDER SERVICES

A system and method for providing stakeholder services is provided. The system, comprises a data repository, comprising historical health records and socio-economic condition records of a plurality of patients, and a plurality of processing subsystems that are operationally coupled to the storage device, wherein the plurality of processing subsystems comprise two or more service modules that are configured to provide selective stakeholder services to one or more of a plurality of stakeholders based upon a plurality of parameters. 1. A system , comprising:a data repository comprising historical health records and socio-economic condition records of a plurality of patients; anda plurality of processing subsystems that are operationally coupled to the storage device, wherein the plurality of processing subsystems comprise two or more service modules that are configured to provide selective stakeholder services to one or more of a plurality of stakeholders based upon a plurality of parameters.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of processing subsystems provide the selective stakeholder services by analyzing the historical health records and socio-economic condition records of the plurality of patients.3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of processing subsystems have a cloud computing architecture.4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of parameters comprise registration of a stakeholder with the plurality of processing subsystems claim 1 , category of a stakeholder claim 1 , rights and privileges of a stakeholder granted by the plurality of processing subsystems claim 1 , or combinations thereof.5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the service modules comprise a healthcare service provider module claim 1 , a patient service module claim 1 , a government service module claim 1 , a deidentification module claim 1 , or combinations thereof.6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the deidentification module is configured to generate intermediate ...

Electronic health record system and method for patient encounter transcription and documentation

A patient encounter documentation and analytics system includes a mobile computing platform and a server-based host platform. A mobile application in tandem with a wireless microphone collects voice signals during a patient-caregiver encounter, transforms the voice signals into audio data files, and uploads the audio data files to the server. A speech recognition software module digitally transcribes the audio data file into text. A text processing module extracts and organizes relevant clinical data based on keyword, key phrase and question/answer analysis. Relevance of words and phrases may be determined in view of, e.g., their presence, frequency and context. A diagnostic decision support module enables the healthcare provider to review the determined clinical information and provide a diagnosis associated with the encounter. A documentation skeleton module extracts diagnosis-specific text components from the transcribed text file and assembles an electronic medical document based on the diagnosis and the diagnosis-specific text components.

Teleradiology System

Prior studies associated with a patient are pre-fetched from multiple institutions and made available to a radiologist while the radiologist is viewing a series. Intelligent report generation is template driven with templates based on modality, body part, and radiologist. The template provides access to macros specific to the study as well as previously dictated entries for particular fields, to enable re-use of standard text in a contextual manner. Likewise, entry of text in one field of the report may cause related text to be propagated to other fields, such as from the findings to the impression, automatically as specified by the radiologist. Billing codes are automatically applied based on the report content. Communication by the radiologist with other physicians and institutions is implemented via the reporting system. Since communication instances pass through the radiology system, it is possible to associate and log communication instances with the studies. 1. A non-transitory tangible computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program for implementing a teleradiology system , the computer program comprising a set of instructions which , when executed by a computer , cause the computer to perform a method comprising the steps of:receiving patient information associated with a first medical imaging study from a requesting institution;searching for other relevant medical imaging studies associated with the patient information in institutions other than the requesting institution;fetching other relevant medical imaging studies located during the step of searching;providing the fetched other relevant medical imaging studies along with the first medical imaging study to enable the fetched relevant medical imaging studies to be considered in connection with evaluation of the first medical imaging study.2. The non-transitory tangible computer readable storage medium of claim 1 , the method further comprising the step of searching for other ...

METHOD FOR PROVIDING A USER WITH A SERVICE FOR ACCESSING AND COLLECTING RECORDS

A method for providing a user with the ability to access and collect health records associated with the user in a secure and private manner is provided. The method includes providing a computing device to the user for accessing and collecting the health records, associating a phone number with the user for receiving health records, receiving a fax directed to the phone number at a server, the fax comprising a health record from a health care provider of the user, storing the fax as an image file, providing the user with access to the image file through the computing device, and providing a health portal interface on the computing device for the user to access and manage the health records. The interface provides for organizing the health records and managing communications with health care providers. 1. A method for providing a user with the ability to access and collect health records associated with the user in a secure and private manner , the method comprising:assigning a phone number to the user, the phone number individually associated with the user;receiving a fax directed to the phone number at a fax server, the fax comprising a health record from a health care provider of the user;storing the fax as an image file;providing the user with access to the image file through a computing device;providing an interface on the computing device for the user to access and manage the health records, the interface providing for organizing the health records and the interface providing a message center for communications with the health care providers of the user.2. The method of further comprising indicating receipt of the fax in the message center.3. The method of further comprising receiving a voicemail directed to the phone number claim 2 , the voicemail from the health care provider claim 2 , and making available the voicemail from the computing device.4. The method of further comprising indicating receipt of the voicemail in the message center.5. The method of ...

PERSONALIZED HEALTH RECORDS WITH ASSOCIATIVE RELATIONSHIPS

A method for processing a personal health record (PHR) which includes a plurality of events each having a time stamp. The method includes creating a plurality of event-concept pairs by mapping each of the plurality of events in the PHR to a corresponding health concept, assigning to each of the plurality of event-concept pairs the time stamp of the event corresponding to the event-concept pair, identifying associations among the plurality of event-concept pairs, identifying an associative subset of event-concept pairs among the plurality of event-concept pairs, and linking a plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs to form a thread, in which the thread presents a relationship among the plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs. 1creating a plurality of event-concept pairs by mapping each of the plurality of events in the PHR to a corresponding health concept;assigning to each of the plurality of event-concept pairs the time stamp of the event corresponding to the event-concept pair;identifying associations among the plurality of event-concept pairs;identifying an associative subset of event-concept pairs among the plurality of event-concept pairs; andlinking a plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs to form a thread, wherein the thread presents a relationship among the plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs.. A method for processing a personal health record (PHR) including a plurality of events each having a time stamp, the method comprising: This Application is a Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/025,421, filed on Feb. 4, 2008, entitled “Personalized Health Records with Associative Relationships”, which is a Non-Provisional of Provisional (35 USC 119(e)) application 60/899,234 filed on Feb. 2, 2007, entitled “Threading Information in a Patient Health Record”, both of which are incorporated herein by reference.The breadth of medical ...

INFORMATION RECORD INFRASTRUCTURE, SYSTEM AND METHOD

A method of controlling access to records stored within databases, each record having associated access rules, a location identifier, and a content identifier maintained in a centralized index, comprising: receiving a request, communicated from a requestor to a security processor, the request containing a specified content identifier; querying the centralized index to find entries corresponding to the specified content identifier; for each entry, applying the access rules for the record to determine whether the record is accessible; for each accessible record, automatically communicating from the security processor to the database storing the accessible record sufficient information to determine whether it is releasable per a set of native access rules of the database; logically associating the releasable accessible records into a linked set of releasable records; and communicating the linked set of releasable records to the requestor. 1. A method of controlling access to a plurality of records stored within a plurality of automated external databases , each record having an associated set of access rules (“ASAR”) , a location identifier (“LI”) , and a content identifier (“CI”) maintained in an automated centralized index (“ACI”) , comprising:receiving a request, communicated from a requestor to a centralized automated security processor (“CASP”), the request containing a specified CI (“SCI”);authenticating the requestor;querying the ACI to find entries corresponding to the SCI;for each found entry, applying the ASAR corresponding to the LI to determine if the record stored in the automated external database (“AXD”) corresponding to the LI is accessible;for each accessible record (“AR”), automatically communicating from the CASP to the AXD storing the AR information sufficient to determine whether the AR is releasable by the AXD storing the AR by applying a set of native access rules (“NAR”) maintained by the AXD storing the AR;logically associating the releasable ...

MEDICAL INJECTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE MEDICAL INJECTION DEVICE

An injection device and methods for controlling the injection device are provided. Patient data for a patient to be treated are provided and an injection preparation (injectable) used in the injection device is automatically identified by the injection device automatically reading a label provided on a container of the injection preparation. Furthermore, contraindications for an identified injection preparation are determined. The patient data are compared with the any contraindication that has been determined At least one protective measure is adopted to prevent the injection when at least one contraindication matches the patient data. According to another variant of the method, patient data for a patient to be treated and contraindications for the injection preparations (injectables) available for a selection are established. The patient data are compared with the contraindications, wherein at least one injection preparation is suggested which contraindications do not match the patient data. 1. A method of controlling an injection device , comprising:providing patient data for a patient to be treated,automatically identifying an injection preparation for an injection device, wherein the injection device automatically reads a label applied onto a container of the injection preparation,determining contraindications of the injection preparation which have been identified,comparing the patient data with the contraindications which have been determined, andadopting a protective measure in order to prevent an injection when at least one contraindication matches the patient data.2. The method of controlling an injection device ,providing patient data for a patient to be treated,identifying contraindications of available injection preparations,comparing the patient data with the contraindications which have been identified, andsuggesting at least one injection preparation with contraindications which are inapplicable to the patient data.3. The method as claimed in claim 2 ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION

The present invention provides a method and system for securely collecting, processing, and transmitting information. The system provides the capability for users to input personal, medical, insurance, emergency contacts, and other data important to the user, and securely store and manage that data. The system is linked to other systems to provide those systems user data during an event. The user data is then able to be provided to emergency responders, doctors, or other interested and authorized parties in order to help provide services to the user. One use of the system is for users to input and manage data that is then provide to emergency responders during an accident or event, in order to better care for the user, decrease service costs. The system also allows for querying of user location data. 1. A system for communicating information comprising:one or more centralized servers linked via one or more communications networks to a personal or mobile user information management device;at least one user profile containing user's personal, medical and insurance information, the at least one user profile saved to the one or more centralized servers;wherein the system allows user access to the user's personal, medical and insurance information contained in the at least one user profile; andwherein the system provides access to the user's personal, medical, and insurance information and user-location data to 911 dispatch systems, emergency responders, doctors or other authorized parties.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user's personal information in the at least one user profile includes one or more of the following: user name claim 1 , user address claim 1 , user telephone number claim 1 , user age claim 1 , user sex claim 1 , user height claim 1 , user weight claim 1 , user blood type claim 1 , user email address and user photo.3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user's medical information in the at least one user profile includes one or more of the ...

EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS

Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. 1. A healthcare information management system comprising:one or more articles of manufacture includingtransistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for obtaining a field of view within which a specific portion of the field of view includes a view of a first patient;transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for obtaining user input selectively indicating the first patient by identifying the specific portion that depicts the first patient; andtransistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for signaling medical data about the first patient as an automatic and conditional response to the user input selectively indicating the first patient by identifying the specific portion that depicts the first patient.2. (canceled)3. The healthcare information management system of claim 1 , further comprising:a mobile device associated with the first patient.4. The healthcare information management system of claim 1 , further comprising:a device mounted on a building as a component of the event-sequencing structure configured for obtaining the field of view.5. (canceled)6. The healthcare information management system of claim 1 , further comprising:a highlighted portion ...

EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS

Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. 1. A healthcare information management system comprising:one or more articles of manufacture includingtransistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for obtaining a first indication whether or not a first patient has violated a first health regimen;transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for obtaining a second indication whether or not the first patient has violated the first health regimen;transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for signaling a decision whether or not to initiate an electronic communication between the first patient and a provider as an automatic and conditional response to the first indication whether or not the first patient has violated the first health regimen but not to the second indication whether or not the first patient has violated the first health regimen; andtransistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for signaling a decision whether or not to route the provider to the first patient as a conditional response to the first indication whether or not the first patient has violated the first health regimen and to the second indication whether or not the first patient has violated the first ...

Evidence-based healthcare information management protocols

Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results.

EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS

Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. 1. A healthcare information management system comprising:one or more articles of manufacture includingtransistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for obtaining an indication that an order associates a first patient with a medical device;transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for obtaining an indication that the medical device is in a vicinity of the first patient; andtransistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for enabling the medical device conditionally, partly based on the indication that the order associates the first patient with the medical device and partly based on the indication that the medical device is in the vicinity of the first patient.2. (canceled)3. The healthcare information management system of claim 1 , further comprising:a portable device including the transistor-based circuitry having the event-sequencing structure configured for enabling the medical device conditionally, partly based on the indication that the order associates the first patient with the medical device and partly based on the indication that the medical device is in the vicinity of the first patient, the portable device not being the medical device.410-. ( ...

EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS

Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. 1. A healthcare information management system comprising:one or more articles of manufacture includingtransistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for causing a first individual to receive a playable prompt that was automatically selected according to a first data component received from the first individual;transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for receiving a second data component from the first individual after the first individual received the playable prompt that was automatically selected according to the first data component received from the first individual; andtransistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for causing a wearable article at a first care facility to indicate the second data component received from the first individual after the first individual received the playable prompt that was automatically selected according to the first data component received from the first individual.25-. (canceled)6. The healthcare information management system of claim 1 , further comprising:a microphone configured to receive audio data from the first individual; anda data processing module configured to extract the first data component from the ...

EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS

Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results. 1. A healthcare information management system comprising:one or more articles of manufacture includingtransistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for obtaining an indication via a first device local to a first individual that the first individual is noncompliant with a first health regimen;transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for obtaining an indication via a second device that a second individual is available to participate in an electronic intercommunication; andtransistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for signaling the electronic intercommunication as an automatic and conditional response to the indication via the first device local to the first individual that the first individual is noncompliant with the first health regimen and to the indication via the second device that the second individual is available to participate in the electronic intercommunication.23-. (canceled)4. The healthcare information management system of claim 1 , further comprising:the second device, comprising a seat configured to detect that the second individual is on the seat as the indication that the second individual is available to participate in the ...

METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FACILITATION OF PATIENT COMMUNICATION

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods of and apparatuses for coordinating patient communication in a professional office. An example method comprises providing the patient with a mobile computing device programmed to accommodate entering demographic information, consent forms and medical history. The mobile device can be programmed to allow users to sign appropriate forms, such as those required for HIPAA purposes. The device can be checked out to the patient and, if desired, appropriate physical security measures can be employed. A patient can complete the forms using the input modes allowed by the device, such as touch input or by stylus. Program-based input controls can help the user enter appropriate information. In some example embodiments, the mobile device communicates with office data systems. Declined records can be returned to the user, for example, with areas to be addressed highlighted. The present invention can also be practiced using the patient's own mobile computing device, allowing a patient to download an appropriate version of the application to it or interact with a hosted application using a mobile device's web browser or similar facility. 1. A method of coordinating patient input in a professional office comprising:(a) providing a mobile computing device to a patient in the office;(b) using the mobile computing device to present questions to the patient and receive information from the patient in an interactive manner;(c) making the information available to a practice management information system (PMIS), an electronic medical record (EMR), or a combination thereof;(d) performing at least one of: (d1) sending de-identified data to one or more parties other than the professional office, or (d2) using the mobile computing device to present to the patient information relevant to patient responsive to information received from patient.2. A method as in claim 1 , wherein step (d) comprises sending de-identified data to parties other ...

PREPAID CARD FOR SERVICES RELATED TO PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS

A prepaid card allows for prepaying for access to a web site configured to provide for management of personal health care records. The prepaid card includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, a promotional code printed on the second surface, a scratch box on the second surface and overlaying the promotional code. The promotional code may be associated with a monetary value for the prepaid card on the web site configured to provide for management of personal health care records. A method for providing a service facilitating online management of personal health records includes receiving data from a prepaid card at a web server, activating a new user account for the online management of personal health records using the data from the prepaid card; and providing online access to the new user account. 1. A system comprising:a card comprising (a) a first surface, (b) a second surface opposite the first surface, (c) a promotional code printed on the second surface, and (d) a scratch box on the second surface and overlaying the promotional code;a web server configured to receive the promotional code on the card and activate a new user account for collecting, storing, and managing personal health records.2. The system of wherein the account is a prepaid account.3. The system of wherein an address associated with the web server is printed on the card.4. The system of wherein the card further comprises a user identifier area on the first surface or the second surface.5. The system of wherein the card further comprises an emergency password area on the first surface or the second surface.6. The system of wherein the card further comprises an emergency contact area on the first surface or the second surface.7. The system of further comprising product packaging for the card.8. The system of wherein the product packing includes a code for scanning at a point of sale.9. The system of wherein the code is a bar code.10. The system of wherein the web server ...

METHODS FOR DATA COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Provided are methods of performing research in which participation is incentivized by early access to the data and samples collected. Also provided are methods for distributing research data. 1. A method of research comprising:enrolling one or more subjects, wherein at least one of the subjects is diagnosed with a disease;collecting one or more biological samples and clinical data from at least one of the subjects;analyzing a portion of at least one of the biological samples to produce a profile of at least one of the subjects;storing the clinical data and the profile in a data repository; andgranting data repository access to a stakeholder for a first period of time in exchange for support, wherein the support comprises funding, participation, and/or a combination thereof, and thereby conducting research.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the enrolling occurs at one or more enrolling sites.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the enrolling sites comprise hospitals claim 2 , academic medical centers claim 2 , community health centers claim 2 , government agencies claim 2 , government funded medical centers claim 2 , and/or a combination thereof.4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the enrolling sites are chosen by a scientific advisory board.5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the scientific advisory board comprises a non-profit organization or members thereof claim 4 , non-profit researchers claim 4 , academic researchers claim 4 , or a combination thereof.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the subjects is diagnosed with the disease.7. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the subjects is newly diagnosed with the disease.8. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the subjects is newly diagnosed with the disease.9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the disease is a cancer.10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the disease is a myeloma.11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the disease is multiple myeloma.12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the disease is a bone ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING, PROCESSING, AND STORING DISCRETE DATA RECORDS BASED UPON A SINGLE DATA INPUT

A system and method for the collection, capture, processing, storage, and tracking of data for both electronic clinical trial and electronic heath records based upon a single data collection instance, and including data collected by electronic medical devices. Devices and methods for creating certified digital image copies of original documents, including paper source documents for a clinical trial. Devices and methods for ensuring the secure archiving of original electronic documents, including electronic clinical trial source documents, in a secure document storage server. 1. An electronic records management system for the collection , capture , processing , storage and tracking of data for both electronic clinical trial and personal health records , including a certification module for creating a certified digital image copy of an original paper source document.2. The electronic records management system according to claim 1 , said certification module further including:a digitizer for generating a modifiable digital image copy of said original paper source document, said digitizer being in communication with a document memory for storing said modifiable digital image copy;a copy processor in communication with said document memory, for attaching an electronic signature to said modifiable digital image copy to certify said modifiable image copy, and for rendering said digital image copy unmodifiable after said digital image copy is certified; anda certification interface in communication with said copy processor, for displaying said modifiable digital image copy for comparison to said original paper source document, and for transmitting a command to said copy processor to attach said electronic signature to said modifiable digital image copy and to render said digital image copy unmodifiable.3. The electronic records management system according to claim 2 , said certification interface further including software to create a human-readable certification form claim ...

Assessing Variation In Clinical Response Data Based On A Computational Representation Of Neural Or Psychological Processes Underlying Performance On A Brain Function Test

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for analyzing data include: receiving data regarding responses, and lack thereof, for items of a brain function test comprising at least one set of item responses; processing the data using a model that combines a brain function processing construct with hierarchical Bayesian analysis to measure differences among subsets of the data, wherein the brain function processing construct is a computer-based representation of neural or psychological processes underlying performance on the brain function test; and encoding a result of the processing on a computer-readable medium to supply the result to a computer device for use in an assessment related to the brain function test. 1. A computer-implemented method comprising:receiving data regarding responses, and lack thereof, for items of a brain function test comprising at least one set of item responses;processing the data using a model that combines a brain function processing construct with hierarchical Bayesian analysis to measure differences among subsets of the data, wherein the brain function processing construct is a computer-based representation of neural or psychological processes underlying performance on the brain function test; andencoding a result of the processing on a computer-readable medium to supply the result to a computer device for use in an assessment related to the brain function test.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving comprises receiving item responses for different administrations of the same brain function test claim 1 , and the processing comprises using a combined GHBA-BFP model to measure differences in predictive capacity of the different administrations.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving comprises receiving data regarding different administrations of the same brain function test to a person at different times claim 1 , and the processing comprises using a combined GHBA-BFP model to ...

ALLHEALTH

A system, a method and a computer program for providing a comprehensive suite of applications that offer a holistic healthcare approach across multiple domains, products and services. The system is configured to assist users to, inter alia, perform initial intakes, record assessment data, track clinical progress, offer e-prescribing capabilities, and maintain an individual's complete medical record in a secure environment. The system is HIPPA compliant and meets the standards set forth by the US Government for EHR Certification. 1. A web-based medical record system , comprising:a web-based server to control patient electronic medical records (EMRs);a database operatively coupled to the web-based server to store the patient EMRs; andat least one software module at the server operable to generate graphical user interfaces on a display at a user computer and operable to receive input from the user computer, the user computer in communication with the web-based server over the Internet,wherein the graphical user interfaces are configured to permit selection of medical parameters for a patient from predetermined selections to update the patient EMRs.2. The web-based medical record system of claim 1 , further comprising an electronic prescription service integrated with the web-based server.3. The web-based medical record system of claim 2 , wherein the electronic prescription service is integrate with the web-based server and residing external to the web-based server.4. The web-based medical record system of claim 2 , wherein the electronic prescription service is integrated with the web-based server so that a single login by a user permits access to the electronic prescription service and patient electronic medical records (EMRs).5. The web-based medical record system of claim 1 , wherein the web-based server comprises a Psychiatric Progress Note (PPN) module claim 1 , the PPN module configured to permit recordation of:minimum mental state exam (MMSE) information;AXIS I ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL WORKER COLLABORATION

A collaborative electronic environment for medical workers. First medical worker data, describing a medical condition of a patient and (1) a diagnosis relating to the medical condition associated with a first medical worker; and/or (2) a treatment relating to the medical condition associated with the first medical worker, is maintained in a data repository. Second medical worker data describing one or more of (1) an additional diagnosis relating to the medical condition; (2) an additional treatment relating to the medical condition; (3) commentary regarding the diagnosis; and (4) commentary regarding the treatment, is received from a second medical worker, through the electronic user interface. The second medical worker data is stored in the data repository. At least some of the first medical worker data and at least some of the second medical worker data is displayed in the electronic user interface. 1. A computerized method comprising:maintaining in a data repository first medical worker data describing a medical condition of a patient and one or both of (1) a diagnosis relating to the medical condition associated with a first medical worker; and (2) a treatment relating to the medical condition associated with the first medical worker;receiving from a second medical worker, through the electronic user interface, second medical worker data describing one or more of (1) an additional diagnosis relating to the medical condition; (2) an additional treatment relating to the medical condition; (3) commentary regarding the diagnosis; and (4) commentary regarding the treatment;storing in the data repository the second medical worker data; anddisplaying in the electronic user interface at least some of the first medical worker data and at least some of the second medical worker data.2. The method of wherein the first medical worker is a treating physician of the patient and wherein the second medical worker is a non-treating physician of the patient.3. The method of ...

UNIFIED HEALTHCARE INTELLIGENCE, ANALYTICS, AND CARE MANAGEMENT

Healthcare intelligence and analytics may be improved by combining sets of disparate healthcare records and matching records between patients. The matched records may then be analyzed by identifying relevant individuals and providing information to a user containing the combined sets of healthcare records and the analysis. The information may be customized for the user after identifying the user accessing the interface. Additionally, rules may be applied to the analyzed data to enhance the data when viewed by the user. 1. A method of providing healthcare intelligence and analytics , comprising:receiving a plurality of sets of healthcare data records;matching at least one healthcare data record from each set of the sets of healthcare data records to each of a plurality of individuals;identifying a healthcare data record from at least one of the sets of healthcare data records that is relevant to a target individual;analyzing the result of associating each individual of the plurality of individuals with at least one healthcare data record from at least one set of healthcare data records and the result of identifying the health care data record relevant to the target individual; andoutputting information to a user interface display based, in part, on the analysis.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising allowing management of the target individual's care and wellbeing through processes and user interfaces.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the step of allowing management comprises allowing viewing of clinical claim 2 , financial and administrative data for a target patient to assist in their health care and allowing capture of additional data and activities associated with that care.4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising applying a rule to the analyzed data to identify data from the plurality of sets of healthcare data records relevant to a condition of the target individual.5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the rule is at least one of a clinical claim 4 , ...

PATIENT DATA INPUT AND ACCESS SYSTEM THAT ENHANCES PATIENT CARE

The present disclosure provides a platform for collaborative electronic medical records creation and analysis that provides a more efficient alternative to present EMR systems for healthcare providers. The system includes a server and a user device configured to communicate with one or more EMR or HIE systems. The user device and the server are configured to provide healthcare providers easy access to their patients' data, to accurately collect or receive patient data from healthcare providers, to enable healthcare providers to better collaborate on patient treatment, to automatically provide decision support tools which are based on better quality patient data and statistically significant stored patient data, to enable healthcare providers to better control patient healthcare costs, and to enable healthcare providers to provide better overall patient care. 1. A memory device which stores a plurality of instructions , which when executed by at least one processor , causes the at least one processor to operate with at least one input device and at least one display device to enable a plurality of healthcare providers to:access linked subjective patient data for a patient, said subjective patient data obtained from one or more healthcare providers;access linked objective patient data for the patient, said objective patient data obtained from one or more healthcare providers or one or more electronic medical record systems;electronically communicate a developed common assessment of the subject patient's health conditions based on said subjective patient data and said objective patient data; andelectronically communicate among healthcare providers the healthcare conditions for the patient based on the common assessment.2. The memory device of claim 1 , wherein the subjective data and the objective data are obtained from different healthcare providers or medical records systems.3. The memory device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of instructions causes the at least ...

HEALTH RECORD WITH INBOUND AND OUTBOUND FAX FUNCTIONALITY

A method for receiving a fax into an electronic health record includes receiving a fax transmission at a fax server, generating an image file containing the fax document, generating metadata about the image file and/or the fax transmission, sending the image file and the metadata to a health information technology system, and adding or creating an electronic health record associated with the health information technology system such that the electronic health comprises the image file and/or information derived from the image file. A method for sending a fax based on an electronic health record within a health information technology is also provided. 1. A method for receiving a fax into a personal health record , the method comprising:receiving a fax transmission at a fax server, the fax transmission including a faxed document;generating an image file containing the fax document;generating meta data about the image file and/or the fax transmission;sending the image file and the meta data to a health information technology system;adding or creating a personal health record associated with the health information technology system using a computer associated with the health information technology system such that the personal health record comprises the image file and/or information derived from the image file.2. The method of wherein the meta data comprises a phone number to which the fax transmission was sent.3. The method of wherein the personal health record comprises the image file and text information extracted from the image file.4. The method of wherein the image file is a portable document format (pdf) file.5. The method of further comprising determining a user account associated with the faxed document.6. The method of further comprising making available the personal health record through the user account.7. The method of wherein the meta data comprises a phone number to which the fax transmission was sent.8. The method of wherein the determining the user ...

System for Automated Health Information Exchange

In one arrangement of a system for automated health information exchange, each server is configured to receive patient encounter information from corresponding entities. The patient encounter information includes affiliation information that identifies a patient's affiliation with one or more health care entities of a group of health care entities. Once received, the server reviews the affiliation information to identify other facilities that have provided, or are about to provide, care to the patient. The server establishes and maintains a link, such as a network link, with each of these other entities identified in the patient encounter information. Based upon the links and patient authorizations, the server can automatically retrieve the patient's electronic patient records from the other facilities' servers and forward the records to its corresponding entity, or automatically send the patient's electronic patient records to the linked facilities' servers.

Test Requirement List for Diagnostic Tests

A diagnostic system for a patient includes a memory receiving and storing patient specific information, and storing diagnostic test requirements of a plurality of diagnostic sequences, and a processor identifying the test requirements for a selected diagnostic sequence according to the patient specific information in advance of executing the diagnostic sequence. 1. A diagnostic system for a patient , comprising:a remote database including diagnostic test requirements;a memory separate from the remote database, wherein the memory receives and stores patient specific information, and stores diagnostic test requirements for each sequential step of a plurality of diagnostic sequences received from the remote database; anda processor connected to the memory and identifies a list of diagnostic test requirements for a selected diagnostic sequence according to the patient specific information in advance of executing the selected diagnostic sequence.2. The diagnostic system of claim 1 , wherein the processor permits a medical facility to schedule a diagnostic test or the sequence of medical procedures based on an availability of the listed diagnostic test requirements.3. The diagnostic system of claim 1 , further comprising a medical facility to allocate an inventory and environment for the selected diagnostic sequence in advance of diagnostic test and medical procedures associated with the selected diagnostic sequence.4. The diagnostic system of claim 1 , further comprising a display device connected to the processor to display the diagnostic test requirements including certification of aptitude levels of a user with regard to the selected diagnostic sequence.5. The diagnostic system of claim 1 , wherein the diagnostic test requirements being associated with a diagnostic or medical procedure step in the selected diagnostic sequence.6. The diagnostic system of claim 1 , wherein the diagnostic test requirements include medical instruments claim 1 , implants claim 1 , medical ...

Social Authentication for Accessing Health Records

A system for facilitating access to a Social Heath Record Database (SHRDB) through a social networking platform over a communications network. The system includes an information management platform including one or more database server and one or more social network server configured to implement information storage and retrieval functions within the SHRDB. The system further includes the SHRDB communicatively coupled to the information management platform. The system further includes a social networking engine communicatively coupled to the SHRDB through the social network server to allow interfacing of the SHRDB with the social networking service/platform. The system further includes a programmatic web interface configured as a single sign-on scheme to allow access of one or more repositories of the SHRDB. 1. A system for facilitating access to a Social Heath Record Database (SHRDB) through a social networking service or platform over a communications network , said system comprising:an information management platform including one or more database server and one or more social network server configured to implement information storage and retrieval functions within said SHRDB; a processing component for executing instructions to process medical records over said communications network;', 'one or more of a Social Health Record (SHR) repository, Health Information Exchange (HIE) repository, and a Virtual Medical Records (VMR) repository to store said medical records;', 'a social networking engine communicatively coupled to said SHRDB through said social network server to allow interfacing of said SHRDB with said social networking service;', 'a programmatic web interface configured as a single sign-on scheme to allow access of said one or more of said SHR repository, HIE repository, and said VMR repository of said SHRDB from one or more distinct social networking platforms using a credential associated with any of said one or more of said distinct social networking ...

MEDICATION REFILL ADVISOR SYSTEM AND METHOD

A system and method for automated medication refill are provided, wherein the system and method reduce the time spent on, and potential for error in, accommodating medication refill requests. In one embodiment, the system includes a computer device for executing a medication information input function, a patient information input function, a refill protocol determination function, a refill analysis function, and an automated refill advisory output function. In a preferred embodiment, the system also executes an automatic pharmacy refill authorization function. The system includes a database incorporated therein or in electronic communication therewith. The system and method of the present invention provide a mechanism for medication refill protocols that provides specific patient care guidance for prescribed medications. 120-. (canceled)21. A medication refill advisor system comprising:a. a computer device executing computer-executable instructions;b. a medication information database accessible through the computer device;c. a medication information input function executable on the computer device for gathering medication information and transferring it to the database;d. a patient-specific information input function executable on the computer device for gathering patient-specific information and transferring it to the database, wherein the patient-specific information includes laboratory data, visit data and vital signs;e. a refill protocol determination function executable on the computer device for gathering medication prescription and refill guideline information and transferring it to the database; and i. receiving medication refill requests,', 'ii. correlating the medication information, the patient-specific information and the refill guideline information, and', 'iii. generating one or more of one or more refill protocol recommendations and one or more follow-up patient questions based on the correlated medication information, patient-specific information ...

CLINICAL TRIAL HEALTH CARE DATA MANAGEMENT

Health care data is stored in memory accessible to a server. The server allows users to access the health care data, such as across a communication network. In some embodiments a biometric identifier for a patient is stored with patient information. The biometric identifier can be used to control access to patient records and to quickly locate patient information associated with a particular patient. 1. A health care data management system comprising a server device including a processor device and at least one computer storage medium , the at least one computer storage medium storing a database and data instructions , wherein the data instructions are executable by the processor device to:register a user with the server device by receiving user data including a first biometric identifier through a web interface;store the user data and the first biometric identifier in the database at the server device, the server device and the database being configured to operate remote from the user;associate the first biometric identifier with the user data in the database;receive health care information pertaining to the user and store the health care information in the user data in the database;receive from a clinical trial administrative computing system a request including a second biometric identifier;search the database with the server device to identify the first biometric identifier as a match to the second biometric identifier;transmit at least part of the user data associated with the first biometric identifier to the clinical trial administrative computing system in response to the request;update a status of the user in the user data of the database to indicate that the user is applying for a clinical trial;conduct a search of all user data in the database; andanalyze all user data for administration of the clinical trial.2. The health care data management system of claim 1 , wherein the server further comprises a web server claim 1 , and wherein transmitting the at ...

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL CODING SYSTEMS

Systems and methods for coding an aspect of a patient encounter. An example method includes: receiving a medical finding identifying medical information related to a patient, the medical finding being input by a user; identifying an internal medical code of an internal medical terminology that relates to the medical finding; retrieving one or more alternative data items from an expansion table associated with the internal medical code, the alternative data items defining the medical finding input by the user with great specificity; generating a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface displaying the medical finding input by the user and the one or more alternative data items, the displayed one or more alternative data items being selectable by the user; and in response to selecting one of the one or more alternative data items, selecting a code from the standard medical terminology that identifies the medical finding in the standard medical terminology based on the categorical information. 1. A method of coding an aspect of a patient encounter performed by an electronic computing system , the method comprising:receiving, at a processing unit, a medical finding identifying medical information related to a patient, the medical finding being input by a user;identifying, by the processing unit, an internal medical code of an internal medical terminology that relates to the medical finding;retrieving from memory, by the processing unit, one or more alternative data items from an expansion table associated with the internal medical code, the alternative data items defining the medical finding input by the user with great specificity;generating a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface displaying the medical finding input by the user and the one or more alternative data items, the displayed one or more alternative data items being selectable by the user; andin response to selecting one of the one or more alternative data items, selecting a code ...

DUAL-ACCESS SECURITY SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL RECORDS

A secure system for accessing records uses a provider media device and a consumer media device to access records associated with the consumer. Both the consumer and provider media devices are normally authenticated before access to the consumer records is granted. Records can be centrally stored in a central location and downloaded, in full or in part, to the consumer media device. Passwords can be used to grant local access to consumer media device, for example, in the absence of network connectivity. 1. A method for accessing a user-owned computer-readable nonvolatile memory , the nonvolatile memory comprising multiple logical partitions , where access to each logical partition is based upon an access level categorized by a provider's identification data and with information comprising a plurality of Global Portable Medical Record (GPMR) episodes , each GPRM episode being associated with a partition based upon a corresponding episode access level , the method comprising:at a local station including a processor and a card monitor configured to access the nonvolatile memory, authenticating an identity of a provider to generate a session key;retrieving, from an open access partition the nonvolatile memory comprises, an indicia of authenticity and an indicia of user identity;based upon retrieved indicia of user identity, providing user authentication data to local station to determine a user access level; providing to the COS server the session key, the provider identification data, and the user access level;', 'at the COS server, constructing an on-line longitudinal record comprising the plurality of GPRM episodes and;', "synchronizing each GPRM episode in one of the plurality of partitions, selected to be consistent with the GPRM episode's security level; storing, at the local station, such episodes in the on-line longitudinal record as are consistent with the providers access level to form an off-line longitudinal record in the local station memory; and"], 'where ...

MEDICAL FAILURE PATTERN SEARCH ENGINE

A patient safety search engine and alarm processor is programmed to repetitively search the electronic medical records of all patients in a hospital system to automatically provide early detection of patients with evolving pathophysiologic cascades, and in particular the cascades of evolving death, such as cascades of septic shock. The search engine also searches for a wide range of evolving pathophysiologic failures which are commonly fatal if detected too late. An alarm processor is provided which is programmed to provide an alarm upon the detection of a cascade or failure. The processor is further be programmed to provide an image of the cascade, and to determine, the severity of the cascade, and the time of onset of the cascade in relation to the timing and type of procedures and treatment and the increased cost associated with the cascade. Discretionary real-time system-wide searches for a wide range of clinical failure patterns or images within the hospital system may be performed using the disclosed patient safety search engine. 1. A hospital monitoring system comprising:a database comprising an electronic medical record repository of data wherein the electronic medical record repository of data contains the data of a plurality of patients in at least one hospital; anda processor programmed with instructions for:searching the database for at least one complex sepsis cascade pattern within the data of the plurality of patients and to identify one or more patients generating the at least one complex cascade pattern.2. The hospital monitoring system of claim 1 , comprising an alarm processor programmed with instructions to provide an automatic alarm upon the detection of the complex cascade pattern.3. The hospital monitoring system of claim 1 , wherein the complex cascade pattern comprises a cascade of a progressively increasing number and severity of relational perturbations indicative of at least one of sepsis claim 1 , severe sepsis claim 1 , septic shock ...

ELECTRONIC MULTIPURPOSE CARD AND METHOD OF USING SAME

An electronic multipurpose card includes a biometric reader element for card activation and at least one interface connection for an external processor. A programmable memory is connected to the element and at least one port receives an additional memory module. A programmable magnetic stripe memory element stores data and a program selects among alternative data sets and alternative instruction sets input by either of the card issuer or the card user. A selection device is activated by the user to operate the application program and effect selection of any of the alternative data sets and the alternative instruction sets. The card has applications where the data and instructions stored on the card should only be available to a user for whom the card was issued. These applications include proprietary health care data and online gambling. A time out feature is included to prevent unauthorized use of the card after authorization. 1. An electronic multipurpose card , comprising:a biometric reader element for activating the card;at least one interface connection element for connection to an external computer processor;a programmable memory connected to said interlace connection element;at least one port, said port receiving at least one additional memory module;a programmable magnetic stripe memory element;an application program, said program selecting among alternative data sets input by either of a card issuer and a card user;said program selecting among alternative instruction sets input by either of said card issuer and said card user; anda selection device, said device activated by said card user to operate said application program and effect selection of any of said alternative data sets and said alternative instruction sets.2. The electronic multipurpose card claim 1 , as described in claim 1 , wherein said biometric reader element is selected from the group comprising:fingerprint reader, skin conductivity reader, retinal scanner, facial recognition system and ...

Method and arrangement for arranging an information service to determine nutrition and/or medication

A healthcare system for personalized healthcare includes a user interface for gathering user related data of nutrition or medicaments consumed by the user, and genetic information of the user. The system also includes a research interface for gathering genetic backgrounds of different illnesses in relation to nutrition or environmental factors, and a health care practitioner interface for gathering user related data of user's health state, personalized treatment or history data. The system provides recommendations of optimal personalized nutrition or medication for the user to reach the optimal nutritive, metabolic and/or health state based on: data of nutrition or medicaments consumed by the user, genetic information of the user, genetic backgrounds of different illnesses in relation to nutrition or environmental factors, user's health state, and personalized treatment or history data of the user. The recommendations are then delivered to the user or health care practitioners via corresponding interfaces.

MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS DERIVED FROM PATIENT DRUG HISTORY DATA

In general the invention is directed to systems, methods, and/or software modules which may analyze a patient's drug history, and optionally other data, and derive a probable diagnosis for the patient based on rules. 1. A computer-based system having a memory and a processor which estimates a patient's future demand for healthcare services , comprising a software module running on a computer which analyzes a patient's drug history sex , and age , and based on this analysis infers a diagnosis for the patient;wherein the analysis done by the software modules comprises applying at least one rule which defines a relationship among a disease, drug usage expected to be associated with the disease, the sex of a person expected to be associated with the disease, and an age range of a person expected to be associated with the disease; and,wherein the at least one rule is applied to the patient's drug history based on a hierarchy of diseases, the hierarchy being a function, at least in part, of the severity of the disease to the patient's health, and further wherein the hierarchy of diseases is applied such that if the application of the rules yields a plurality of possible diseases, the most severe disease is associated with the patient.2. The computer-based system of claim 1 , wherein the patient's drug history includes information additionally defining time periods in which a drug was taken or received by a patient.3. The computer-based system of claim 1 , wherein the applied rule includes a span rule claim 1 , which defines a period of time for which the patient must have been taking a drug for a disease to be associated with the patient.4. The computer-based system of claim 3 , wherein the span rule includes gap rules claim 3 , which define gaps in the period of time for which a patient must have been taking a drug for a disease to be associated with the patient.5. The computer-based system of claim 1 , wherein the computer further analyzes at least a portion of the ...

IDENTIFYING A PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD USING A PHONE NUMBER

A method for providing a user with the ability to access and collect records associated with the user in a secure and private manner includes associating access information with the user for the user to use to access a server storing files comprising records associated with the user in a computer readable storage medium, providing the user with a user interface on a computing device to remotely access the records stored on the server, receiving at the server the files comprising records associated with the user from a service provider associated with the user, receiving at the server a request from the user made through the user interface of the computing device for access to the files, wherein the access information is associated with the request, and sending the user a file containing the records associated with user from the server to the computing device in response to the request. 1. A method comprising:identifying a personal health record using a phone number, wherein the step of identifying is performed by a computer.2. The method of wherein the phone number is a 10 digit number.3. The method of further comprising electronically sending the personal health record to the individual using the phone number.4. The method of wherein the personal health record is stored on a computer readable storage medium.5. The method of further comprising assigning the phone number to the individual.6. The method of further comprising associating the phone number with the individual.7. The method of further comprising electronic access to the personal health record by the individual.8. The method of wherein the electronic access is provided through a web site associated with a web server.9. The method of further comprising associating access information with the individual for the individual to use to access the personal health record.10. The method of wherein the access information comprises a password.11. The method of further comprising sending the personal health record as ...

COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDICAL CARE

A medical management system and method operates over a computer network to supervise and manage services and medication provided by a care provider to one or more patients in a care facility. The system uses RFID and biometric authentication technologies to determine appropriate proximity of the patient to the care provider and the identities of the patient and care provider, respectively, both before and after a service event to effectively manage and document interactions between the care provider and the patient. Electronic voice technology and electronic notification generation capability are also incorporated to audibly confirm identities and services, and to notify supervisory personnel of anomalies in service events, respectively. 1. A method for managing and tracking medical care and medical service transactions between a patient and a care provider using a computer-based , network connected system on a server coupled to a database with stored data pertaining to the patient , comprising:pre-enrolling biometric data for a plurality of patients and a plurality of care providers into a database;taking, by a first care provider, a biometric scan of a patient who is to receive a service or care event using a biometric scanning device at a specified location;comparing the patient biometric scan to the biometric data of at least one of the plurality of patients in the database to determine whether there is a match;upon finding a match, verifying that the match corresponds with the patient receiving the service;taking a biometric scan of a care provider who is to administer a service or care event to the patient using a biometric scanning device;comparing the care provider biometric scan to the biometric data of at least one of the plurality of care providers in the database to determine whether the care provider is authorized to perform the service;upon successful biometric authentication of both patient and care provider identities and care provider authorization, ...

KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION AND EXCHANGE METHOD AND APPARATUS

A medical information navigation engine (“MINE”) is provided. In some embodiments, the system computes a current patient encounter vector for a current patient encounter, and then an optimal patient encounter vector is computed by assuming a best case patient encounter in accordance with the organizational objectives. The system is then able to compute the difference between the best case encounter and the current patient encounter. This difference is used to compute a corresponding payoff using an intelligent matrix. 1. In a Medical Information Navigation Engine (“MINE”) , a computerized method for knowledge extraction and exchange , the method comprising;computing a current patient encounter vector for a current patient encounter;computing an optimal patient encounter vector by assuming a substantially best case patient encounter in accordance with at least one organizational objective;computing at least one difference between the substantially best case encounter and the current patient encounter;computing a corresponding payoff for each of the at least one difference; andproviding, in order of potential payoff, at least one difference between the optimal patient encounter vector and the current patient encounter vector.2. The method of further comprising collecting a plurality of patient encounter vectors and a plurality of corresponding payoffs to create a linear system.3. The method of wherein the linear system is optimized to obtain intelligence for the MINE.4. The method of wherein the corresponding payoff is computed using an intelligent matrix.5. The method of wherein the at least one difference between the optimal patient encounter vector and the current patient encounter vector is provided to at least one of a querying user and a querying electronic health record (HER) system.6. A Medical Information Navigation Engine (“MINE”) configured to extract and exchange knowledge claim 1 , the MINE comprising: compute a current patient encounter vector for a ...

BI-DIRECTIONAL BIOMARKER BASED CLINICAL TRIAL MATCHER

A computer-based system configured to organize, analyze, locate and distribute information related to clinical trials is described herein. More particularly, a computer-based system for providing a bi-directional clinical trial matching process (e.g., locate patients based on trial information or locate trials based on patient information) based on biomarkers associated with both a patient and a clinical trial are described herein. 1. A computer-implemented method for matching a patient for a clinical trial , comprising:accessing, by a computer, a patient database comprising, for each of a plurality of patients, (a) electronic patient records comprising a patient identifier, a diagnosed disease and demographic information, and (b) testing results for one or more biomarkers;accessing a clinical trial database comprising, for each of a plurality of clinical trials, (a) clinical trial records comprising a trial identifier, targeted disease, locations, (b) one or more biomarkers targeted by the clinical trial and (c) criteria on how testing results of the one or more biomarkers correlate with clinical trial outcomes; andidentifying a patient from the patient database as a suitable candidate patient for a clinical trial in the clinical trial database by matching the patient's disease, demographic information, and biomarker testing results with the clinical trial's target disease, locations and targeted biomarkers, respectively, wherein the matching of the biomarkers takes into consideration of the criteria such that the patient's testing results for the biomarkers predict positive outcomes from the clinical trial.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:receiving a request for identifying a candidate patient for a clinical trial;obtaining, for the clinical trial, clinical trial records comprising (a) targeted disease, locations, (b) one or more biomarkers targeted by the clinical trial and (c) criteria on how testing results of the one or more biomarkers correlate ...

Medical Information Systems and Medical Data Processing Methods

Medical information systems and medical data processing methods are described. According to one aspect, a medical information system includes a communications interface which is configured to receive patient treatment data from a plurality of medical providers and which regards medical treatment provided by the medical providers with respect to a plurality of patients; and storage circuitry storing the patient treatment data for the plurality of patients of the plurality of the medical providers in a database. 1. A medical information system comprising:a communications interface which is configured to receive patient treatment data from a plurality of medical providers and which regards medical treatment provided by the medical providers with respect to a plurality of patients; andstorage circuitry storing the patient treatment data for the plurality of patients of the plurality of the medical providers in a database.2. The medical information system of wherein the patient treatment data includes identification information which identifies the patients.3. The medical information system of further comprising processing circuitry configured to access a request for the patient treatment data for an individual one of the patients from one of the medical providers providing medical care to the individual patient during an encounter with the one medical provider claim 1 , and to output the patient treatment data for the individual patient to the one medical provider as a result of the accessing of the request.4. The medical information system of wherein the processing circuitry is configured to receive updated patient treatment data from the one medical provider for the individual patient as a result of the encounter claim 3 , to update a medical record of the individual patient in the database using the updated patient treatment data claim 3 , and to control communication of the updated patient treatment data to the one medical provider.5. The medical information system ...

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A CLINICIAN'S INTENT TO ORDER AN ITEM

Techniques for determining a clinician's intent to order an item may include processing a free-form narration, of an encounter with a patient, narrated by a clinician, using a natural language understanding engine implemented by one or more processors, to extract at least one clinical fact corresponding to a mention of an orderable item from the free-form narration. The processing may comprise distinguishing between whether the at least one clinical fact indicates an intent to order the orderable item or does not indicate an intent to order the orderable item. In response to determining that the at least one clinical fact indicates an intent to order the orderable item, an order may be generated for the orderable item. 1. A method comprising:processing a free-form narration, of an encounter with a patient, narrated by a clinician, using a natural language understanding engine implemented by one or more processors, to extract at least one clinical fact corresponding to a mention of an orderable item from the free-form narration, wherein the processing comprises distinguishing between whether the at least one clinical fact indicates an intent to order the orderable item or does not indicate an intent to order the orderable item; andin response to determining that the at least one clinical fact indicates an intent to order the orderable item, generating an order for the orderable item.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the processing comprises identifying the at least one clinical fact as corresponding to a mention of an orderable item selected from the group consisting of: a medication order claim 1 , a procedure order claim 1 , a lab order claim 1 , a diagnostic test order claim 1 , an appointment order claim 1 , a referral order claim 1 , and a communication order.3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising identifying a set of information fields needed for generating the order for the orderable item.4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising identifying one or ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING PATIENT CARE

The subject invention is a Patient Care Monitoring System which employs a novel method and system for monitoring the care provided to a patient at a health care facility. In one embodiment, the subject invention includes a central processor in communication with a health care facility's computer systems, receiving data therefrom. This data is arranged and correlated to enable the subject invention to filter through the data and detect if a particular treatment, diagnostic test, or course of action has been or is in danger of being overlooked. 1. A method of monitoring patient care comprising creating a practice guideline rule having a rule criterion a response criterion and filtering patient data with the practice guideline rules.2. The method of wherein the rule criterion includes a target drug.3. The method of wherein the rule criterion includes a target lab result.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the practice guideline rule includes an associated variable.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the practice guideline rule includes a response interval.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the filtering step includes receiving lab data.7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the filtering step includes receiving pharmacy data.8. A method of monitoring patient care comprising:creating a practice guideline rule having a rule criterion and a response criterion;receiving patient data;filtering the patient data with the practice guideline rules; anddetermining whether the rule criterion and the response criterion are satisfied.9. The method of wherein the practice guideline rule includes an associated variable claim 8 , and further comprising filtering the patient data for the associated variable.10. The method of claim 8 , and further comprising generating a reminder if a response criterion is not detected in the patient data after a predefined period of time.11. The method of claim 10 , and further comprising adjusting the predefined period of time based on the value of a lab ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTION OF CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE WITH REIMBURSEMENT POTENTIAL

A computerized Medical Information Navigation Engine (“MINE”) extracts clinical knowledge, by identifying coded elements with reimbursement potential contributing to payoff based on clinical history, and subtracting coded elements documented in an encounter from the coded elements, based on business logic. The MINE sorts the remaining coded elements in accordance with one optimization criteria to payoff based on clinical history. 1. In a Medical Information Navigation Engine (“MINE”) , a computerized method for clinical knowledge extraction , the method comprising;identifying a plurality of coded elements with reimbursement potential based on clinical history;subtracting at least one coded element from the plurality of coded elements, wherein the subtracting is based on at least one business logic;sorting a remainder of the plurality coded elements in accordance with at least one optimization criteria based on clinical history; andproviding the sorted remainder of the plurality of coded elements to a user.2. The computerized method of wherein the reimbursement potential includes at least one of contribution to payoff and previously rejected claims.3. The computerized method of wherein the rejected claims were rejected based on at least one of claim duplication claim 2 , claim invalidity and improper claim format.4. The computerized method of wherein the at least one business logic includes at least one of encounter documentation claim 1 , code hierarchy supersession and healthcare provider validation.5. The computerized method of wherein the at least one optimization criteria includes at least one of potential for payoff claim 1 , contribution to patient risk and likelihood of accuracy.6. The computerized method of wherein the potential for payoff is derived from at least one potential reimbursement value.7. The computerized method of wherein the contribution to patient risk includes at least one patient risk adjustment factor (RAF).8. The computerized method of ...

CASE SEARCH DEVICE AND METHOD

Image search conditions that are past search conditions are displayed in an image search history area, and text search conditions are displayed in a text search history area. When a user selects a desired image search condition out of the search conditions displayed in the image search history area, and selects a desired text search condition out of the search conditions displayed in the text search history area, case data that matches the selected image search condition and the text search condition is extracted from a database and displayed in a search result display area. 1. A case search device , comprising:a database which stores case data including image data and text data;an image acquiring device adapted to acquire a diagnosis target image;an area extracting device adapted to extract an area of interest from the acquired diagnosis target image;a text data acquiring device adapted to acquire text data relating to the diagnosis target image;a search device adapted to perform against the database an image search with the extracted area of interest as an image search condition and a text search with the acquired text data as a text search condition and to extract case data that matches the image search condition and the text search condition;a search result display device adapted to display the extracted case data on a display device;a search condition storing device adapted to store each of the image search condition and the text search condition; anda search history display device adapted to display each of the stored image search conditions and text search conditions on the display device so as to be specifiable by a user, whereinwhen any one of the displayed image search conditions and any one of the displayed text search conditions are specified, the search device extracts case data that matches the specified image search condition and the specified text search condition.2. The case search device according to claim 1 , whereinthe area extracting device ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CASE DATABASE

There is provided a system and method for managing a case database that can enhance the quality of information to be registered. Once a user performs an operation to request registration of a case, it is first searched whether or not a case that can be determined to be similar to the case has already been registered in a case database. A result of the search is then reported, while executable processing options determined based on the result of the search are also reported. If the case that can be determined to be similar has already been registered, the executable processing options include processing of registering as a new case, processing of registering by adding into an existing case, and processing of cancelling registration. If the case that can be determined to be similar has not been registered, the executable processing options include processing of registering as a new case and processing of cancelling registration. The user selects processing to be executed out of the reported executable processing options. Accordingly, only the cases truly needed by the user can be registered into the case database. 1. A system for managing a case database , comprising:a case database adapted to have case information, including a case image and diagnostic information on the case image, registered therein per case;a registration instructing device adapted to instruct registration of case information into the case database;a similar case search device adapted to search the case database for a case that can be determined to be similar to a case of the case information instructed to be registered by the registration instructing device;a search result reporting device adapted to report a search result by the similar case search device;an executable processing reporting device adapted to report executable processing options based on the search result by the similar case search device;an execution processing selecting device adapted to receive a selection of the executable ...

NETWORK AND METHOD FOR DATA INPUT, STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

A personal electronic carrier device (PECD) comprising means for receiving PECD data; means for storing PECD data; means for transmitting PECD data directly or indirectly PECD; and operating software means to effect the receiving, storing and transmitting the PECD data. The PECD is part of a network having a plurality of data stations and preferably a main data base. The PECD data is selected from the group consisting of medical, educational and identification data. The networks provide for the efficacious and convenient handling of data. 128.-. (canceled)29. A method for operating a personal electronic carrier device (PECD) , the method comprising:storing, on the PECD, a medical record associated with a user of the PECD, wherein the medical record comprises medical data associated with the user;receiving, from at least one data station in a plurality of data stations, station data associated with the user;determining if the stored medical record includes the received station data;in response to determining the stored medical record does not include the received station data, updating the stored medical record to include the received station data; andoperating the at least one data station to display at least a portion of the stored medical record;wherein each of the steps of receiving the station data, determining if the stored medical record includes the received station data, updating the stored medical record and operating the at least one data station to display at least a portion of the stored medical record is controlled by a processor module provided by the PECD.30. The method of further comprises claim 29 , prior to receiving station data claim 29 , authenticating a request to access the stored medical record.31. The method of claim 30 , wherein authenticating a request to access the stored medical record further comprises:receiving an authentication input;storing, on the PECD, at least one authentication identifier corresponding to the user; anddetermining ...

ASSOCIATION OF DATA ENTRIES WITH PATIENT RECORDS FOR A COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM

Apparatus and a method for associating an electronic patient record with the corresponding patient are described. A data processor accesses a patient record not associated with a unique person and compares the patient identification data to corresponding data in a known patient record to identify a set of likely matching patients. An input is provided for selecting a matching patient. Also disclosed is apparatus for providing customized patient discharge instructions relating information in the electronic patient record to patient-specific discharge instructions. A data processor inserts the patient specific instructions into draft instructions, thereby producing patient-specific discharge instructions. An updated version of charting by exception is disclosed, using macros to positively record data on a medical record that is not specifically marked on a template by the attending medical professional. Also described is an apparatus for translating a visual documentation language, communicating specific medical concepts in a highly compact form, to clinically relevant English, enhancing the usability of a pen/digital camera combination for data entry. 1. Apparatus for associating an unassociated patient record with the corresponding patient , comprising: accessing an unassociated patient record not associated with a unique person;', 'identifying at least one of direct and indirect patient identification data stored in said unassociated patient record;', 'accessing a database of at least one known patient record unambiguously associated with a known patient; and', 'comparing said direct or indirect patient identification data from said unassociated patient record to corresponding data in said known patient record to identify a set of one or more known patients that correlate with said direct or indirect patient identification data;, 'A. a data processor programmed for'}B. a display for displaying members of said set of one or more known patients; andC. a choice input ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MINING AGGREGATED CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION USING CONCEPT ASSOCIATIONS

A medical processor computes concept associations by mining aggregated data from patient documents thereby reducing risk of PHI exposure. The processor identifies clinically relevant terms in patient documents, compute associations between pairs of clinically relevant terms using co-occurrences, and filter out random associations. A knowledge provider receives user query concepts, retrieves patient concepts, and extracts relevant apixions from an association matrix. The knowledge provider intersects relevant apixions with patient concepts, ranks and provides the results to the user. 1. In a Medical Information Navigation Engine (“MINE”) , a computerized method for computing concept associations by mining patient documentation in the aggregate , the method comprising:assembling a plurality of patient documents;identifying clinically relevant terms in the plurality of patient documents;computing associations between at least one pair of clinically relevant terms using co-occurrences within at least one of the plurality of patient documents;filtering out random associations from the computed associations; andstoring the filtered computed associations.2. The method of wherein storing the filtered computed associations are stored in an association matrix.3. The method of wherein the assembling of the plurality of patient documents include aggregating patient data from the plurality of patient documents.4. The method of wherein the associations are computed using aggregate patient data from the at least one of the plurality of patient document thereby reducing risk of exposing protected health information (PHI).5. The method of wherein the filtering out of the random associations include comparing a probability of concurrent occurrences.6. The method of further comprising:receiving a plurality of query concepts from a user query;retrieving a plurality of patient concepts from at least one of the plurality of patient documents;extracting at least one relevant apixion from ...

Systems and Methods for Patient Retention in Network Through Referral Analytics

A medical information navigation engine (“MINE”) is capable of inferring referral activity not reported into a referral workflow system by utilizing intent-based clustering of medical information. The intent based clustering reconciles received medical data, from a variety of sources, and then clusters the data by applying one or more clustering rules. After the referrals not otherwise reported are inferred, they may be utilized to generate metrics that can be utilized to enhance patient care, and reduce costs. Metrics may be generated for both in-network and out-of-network referrals in order to distinguish differences in reporting activity. 1. In a medical information navigation engine (“MINE”) , a method for referral analysis , the method comprising:inferring referral activity not reported into a referral workflow system utilizing intent-based clustering of medical information;generating reporting metrics from the inferred referral activity; anddisplaying the metrics on a dashboard.2. The method of wherein the intent-based clustering of medical information further comprises:receiving medical information from a plurality of medical sources;reconciling the medical information; andclustering the reconciled medical information, wherein the clustering includes applying at least one clustering rule to the reconciled medication information.3. The method of wherein the reconciling further comprises applying at least one similarity rule.4. The method of wherein the at least one similarity rule includes comparing patient data attributes.5. The method of further comprising computing a distance between the patient data attributes and clustered reconciled medical information.6. The method of wherein if the distance is less than a threshold claim 5 , then the clustered reconciled medical information is included as a referral.7. The method of wherein the metric includes adding the inferred referral activity to reported referral activity to generate a combined referral number ...

PRESCRIPTION DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM

This invention relates to a prescription decision support system of the type comprising a set of variables and domains, a first constraint base comprising a plurality of logical statements, an Assess algorithm module and a Consistent algorithm module. The logical statements of the first constraint base specify the combination of disease states and treatments that are present that should not occur in a prescription. The prescription decision support system further comprises a second constraint base comprising a plurality of logical statements, the logical statements specifying the combination of disease states and treatments, which treatments should be present in the prescription. By providing such a system, it is possible for the prescription decision to reason about complex relationships including the presence or absence of treatments, or dosages, or the presence or absence of disease states. Furthermore, the system is responsive to the specific nature of the patient's case history. 1. A prescription decision support system comprising:a set of variables and domains, where the variables represent treatments or disease states and dosages, severity and durations;a first constraint base comprising a plurality of logical statements, where each statement is a logical combination of restrictions on values assigned to a subset of the variables from the set of variables and domains, and which specifies a combination of the presence or absence of a patient disease state and a treatment including at least one treatment that is present which should not occur in a prescription;an Assess algorithm module comprising an algorithm which takes as input a subset of variables from the set of variables and domains with assigned values representing a patient case history and prescription, and which outputs an assessment of the prescription, highlighting any element of the input which violates a constraint in the first constraint base;a Consistent algorithm module comprising an algorithm ...

CLINICAL QUALITY ANALYTICS SYSTEM

A clinical quality analytics (CQA) system includes a process map toolset, which determines a process map from a protocol for medical treatment guidelines. A mapping module maps formats electronic medical record (EMR) data, which is mapped to the process map. A measurement and evaluation module determines metrics to evaluate a quality of care associated with the protocol and determines a population of the EMR data to use for the evaluation. A CQA engine evaluates the population of EMR data for compliance with the protocol based on the metrics and the process map. 1. A clinical quality analytics (CQA) system comprising:a process map toolset to determine a process map from a protocol for medical treatment guidelines;a mapping module to format electronic medical record (EMR) data to map the formatted EMR data to the process map;a measurement and evaluation module to determine metrics to evaluate a quality of care associated with the protocol and to determine a population of the EMR data to use for the evaluation; anda CQA engine to evaluate the population of EMR data for compliance with the protocol based on the metrics and mapping of the formatted EMR data in the population to the process map.2. The CQA system of claim 1 , wherein the process map toolset is to display the process map claim 1 , and the process map toolset is to receive modifications to the displayed process map and to store the modified process map.3. The CQA system of claim 1 , wherein the process map comprises a time-based series of events determined from the protocol to render care according to the guidelines claim 1 , and the process map includes attributes for the events claim 1 , wherein the attributes include at least some of event type claim 1 , time claim 1 , location and caregiver.4. The CQA system of claim 1 , wherein the mapping module formats the EMR data by organizing the EMR data temporally to create a temporal process model claim 1 , and the mapping comprises matching information in the ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING PORTABLE HEALTH RECORDS

A system for maintaining portable health records is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of processing subsystems that have a cloud computing architecture, the plurality of processing subsystems comprising a receiving device configured to receive patient data corresponding to one or more of a plurality of patients from at least one healthcare service provider processing subsystem; and a storage module that processes the patient data to store the patient data in a layered data structure format of historical health records and socio-economic condition records. 1. A system , comprising: a receiving device configured to receive patient data corresponding to one or more of a plurality of patients from at least one healthcare service provider processing subsystem; and', 'a storage module that processes the patient data to store the patient data in a layered data structure format of historical health records and socio-economic condition records., 'a plurality of processing subsystems that have a cloud computing architecture, the plurality of processing subsystems, comprising2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of processing subsystems are configured to selectively grant accessing rights claim 1 , reviewing rights claim 1 , and updating rights to one or more of a plurality of healthcare service providers based upon a plurality of parameters.3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the plurality of parameters comprise registration of a healthcare service provider with the plurality of processing subsystems claim 2 , specialization of the healthcare service provider claim 2 , registration of the healthcare service provider as a healthcare service provider of the patient claim 2 , authorization of the healthcare service provider by the patient claim 2 , registration of the patient claim 2 , or combinations thereof.4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the layered data structure format comprises:a healthcare worker data category comprising field data and feedback data ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AND DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a timeline screen, in response to the user input, processing patient-specific data to determine one or more medical events to be graphically depicted, the one or more medical events being specific to a patient, and displaying the timeline screen on the mobile device, the timeline screen displaying a timeline associated with the patient and comprising at least a portion of the one or more medical events, each medical event comprising summary information, the one or more medical events being displayed in chronological order. 1. A computer-implemented method for providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data , the method being executed using one or more processors and comprising:receiving, by the one or more processors, user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a timeline screen;in response to the user input, processing, by the one or more processors, patient-specific data to determine one or more medical events to be graphically depicted, the one or more medical events being specific to a patient; anddisplaying the timeline screen on the mobile device, the timeline screen displaying a timeline associated with the patient and comprising at least a portion of the one or more medical events, each medical event comprising summary information, the one or more medical events being displayed in chronological order.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each medical event corresponds to an event category of a plurality of event categories.3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving patient data and/or patient information from an electronic medical record (EMR) associated with the patient claim 1 , the summary information comprising at least a portion of the patient data and/or patient information.4. The method of claim 1 , ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AND DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a waveform strip screen, in response to the user input, processing patient-specific data to provide waveform data, and displaying the waveform strip screen on the mobile device, the waveform strip screen displaying one or more waveform strips, each waveform strip of the one or more waveform strips being based on the waveform data and graphically depicting a physical waveform strip. 1. A computer-implemented method for providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data , the method being executed using one or more processors and comprising:receiving, by the one or more processors, user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a waveform strip screen;in response to the user input, processing, by the one or more processors, patient-specific data to provide waveform data; anddisplaying the waveform strip screen on the mobile device, the waveform strip screen displaying one or more waveform strips, each waveform strip of the one or more waveform strips being based on the waveform data and graphically depicting a physical waveform strip.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a waveform strip of the one or more waveform strips comprises a real-time waveform strip.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the real-time waveform strip is updated in response to patient data provided from a remote monitoring device.4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the real-time waveform strip is animated to scroll absent user input based on updates to waveform data used to provide the real-time waveform strip.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a waveform strip of the one or more waveform strips comprises a historical waveform strip.6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:receiving user input to the historical waveform strip; andin response to the user input, ...

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING POTENTIAL DEGREE OF CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION (CAC) RISK

A method of predicting a potential degree of Coronary Artery Calcification (CAC) risk includes receiving a patient's medical test data relating to CAC; determining a cluster to which the patient's medical test data belong based on an age of the patient; extracting a risk factor score including at least two Coronary Artery Calcification Scores (CACSs) from the medical test data; storing a plurality of prediction models used for predicting a potential degree of CAC risk; and predicting a potential degree of CAC risk at a specific point in time by applying a CACS growth rate of the patient's medical test data calculated using the at least two CACSs of the patient's medical test data and the extracted risk factor score to a prediction model corresponding to the determined cluster to which the patient's medical test data belong among the plurality of prediction models. 1. A method of predicting a potential degree of Coronary Artery Calcification (CAC) risk , the method comprising:receiving a patient's medical test data relating to CAC;determining a cluster to which the patient's medical test data belong based on an age of the patient;extracting a risk factor score comprising at least two Coronary Artery Calcification Scores (CACSs) from the patient's medical test data;storing a plurality of prediction models used for predicting a potential degree of CAC risk; andpredicting a potential degree of CAC risk at a specific point in time by applying a CACS growth rate of the patient's medical test data calculated using the at least two CACSs of the patient's medical test data and the extracted risk factor score to a prediction model corresponding to the determined cluster to which the patient's medical test data belong among the plurality of prediction models.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predicting of the potential degree of CAC risk comprises comparing the CACS growth rate of the patient's medical test data with an average CACS growth rate of all medical test data of ...

PULSE OXIMETERS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING DATA THEREFROM

A tele-health solution promotes patient wellness and reduces healthcare costs while improving patient compliance. To qualify for home oxygen or CPAP machines, a user must monitor their blood oxygen saturation (SpO), typically overnight. A DME provider is often used to provide the monitoring equipment, retrieve the monitoring equipment and get the data obtained to the physician. A system is discloses that allow the data obtained to be sent wirelessly, for example, via general packet radio service or the like, to a computer server that can generate the necessary report and electronic submit such report to the physician. This process can take minutes, rather than days. Moreover, the pulse oximeter can be outfitted with a good study indicator which monitors the time that data has been successfully measured by the device, allowing a determination of whether the data is adequate or if the device needs to be worn for another night. 1. A method for obtaining diagnostic medical information from a patient , comprising:delivering a medical device to a patient to obtain medical data therefrom;sending the medical data wirelessly from the medical device to a centralized data server, where the medical device periodically sends the medical data and the centralized data server compiles the medical data received;generating a report from medical data received; andelectronically transmitting the report to a physician.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the medical device is a pulse oximeter device.3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining whether the medical data has been obtained for a sufficient period of time by viewing a screen on the medical device.4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the screen shows a time over which the medical data was successfully collected by the medical device.5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the screen shows an indicator showing whether a sufficient amount of the medical data was successfully collected by the medical device.6. A pulse ...

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS EMPLOYING CONFIDENTIAL MEDICAL CONTENT

Due to the direct potential impact to patients medical training is exhaustive but also more complex individuals are unique and other sciences applying similar treatment regimens may result in radically different outcomes. Further, the tools for detailed diagnosis absent surgical intervention are complex, expensive, and require significant interpretation. Whilst establishing virtual learning environments would be beneficial in the medical field Government regulations on the privacy of confidential information conflict by restricting the distribution and use of patient medical records. Accordingly, a medical education system would beneficially integrate the different legal and medical educational requirements automatically as well as addressing other situations which are more difficult to manage when one physician contacts another seeking content for a training program. Further, it would be beneficial for such an educational content generator to provide medical professionals with the additional tools and resources to generate, manage, track and supervise the educational process. 1. A method comprising:providing a database comprising at least one patient record of a plurality of patient records, each patient record relating to an individual and a medical activity associated with the patient and containing confidential information relating to the patient;associating with each patient record of the plurality of patient records waiver information relating to a granted waiver;establishing a profile relating to an educational activity, the profile comprising attributes relating to a medical topic; andextracting a predetermined portion of the at least one patient record in dependence upon at least the patient records, the profile, and the waiver information wherein the predetermined portion is absent information identifying the patient.2. The method according to further comprising:determining a statistical significance of the at least one patient record in dependence upon at ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION ASSESSMENT

A method and system for biological information assessment receives uses a set of grouped historic medical test results to generate testing protocol recommendations medical test results for a new patient. Each medical test result represents a measured observation of a portion of a historic patient's body using a first medical testing modality. A score is generated for each of the historic patients based on the results. Based upon the generated scores, the historic patients are grouped into a set of groups corresponding to a range of assessment parameters. When a medical test result is received for a new patient, the medical test result is compared to the range of assessment parameters to determine which of the groups the new patient should be assigned. The new patient is assigned to the determined group and a recommendation for an additional medical testing protocol is generated. 1. A method , comprising:receiving, by a processing device, a new medical test result for a new patient;comparing, by the processing device, the new medical test result to a range of assessment parameters to determine to which of a plurality of patient groups the new patient should be assigned;assigning, by the processing device, the new patient to the determined group; andbased on the determined group, generating, by the processing device, a recommendation for an additional medical testing protocol for the new patient.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein comparing the new medical test result to the range of assessment parameters comprises:extracting, by the processing device, one or more new parameters from the new medical test result;calculating, by the processing device, a first score for the new patient based upon the one or more new parameters; andcomparing, by the processing device, the first score to the range of assessment parameters to determine to which of the plurality of patient groups the new patient should be assigned.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING

The present invention relates to an assessment technique which is conveniently practiced on a computer or over a network. The assessment technique is particularly useful in assessment of health related factors. The invention also relates to a general purpose programmable computer which is provided with instructions for operating according to the assessment technique. 1. A method of assessing the health status of a patient , comprising the steps of:generating a customized test having a plurality of questions for said patient in accordance with a health domain to be assessed;administering said test by providing one question at a time to said patient; andafter each question, evaluating answers provided by said patient to administered questions to estimate a score and a confidence level in the accuracy of said estimated score and dynamically modifying said test if said estimated confidence level is outside a pre-determined threshold.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of generating a report regarding the health status of said patient.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said domain is a condition experienced or perceived by said patient.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of dynamically modifying includes the step of ranking said plurality of questions in accordance with said estimated score; and selecting a question from said plurality of questions based on said ranking that has not been administered to said patient.5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the step of selecting comprises selecting a highest rank question.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of dynamically modifying includes the step of terminating said administration of said test if it is determined that said estimated confidence level is within said threshold.7. The method of claim 1 , wherein said threshold varies as a function of said estimated score.8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of generating selects said questions for said domain from a database having ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPLOADING AND AUTHENTICATING MEDICAL IMAGES

Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for securely authenticating client computing devices and receiving medical information at a medical information system are described. Patients and client computing devices associated with the patients may be enrolled with the medical information system. A client computing device may capture medical information, such as an image of a portion of the body of medical significance (for example, a wound). The client computing device may be authenticated by the medical information system by matching information in a client computing device authentication request with information in a device database accessible by the medical information system. Once authenticated, the client computing device may send an upload request to the medical information system including medical information. The medical information system may store the medical information in an associated patient profile in a patient database. 1. A system for securely receiving medical information from at least one client computing device , the system comprising:a processor; and receive at least one request from the at least one client computing device, the at least one request comprising authentication information and medical information;', 'access a device database configured to store device information associated with each client computing device enrolled with the system;', 'authenticate the at least one client computing device responsive to locating device information associated with the authentication information;', 'access a patient database responsive to authentication of the at least one client computing device, the patient database configured to store patient information associated with each patient registered with the system;', 'authenticate a patient responsive to locating an existing patient profile associated with the at least one request in the patient database; and', 'store at least a portion of the medical information in the existing patient ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE TRACKING AND DISPENSING OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION

A system is provided for tracking and dispensing of prescription medication. A secure website is provided and a data communication link to a computer at each healthcare facility and pharmacy. Prescriptions are ordered from the healthcare facility computer, after which labels with machine readable code are generated by the pharmacy computer for each prescription container. A verification table is generated of all ordered prescriptions over a predetermined time to each respective healthcare facility, a reader scans the machine readable code of each prescription container, and the pharmacy computer verifies that all ordered prescriptions are sorted for delivery. The verification table of the verified prescriptions sorted for delivery is uploaded to a database. Upon delivery at the healthcare facility, the verification table is downloaded from the database, a reader scans the machine readable code of each prescription container, and the healthcare facility computer verifies that all ordered prescriptions were received. 1. A system for tracking and dispensing of medication relating to prescriptions from a pharmacy to multiple healthcare facilities , comprising:a secure website and one or more data communication links between one or more computers at each healthcare facility and the website, and one or more data communication links between one or more computers at the pharmacy and the website, for the transfer of prescription data between the healthcare facilities and the pharmacy wherein prescriptions are ordered from the healthcare facilities via the website;a first computer at the pharmacy for generating prescription labels for medication containers in response to the prescription data received from each healthcare facility and the labels being generated having thereon machine readable code of the prescription data including a prescription number, a patient's name, the healthcare facility, an identification of a drug prescribed, and a medication dosage;wherein the ...

Method for stepwise review of patient care

A method and apparatus for managing clinical protocols and/or computer interpretable guidelines includes receiving workflow data and patient data for a plurality of patients. The workflow data includes a sequence of care steps performed on each of the patients. The patient data includes clinical data collected from each patient. The patient data as of the time each of the plurality of care steps was performed on each of the patients is tracked. Once of the previous care steps for one of the patients is selected which cause at least a portion of the sequence of care steps and the patient data as of the time of the selected care step for the selected patient to be displayed.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNDERWRITING INSURANCE POLICIES BASED ON CARDIOVASCULAR RISK

The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for providing underwriting insurance policies system on a computer system. The method comprises receiving a request from an applicant for insurance and receiving medical data of the applicant. The method further comprises denying insurance coverage if applicant has high cardiovascular risk, constructing an action plan for reducing the applicant's cardiovascular risk if applicant is denied coverage, and sending the action plan to the applicant. The system includes a tangible storage medium readable by an instruction processing system, means for receiving a request from an applicant for insurance and means for receiving medical data of the applicant. The system further includes means for denying insurance coverage if applicant has high cardiovascular risk, means for constructing an action plan for reducing the applicant's cardiovascular risk if applicant is denied coverage and means for sending the action plan to the applicant. 1. A method for delivering underwriting insurance policies embodied in a computer program product for execution on an instruction processing system , comprising a tangible storage medium readable by the instruction processing system and storing instructions for execution by the instruction processing system for performing the method comprising:receiving a request from an applicant for insurance;receiving medical data of the applicant;denying insurance coverage if applicant has high cardiovascular risk;constructing an action plan for reducing the applicant's cardiovascular risk if applicant is denied coverage; andsending the action plan to the applicant.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving medical data further comprises receiving coronary artery information.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the receiving medical data further comprises receiving carotid artery information.4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the receiving medical data further comprises ...

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 whom certain diagnoses have been made. The active guidelines feature adds an active guidelines tag to such clinical guidelines so that when the clinician accesses the clinical guidelines and wishes to follow the recommendation, the clinician merely has to click on a hypertext created from the tag which then transmits action orders, also contained in the tag, to be transmitted to the computerized patient record system for implementation. Patient data associated with the recommendations, such as relevant test or lab results, interaction or allergy information, or other current treatments, is also identified and displayed. 1. (canceled)2. In a multiple server computer system operating an electronic medical records software system including a centralized repository of patient records and order entry in a healthcare institution , a method comprising the steps ofa) providing an active guidelines server, the active guidelines server maintaining a set of clinical guidelines and a set of active guidelines tags, each of the active guidelines tags being associated with at least one of the clinical guidelines and including information usable by an electronic medical records system to generate orders and retrieve patient data relevant to the clinical guideline;b) providing an electronic medical records system including a centralized repository of patient data and an active guidelines viewer for access by a clinician, the active guidelines viewer including a web browser, an active guidelines interpreter and a URL router, the active guidelines interpreter and the URL router providing input to and monitoring output of the web browser, ...

COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING HEALTHCARE RISK INDICES USING MEDICAL CLAIMS INFORMATION

A healthcare risk index is generated using a patient or individual's medical claims. The index may be used to explain and predict variation in pharmacy-related costs and variation in total healthcare costs or utilization. In particular, one example of such a method involves first generating a medical condition score using the individual's medical information for each medical condition possessed by the individual. From there, each medical condition score is modified according to a regression coefficient, to result in one or more modified medical condition scores. Finally, the risk index may be generated by summing the medical condition scores. This risk index is indicative of at least one of the individual's medical costs, chronic medical conditions, and variation in medical costs. 1. A method comprising:determining, on a processor, in accordance with health information of an individual, a health condition indicator value reflecting that the individual has a health condition;calculating, on the processor, a health condition score by using the health condition indicator value and a regression coefficient;calculating, on the processor, a compliance medication score for a compliance medication taken by the individual based on a determination of compliance by the individual with a treatment regimen and a compliance medication weight associated with a medication class type of the compliance medication;calculating, on the processor, a risk index based on the health condition score and the compliance medication score, the risk index being indicative of healthcare costs of the individual, chronic medical conditions, variation in healthcare costs, or combinations thereof based on the health condition that is indicated as possessed by the individual; andanalyzing, on the processor, the risk index to determine a clinical case identification, disease management, prediction of concurrent and prospective healthcare related utilization, prediction of concurrent and prospective ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD DROPOFF

A digital processing device (′) has first and second independent communication links with a local medical information system () and an Internet-based electronic health record (EHR) account () of an individual, respectively. The digital processing device presents a first window (W) indicating content pertaining to the individual stored at the local medical information system and a second window (W) indicating content stored at the EHR account. A selection (D, D, S, S) of content to transfer from the EHR account of the individual to the local medical information system or vice versa is received. The selected content is transferred via one of the first or second communication link to an isolation container () at the digital processing device, and is transferred via the other of the first or second communication link from the isolation container to the destination local medical information system or EHR account. 1. A system comprising: authenticating a user as the individual or an authorized agent of the individual,', 'presenting a first window with content stored at the local medical information system, said content pertaining to the individual,', 'presenting a second window with content stored at the EHR account of the individual,', 'receiving from the authenticated user via the second window a selection of content to transfer from the EHR account of the individual to the local medical information system,', 'transferring via the second communication link the selected content from the EHR account of the individual to an isolation container at the digital processing device, and', 'transferring via the first communication link the selected content from the isolation container at the digital processing device to the local medical information system., 'a digital processing device having a first communication link with a local medical information system and a second communication link with an Internet-based electronic health record (EHR) account of an individual, the first ...

COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A PATIENT SUPPORT AND INFORMATION NETWORK

System in support of managing patient support for patients suffering from various ailments includes a computer, a processor, a memory and a display. A user interface receives patient support information and enables navigation. Modules execute to configure the processor in certain ways, including a patient profile module which defines a custom patient profile which includes personal factors that relate to at least one ailment, a patient similarity module which processes and organizes the patient profiles within ailment classes by weighing the personal factors and calculating a degree of a similarity between the patient profile and other patient profiles within the same ailment class. A first content module provides an output to users in which content is displayed in order of a similarity between the patient profile and the other patient profiles in the same ailment class. Further modules can be provided to track content-viewing tendencies and assess users' ailment concerns. 1. A computer-based system for managing a patient support and information network for patients suffering from various ailments comprising:a computer system having a processor and a memory;a user interface configured to receive input from a user and enable navigation through the network, the user input including patient support information storable in the memory and displayable on command to the user;a patient profile module executing in the processor and configuring the processor to define a custom patient profile using the user interface, the patient profile being stored in the memory, wherein the patient profile includes personal factors that relate to at least one ailment from which the user suffers;a patient similarity module executing in the processor and configuring the processor to process the stored patient profiles based on the at least one ailment, the patient similarity module further configuring the processor to organize the patient profile within each ailment class by weighing the ...

Medical information management system and management apparatus

In a monitor device, an input unit inputs patient identification information, an information acquiring unit acquires state information on a state of a patient, and a transmission unit transmits the patient identification information and the state information to a management apparatus. In the management apparatus, biological information acquiring unit acquires the patient identification information, the state information, and identification information on the monitor device. A determination unit determines, when the acquired patient identification information and that stored in a storage device match each other, whether the acquired device identification information and the device identification information mapped to the location information stored in the storage device are the same as each other. When they are the same as each other, a storage management unit stores the acquired state information by associating it with the patient identification information stored in the storage device.

Downloadable datasets for a patient monitoring system

In general, this disclosure describes techniques for remotely monitoring the health of an ambulatory patient. As described herein, an ambulatory patient may interact with a monitoring device that is located at the patient's home. The monitoring device may ask the patient to provide responses to health-related questions or requests for physiological characteristics and may upload the responses. A health care professional may then use the responses to evaluate the health of the patient. A set of firmware instructions stored on the monitoring device may cause the monitoring device to perform these functions. The monitoring device may download a prompt that is associated with at least one instruction in the set of firmware instructions. The prompt may cause the patient monitoring device to execute the at least one instruction in the set of firmware instructions to gather information relating to a patient.

Physician and clinical documentation specialist workflow integration

A medical documentation system and a CDI system may be linked together, or integrated, so there is a tie between the two systems that allows for a much more efficient and effective CDI process. In one disclosed embodiment, a medical documentation system transmits to a CDI system a structured data set including at least some information relating to one or more medical facts the medical documentation system automatically extracted from text documenting a patient encounter.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL CAREGIVER AND EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT PATIENT CARE

A medical device and caretaking management system () includes a plurality of medical devices () that transmit equipment data and patient data. A central or distributed monitoring system () receives the equipment data and patient data from the plurality of medical devices, derives an acuity for each of the patients, and assigns caregivers and equipment based on the derived acuity for display on a display device (). 1. A medical device and caretaking management system , the system comprising:a central or distributed monitoring station that receives the equipment data and patient data from a plurality of medical devices and assigns caregivers based on the equipment data and patient data and/or preprocessed patient status.2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the central or distributed monitoring station derives an acuity and/or patient deterioration for each of a plurality of patients based on patient data and equipment data received from each patient and dynamically changes caregiver assignments based on the derived acuities.3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the central or distributed monitoring system further includes a equipment manager which updates the assignment of the medical devices after being transferred or moved to a new bed or unit.4. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the central or distributed monitoring station includes an administration manager which compares the assignment of the medical devices determine and resolve patient conflicts.5. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the equipment data includes at a location and destination the medical device claim 1 , a identification of the medical device claim 1 , patient assignment of the medical device claim 1 , usage of the medical device claim 1 , state of the medical device claim 1 , a device group claim 1 , and a device pool.6. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the patient data includes at least one of physiological data claim 1 , patient alarms or events claim 1 , ...

Managing Secure Sharing of Private Medication Information Across Security Domains

A method of granting a user in a first organization access to private medication information stored within an authorization profile of a second organization, an access agreement between the two organizations is formed. Authorization is requested for the user, the authorization profile is retrieved, and authorization to private information is granted if authorized by the access agreement. 144-. (canceled)45. A method of sharing medication information among at least a first organization and a second organization , the method comprising:(a) receiving by one or more physical nodes a first request for authorization for a user in the first organization to access one or more individual's medication information in the second organization, wherein the first organization is associated with a first security domain, the second organization is associated with a second security domain, the second organization has an access profile associated with the first security domain, the user is associated with one or more roles and one or more caseloads each of the one or more individual's medication information in the second organization has at least one type, the one or more roles includes access privilege information for one or more users, and the one or more caseloads includes access privilege information for at least one individual or medical services program;(b) logging by the one or more physical nodes, in an activity log associated with at least the first organization or the second organization, the user's first request for authorization for the user in the first organization to access the individual's medication information in the second organization;(c) determining by the one or more physical nodes whether the user in the first organization is authorized to access the one or more individual's medication information in the second organization, wherein the determination is based on at least the access profile, the one or more caseloads and the one or more roles associated with the ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING HEALTH RISKS

A method and system for tracking health care metrics over time is disclosed which involves aggregating health related data via computer in a common computer database, de-identifying persons in the data in the database to remove personally identifiable information (PII) and personal Health information (PHI), matching de-identified persons with the related data, analyzing the matched de-identified persons and related data to generate populations utilizing risk, condition, and appropriateness of care algorithms, stratifying the population into predefined groups, identifying opportunities for health improvement, disseminating the opportunities to the persons in the groups; and tracking the groups over time to ascertain success of the opportunities disseminated. 1. A method of tracking health care metrics over time comprising:aggregating health related data via computer in a common computer database;de-identifying persons in the data in the database to remove personally identifiable information (PII) and personal Health information (PHI);matching de-identified persons with the related data;analyzing the matched de-identified persons and related data to generate populations utilizing risk, condition, and appropriateness of care algorithms,stratifying the population into predefined groups,identifying opportunities for health improvement; anddisseminating the opportunities to the persons in the groups; andtracking the groups over time to ascertain success of the opportunities disseminated.2. The method according to wherein aggregating health related data comprises collecting data from patients claim 1 , medical insurance carriers claim 1 , medical and dental service providers claim 1 , hospitals and pharmacies.3. A method comprising:aggregating, utilizing a computing device having a processor operably connected to a database, health care related data associated with patients from sources selected from the group consisting of health insurance carriers, medical providers, ...

System for Identifying and Delivering Services for Delivery to Pharmacy Patients

A computer system ( 10 ) for identifying and delivering services to patients of a pharmacy includes: an information module ( 20 ) for obtaining and storing information about a pharmacy patient; an electronic processing tool ( 22 ) for processing said patient information from the information module ( 20 ) and identifying at least one pharmacy related service program for delivery to a patient qualified for the service program based on said processed patient information; an advisory tool ( 26 ) enabling a pharmacy to advise a patient of said identified service program for said qualified patient as identified by said electronic processing tool ( 22 ); and a service delivery module ( 40 ) for delivering said at least one identified service program to said qualified patient by use of a plug-in application ( 31 - 34 ) corresponding with said identified service program.

HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD

A health information exchange (HIE) system and related methods for sharing patient medical data among a plurality of users. In one embodiment, the HIE system includes a processor executing a software application and one or more databases. Medical data may be downloaded by a first user to the system in a source file format. The system converts and stores the medical data in a data record such as an object having a different type of data structure. Upon receiving a request from a second user for the medical data in a specified destination file format, the system retrieves and converts the object containing the medical data into the specified destination file format, and sends the destination file to the second user. The source and destination file formats may be the same or different. In one embodiment, users may access and communicate with the HIE system via the Internet. 1. A computer processor implemented method for exchanging patient medical data , the method comprising:a processor of a health information exchange system receiving a first medical data file containing medical data in a first file format;the processor automatically retrieving a conversion algorithm operable to convert the first medical data ilk into a medical object;the processor converting the first medical data file into the medical object using the conversion algorithm to deconstruct the first file format and extract file information from the first medical data file, the extracted information then being reorganized into the medical object having a format different than the first file format; andthe processor storing the medical object in a database.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the conversion algorithm is a file-to-object conversion algorithm.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the algorithm retrieving step further includes:the processor identifying the first file format;the processor sending a request for the conversion algorithm based on the first file format to a file exchange service;the ...

Patient care systems and methods

Systems, method, and computer program products are provided for a patient care application. The patient care application provides for a personal reference list for patients, and healthcare providers alike. According to specific embodiments, the patient care application aids in facilitating communication between ambulatory and inpatient care settings such that a patient can track their physician and/or healthcare specialist visits and hospital admissions/discharge history via a mobile device. Likewise, a physician or healthcare professional may access patient demographics, insurance information, and healthcare admission/discharge history via the mobile device. Furthermore, the patient care application allows a physician or healthcare professional to receive or submit information pertaining to the admission of a patient via the mobile device.

Methods for Selecting Medications

The invention provides a computer program product for selecting and administering a psychotropic medication for a patient. The computer program product utilizes a combination of genotype and phenotype information to provide the user with accurate guidance regarding the appropriate medication and its use. 147-. (canceled)48. A computer program product containing executable instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform operations comprising: (a) a cytochrome P450 CYP2D6 gene consisting of two alleles independently selected from the group consisting of fully functional alleles 2D6*1A, *2, *2N, and *35, partially functional alleles 2D6*10 and *17, and non-functional alleles 2D6*3, *4, *5, *6, *7, *8, and *12,', '(b) a cytochrome P450 CYP2C19 gene consisting of two alleles independently selected from the group consisting of fully functional alleles 2C19*1A and *1B, and non-functional alleles 2C19*2A, *2B, *3, *4, *5A, *5B, *6, *7 and *8, and', '(c) a serotonin transporter gene 5HTTR consisting of two alleles independently selected from the short (s) and long (l) forms of the 5HTTR gene;, '(1) receiving a plurality of genotypes for a panel of genes, wherein said panel of genes comprises the following(2) receiving a plurality of metabolic phenotypes based on the genotypes of the cytochrome P450 genes in (1), wherein the metabolic phenotype is selected from poor (P), intermediate (I), and extensive (E), andsaid phenotypes are assigned based upon the number of functional alleles for each cytochrome P450 gene as follows: P=no fully functional alleles and either one or no partially functional alleles, I=either one fully functional allele and a non-functional allele or two partially functional alleles, and E=either one fully functional allele and one partially functional allele or two fully functional alleles;(3) receiving a plurality of medication profiles, wherein said profiles are specified based on the genotypes and phenotypes in (1) and (2) and wherein said ...

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INTERACTION-BASED SERVICES

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a syntactic component for retrieving records corresponding to an individual and analyzing the records to assess a condition for the individual; a user interface for capturing interaction data that is associated with an encounter between the individual and a service provider; and a semantic component for comparing the interaction data to interaction criteria, where an action plan for the individual is generated based at least in part on the assessed condition and the comparison of the interaction data to the interaction criteria. Other embodiments are disclosed. 1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for managing healthcare , the storage medium being embedded with computer instructions for:retrieving medical records corresponding to a patient;analyzing the medical records to assess a health risk for the patient;receiving interaction data, wherein the interaction data is derived, at least in part, from a recording of a live encounter between the patient and a nurse, wherein the interaction data comprises the patient's expression of needs with respect to at least human interaction and the nurse's expression of caring for the patient with respect to the patient's expression of needs;comparing the interaction data to interaction criteria; anddetermining a healthcare plan for the patient based at least in part on the assessed health risk and the comparison of the interaction data to the interaction criteria.2. The storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising computer instructions for assembling the interaction data claim 1 ,wherein the assembling comprising receiving a speech input from the recording, converting the speech input into text, and adding the text to the interaction data, andwherein the comparing comprises applying a natural language process to classify and compare the interaction data to the interaction criteria.3. The storage medium of claim 1 , wherein ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING PATIENTS

A system and method for monitoring multiple patients. The system includes one or more processors for receiving multiple health parameters associated with each patient and parameter values associated with the health parameters. The processors classify each patient in a clinical category of multiple clinical categories based on the health parameters. Each clinical category indicates a criticality level associated with a health condition of a patient. The processors also present health profiles of the patients based on a clinical category associated with each patient in a user interface for monitoring each patient. The health profiles indicate the parameter values associated with the health parameters. The plurality of clinical categories and the plurality of health parameters are stored in a memory. 1. A system for monitoring a plurality of patients , the system comprising: receive a plurality of health parameters associated with each patient and parameter values associated with the plurality of health parameters;', 'classify each patient in a clinical category of a plurality of clinical categories based on the plurality of health parameters, wherein each clinical category indicates a criticality level associated with a health condition of a patient; and', 'present health profiles of the plurality of patients based on the clinical category associated with each patient in a user interface for monitoring each patient, wherein the health profiles indicate the parameter values associated with the plurality of health parameters., 'at least one processor configured to2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to define the plurality of clinical categories claim 1 , wherein each clinical category is associated with at least one health parameter of a set of health parameters and a threshold parameter value associated with each health parameter of the set of health parameters.3. The system of further comprising at least one memory ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING PATIENT ADHERENCE TO MEDICATION TREATMENT REGIMENS

A system and method for increasing patient adherence to following medication treatment regimens. An adherence data processing and communication system generates and displays medication adherence data based on historical medication information. The system is linked to other systems involved with electronic ordering and filling of prescriptions, such as electronic prescription and pharmacy systems all connected by suitable wired and/or wireless communication protocols including the Internet. In one embodiment, the adherence data is displayed in the form of an interactive report card which provides a user with adherence metrics in both summary and more detailed formats for prescription medications taken by the patient. A related method executed by the data processing and communication system is disclosed. 1. A computer processor implemented method for generating and displaying patient medication adherence information in a graphical user interface , the method comprising:selecting a patient in a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a user selectable dynamic icon;the processor retrieving patient medication adherence data for at least one medication by selecting the patient, the patient medication adherence data having a numeric value; anddisplaying the patient medication adherence data.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising a step of the processor changing appearance of the dynamic icon dependent upon the numeric value of the patient medication adherence data.35-. (canceled)6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the processor calculates the patient medication adherence data based on the medication history of the patient.7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the patient medication adherence data is selected from the group consisting of medication adherence rate claim 1 , medication persistency rate claim 1 , and first fill compliance.8. (canceled)9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying as report card summary field including an ...

Generation and Data Management of a Medical Study Using Instruments in an Integrated Media and Medical System

In general, a computer-implemented method is described for retrieving by one or more computers an appointment schedule associated with a physician, the appointment schedule including one or more names of patients scheduled for a medical visit with the physician, receiving a first request to view appointment information for a selected patient, retrieving by one or more computers a first list comprising instruments completed 160 by the selected patient, and receiving a second request to send one or more instruments completed by the selected patient to the physician. 1. A computer-implemented method comprising:tracking, by one or more computers, a patient's medical appointment with a physician; accessing, in a data repository, information indicative of one or more medical studies associated with the physician;', 'identifying, by the one or more computers and based on the accessed information, that the patient possesses criteria associated with at least one of the one or more medical studies associated with the physician; and', 'adding the determined at least one of the one or more medical studies to a list of medical studies that the physician requires the patient to complete prior to the medical appointment;, "prior to the patient's medical appointment with the physician,"}receiving by the one or more computers one or more responses to questions included in the at least one of the one or more medical studies added to the list;applying, by the one or more computers, one or more medical assessments rules to the one or more responses; anddetermining, by the one or more computers based on application of the one or more medical assessment rules, at least one of diagnosis information, treatment information and medication information for the patient2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:generating by the one or more computers data for a graphical user interface that when rendered on a display device comprises:a plurality of visual representations ...

Methods, systems, and devices for managing transfer of medical files

The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for managing, transferring, modifying, converting and/or tracking medical files and/or medical system messages. In certain embodiments, the foregoing may generally be based on requesting medical files at a first medical facility, identifying the requested medical files at a second medical facility, initiating a secure network connection between the first and second medical facility, modifying a header portion of the medical files based on patient identification information created by the first medical facility, and other processing steps.

METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ASSOCIATE PATIENTS WITH PATIENT DATA

A method and information system to support the association of a patient with a patient data set at at least one computer, a photograph of the patient is obtained and stored in a manner that links the photograph with the patient data set. Upon at least one, and preferably at every, treatment requiring the presence of the patient, the photograph of the patient is visually presented at a display device that is in the field of view of a person implementing or supervising the treatment. 1. A method to support association of a patient with patient data of the patient comprising:obtaining a photograph of a patient and storing said photograph linked with an electronic patient data set of the patient; andupon implementation of at least one medical treatment requiring a presence of the patient, automatically causing said photograph of the patient to be displayed at a display device within a field of view of a person participating in implementation of the treatment on the patient.2. A method as claimed in wherein said treatment comprises a workflow composed of multiple treatment steps claim 1 , and deriving presence information from said photograph and requiring said presence information upon implementation of any of said multiple steps requiring the presence of the patient.3. A method as claimed in comprising allowing computerized access to said patient data set and automatically displaying said photograph of the patient of a display of every computer that accesses said patient data set.4. A method as claimed in comprising selecting said treatment requiring the presence of the patient from the group consisting of registration of the patient at a treatment facility claim 1 , acquiring a medical image from the patient with a medical image acquisition device claim 1 , and a diagnostic finding communication appointment.5. A method as claimed in comprising displaying said photograph at said computer together with at least a portion of data in said patient data set.6. A method as ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING PATIENT INFORMATION

A system for conveying patient information is configured to receive data related to a patient, and convert the data into event-driven messages for transmission to communication devices carried by physicians and others. 1a data interface configured to receive first data messages including patient information;a data-aware interface engine operatively coupled to the data interface and configured to extract the patient information from the first data messages; anda message server operatively coupled to the data-aware interface engine and configured to selectively output second data messages carrying at least a portion of the patient information or an indication of the patient information to a plurality of communication devices.. A system for conveying patient information, comprising: The instant application is a Continuation of copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/096,818, filed Apr. 28, 2011; which application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/329,045, filed Apr. 28, 2010, now expired. All of the foregoing applications are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.Delivering efficient and effective treatment to patients frequently requires clear and rapid communication between one or more physicians, nurses, hospital admissions personnel, pharmacy, and one or more diagnostic test facilities. A primary vehicle for accumulating and maintaining records and for communication is the patient record. In today's hospitals and other care environments, patient records are frequently maintained in one or more computer databases.Typically, computer databases are organized along the lines of traditional paper patient records. Unfortunately, this does not inherently provide patient information on an event-driven basis. That is, a physician or other caregiver must open the patient record to see events such as admissions, physician's orders, laboratory results, etc. relevant to the patient. This may result in delays of information ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PERSONAL/INDIVIDUAL HEALTH RECORDS

A system and method for generating and/or updating a personal/individual health record. Inputs of data to the system may come from diverse sources including, but not limited to, patient questionnaires, insurance company (or other payor) claims data, hospitals, clinics and other institutional providers, and individual physicians and physicians' offices. 1. A message facility on a PHR server configured to establish a secure connection with a first set of computer systems of multiple health care providers of a patient , wherein the messaging facility is adapted to obtain electronic health care data of the patient from the first set of computer systems of the multiple health care providers , wherein the patient is identified in the electronic health care data using a master patient identification that is unique to the patient across the multiple health care providers , wherein the master patient identification is not a social security number;a PHR population engine on the PHR server configured to communicate with a second computer system using the master patient identification to obtain claims data of the patient, wherein the PHR population engine is configured to extract encounter data indicative of an encounter between the patient and at least one of the multiple health care providers from the claims data, wherein the encounter data is extracted from the claims data of the patient including an International Classification of Diseases (“ICD”) code which is translated to express a description of a diagnosis and a Current Procedural Terminology (“CPT”) code which is translated to express a description of a nature of the encounter;wherein the PHR population engine is configured to assemble a personal/individual/electronic health record of the patient keyed to the master patient identification based on both the electronic health care data received from the messaging facility and encounter data extracted from the claims data; anda web based portal configured to provide at ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT

Certain examples provide system and methods for population health management. An example population health management system includes an information exchange platform, a knowledge platform, application(s), and a user portal. The example information exchange platform is to share of information for patients and providers in a selected population. The example information exchange platform is to collect and transform the information into an accessible, sharable format. The example knowledge platform is to derive insight from the collected and transformed information. The example knowledge platform is to facilitate application of one or more analytics and rules-based workflows to the collected and transformed information to derive insight. The example application(s) are to coordinate communication and care collaboration across the selection population based on the insight and information. The example user portal is to provide a unified interface to enable access to the application(s), knowledge platform, and information for the selected population. 1. A population health management system comprising:an information exchange platform to share of information for patients and providers in a selected population, the information exchange platform to collect and transform the information into an accessible, sharable format;a knowledge platform to derive insight from the collected and transformed information, the knowledge platform to facilitate application of one or more analytics and rules-based workflows to the collected and transformed information to derive insight;one or more applications to coordinate communication and care collaboration across the selection population based on the insight and information; anda user portal to provide a unified interface to enable access to the one or more applications, knowledge platform, and information for the selected population.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the information exchange platform comprises one or more of a data and ...

REFERRAL SYSTEM FOR PATIENT CARE PROVIDER

A system for managing patient care provider referral. The system includes a database which includes records for a plurality of patient care providers. The system also includes a processor, and a memory storing software executable by the processor. The software includes a lookup tool configured to retrieve patient care provider records from the database, and a transaction processing tool configured to enable a referring patient care provider to select a referred patient care provider for a patient based on the retrieved records. The system can further include an electronic health record (EHR) tracker configured to track updates to an EHR of the patient, as well as a survey tool configured to collect feedback from the patient regarding the referred patient care provider. Methods associated with the system and the various tools are also disclosed. 1. A system for managing patient care provider referral , comprising:a database comprising records for a plurality of patient care providers;a processor; a lookup tool configured to retrieve one or more records of the plurality of patient care providers from the database; and', 'a transaction processing tool configured to enable a referring patient care provider to select a referred patient care provider for a patient based on the one or more records of the patient care providers retrieved from the database., 'a memory operably coupled to the processor and storing software executable the processor, the software including2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the lookup tool is further configured to present a user interface on a computing device that allows the referring patient care provider to input search criteria to perform a search query to retrieve one or more records of the patient care providers from the database that satisfy the search criteria.3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the transaction processing tool is further configured to send a referral notice to at least one of the referring patient care provider claim 1 , ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS MOBILE MANAGEMENT

A system for health and wellness mobile management comprises a database operable to store a health and wellness data record associated with a patient/data owner, a content management system adapted to strictly control access to the health and wellness data record stored in the database according to access rules set by the patient, a web interface adapted to interface with information requesters submitting requests for access to the health and wellness data record via a web application, an external connect interface adapted to interface with external systems and applications for receiving health and wellness data associated with the patient, a prescription interface adapted to receive a pharmaceutical prescription for the patient submitted by a healthcare provider, and a patient identification accessory adapted to uniquely identify the patient as the data owner of the health and wellness data record stored in the database. 1. A system for health and wellness mobile management , comprising:a database operable to store a health and wellness data record associated with a patient who is the owner of the data, the health and wellness data selected from the group consisting of medicines, supplements, medical history, compliance data, reminders, ineffective medicine, side effects, healthcare provider data, pharmacies, allergies, vaccination record, lifestyle data, exercise data, dietary data, legal documents, medical charts, laboratory data, imaging data, emergency contact data, and insurance data;a data management system adapted to strictly control access to the health and wellness data record stored in the database according to access rules set by the patient;a web interface adapted to interface with information requesters submitting requests for access to the health and wellness data record via a web application, the information requesters submitting identification information and authorization granted by the patient;an external connect interface adapted to interface ...

METHOD FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS UTILIZING PORTABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT

Mobile clinicians conduct in-home patient visits utilizing on-site diagnostic and treatment equipment, where service is enhanced by the use of portable computing and communications equipment. A mobile care entity provides mobile clinicians preprogrammed portable computers. Each portable computer updates patient data in the local storage utilizing a wireless communications device to download updates from a central storage facility. The entity selects a mobile clinician and dispatches him/her to the patient's premises. The clinician visits the patient's premises accompanied by an assortment of electronic diagnostic and treatment devices. The mobile clinician utilizes various diagnostic devices to prepare machine-readable reports of related aspects of the patient's condition. The clinician directs the portable computer to perform follow-up tasks including: (1) electronically collecting the prepared reports and graphically presenting them in human-readable form, (2) storing a machine-readable medical record, and (3) utilizing the wireless device to transmit the reports and records. 1. A method of providing an electronic medical record for facilitating treatment of a given patient , comprising:wirelessly transmitting from a remote central storage facility to one of a plurality of portable computers a sufficiently complete electronic medical record for the given patient to enable a mobile to treat the given patient;storing the transmitted sufficiently complete electronic medical record in a local storage in the selected portable computer;transporting the selected portable computer storing the sufficiently complete electronic medical record to the given patient's location by the mobile;wirelessly transmitting patient information from at least one on-site medical care device directly to the selected portable computer at the given patient's location;storing the transmitted patient information in the local storage of the selected portable computer;wirelessly transmitting the ...

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR PREDICTIVE DISCHARGE PLANNING

A system and method for patient discharge planning. The system and method include evaluating a patient record including patient data parameters of a patient, predicting a change in the patient record for all possible treatment options, generating a discharge recommendation based on at least one of the patient record and the predicted change in the patient record and displaying the discharge recommendation to a user. 1. A method of patient discharge planning , comprising:evaluating, a processor, a patient record including patient data parameters of a patient;determining, by the processor, a set criteria as a function of the patient data parameters; predicting, by the processor, a change in the patient record for all possible treatment options;determining, by the processor, a discharge score as a function of the discharge criteria;generating, by the processor, a discharge recommendation based on the discharge score; anddisplaying, by a display the discharge recommendation to a user,wherein the discharge recommendation includes one of (i) a first recommendation to discharge the patient if the discharge score exceeds a predetermined thereshold and (ii) a recommendation not to discharge the patient if the discharge score is below the predetermined threshold.2. (canceled)3. The method of claim 1 , wherein evaluating the patient record includes:identifying the patient data parameters of the patient record that are required for determining whether the patient is ready for discharge;determining whether any of the identified patient data parameters are missing a value and requesting the missing value; andquantifying values of the identified patient data parameters with respect to one of predetermined and patient-specific thresholds.4. The method of claim 3 , wherein evaluating the patient record further includes calculating a flag for the identified patient data parameters claim 3 , the flag indicating whether a value of the patient data parameter is in a normal claim 3 , ...

SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION, MANAGEMENT AND DISPLAY

A method and system for collecting, protecting, pre-processing, storing, sorting, filtering and accessing with granular control of permissions, medical data associated with one or more individual patients, practitioners, suppliers or research facilities taking into account the interrelationships between and among all the data and the participants and then displaying this data in dynamically generated low-latency fashion to any of the above participants and enabling the use of real time epidemiological data to make medical and lifestyle decisions. 1. An epidemiological data management system , comprising:(a) a database configured for storing medical data relating to a plurality of individuals;(b) a user interface coupled to the database;(c) one or more client nodes coupled to the database;(d) the one or more client nodes configured for transmitting data to and receiving data from the database;(e) a processor; and (i) generating a query of the stored medical data from the user interface via a user-controlled interface;', '(ii) wherein the query comprises a lens and a target; and', '(iii) wherein the lens comprises an entity within the medical data from which a relationship is perceived and the target comprises one or more factor characteristics to be evaluated;', '(iv) filtering a scope of the lens to match the target to limit the query to on or more factors that may be relevant to the target;', '(v) transmitting the query to search the database;', '(vi) returning data relating to the query; and', '(vii) displaying said returned data., '(f) programming executable on the processor and configured for2. A system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the query is encrypted prior to transmission.3. A system as recited in claim 1 , wherein each node is encrypted such that only users with the appropriate permissions can traverse between nodes.4. A system as recited in :wherein one or more functions are applied to dictate said permissions; andwherein said functions are operated in ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATING AND MONITORING HOME HEALTH INTERACTIONS

A system uses a multi-pass authentication method to authenticate the presence of a health care provider co-located with an assigned patient at a specific time and in a specific place that includes a data reader and transmitter with particular capabilities held by the health care provider, a token held by the patient, and a back-end database and internet-based interface. The system includes an object that includes a wirelessly detectable patient identification (ID) and an electronic device. The electronic device includes a provider ID and is configured to receive the patient ID from the object, retrieve, from a database, healthcare intervention data. The electronic device selectively locks and unlocks access to clinical data recording functions of the electronic device based on the healthcare intervention data. 1. A method performed by an electronic device , the method comprising:receiving, by a provider electronic device having an associated provider identification (ID), a patient ID from a wireless identification enabled object;retrieving, from a database, healthcare intervention data that includes an expected patient ID and an expected provider ID for a scheduled healthcare intervention to be performed on a patient associated;determining whether the received patient ID matches the expected patient ID and whether the device's associated provider ID matches the expected provider ID; engaging a lock on the electronic device that prevents the recording of clinical data;', 'generating an exception report; and', 'generating a message that informs a third party of the exception report; and, "if either the received patient ID does not match the expected patient ID or the device's associated provider ID does not match the expected provider ID:"}only if the received patient ID matches the expected patient ID and the device's associated provider ID d matches the expected provider ID, disengaging the lock on the electronic device to permit the recording of clinical data.2. ...

Systems and Methods for National Registry Data Collection as Patient Care is Conducted

A user interface is provided that requests clinical note data from a healthcare provider as a patient is being seen by the healthcare provider. The clinical note data requested includes data needed to populate one or more variables of one or more national registries and data needed to populate a clinical note medical record of an existing electronic medical records system. The clinical note data entered by the healthcare provider for the patient is received from the user interface. Automatically and at substantially the same time, the entered clinical note data needed to populate a clinical note medical record of an existing EMR system for the patient is stored in the existing EMR system, and the entered clinical note data needed to populate one or more variables for the patient for the one or more national registries is stored in a database. 1. A system for collecting national registry data in conjunction with an existing electronic medical records system as patient care is conducted , comprising:a database that stores a plurality of variables per patient for one or more national registries; and in order to simultaneously collect data required to populate one or more variables of one or more national registries and data needed to populate a clinical note medical record of an existing electronic medical records system as a patient is being seen by a healthcare provider in a procedural area of a healthcare facility, provides a user interface that requests clinical note data from the healthcare provider and displays on the user interface at the same time both the data required to populate one or more variables of the one or more national registries and the data needed to populate a clinical note medical record of an existing electronic medical records system, wherein the data required to populate one or more variables of the one or more national registries is pre-determined based on the procedural area,', 'receives the clinical note data entered by the healthcare ...