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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130729 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATION OF EXAM RECORD UPDATES AND RELEVANCE An example method includes receiving an update message regarding a first exam record; updating the first exam record based on the message; matching one or more additional exam records to the first exam record based on one or more predefined exam attributes; selecting on... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130734 | MEDICAL DATA AND MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM INTEGRATION AND COMMUNICATION A computing device configured for integrating applications for medical data processing is described. The computing device includes a processor and executable instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The computing device embed... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130730 | MULTI-DEPARTMENT HEALTHCARE REAL-TIME DASHBOARD An example operation metrics collection and processing system is to mine a data set including patient and exam workflow data from information source(s) according to an operational metric for a workflow of interest. The method includes mining a data set for information r... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130739 | Unsupervised Telemedical Office for Remote &/or Autonomous & Automated Medical Care of Patients Methods and systems creating Telemedical offices to remotely &/or automatically perform patient identification & intake, vitals measuring & recording, symptom reporting, live & delayed consultation by medical professionals, various and unlimited outpatie... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130308 | USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES A method and apparatus is disclosed for operating a medical device with a screen having an improved graphical user interface, which selectively reallocates screen display for both single and multi-channel pumps. Channel indicators associate operation information with a ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130735 | DRUG, TEST AND DEVICE CENTRIC CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT, ANALYTIC AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Disclosed is a system for communicating information relating to the utilization of drugs, tests and devices to diagnose and treat disease which comprises a user interface, a data processor, a hard drive, a modem, a first module for screening clinical and laboratory data... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130732 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATION OF PERSONALIZED HEALTH PLANS Personalized, health and performance programs are generated for individuals based on various biomarkers and performance and lifestyle assessments. In one embodiment, a diagnostic test of blood or other biological specimen(s) is used to determine key biological marker le... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130736 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS INVOLVING PHYSICIAN PAYMENT DATA Methods and systems of managing physician payment data (PPD) may involve a data compilation system for compiling physician payment data from multiple sources; a data processing system for processing the compiled physician payment data; a data management system for creat... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130737 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRUBUTOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS In various embodiments, a research and development system that gathers feedback from patients and healthcare providers with respect to the their experience with various aspects of a supplier's products in order to tabulate, consolidate, compare and analyze the data rece... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130738 | System Management Dashboard A system and method for acquiring, compiling and displaying data indicative of healthcare data workflow within an integrated healthcare enterprise simplifies the monitoring and identification of inefficiencies such as bottlenecks in the enterprise. Information gathered ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130731 | SCHEDULED FUNDS TRANSFER PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS The SCHEDULED FUNDS TRANSFER PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (hereinafter “SFT PLATFORM”) transforms user account information, fund transfer configuration inputs via SFT PLATFORM components into fund transfer transaction record and fund transfer to a trans... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130728 | SEMANTICALLY ENABLED, DATA SENSITIVE NEGOTIATION AND COLLABORATION ENGINE A computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program product facilitates fulfillment of a term of a contract between a healthcare provider and a healthcare authorizer. A healthcare provider profile that describes a first set of business priorities for a health... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130733 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING VALUE-BASED INSURANCE DESIGN AND BENEFITS Systems and methods for the cost-effective implementation of health care. Systems and methods are provided whereby subscribers to a health plan, upon qualification, may participate in health plan administrations that utilize evidence-based approaches to improve both emp... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109681 | Method of Increasing Efficiency in a Medical Claim Transaction, and Computer Program Capable of Executing Same A method of adjudicating a medical claim includes providing a requirements for a first claim and a second claim, receiving a medical claim for a medical procedure, setting a first score for the first claim and a second score for the second claim to an initial value, com... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109679 | CONSUMER PORTAL FOR HEALTHCARE APPOINTMENTS ACROSS PRACTICE GROUPS Systems and methods for aggregating available healthcare appointment times across multiple unaffiliated practitioner groups, including search and display algorithms. A centralized marketplace is provided for real time booking of healthcare appointments which does not re... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109682 | CLOSED LOOP WORKFLOW A system includes an orchestrator (114) with a processor (116) and a plurality of processing actors (102) in communication therewith. The processor (116) orchestrates closed-loop implementation of a healthcare imaging workflow plan by the plu... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109680 | METHOD FOR ENSURING ACCURACY OF HEALTHCARE PATIENT DATA DURING PATIENT REGISTRATION PROCESS A method of ensuring accuracy of healthcare patient data entered into a primary computer system by a user during patient registration. Healthcare patient data for a patient entered into the primary computer system is electronically received. The received healthcare pati... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A PROSPECTIVE CLINICAL THERAPY FOR A PROSPECTIVE PATIENT HAVING A MEDICAL DEVICE System and method for identifying a prospective clinical therapy for a prospective patient. The patient has a medical device, performed with a medical apparatus. The system has a historical database and an analyzer. The historical database incorporates information relat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109676 | MULTIUSER HEALTH MONITORING USING BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION A device, system and method for multiuser health monitoring includes a computer, a biometric sensor for sensing a unique trait of a user, and at least one measurement device for measuring at least one parameter of the user's health. The computer is configured to receive... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108917 | PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS An adherent patient device is configured to adhere to the skin of the patient and measure electrocardiogram data, impedance data, accelerometer data, blood oxygen data and temperature data. The adherent device can communicate wirelessly with gateways and a local process... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109677 | BLOOD BANK MANAGEMENT AND RAPID BLOOD TYPE DETERMINATION SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a method for increasing the efficiency and reducing cost of the blood donation, processing and storage by pre-screening candidate donors for blood type and only collecting blood from donors having a needed blood type. Also disclosed are methods and s... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109678 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPARING MOLECULAR SIGNATURES A method (10) for clinical decision support by comparison of multiple molecular signatures of biological data is provided. The method comprises comparing at least two of said molecular signatures are different kinds of molecular signatures. Furthermore, a device ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108984 | INTEGRATED PATIENT CARE A therapy regimen, e.g., a contingent medication prescription, may be created and automatically distributed to a patient via an integrated patient care system. A clinician may create therapy instructions by at least associating patient conditions with one or more therap... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084094 | TREATMENT REGIMEN COMPLIANCE AND EFFICACY WITH FEEDBACK A method and system for interaction with a community of individuals, relating to compliance with and effectiveness of treatment regimens, including supply and use of pharmaceuticals, using a protocol or other intelligent message which acts in place of a service provider... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084093 | RATER RESOURCE ALLOCATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Methods of allocating raters to assessment visits of studies, and tangible computer readable media including software that is adapted to control a computer to implement methods of allocating raters to assessment visits of studies, are provided. Raters are allocated by r... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084095 | PATIENT BURDEN EASING SUPPORT APPARATUS, PATIENT BURDEN EASING SUPPORT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM An endoscopic sector server as a patient burden easing support apparatus executes a step of acquiring preparation completion information indicating that preparation for an endoscopic inspection has been completed, a step of acquiring inspection start information indicat... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083666 | MEDICATION DELIVERY AND COMPLIANCE SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS A system, method and apparatus for use in improving patient compliance with prescribed medication. The apparatus is configurable as a node on a communication network and has a storage unit for storing medication elements for a prescribed course of treatment. A delivery ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084092 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A COMPREHENSIVE DYNAMIC PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD SYSTEM We present a data-driven system that seamlessly integrates the compilation of a diverse set of patient electronic medical records, family history, and environmental risk factor databases, a program that determines correlations and assigns weights through a neural networ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084096 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR GENERATING DIAGNOSTIC RESULT EXPLANATION REPORTS A diagnostic result explanation report generating apparatus is equipped with: a diagnostic information storing section, a comment information storing section, a template storing section for storing explanation templates having insertion regions, into which at least port... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084091 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBJECT CONFIRMATION AND TRACKING A method and apparatus for tracking a medication to be administered by a user. The method includes the steps of determining the identity of a medication to be administered by a user, identifying one or more characteristics associated with the medication that are to be u... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084100 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING CANDIDATE AND SUBJECT PARTICIPATION IN CLINICAL TRIAL STUDIES The present invention discloses systems and methods for facilitating candidate and subject participation in clinical trial studies. Medical professionals participating in the study at satellite sites assist in recruitment of their pre-existing patients as subjects in th... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084097 | IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIALTY DRUGS Methods for determining whether a drug is a specialty drug, methods for creating tools to be used in making the determination, and the tools themselves are disclosed. The overall value of a drug depends on the drug's attribute values with respect to each of a set of dru... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072234 | HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR GROUP INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PATIENTS AND HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONSERS A health management system for managing the healthcare data of patients, managing interactions with patients, doctors and insurance companies, and managing group messaging and data access from mobile phones of patients and doctors. The health management system facilitat... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072233 | MEDICAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR HEALTH ASSESSMENT, WEIGHT MANAGEMENT AND MEAL PLANNING A system and method provide nutrition assessments and tools for enabling users to achieve health-related goals based on specific health needs. The tools can include a nutrition assessment tool, a weight solution tool, a meal planning tool, and a meal tracking tool. The ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072230 | IDENTIFICATION AND NULLIFICATION OF SUBSTANCES Substance identification and nullification processes are provided. A process includes identifying a substance on an object, the substance determined to be associated with a health risk. The process also includes identifying a treatment plan for nullifying the substance,... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072232 | Systems and Methods for Using Online Resources to Design a Clinical Study and Recruit Participants The present application is directed to methods and systems for tapping online resources to design a clinical trial and/or recruit participants for the clinical trial. In one embodiment, a system for using online resources to design a clinical trial and/or recruit partic... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072231 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING EFFECTS OF TREATMENT WITH MEDICATION USING MEDICATION COMPLIANCE PATTERNS Methods, systems, and apparatus monitor medication usage data for one patient or a population of patients, which can be processed to determine compliance patterns. Such methods and systems can associate, analyze, organize and present medication usage data, compliance pa... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120053960 | CENTRALIZED PHARMACY BUSINESS METHOD A centralized pharmacy business method which comprises forming a business alliance between a centralized pharmacy, one or more satellite pharmacists/facility directors, and a shipping service. Optionally, the centralized pharmacy and the shipping service are located “... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053958 | System and Methods for Providing Incentives for Health Care Providers A system and method is disclosed whereby a health care provider is offered a benefit in exchange for the performance of specified activities of a patient. The patient activities may take the form of a purchase of prescribed or recommended products or services, such as p... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053959 | Analyzing Large Data Sets to Find Deviation Patterns Operations, such as data processing operations, can be improved by applying clustering and statistical techniques to observed behaviors in the data processing operations.... | 03/01/2012 |
