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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190451 | Method and computer program product for predicting and minimizing future behavioral health-related hospital admissions An accurate predictive model that identifies the patient/members within the healthcare system at high risk of hospital admission for a wide range of morbidities, or co-morbidities, and that allows subsequent intervention to manage those patients identified as high r... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190452 | Method and apparatus for monitoring a patient A remotely or locally programmable and accessible medical device system including an interface unit and a medical device connected to a patient is disclosed. Through a transceiver, such as a telephone or computer, a person may obtain status reports from a remotely l... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185412 | Method and apparatus for chronic care treatment control with custom named-type factors and user estimation error correction A method and apparatus to record and track patient's estimation of arbitrary factor types, to analyze response errors utilizing discrete measurements, to isolate errors in various factor types and their response correlations, to enable patient in refining factor mix... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185411 | Method, system, and apparatus for patient controlled access of medical records A method of permitting controlled access to medical information can include establishing a storage means for containing medical information and establishing a means for accessing the medical information. The method further can include controlling the means for acces... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182761 | Test instrument and optical measurement apparatus It is an object to provide a test instrument and an optical measurement apparatus which enable easy matching of test results when tests by optical measurement are performed with respect to a large number of patients. To the above end, a test instrument B is p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180654 | Method and system for creating, assembling, managing, utilizing, and securely storing portable personal medical records A method and system are provided for utilizing indexed electronic patient medical records stored on portable memory devices. Each of the portable memory devices is associated with a patient for electronically storing indexed medical records for the patient from a pl... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180653 | Pharmacy network computer system and printer The invention provides a network computer system and novel pharmacy printers and their methods of use wherein the local CS includes a pharmacy printer for printing pharmacy orders including prescriptions, and the pharmacy printer includes a pharmacy printer database... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175896 | Computer systems and methods for selecting subjects for clinical trials Computers, computer program products, and methods for identifying a plurality of subjects for a clinical trial are provided. A candidate set of molecular profiles in a stored plurality of molecular profiles are identified. Each such profile has measurements for a di... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175894 | X-ray exposure report system, medical apparatus, and examination protocol distribution system A radiation report system includes a storage unit for storing a plurality of records including an exposure dose, an examination protocol, an examination part, a patient's age and a patient's weight with regard to the plurality of radiation examinations using a plura... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175895 | Remote command center for patient monitoring A remote command center for providing services to geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. A datastore accessible to the remote command center receives patient data from geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. Monitored data elements of geographically... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170888 | Method and system for assessing, quantifying, coding and communicating a patient's health and perioperative risk A multi-dimensional system for assessing, coding, quantifying, displaying, integrating and communicating information relating to patient health and perioperative risk includes a mechanism for inputting patient information and providing an output relating to the pati... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170889 | Methods and systems for evaluating interaction of medical products and dependence on demographic variables A computer implemented method of evaluating interaction two or more medical products or conditions, in the context of a reference condition, based on a dataset of patient records includes developing a reference contingency lattice of lattice subsets from a subset of... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170890 | Method of inferring a health condition based on a prescription filled for a patient and blocking a subsequent sale of a drug contraindicated for the health condition A system and method for inferring a possible pregnancy based on a first filled prescription and blocking the sale of a second prescription for a drug contraindicated for pregnancy is disclosed. First prescription information may be received and a possible pregnancy ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170891 | User interface for generating and managing medical documentation sets Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for generating and/or managing medical documentation sets are provided. Medical documentation sets are generated by replicating a predetermined medical template. After the predetermined medical template is... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165900 | Patient check-in/scheduling kiosk A method and system for facilitating activity scheduling for a patient including the steps of providing an interface device for checking a patient in at the facility, receiving identifying information for the patient, identifying currently scheduled appointments for... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165901 | Method and system for developing or tracking a program for medical treatment This invention relates generally to a system and method for providing to patients a medical treatment program, such as a program for physical therapy, and for tracking whether the patient has performed the program correctly. In one aspect, the system and method dete... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165899 | System and method for managing form-generated data A system and method for managing form-generated data related to a patient encounter involves translating location information related to a user writing on a form into a contextualized data element that includes contextual information. The contextual information help... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160899 | Knowledge based electronic clinical record for dentistry The present invention relates to an electronic records management system. More specifically, the present invention is a comprehensive knowledge based clinical records management solution that encompasses the need for accurate records, while reducing the time and eff... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160901 | Personalized management and comparison of medical condition and outcome based on profiles of community patients The invention can be directed toward a method for personalized management and comparison of medical condition and outcome based on patient profiles of a community of patients. The method can include the steps of providing a database of patient profiles, providing a ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160900 | Analyte monitoring and management device and method to analyze the frequency of user interaction with the device Methods and Devices to monitor the level of at least one analyte are provided. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150713 | Pharmaceutical treatment effectiveness analysis computer system and methods Computer-implemented systems, program code, and related methods are provided. The systems, program code, and methods can be employed to analyze the effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments for medical conditions utilizing real time prescription compliance records.... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150710 | Medical information system A medical information system includes a patient server that retains vital information received from a patient terminal. The patient server transmits the vital information to a medical care provider server through a network. The vital information retained in the medi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150711 | Generating and managing medical documentation sets Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for generating and/or managing medical documentation sets are provided. Medical documentation sets are generated by replicating a predetermined medical template. After the predetermined medical template is... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150712 | User interface for presenting clinical order content based upon designated performance location Computerized methods and systems for permitting clinicians and other healthcare providers to designate performance locations for clinical orders having one or more phases associated therewith, and for presenting order catalog content that is flexed based upon the de... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145506 | Patient problem data structure and processing system A patient problem data system stores data representing a plurality of different patient problems for use in providing healthcare to a patient. An acquisition processor acquires data representing a patient problem for storage in a repository. A repository, electrical... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140357 | Point of service billing and records system A billing and records system software application that places responsibility for billing and coding accuracy upon the provider of services and is used on a front-end computer which allows the provider to update, edit, and input data. The front-end computer is linked... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135596 | Generating output data based on patient monitoring Exemplary system and method embodiments may include real-time monitoring data regarding administration of a health-related procedure to a recipient patient which is posted to a patient data record that has restricted read/write access. In some instances the monitori... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135597 | Method using a global server for providing patient medical histories to assist in the delivery of emergency medical services An Internet based method for assisting in the rapid delivery of medical information direct to the site at which emergency assistance is being performed uses a global database for warehousing patient history information, which is fetched over the Internet on demand. ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131568 | Method and system for operating an insurance program to insure a performance bonus of a person A method, information processing system, and computer readable storage medium operate an insurance program to insure a performance bonus of an insured person against an insured event. A set of percentage bonus information is received. The set of performance bonus in... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131569 | Methods, systems, and devices for modifying 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... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126739 | Method and system for tracking treatment of patients in a health services environment Methods and systems for tracking treatment of patients are presented. An exemplary method for tracking treatment of patients includes scheduling appointments for a patient with service providers based on requests for services and generating appointment information c... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126740 | Electronic health record case management system A method and system for transparent recording, storing, and accessing financial, clinical, and data/information case management services. The method includes collecting service data pertaining to a customer from a plurality of sources, storing the data, and providin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126738 | Method and system for scheduling tracking, adjudicating appointments and claims in a health services environment An exemplary method for determining the appropriateness of service provider claims for payment includes scheduling appointments for patients with service providers based on requests for services, generating appointment information corresponding to each of the schedu... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126741 | System and method for managing prescription data to detect pathogens A system for managing prescription data is provided. The system for managing prescription data includes a switch system. The switch system is configured to receive prescription submissions from pharmacy systems, submit the prescription submissions to approval system... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121863 | Method for detecting abnormalities in medical screening A computer-aided detection process for interpreting body images using knowledge based SMART algorithms. The process interprets, in real time, body scan images submitted from screening centers and other certified medical practitioners around the world, and then rende... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121866 | System and method for displaying pediatric cardiology Z-scores A method for simultaneously displaying a procedure documentation form and pediatric cardiology z-scores for a patient is provided. Documentation data for the patient is received and a database including pediatric cardiology data for a computerized z-score graph appr... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121867 | Software application generation and implementation method and system An application generation and implementation method and system. The application generation method includes generating and storing a transparency software application comprising multiple application software code. The application implementation method includes retrie... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121864 | Method and system for adjudicating claims in a health service environment Methods and systems for adjudicating claims in health services environments are presented. An exemplary method for processing service provider claims for payment includes receiving a claim for payment, automatically identifying candidate appointments from a pluralit... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121870 | Methods, systems, and devices for verifying and approving government required release forms 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... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121869 | Computer-implemented method for grouping medical claims based upon changes in patient condition A computer-implemented method for profiling medical claims to assist health care managers in determining the cost-efficiency and service quality of health care providers. The method allows an objective means for measuring and quantifying health care services. An epi... | 02/21/2012 |
