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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7435232 | Noninvasive tissue assessment Methods and apparatus for non-invasively assessing physiological hard of soft tissue of human and other species are described. In a preferred embodiment, tissue is vibrationally stimulated in vivo through a frequency spectrum. The tissue reacts against the stimulus ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7431701 | Method and system for diagnosis of lower urinary tract dysregulation and related conditions The invention disclosed herein provides a system and method for diagnosing lower urinary system conditions by receiving urodynamic data and subjective symptomatic impressions concerning a patient. The system and method then assigns weighted point values to the urody... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428323 | Method and system for automatic diagnosis of possible brain disease A method and system for automatic diagnosis of possible brain disease is based on at least one brain scan image of a patient containing at least one feature of interest and a corresponding result of a medical profile analysis of the patient. A database containing pa... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7395185 | Statistical methods for multivariate ordinal data which are used for data base driven decision support A method of analysis including an intrinsically valid class of statistical methods for dealing with multivariate ordinal data. A decision support system that can (1) provide automated decision support in a transparent fashion (2) optionally be controlled by a decisi... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395109 | System for, and method of, monitoring heartbeats of a patient Heart monitor signals indicating a patient's heart characteristics are amplified without affecting the signal characteristics. The amplified heart monitor signals with atypical characteristics are transmitted to a pattern recognition platform which stores the patien... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7351203 | Therapeutic decisions systems and method using stochastic techniques Patients are evaluated in terms of various physiological parameters such as hemodynamic parameters. Covariate information indicative of the patient's individual characteristics may also be determined. A state variable indicative of the patient's characteristics is d... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7316231 | Resuscitation kit system and method and pre-use protocols for a sedation and analgesia system The present invention provides a sedation and analgesia system having an emergency medical kit, where the medical kit is designed to meet the specific needs of medical emergencies related to the delivery of sedatives, analgesics, and/or amnestics. The invention furt... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315755 | Systems and methods for communicating a protocol over a network The present invention aims at permitting numerous user terminals to share protocols as common resources. A vendor terminal or user terminal registers a pair of a protocol and a medical image, which is produced during scanning performed according to the protocol, by ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7297119 | Sleep apnea risk evaluation In a technique for collecting and analyzing physiological signals to detect sleep apnea, a small light-weight physiological monitoring system, affixed to a patient's forehead, detects and records the pulse, oximetry, snoring sounds, and head position of a patient to... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7277754 | Method and system for removing pacing artifacts from subcutaneous electrocardiograms An implantable cardiac rhythm management device is configured to remove pacing artifacts from recorded electrograms by a subtraction method. A template waveform representing a recorded pace without accompanying cardiac electrical activity is generated. Such a pacing... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7258665 | High availability deployment of an off-site management system for digital cardiac electrocardiograms operating in an application service provider model A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a method and system for high availability remote centralized data management. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a primary remote centralized data storage storing medical data, and a redundant remo... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259681 | System and method of performing medical diagnosis in real time A system and method of performing a medical diagnosis in real time that can diagnose a health condition of a mobile terminal user in real time is disclosed. Various sensors provided in the mobile terminal sense a body condition, and a server diagnoses the health con... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7190996 | Monitor for early detection of ischemic heart disease A monitor for early detection of an ischemic heart disease of a patient has an impedance measurement unit including an electrode arrangement for measuring an intracardiac impedance and generating a corresponding impedance signal, a notch detector connected to the im... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7156808 | Method and apparatus for health and disease management combining patient data monitoring with wireless internet connectivity Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for a wireless health monitoring system for interactively monitoring a disease or health condition of a patient by connecting an internet-enabled wireless web device (“WWD”) to a health monitoring devic... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7101340 | Spectroscopic breath profile analysis device and uses thereof for facilitating diagnosis of medical conditions A medical diagnostic device for analyzing gases in expired breath. The device includes a spectroscopic analyzer component for obtaining a patient's breath concentration profile; a computer operably coupled to the analyzer component; a memory component operably coupl... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7072794 | Statistical methods for multivariate ordinal data which are used for data base driven decision support A method of analysis including an intrinsically valid class of statistical methods for dealing with multivariate ordinal data. A decision support system that can (1) provide automated decision support in a transparent fashion (2) optionally be controlled by a decisi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7058616 | Method and system for predicting resistance of a disease to a therapeutic agent using a neural network A method and system for predicting the resistance of a disease to a therapeutic agent is provided. Further provided is a method and system for designing a therapeutic treatment agent for a patient afflicted with a disease. Specifically, the methods use a trained neu... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7024370 | Methods and apparatus for early detection of health-related events in a population A method is disclosed for providing early detection, classification, and reporting of health-related events in a population. The method includes capturing sets of specific emergency room patient information from a subset of the population as the patient information ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6951539 | System and method for ordering and prioritizing multiple health disorders for automated remote patient care A system for ordering and prioritizing multiple health disorders for automated remote patient care is presented. A database maintains information for an individual patient by organizing monitoring sets in a database, and measures relating to patient information prev... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950696 | Method and circuit for detecting cardiac rhythm abnormalities by analyzing time differences between unipolar signals from a lead with a multi-electrode tip A circuit and method for detecting cardiac rhythm abnormalities employ unipolar signals respectively obtained from a cardiac lead having a tip at which a number of separate electrodes are disposed, the electrodes being simultaneously in contact with cardiac tissue. ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6936007 | Method and apparatus for health and disease management combining patient data monitoring with wireless internet connectivity Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for a wireless health monitoring system for interactively monitoring a health condition of a patient by connecting an internet-enabled wireless device (“WWD”) to a health monitoring device which may be ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6917826 | Automatic and quantitative assessment of image quality in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging A system and method for automatic quantitative assessment of myocardial image quality includes a liver-heart artifact quantification unit for providing a sequence of images, detecting the heart position in each image, segmenting non-heart activity relative to the de... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6909914 | Method for generating time independent images of moving objects A method for generating time independent images of moving objects with the image information being related to properties of the moving objects represented by sequences of digital images. The images are transformed into a series of space-time representations of the i... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6903657 | System and method of performing medical diagnosis in real time A system and method of performing a medical diagnosis in real time that can diagnose a health condition of a mobile terminal user in real time is disclosed. Various sensors provided in the mobile terminal sense a body condition, and a server diagnoses the health con... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6896660 | Therapeutic decisions systems and method using stochastic techniques Patients are evaluated in terms of various physiological parameters such as hemodynamic parameters. Covariate information indicative of the patient's individual characteristics may also be determined. A state variable indicative of the patient's characteristics is d... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6887200 | Method of supporting health checkup, an apparatus for implementing the same and a medium recording their processing programs A health checkup supporting method, apparatus and computer readable recording medium for predicting a checkup receiver's risk of suffering from a disease. The method and apparatus include inputting checkup receiver information indicating information showing the poss... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6846298 | Blood product delivery system The present invention provides methods and devices for maintaining the integrity of blood products throughout preparation, processing and application to a patient or desired site. Coding methods are incorporated onto or into processing and delivery containers which ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6811537 | System and method for providing diagnosis and monitoring of congestive heart failure for use in automated patient care A system and method for providing diagnosis and monitoring of congestive heart failure for use in automated patient care is described. At least one recorded physiological measure is compared to at least one other recorded physiological measure on a substantially reg... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6735329 | Methods and apparatus for image recognition and dictation The present invention relates to methods of and apparatus for producing and digitizing a number of images to create a digital library of images, providing an image from outside the digital library, digitizing it and comparing it to the digital images in the digital ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6728599 | Modularity system for computer assisted surgery A medical system that allows a medical device to be controlled by one of two input devices. The input devices may be consoles that contain handles and a screen. The medical devices may include robotic arms and instruments used to perform a medical procedure. The sys... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6712763 | Device for finding the triggers of paroxysmally occurring illnesses Device for finding unknown, multifactorial triggers of paroxysmally occurring illnesses, which is coupled to an electronic patient file and/or, if appropriate, spatially distributed databases, a comparison and evaluation device carrying out, after a paroxysm, a corr... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6709399 | Method and system for the detection of heart disease A method and system for the detection of heart disease in a patient, having a remote testing unit for gathering analog data concerning the status of a patient's heart, converting the data to digital form, applying FFT's to the converted data, transferring the data t... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6684129 | Master having redundant degrees of freedom An input device for robotic surgical techniques and other applications has a handle supported by a linkage with a redundant degree of freedom, the joints being movable with at least one more degree of freedom than the handle. At least one joint of the lin... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6669631 | Deep computing applications in medical device systems Deep computing techniques are employed to mine statistical data bases and patient specific data files contributed from multiple sources, including implantable medical devices (IMDs) and external medical devices and other sources, to formulate patient-spec... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6611833 | Methods for profiling and classifying tissue using a database that includes indices representative of a tissue population A sample of normal tissue specimens obtained from a subset of a population of subjects with shared characteristics is profiled in order to generate a plurality of structural indices that correspond to statistically significant representations of character... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6607485 | Computer readable storage medium containing code for automated collection and analysis of patient information retrieved from an implantable medical device for remote patient care A computer readable storage medium containing code for automated collection and analysis of patient information retrieved from a medical device adapted to be implanted in a patient for remote patient care is described. A set of collected measures is perio... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6602191 | Method and apparatus for health and disease management combining patient data monitoring with wireless internet connectivity A method and apparatus for a wireless health monitoring system for interactively monitoring a disease or health condition of a patient by connecting an internet-enabled wireless web device ("WWD") to a health monitoring device which may be a medical devic... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6591132 | Artifact detection in encephalogram data using an event model A machine-readable storage medium containing a program element for execution by a computing device for performing spike and artifact detection in EG data. The program element comprises a spike detection module for processing EG data to detect spikes. Each... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6581038 | Automated profiler system for providing medical information to patients Apparatus and methods are disclosed for generating individualized medical profiles based on information provided by a patient, and on data extracted from medical literature. In a first stage, medical literature is selected for inclusion in a database by u... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6575905 | Method and apparatus for real-time estimation of physiological parameters A real-time glucose estimator uses a linearized Kalman filter to determine a best estimate of glucose level in real time. The real-time glucose estimator receives at least one measurement corresponding to glucose level. The measurement can be obtained wit... | 06/10/2003 |
