Abstract: Among other things, unstructured text items are processed to identify elements of the unstructured text items relevant to classification rules of quality metrics applicable to services provided by a healthcare provider with respect to diseases, conditions, or interventions of patients. The classification rules define classifications of patients based on diseases, conditions, or interventions of patients or on aspects of the services provided. Through a user interface, the unstructured text items, the identified elements, and user interface controls for classifying the patients with respect to the classification rules, based on the identified elements, are presented to the user.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for labeling one or more medications concurrently administered to a patient as a line of therapy. The method includes identifying medical records of the patient from a plurality of digital records, creating, from the subset of medical records, a plurality of treatment intervals including at least one medication administered to the patient and a time interval, associating medications of the one or more treatments with a respective treatment interval when the administration of the medication falls within the time interval, refining the time interval of a respective treatment interval when a treatment of the one or more treatments falls outside the time interval but within an extension period, identifying one or more potential lines of therapy from the plurality of treatment intervals, and labeling the potential line of therapy having the highest maximum likelihood estimation as the line of therapy.

Abstract: A user controlled mobile device for use in countering phantom billing fraud in connection with receiving health care services includes one or more components capturing and outputting biometric data and location data, a processor configured to determine a confidence score, and a data storage device holding an event record created without explicit user intervention indicating whether the particular user was at the particular location, the event record including the confidence score, a timestamp corresponding to events at or near a time of the timestamp including a time of capture of the biometric and location data, the biometric data and location data, where the stored event record serves as the personal audit trail evidencing an existence or absence of phantom billing.

Abstract: A reward-based health activity and exercise mobile application that utilizes an activity monitoring device to track activity data and transmits the data to a mobile device to generate virtual lottery tickets. A mobile application on the mobile device analyzes the activity data and determines if the user has completed the daily health-related goals. If the user completes the daily goal, the user is awarded a virtual lottery ticket reward that can be used for raffles of real prizes. If the user completes exercise and non-exercise goals for consecutive days, the user is awarded with additional streak bonus rewards on an escalating basis. The mobile application can be connected to a communication network whereby users can join teams and other communities to track activity data and compete against other users. A streak saver feature can be provided to allow a user to maintain a streak by performing a task.

Abstract: The present invention includes a method for representing a plurality of pre-calculated solutions in radiation therapy that are stored in a database and displayed in a manner controllable by a user. Arrays of DVH curves provide the user with essential information on the ‘quality of a plan’. A DVH diagram is displayed as a main diagram, wherein only one of the solutions is visually represented at a time. By selecting a first starting point on a selected DVH curve as the main diagram, a first straight axis extending through the first starting point is placed. A first region, located around the first starting point and on the first straight axis, is highlighted as a first control region for controllable visualization of the plurality of currently non-displayed solutions stored in the database, the DVH curves of which correspond to the selected DVH curve and intersect the first straight axis.

Abstract: A health information system includes a health information data storage machine and a healthcare analytics processor configured to extract healthcare related commentary of healthcare consumers from a social media data storage machine and match portions of the healthcare related commentary to health information of the social media commentators in a combined health information data source. The healthcare analytics processor identifies relationships between consumer sentiment expressed in the social media information and consumer experiences, product usage, diagnoses and outcomes recorded in the health information. Benchmarks and measures of healthcare outcomes and treatments are generated based on matching consumer commentary and consumer sentiments with corresponding indications of actual healthcare experiences of the commentator recorded in the health information.

Abstract: A method managing wellness of employees is presented. A computer system receives a group of health factors for activities and group of preferences for activities of the employees. The computer system identifies a recommendation for an activity for a portion of the employees based on the group health factors, the group of preferences, and information for locations where recommended activities are to occur. The computer system then sends the recommendation for the activity to the portion of the employees.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for facilitating delivery of patient-care in adherence with a standard of care clinical protocol is described. The method includes monitoring, by a computing device, patient information indicative of a clinical condition, based on a clinical protocol that comprises patient-care instructions that must be completed within a time period. The method further includes providing, by the computing device, the patient-care instructions to a user based on a result of the monitoring. The method also includes determining, by the computing device, adherence to the clinical protocol based on a result of at least one of the providing patient care instructions and the patient information; and for a determination that the clinical protocol has not been adhered to, providing a recommended action request that calibrates the patient care instructions in compliance with the clinical protocol.

Abstract: A method and system for providing patient indications to an entity, the method comprising: for each of a set of patients: by way of an application executing at a mobile computing device, accessing a sensor system and a log of use of a communication application executing on the mobile computing device; receiving a survey response dataset; generating a behavioral dataset, derived from the sensor system and the log of use; generating a predictive model derived from at least one of the survey response dataset and the behavioral dataset; generating comparisons of outputs of blocks of the method to threshold conditions; producing a set of indications corresponding to the set of patients, derived from generation of, for each of the set of patients, an indication in response to the comparisons; and transmitting a portion of the set of indications to the entity according to a resource constraint of the entity.

Abstract: A medication risk mitigation method utilizing three interventions: a prospective intervention performed by a prescriber, a concurrent intervention performed by a pharmacist and a retroactive intervention performed by a pharmacist. At each intervention, the system of the instant invention utilizes a computer program to compare each prescribed medication to a series of intrinsic and extrinsic data sources in order to identify potential contraindications and, if necessary, modify a prescription. The system also permits secure messaging between prescribers and pharmacists, each with access to the computer program, so as to facilitate communication and reduce medication risks. The system of this invention also permits modeling for hypothetical medication modifications based on the same intrinsic and extrinsic data sources.

Abstract: The present technology calculates a value of future adherence (VFA) score which is a patient-level, predicted, expected cost of conversion from non-adherence to adherence over a specified time-frame. The score consists of three general components: (1) probability of being non-adherent, (2) cost reduction associated with being adherent, and (3) probability of converting from non-adherent to adherent. These values can be combined to create an overall VFA score. A user interface is then provided which shows at least a list of patients and information related to the VFA score.

Abstract: Systems and methods allow targeting messages to consumers using a plurality of records for a group of consumers, each record comprising healthcare demographic information (HDI) associated with individual consumers. HDI can include insured status information identifying whether a consumer likely has health insurance, which is received from at least one health services provider. A cookie can correlates a consumer's browser to healthcare demographic information. The cookie allows subsequent association of HDI with the browser, without exposing personally identifiable information of the first consumer to advertisers. Systems and methods can also associate an ID of a consumer's electronic device with the HDI, allowing mobile device and set top boxes to serve relate ads to the consumer. Consumers can be targeted based on selected HDI criteria.

Abstract: A system, method and article of manufacture are presented for improving therapy such as adjustment of a chronotherapeutic pharmaceutical regimen. Physiological variables are measured longitudinally and a time series of the measurements is constructed. In some cases, a time series is pre-whitened and transformed to a frequency spectrum while applying multi-taper filtering, and entropy or other statistical measures are calculated for the power spectral distribution. Improved timing, medication and dosage are individually or collectively improved and/or verified through successive testing. An improvement is illustrated for hypertension, using medication to achieve autonomic control and to reduce blood pressure variability and to reduce spectral diversion.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to utilize task value units for imaging interpretation and other tasks, such as in the assignment of imaging interpretation and other tasks to a plurality of users. In the context of a method, the method associates, for each of a plurality of different types of imaging interpretation tasks and for each of a plurality of other tasks, a first task value unit therewith. The method also associates, for at least some of the plurality of different types of imaging interpretation or other tasks, a second task value unit, different than the first task value unit, therewith. Further, the method assigns imaging interpretation and other tasks to a plurality of users based at least partially upon the first and second task value units associated with the respective imaging interpretation tasks and the other tasks.

Abstract: A method and system assists in management of data associated with a home medical equipment (HME) device provided to a patient. An HME identifier may be received by a physician terminal or an HME provider terminal. In an example, an HME identifier may be stored, encoded, engraved or otherwise applied to a component of an HME device such as a removable storage medium (e.g., an SD card). A records management system may then be searched for a patient record associated with the HME device identifier based on retrieval of the identifier from the component. If a patient record is found, the identity of the patient may be verified. Optionally, if no such patient record is found, then a new patient record associated with the HME identifier may be created.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel approach for consumer-driven interaction with sequencing data or genomic information. Sequencing data access, for users with a variety of access and permissions, may be mediated by a central hub. The hub may also facilitate access to the sequencing data for third party software applications. The hub may also provide data analysis or may have access to analyzed data to use such data in providing a user interface for a genome owner or for non-owner secondary users of the system.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a user with a performance indicator score includes receiving a first transaction message that includes historical clinical-trial performance data from one or more processors at a clinical research organization and receiving a second transaction message with health records data with parameters indicative of insurance claims data. The received historical clinical-trial performance data and the prescription data is translated into an updated database. Related records within the updated database are identified and one or more key performance indicators included in the data at the updated database for a first physician are identified. A score for each of the one or more key performance indicators are calculated and a performance indicator score record for the first physician is generated based on the calculated scores for each of the one or more key performance indicators.

Abstract: A mobile device for use by a health care recipient in countering phantom billing fraud in connection with receiving health care services. A sensor bank comprises components capturing and outputting biometric data corresponding to the health care recipient and components capturing and outputting location data of the health care recipient. A sensor fusion component receives the biometric data and the location data and determines a confidence score that a particular user indicated by the biometric data was at a particular location indicated by the location information. An event record creator compiles the location data, the biometric data and the confidence score to create an event record evidencing the whereabouts of the health care recipient at a particular time.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for providing a knowledge-based personal intelligent health consultation, to which a medical knowledge base is constructed and utilized, and the correlations between the diseases and symptoms encompassed therein are statically and dynamically evaluated. The present invention also provides a system for providing a knowledge-based personal intelligent health consultation, in which an inference engine is configured to intelligently assess certainty values of diseases/symptoms presented in the medical knowledge base while interactively and adaptively adjust the certainty values of symptoms and possible diseases based on the instant selection of a user.

Abstract: A method managing wellness of employees is presented. A computer system receives a group of health factors for activities and group of preferences for activities of the employees. The computer system identifies a recommendation for an activity for a portion of the employees based on the group health factors, the group of preferences, and information for locations where recommended activities are to occur. The computer system then sends the recommendation for the activity to the portion of the employees.