Patents Examined by Eliza A Lam
  • Patent number: 11194810
    Abstract: A method of aggregating and using medical device data from a plurality of remote institutions. The system and method electronically receives at a central computer system a plurality of established medical device data, each of the plurality of established medical device data being received from a respective medication delivery system, each of the respective medication delivery systems having a respective plurality of medical devices within the respective remote institution, such as medication delivery pumps, associated therewith and utilized therein. The system and method electronically combines and stores the plurality of established medical device data from each of the plurality of remote institutions within a memory, and electronically provides a remote client computer access to at least one of a central reporting application adapted for providing summary information to the remote client computer about the medical device data, and/or other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ICU Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven I. Butler, Todd M. Dunsirn, Douglas E. Frede, Nancy G. Hedlund, Thomas F. Polonus, Steven J. Pregulman, Torrance J. Ramaker, James E. Tillery, Mary Kaye Van Huis
  • Patent number: 11176318
    Abstract: Systems and tools for sharing medical costs between prospective patients seeking treatment, and existing patients of a medical network. Prospective patients may actively query medical costs for specific conditions and treatments for the specific conditions previously experienced by existing patients. Existing patients contributing to the documents accessible by the medical network may upload anonymous versions of EOBs, medical bills and medical documents to the medical network in exchange for rewards. The prospective patients may communicate and query the desired information using natural language inputs to instruct a client computing system to search the medical network for relevant treatment information. The prospective patient may use natural language commands or other inputs to filter the query results by condition, location, cost, quality of service, service provider, insurance provider, or any other parameter that may be detailed by the medical documents accessible through the medical network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lee A. Carbonell, Tsz Shing Cheng, Jeffrey L. Edgington, Pandian Mariadoss
  • Patent number: 11152120
    Abstract: A method of searching a database of medical research for documentation in support of a specific treatment for a patient, the method including: identifying a medical condition; identifying attributes of the patient; searching the database for treatment regimens for the medical condition; scoring identified treatment regimens based on similarity of the attributes of the patient to cohorts treated with the treatment regimens and outcomes; and providing a recommendation for a treatment regimen for the patient based on the attributes of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Britt, Adam C. Lange-Pearson, Fernando Jose Suarez Saiz
  • Patent number: 11139075
    Abstract: A system for managing pharmacy kits comprises a reading station configured to read tag information from a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags associated with a pharmacy kit, and an information processing system operatively connected to the reading station and configured to receive the tag information from the reading station and determine a status of the pharmacy kit based on the tag information, a plurality of stored templates defining contents to be included in each of a plurality of pharmacy kits, and a plurality of kit records indicating the current contents of a plurality of pharmacy kits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Kit Check, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin William MacDonald, Timothy James Leo Kress-Spatz
  • Patent number: 11133091
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing content concerning a plurality of patients using a CAC system to define one or more billing codes concerning a social habit status of one or more patients of the plurality of patients. The one or more billing codes concerning the social habit status of the one or more patients are provided to a user for review. Feedback is received from the user concerning the accuracy of the one or more billing codes. The feedback concerning the one or more billing codes is automatically processed to define one or more confidence scores. The CAC system is trained based, at least in part, upon the one or more confidence scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Oscar Ferrandez-Escamez, John E. Ortega, Jr., Neil Barrett, Brian Delaney, Ravi Kumar Kondadadi
  • Patent number: 11126932
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to managing a charging reservation of an electric vehicle. Particularly, the disclosure relates to managing an electric vehicle charging reservation based on at least one of a requested charging amount and a remaining battery power amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jin-Soo Kyoung
  • Patent number: 11127493
    Abstract: Methods and systems for claim adjudication are described. In one embodiment, a status of a drug benefit plan associated with a member is determined. Claims data associated with the member is accessed. A current-filled prescription is identified based on the claims data. At least one adjudication operation for the current-filled prescription is performed prior to receiving a new request for the current-filled prescription. The new request is determined as fillable based on the performance of the at least one adjudication operation. A notification is generated to the member based on the determination. Additional methods and systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: John William Vandervoort, Heather D. Sundar, Michael Z. Chen, Adam W. Kautzner, Randy L. Canis
  • Patent number: 11096577
    Abstract: Health care monitoring and alerting systems are presented. Contemplated systems include a rule repository storing rules for sending notifications to interested parties regarding a patient's wellness status. An inference engine correlates actual, possibly real-time, patient wellness information with rule sets. If a patient's wellness status satisfies triggering criteria of a rule sets, the inference engine instructs a communication engine to send a notification to interested parties according to the rules set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: NXGN Management, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Thompson Davis, III, Jennifer M. Coleman, David Christopher Greig, Christopher Harley Davidson
  • Patent number: 11056218
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include a method, system and computer program product. The method includes identifying, by a processor, a set of global risk factors for a target event using training patients, and providing, by the processor, a disease progression timeline with defined time stamps by aligning longitudinal data of the training patients based on the defined time stamp of risk targets. The method also includes positioning, by the processor, a target patient at one of the defined time stamps on the disease progression timeline, and identifying, by the processor, at least one of the training patients similar to the target patient with the same one of the defined time stamps on the disease progression timeline. The method further includes calculating, by the processor, a time-varying predictive pattern of at least a portion of the global set of risk factors for the target patient along the disease progression timeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianying Hu, Kenney Ng, Adam Perer, Fei Wang, Yajuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11017352
    Abstract: A pharmacy kit is managed by defining multiple rules for determining whether a segment of a pharmacy kit is satisfactorily stocked, selecting at least one rule among the multiple rules according to a kit stocking contingency, an prompting a user to stock the segment of the pharmacy kit according to the selected at least one rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Kit Check, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin William MacDonald, David Mario Pedra, Timothy James Leo Kress-Spatz, Christian Lee Doyle, Eric Brody
  • Patent number: 11004564
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for processing a plurality of medical indication conditions on a computer that includes a processor communicatively coupled to a memory includes obtaining a plurality of predetermined indication conditions which relate to a plurality of parameters, and forming a plurality of conditional segments based on respective values of the plurality of parameters defined in the plurality of predetermined indication conditions. Each conditional segment of the plurality of conditional segments corresponds to a combination of different value ranges of respective parameters of the plurality of parameters. The plurality of predetermined indication conditions includes a measurement item, a reference standard, a time period, a measurement condition, and a measurement manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Feng Cao, Xiang Li, Jing Mei, Yuan Ni, Weijia Shen, Wen Sun
  • Patent number: 11004545
    Abstract: A combination of N>1 substances with pharmaceutical activity against at least one medical condition for treating the medical condition with a program including instructions causing a computer to perform a method including: providing a patient with a set of questions adapted to the combination according to a question schedule; providing a patient with N sets of questions according to N question schedules, wherein each set of questions is adapted to one substance; collecting answers to the sets of questions from the patient; subjecting the answers to the set of questions adapted to the combination to a set of functions, thereby generating a first patient feedback; subjecting the answers to the sets of questions each adapted for one substance, to N sets of functions, thereby generating a second patient specific feedback; and providing the first and second specific feedbacks to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ENABLER STOCKHOLM AB
    Inventor: Johan Cederlund
  • Patent number: 10978189
    Abstract: A computing entity accesses instances of medical information corresponding to a population of patients and generates a plurality of medical sentences corresponding to the population by, for each patient of the population, generating one medical sentence corresponding to the patient and a timestamp associated with each instance such that the one medical sentence comprises one or more medical codes in a chronological order. The computing entity generates a vector dictionary comprising a plurality of multi-dimensional vectors based on a vector generation model trained using machine learning and the plurality of medical sentences with each multi-dimensional vector corresponding to a medical code. The computing entity generates a digital representation of a first patient of the population using an anagram model and the vector dictionary, determines a health state of the first patient based on the digital representation, and provides an output indicating the health state of the first patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Optum, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick White, Somadev Pasala, Donald Johnson, Sreedhar Potturi, Dhaval Shah, Anthony Degliomini, Michael Brennan
  • Patent number: 10978209
    Abstract: A system of interactive health status assessment comprises a dialogue database including a plurality of health status assessment questions presented by a data output interface; a multimodal data input interface is configured to receive a response information; an identification module is configured to determine the type of the response information; a semantic interpretation module is configured to extract a keyword from the text-type response information; a health status assessment module is configured to generate a first assessment result according to the numeric-type response information, a second assessment result is generated according to the keyword, and an outputted assessment report is generated according to the assessment results; and a control module is configured to selectively notify the health status assessment module to output the assessment report or select another health status assessment question from a follow-up item of the selected health status assessment question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jung-Hsien Chiang, Pei-Ching Yang
  • Patent number: 10977702
    Abstract: The present invention provides an interactive, electronic, knowledge-based ordering process for specialty/biotech pharmaceuticals (medically coded drugs) which results in less waste, improved procedural efficiencies, and greater cost savings than the current ordering systems. The knowledge-base of the system is based on the health plan's clinical policies as well as the status of the patient and their entitled benefits with the health plan, and it is applied in an interactive manner through a web-enabled system which provides a real-time, prospective examination and control over requests for authorization to dispense the medically coded drugs. The system also includes a feedback loop from the specialty pharmacies to provide information on the medicines that have actually been dispensed. The system also provides to the patient, educational material and adherence reminders to affect therapeutic outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: AXON HEALTHCARE SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Minalkumar Patel, Mohan P. Charles, Melissa Sampson, Michael Escuder
  • Patent number: 10978188
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes receiving, by a computer system, current medical data from at least one electronic source; identifying, by the computer system, at least one medical-related filtering criterion related to an individual or a group of individuals; filtering, by the computer system, the current medical data based, at least in part, on at least one medical-related filtering criterion to identify current personalized medical data, where the current personalized medical data is related to the individual or the group of individuals; and presenting, by the computer system, the current personalized medical data to the individual or the group of individuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Medivizor International Limited
    Inventors: Tal Givoly, Oren Fuerst
  • Patent number: 10971259
    Abstract: The disclosed system receives a first indication that a first medication is available for delivery to a first location within a healthcare facility, and identifies a preparation status of a second medication. Based on the delivery time and the completion time for the second medication, the system determines whether the first medication should be delivered prior to completing the preparation of the second medication and, when determining that the first medication should not be delivered prior to completing the preparation of the second medication, a notification to wait for the preparation of the second medication before delivering the first medication is sent to a display device associated with a delivery person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas William Utech, Maria Consolacion Jaskela, William Lee Webster
  • Patent number: 10915222
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for facilitating the care of a patient by a multi-disciplinary care team. A graphical user interface presents one or more clinical problems associated with a patient. For each clinical problem, actionable care team icons are presented that, among other things, identify care teams responsible for caring for the clinical problem and any actions taken by the care teams to address the clinical problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Michael A. Ash, Heather Owen, J D Tyler, Daniel Stocksick, Pramod Pagadala
  • Patent number: 10872685
    Abstract: An electronic patient monitoring system comprising a monitoring client and a remote communicator are provided. The monitoring client is configured to store patient information. The patient information may be patient-specific information. The monitoring client may receive the information from a database, e.g., through a monitoring server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: David Blumberg, Jr., Dean Kamen, Marc J. Gorayeb
  • Patent number: 10867701
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for optimizing patient-specific intervention strategies using point of care diagnostics. In accordance with an embodiment, the system allows for biological sampling in a portable or point of care device, and generation of healthcare data wherein instantaneous results have value at a particular location for emergency care, improvement of overall healthcare, fitness and/or disease management, or to provide an economic value. In accordance with an embodiment, the system can be used to evaluate a biological sample, and optionally guide a user, such as a medical professional or carer through inputting or retrieving additional objective and/or subjective observations and/or retrieving historical medical information for the patient. The system can use various inputs to generate status and performance indications, such as whether a patient seems in good or poor health, or is particularly likely to perform well, or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Heinrich Anhold