Patents Examined by Joshua B Blanchette
  • Patent number: 10902382
    Abstract: Methods are provided for allowing patients, health care practitioners and other service providers to have remote access to electronic medical records of a patient stored on a first computer network by the remote user requesting access to the electronic medical record from a second computer network and providing a first and second piece of patient derived information to the second computer network; the second computer network transferring the first and second piece of patient derived information to a third computer network; the third computer network authorizing the remote user through the first and second piece of patient derived information and dependent on a patient specific authorization protocol; the third computer network confirming a patient specific consent protocol; and the third computer network disclosing the electronic medical record to the remote user dependent upon an authorization and a confirmation received from the third computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Hipaat, Inc.
    Inventors: Terrance Callahan, Roman Bialach, Chun Man Yeung
  • Patent number: 10902946
    Abstract: A method of supporting user adherence to a medication regimen includes storing received medication information associated with one or more medications using a patient wearable device and a coordinated care platform. The method also includes displaying identification and dosing information associated with the medications, generating a notification indicating that the identification information is being displayed, monitoring a response input indicating that the medications have been administered. For each of the one or more medications displayed, the method includes generating a medication status describing that either (i) the medication has been administered or (ii) the response has not been received. The method further includes generating a reminder notification when the medication status indicates that the response has not been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: WATCHRX, INC.
    Inventors: Jayanthi Narasimhan, Arun Buduri
  • Patent number: 10881784
    Abstract: A medication safety device and method can include an infusion pump and a drug library in communication with the infusion pump. The drug library can have upper hard and soft limits and lower hard and soft limits associated with at least one drug. A graphical user interface can display a bar chart showing upper and lower soft limit bars for the at least one drug. The upper and lower soft limit bars can be grabbed and dragged on the graphical user interface in touch-screen fashion to new positions associated with new upper and lower soft limits. The graphical user interface and associated hardware and software can be configurable to responsively re-analyze data and compare a particular infusion to the new upper and lower soft limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.
    Inventors: Grant Adams, Eric Wilkowske, Alison Bloomquist
  • Patent number: 10874796
    Abstract: A device for locating and operating a medical device having different operational modes is provided. The device comprises a first database, wherein from a plurality of different operational modes for the medical device and from a plurality of different geographical positions of use for operation of the medical device, a predetermined operational mode is assigned to a geographical position of use. A positioning means is adapted to be provided at the medical device and to determine the geographical position of the medical device, and a control means is connected to the positioning means and the database and is adapted to determine, by mapping the determined geographical position of the medical device with the geographical positions of use stored in the first database, the predetermined operational mode which is assigned to the geographical position where the medical device is located, and to set the medical device to said predetermined operational mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Micrel Medical Devices, S.A.
    Inventor: Achilleas Tsoukalis
  • Patent number: 10872700
    Abstract: A method is disclosed, which may include generating, in a natural language processing (NLP) system, a plurality of entity data objects. The method may include generating, in the NLP system, a plurality of activity data objects. The method may include generating, on at least one server, an evaluation data object. The evaluation data object may include a problem data object, an observation data object, or an action data object. The method may include configuring each problem data object, observation data object, or action data object of the evaluation data object with a scoring rubric. Other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: HealthStream, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Frist, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10839947
    Abstract: The present invention embodiments are directed to methods, systems, and computer programs for identifying relations, within at least one taxonomy, between taxonomy categories and concepts extracted from electronic content. The relations represent semantic similarities for the concepts. The concepts are clustered based on the identified relations within the at least one taxonomy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Barker, Murthy V. Devarakonda, Ching-Huei Tsou
  • Patent number: 10832802
    Abstract: The present invention embodiments are directed to methods, systems, and computer programs for identifying relations, within at least one taxonomy, between taxonomy categories and concepts extracted from electronic content. The relations represent semantic similarities for the concepts. The concepts are clustered based on the identified relations within the at least one taxonomy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Barker, Murthy V. Devarakonda, Ching-Huei Tsou
  • Patent number: 10762172
    Abstract: 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 used to continue to track the medication, the one or more characteristics including less than a total number of characteristics associated with the medication to be administered, and tracking the medication to be administered in accordance with the identified one or more characteristics through one or more future video images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Ai Cure Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Adam Hanina, Gordon Kessler, Lei Guan
  • Patent number: 10748656
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and kits for collecting health measurement data and processing the health measurement data to generate alerts and modify patient treatment plans. An example system can be configured to (i) receive data defining a plurality of health sensors; and (ii) generate, based on the data, application logic configured to cause, in response to one user input, a user device to: (a) couple to the plurality of health sensors, thereby establishing communication between the user device and each of the plurality of health sensors, and (b) provide instructions to a user of the user device through an interface of the user device. The instructions can comprise instructions for taking health measurements using the plurality of health sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Harmonize Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Zhao, Juvairiya Saidu Pulicharam
  • Patent number: 10734115
    Abstract: Methods are provided for validating theoretical improvements in the decision-support processes facilitating surveillance and monitoring of a patient's risk for developing a particular disease or condition and detecting the disease or condition. Patient information is received from a source and populated into an active risk assessment that monitors the patient's risk for developing Sepsis. At least a first and second set of actionable criteria for determining a patient's risk for developing sepsis are received. For each set of actionable criteria, it is determined that actionable criteria have been met. In some embodiments, software agents, operating in a multi-agent computing platform, perform each determination of whether actionable criteria are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc
    Inventors: Douglas S. McNair, John Christopher Murrish, Kanakasabha Kailasam, Mark A. Hoffman, Hugh Ryan, Bharat Sutariya, Leo V. Perez, John Kuckelman
  • Patent number: 10720227
    Abstract: Provided are methods and devices for mutation prioritization, which are helpful in personalized therapy of a patient. Also, provided are methods and devices for generating a disease knowledgebase. Information present in various categories of knowledge sources with respect to a particular association of <Disease, Gene, Mutation> set may be identified. The identified information is ranked with respect to the disease knowledgebase to find out the most relevant ones for the treatment of a particular Disease/Gene/Mutation of a patient, thereby enabling medical experts to personalize a therapy to be administered to a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Garima Agarwal, Srikanth Rama Mallavarapu, Ajit Shyamsunder Bopardikar, Taejin Ahn
  • Patent number: 10706959
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods and systems for parsing information from messages containing a standardized electronic document format, such as a continuity of care document (“CCD”), and for generating referrals and other documents using data parsed from the messages and/or standardized electronic document format. In some embodiments, a message containing a CCD may be received, the CCD and the message may be parsed to extract information (e.g., patient information), the patient information may be mapped into a document template, and an electronic document containing mapped referral parameters may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Advisory Board Company
    Inventors: Russell Tevis, Marilyn Mamakai Agbeko, Louis Allen Parisi
  • Patent number: 10706476
    Abstract: Computer implemented methods and systems for bundled payment adjudication are disclosed. The method includes receiving patient information of patient. The patient information comprises at least patient identifier and clinical episode of patient. The method includes generating episode card for patient to avail healthcare services from one or more healthcare service providers for predefined time. The episode card includes claims submission information for healthcare services availed by patient from one or more healthcare service providers. The method includes receiving one or more claims associated with patient from at least one healthcare service provider. Each claim is associated with one or more healthcare services availed by patient for clinical episode using episode card. The method includes processing one or more claims for determining validity of each claim based on set of episode definition parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Novera, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Niemeyer
  • Patent number: 10660824
    Abstract: The present invention describes a novel system, drug delivery device, mobile App, drug specific drug dispensing algorithm, and method to improve medication safety and effectiveness via the utilization of drug specific algorithms to control drug dispensing, avoid drug mediated adverse events, ensure prescription persistence and promote prescription compliance on a cost-effective real-time basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventor: Edmund L. Valentine
  • Patent number: 10606983
    Abstract: Healthcare is administered to members/enrollees of a healthcare plan according to objective quality standards. A patient population of eligible members/enrollees is identified and for each member/enrollee, medical information is aggregated via a web-based compilation of medical data from multiple sources that is continuously updated so as to provide an accurate, up-to-date and readily accessible compilation of a member/enrollee past diagnoses, healthcare history, medical procedures, medications and the like. Such member/enrollees are continuously tracked, on an individual basis, and monitored to ensure healthcare is delivered for a variety of specific medical conditions pursuant to objective health program quality criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: QUALITY STANDARDS, LLC
    Inventor: Debra Thesman
  • Patent number: 10568512
    Abstract: A control method of an information terminal causes a display to display a display screen which includes a first display region and a second display region. The first display region displays an object medical image. The second display region displays M number of similar medical images and includes ND number of individual regions for displaying the M number of the similar medical images. When an instruction from one or more instruction buttons is detected, a display size of each corresponding region of interest that is included in the second number of the similar medical images is changed while maintaining a size of each of the individual regions in the second display region, and each of the similar medical images is magnified at a magnification ratio of a reference thumbnail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Kozuka, Kazutoyo Takata, Kenji Kondo, Hirohiko Kimura, Toyohiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10543152
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for providing an auditing feature capable of verifying a prescription has been correctly dispensed by a pharmacy are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention relate to a system, apparatus, and/or method for automatically checking a customer's prescription information against known information related to the customer and/or the prescription contents in order to verify that the dispensed prescription is correct. It follows that an attentive and accurate dispensing process may be made available for a pharmacy to dispense prescriptions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Nichole R. Cotter, Donnamarie A. Christie, Averill D. Gordon
  • Patent number: 10349833
    Abstract: A medical image managed by a medical information management system is displayed in a layout region that is displayed on a display of an information terminal, and thumbnail images of similar cases received from a case retrieval system are displayed in a case display region. In the layout region, a display box displaying a thumbnail image of a diagnosis object case and display boxes displaying thumbnail images selected from the thumbnail images displayed in the case display region are displayed adjacent to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Kondo, Kazutoyo Takata, Kazuki Kozuka, Hirohiko Kimura, Toyohiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10327640
    Abstract: A control method of an information terminal according to the present disclosure causes a display to display a display screen which includes a first display region displaying an object medical image and a second display region displaying M number of similar medical images. When one instruction for magnifying any one similar medical image among the M number of similar medical images is sensed, with respect to the M number of or fewer similar medical images in the M number of ranges that are displayed in the second display region upon sensing the one instruction, a corresponding region of interest in each of the M number of or fewer similar medical images is magnified so as to match a position corresponding to a center of each of individual regions in the second display region while maintaining a size of each of the individual regions at a same size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Kozuka, Kazutoyo Takata, Kenji Kondo, Hirohiko Kimura, Toyohiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10235643
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media for accessing clinical information on a mobile device are provided. A plug-in application receives from a mobile device a set of authorization credentials and a request for clinical information. A set of clinical information is determined based on the set of authorization credentials. The set of clinical information is retrieved from clinical information servers, and the set of clinical information is parsed and populated into a generic hierarchical structure. The populated hierarchical structure is communicated to the mobile device where it is subsequently rendered for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Nicholas Sawka