Patents Examined by Linh Le
  • Patent number: 7877273
    Abstract: A method for minimizing an individual's predisposition for developing a disease including providing personal information of an individual, querying a first database of disease information with the personal information to determine a disease for which the individual has a predisposition for developing, wherein the query produces disease information, querying one or more second databases with at least a portion of the disease information and/or personal information for obtaining second information for reducing the risk for the individual developing the disease and communicating a result of the query of the lifestyle database to the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventor: Fredric David Abramson
  • Patent number: 7778849
    Abstract: An integrated medical database system for the emergency medical transportation business. The system includes a dispatch module, clinical module, administration module and billing module. Each module may communicate data with one or more of the other modules to form a system incorporating data sharing, thus achieving an end-to-end automation of emergency medical care accounting. Internal consistency checks using specific libraries of modifiable data rules are performed by the system to ensure that proper treatments are performed according to a chosen diagnosis. The system includes a demographic data accuracy filter operating on patient data prior to the billing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Golden Hour Data Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Hutton, Scott J. Jones
  • Patent number: 7739133
    Abstract: Systems consistent with the present invention automatically process data associated with insurance claims to identify insurance claims with subrogation potential. Text from an insurance claim file may be automatically analyzed to extract data that can be quantified to determine whether the claim may have subrogation potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Trover Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitzi R. Hail, Mark Bates
  • Patent number: 7734481
    Abstract: An integrated medical database system for the emergency medical transportation business. In one aspect of the invention, the system includes a dispatch and demographic module, a clinical module, an administration module and a billing module. Each module may communicate data with one or more of the other modules to form a system incorporating data sharing, thus achieving an end-to-end automation of emergency medical care accounting. Internal consistency checks using specific libraries of modifiable data rules are performed by the system to ensure that proper treatments are performed according to a chosen diagnosis. The system includes a compliance audit module operating on data from the dispatch module and clinical module. The compliance audit module checks to ensure that data is consistent with high risk compliance areas. The results of the compliance audit module are forwarded to the billing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Golden Hour Data Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Hutton, Scott J. Jones
  • Patent number: 7685005
    Abstract: A system and method for computer enabled network patient management of medical devices used in chronic disease management. Utilizing web site and push alert notification of alert level physiologic data derived via analysis of continuous stream wireless data transmissions from a patient, a full cycle improvement over existing modalities is achieved. Proxy and medical device user integration and access is enabled to achieve further contribution to the technical advantages of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Riff, Gregory J. Linden, Kurt R. Smith
  • Patent number: 7672857
    Abstract: A system of health care service and an associated method of the administration thereof to a plurality of subscribers including a providing entity organizationally structured to implement a health care program which includes categorizing subscribers desirous of health care service, including preventative services, into a plurality of predetermined profiles. The profiles are defined by personal characteristics including age, gender, clinical history, etc. and each profile is associated with a predetermined curative or preventative treatment regimen with which a respective subscriber is expected to comply. An incentive system is implemented to motivate the subscribers into compliance with the assigned treatment regimen and comprises the assignment of credits and penalties based on a degree of compliance with the treatment regimen. Valuable consideration is awarded to the subscriber evidencing a satisfactory degree of compliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Inventors: Nicanor Padron, Jose Julian Padron