Patents Examined by Rachelle L Reichert
  • Patent number: 10925550
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a medical monitoring hub as the center of monitoring for a monitored patient. The hub includes configurable medical ports and serial ports for communicating with other medical devices in the patient's proximity. Moreover, the hub communicates with a portable patient monitor. The monitor, when docked with the hub provides display graphics different from when undocked, the display graphics including anatomical information. The hub assembles the often vast amount of electronic medical data, associates it with the monitored patient, and in some embodiments, communicates the data to the patient's medical records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Bilal Muhsin, Massi Joe E. Kiani, Anand Sampath, Peter Scott Housel, Eric Karl Kinast
  • Patent number: 10930372
    Abstract: A drug discovery system may include a data platform and a drug discovery module. The data platform may be scalable to include a plurality of data sources. The data sources may include at least a clinical research database providing results of clinical trials. The drug discovery module may include a pharmaco-genomic mapper configured to provide a mapping of drugs to biomarkers based on extraction of information from the data sources, and a genome connect module configured to provide a mapping of biomarkers to diseases based on extraction of information from the data sources. The drug discovery module may include processing circuitry configured to provide a potential drug to disease link based on the mapping of drugs to biomarkers and the mapping of biomarkers to diseases using the biomarkers as a bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Sanjiv Desai, Sreelatha Ghanta
  • Patent number: 10930388
    Abstract: Provided are mechanisms and processes for a physician efficiency management system. According to various examples, the system includes a location sensor that gathers logged medical examination times and logged examination duration times for appointments within a selected time frame. The system also includes a medical schedule processor that compares the logged medical examination times and logged examination duration times to corresponding scheduled appointment times and allotted examination times to determine which of the appointments were behind schedule or overran their allotted duration. The medical schedule processor then generates an efficiency report that includes statistics reflecting the number of appointments that were behind schedule or overran their allotted durations for the selected time frame, and amounts that late appointments ran behind schedule and amounts that appointments overran their allotted times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventors: Deborah T. Bullington, Andrew B. Bullington
  • Patent number: 10929939
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for pulling clinical data associated with a clinic or healthcare practice. The pulled clinical data can be analyzed and/or compared to other clinical data, such as industry clinical data, and subsequently displayed to a user. Additionally, the pulled clinical data can be analyzed so as to determine and generate one or more suggestive actions for improving the efficiency and/or finances of the clinic or healthcare practice in the context of business workflow management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Robert Romeo
  • Patent number: 10922774
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer storage media, and graphical user interfaces for population health management are disclosed. The population health management system may allow for cross-continuum tracking and subsequent interactions with transactional systems, providers, and/or patients. The population health management system may include utilizing clinically relevant algorithms to populate registries to enable healthcare providers to better facilitate care for a population of patients. The population health management system may consolidate and provide comprehensive condition-specific and/or patient situation specific information that is accessible and updatable across venues. The population health management system may create cross venue antibiograms based on medications information and susceptibility results which can be filtered for selected demographics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh H. Ryan, Kelly Michelle Luden, Amanda Kathleen Sullins
  • Patent number: 10636521
    Abstract: A computerized system and method to provide a marketplace for real-time matching of a blood order to a blood supplier based on a variety of variables tracked by the system including real-time marketplace trend statistical analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: BloodSolutions, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Godfrey
  • Patent number: 10586622
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems and methods for predicting healthcare outcomes based on semantic relationships. An active care relationship management system can be configured to receive healthcare information. The system can update a semantic network based on the received health information. The system can evaluate the semantic network to predict a health outcome for a first patient. The system can provide an alert to the first patient or a first provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services
    Inventors: Jeff Livesay, Tim Pletcher
  • Patent number: 10573415
    Abstract: A system and associated method receives, by a database coupled to a communication network, patient medical data from multiple data sources including data retrieved from implantable medical devices implanted in patients. A processor accesses the database to generate a dataset from the medical data having at least one data characteristic matching a corresponding data characteristic of a patient group of at least one patient. At least one subset of the dataset is identified that had a therapy intervention subsequent to a time point that the subset had the matching data characteristic(s). An outcome of the subset is determined and a predictive outcome for the patient group is produced based on the outcome of at least one subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Amisha S. Patel, Kenneth M. Riff, Luc R. Mongeon
  • Patent number: 10490308
    Abstract: Devices, systems, software and methods for CPR quality assessment. Patient data is received that may be derived from a session of administering sets of CPR chest compressions to a patient. The sets can be separated by pauses. Then a figure of merit (FOM) can be computed from the data. In the computation, at least one pause can contribute a penalty to the FOM. The penalty has a value determined from at least one control factor, other than a constant linear dependence on the duration of the pause. This way, pauses can incur penalties to the FOM computation depending on their context, instead of merely their duration. For example, a penalty can escalate non-linearly if its pause becomes unduly long, or if it follows a set of chest compressions that was unduly short. As such, a better CPR quality assessment is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: PHYSIO-CONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: Fred W. Chapman, Robert G. Walker
  • Patent number: 10476821
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a secure messaging engagement hub for structuring of unstructured electronic messages. The secure messaging engagement hub has a natural language processor that structures an unstructured electronic message. The natural language processor structures the unstructured electronic message by using a lexical parser to parse free text within the unstructured electronic message. The natural language processor also may tokenize the parsed free text into tokens representing components of the parsed free text. Message component n-grams are generated based on the tokens representing the components of the parsed free text. The tokens are coded with various metadata tags based on an analysis of the tokens. The metadata tags indicate message components of the tokens. And a structured electronic message corresponding to the unstructured electronic message is generated, the structured electronic message comprising the tokens and the metadata tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: ATOS DIGITAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Asif Ahmad, David Raju Manne, Pranam Ben
  • Patent number: 10430556
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are disclosed to notify and route a customer to a prescription pickup location. A communication device detects the proximity of a prescription customer to an associated pharmacy location. The customer is then notified when the prescription is available at the pharmacy location based on identifying customer information and the location information. Once the pharmacy location is detected, the communication device sends the identifying customer information and the location information to a pharmacy computing device. The communication device then displays a notification that a prescription is available for the prescription customer at the pharmacy based on a determination made by the pharmacy computing device using the location information and the identification information. In addition, the communication device can display a map of the pickup location, various prompts to the customer to establish payment and/or to determine whether the customer has questions for pharmacy staff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Tim McCauley, Jon Turkington, Abhinav Dhar, Dejan Kozic, Nicholas Eby
  • Patent number: 10430555
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining and communicating intervention service opportunities, such as medication therapy management services, that may be available for a patient, as part of processing a healthcare claim transaction. A healthcare claim transaction, such as a prescription benefit request transaction, may be received by the service provider computer from a healthcare provider computer. The service provider computer may determine if an intervention service is available for the patient and if an available intervention service notification has been transmitted to the pharmacy computer prior to the service provider computer receiving the healthcare claim transaction. The service provider computer may receive an approved adjudicated response and generate a patient intervention service form corresponding to the available intervention service for the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MCKESSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Roger G. Pinsonneault, Sr., Scott Burgett
  • Patent number: 10424033
    Abstract: Healthcare practice management systems and methods can be provided for managing the data flow and operation of healthcare practices. One or more applications running on client devices can be provided to facilitate the sharing of information between data storage repositories and the healthcare practice. For example, data stored in multiple different data storage systems can be retrieved and provided to the applications in a unified fashion. Likewise, data in different formats, data stored with different encryption protocols and otherwise disparate data types can be gathered, translated, and presented to the applications in a form and format readable by the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Robert Romeo
  • Patent number: 10354349
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for using geometry sensitivity information for guiding workflows in order to produce reliable models and quantities of interest. One method includes determining a geometric model associated with a target object; determining one or more quantities of interest; determining sensitivity information associated with one or more subdivisions of the geometric model and the one or more quantities of interest; and generating, using a processor, a workflow based on the sensitivity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: HeartFlow, Inc.
    Inventors: Sethuraman Sankaran, Leo J. Grady, Charles A. Taylor
  • Patent number: 10347382
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for tracking antimicrobial resistance based on geography. An application server receives a query from a client application to provide antimicrobial resistance data for a geographic location. The application server determines a geographic region based, at least in part, on the geographic location included in the query, and antimicrobial data for samples collected from patients residing in the geographic region are retrieved from at least one health information datastore of a health information system. The retrieved antimicrobial data comprises information describing antimicrobial resistance of an infectious organism detected in the biological samples to at least one antimicrobial agent, and is transmitted to a client device on which the client application that issued the query is executing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: athenahealth, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Nix, Shayne Guiliano, Anne Meneghetti, Peter Hung, Nathan Wilkinson, Abbe Don, Alexander C. Jergensen, Jeremy Magid
  • Patent number: 10339563
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of processing pre-stored recipient information and configuring a targeted message to be sent to the recipient(s) is disclosed. One example method of operation includes retrieving a list of recipients and corresponding recipient profile information from a database, and comparing the recipient profile information to at least one target lifestyle segment or persona (e.g., demographics, healthcare spending, consumer spending, and media preferences). The method may also include identifying that the list of intended recipients' profile information matches the target persona, and selecting and transferring a pre-recorded, persona-tailored automated voice call script to the list of recipients according to a minimum response threshold value of the target persona.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: WEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott W. Zimmerman, Corey K. DeGeorge
  • Patent number: 10321907
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed which comprises a handle module that is attachable to a detachable shaft module for collectively performing a surgical procedure and an inspection station for connection to the handle module when the handle module is not being used in a surgical procedure. The handle module comprises a handle module memory circuit for storing handle module usage data for the handle module. The inspection station comprises an inspection station processor circuit for determining one or more service recommendations for the handle module based on the handle module usage data stored in the memory of the handle module and based on service recommendation criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jerome R. Morgan, Jason L. Harris, Chester O. Baxter, III
  • Patent number: 10296927
    Abstract: A method includes receiving data encoding search results from at least one search engine, each of the at least one search engine applying an ontology in a corresponding social-media channel, the ontology refined to account for at least one healthcare product and at least one event; retrieving a database that includes relationships between identified event and healthcare indication, the database being developed from historical sales activities of healthcare products and healthcare indications for the healthcare products; and analyzing the search results by: determining at least one event identified by the search results; comparing the at least one event with the retrieved database to determine a corresponding healthcare indication; identifying a healthcare product with the determined corresponding healthcare indication; and correlating the search results about the identified healthcare product with historical sales activities of the identified healthcare product to determine a sales trend for the identified he
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: IQVIA INC.
    Inventors: Luis Soria, Sivakumar Nadarajah
  • Patent number: 10275764
    Abstract: A system and method of tokenizing sensitive cardholder payment information for use in cashless transactions includes receiving a request to process a cashless transaction between a merchant and a purchaser using first payment data stored with an electronic wallet provider on behalf of the purchaser. First payment data is retrieved from the electronic wallet provider. The first payment data is tokenized into a payment token, and provided to the merchant for use in completing the cashless transaction. The merchant issues a request to process payment for the cashless transaction using the payment token. The payment token is detokenized into second payment data, with correspondence between the first and second payment data being indicative of payment token authenticity. Payment for the cashless transaction is processed using the second payment data, and the merchant is provided with a response indicating either the success or failure of the payment processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Obinna Nwokolo, Daniel Goodman
  • Patent number: 10258293
    Abstract: A method is provided for contextualizing manual entries of blood glucose measures for a patient into a patient log of a portable computing device. The method includes: administering a structured collection procedure, where the structured collection procedure specifies two or more collection actions for obtaining blood glucose measures from a patient; generating a reminder notification for a given collection action of the structured collection procedure, where the given collection action is associated with a given event of patient; and displaying a data entry interface upon receipt of an acceptance input from a user in response to the reminder notification, where the data entry interface includes a first input for a blood glucose measure and a second input for an event associated with the blood glucose measure, such that value for the second input is defaulted to the given event from the reminder notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric S. Carlsgaard, Mark G. Mears, Robert E. Reinke, Justin David Adams