Patents by Inventor Harold Kenneth Shumaker

Harold Kenneth Shumaker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7788111
    Abstract: A comprehensive database system employs common medical terms, vocabularies and identifiers in identifying organizational characteristics as well as location availability and suitability for delivering services by a particular physician to a patient with particular medical conditions via a user friendly display interface. A system for providing healthcare related information comprises a database incorporating information identifying an encompassing organization and multiple constituent organizations of the encompassing organization including a constituent organization type identifier. The database information also incorporates location information identifying multiple locations in a constituent organization available to accommodate a patient for different purposes and includes a location type identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Emmons Haskell, Gary Hardel, Harold Kenneth Shumaker
  • Patent number: 7437302
    Abstract: A comprehensive database system employs common medical terms, vocabularies and identifiers in identifying organizational characteristics as well as location availability and suitability for delivering services by a particular physician to a patient with particular medical conditions via a user friendly display interface. A system for managing healthcare data including codes, terms and identifiers supports operation of a healthcare enterprise. The system includes a first database including healthcare data including elements common to a plurality of healthcare organizations and derived from a plurality of different sources. The healthcare data common elements support use of consistent terminology between the plurality of organizations. A processor provides at least a portion of the healthcare data in the first database to a second database employed by at least one of the plurality of organizations in response to user command. The second database also supports use of user selectable items of healthcare data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Emmons Haskell, Gary Hardel, Harold Kenneth Shumaker
  • Publication number: 20030078911
    Abstract: A comprehensive database system employs common medical terms, vocabularies and identifiers in identifying organizational characteristics as well as location availability and suitability for delivering services by a particular physician to a patient with particular medical conditions via a user friendly display interface. A system for providing healthcare related information comprises a database incorporating information identifying an encompassing organization and multiple constituent organizations of the encompassing organization including a constituent organization type identifier. The database information also incorporates location information identifying multiple locations in a constituent organization available to accommodate a patient for different purposes and includes a location type identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Robert Emmons Haskell, Gary Hardel, Harold Kenneth Shumaker
  • Publication number: 20030078813
    Abstract: A comprehensive database system employs common medical terms, vocabularies and identifiers in identifying organizational characteristics as well as location availability and suitability for delivering services by a particular physician to a patient with particular medical conditions via a user friendly display interface. A system for managing healthcare data including codes, terms and identifiers supports operation of a healthcare enterprise. The system includes a first database including healthcare data including elements common to a plurality of healthcare organizations and derived from a plurality of different sources. The healthcare data common elements support use of consistent terminology between the plurality of organizations. A processor provides at least a portion of the healthcare data in the first database to a second database employed by at least one of the plurality of organizations in response to user command. The second database also supports use of user selectable items of healthcare data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Robert Emmons Haskell, Gary Hardel, Harold Kenneth Shumaker