Patents by Inventor Joyce H. Zoiss

Joyce H. Zoiss 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: 8346573
    Abstract: A method of determining a medical triage disposition for a person includes providing to a triage operator through a graphical user interface (GUI) of the computer: (i) a plurality of triage categories each including yes/no questions grouped into tiers that are ranked according to urgency and corresponding to a triage disposition; (ii) a selection of a relevant triage category based on a medical condition of the person; (iii) a quantification tool including follow-up questions related to symptoms, observations, and/or injury mechanisms, to enable the triage operator to quantify a level of severity of a symptom or injury related to yes/no questions of a subjective nature; wherein the triage operator determines a triage disposition for the person by providing triage to the person including: (i) asking, sequentially, the yes/no questions for the relevant triage category as displayed in the GUI; and (ii) asking follow-up questions from the quantification tool to determine whether a response to a yes/no question is
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Medcor, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas H. Glimp, Troyt M. Victorson, Diane M. Kinch, Wendy K. Biggerstaff, Joyce H. Zoiss
  • Publication number: 20100250286
    Abstract: A method of determining a medical triage disposition for a person includes providing to a triage operator through a graphical user interface (GUI) of the computer: (i) a plurality of triage categories each including yes/no questions grouped into tiers that are ranked according to urgency and corresponding to a triage disposition; (ii) a selection of a relevant triage category based on a medical condition of the person; (iii) a quantification tool including follow-up questions related to symptoms, observations, and/or injury mechanisms, to enable the triage operator to quantify a level of severity of a symptom or injury related to yes/no questions of a subjective nature; wherein the triage operator determines a triage disposition for the person by providing triage to the person including: (i) asking, sequentially, the yes/no questions for the relevant triage category as displayed in the GUI; and (ii) asking follow-up questions from the quantification tool to determine whether a response to a yes/no question is
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Medcor, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas H. Glimp, Troyt M. Victorson, Diane M. Kinch, Wendy K. Biggerstaff, Joyce H. Zoiss
  • Patent number: 7716070
    Abstract: A method of determining a triage disposition for a person includes providing a plurality of triage categories that includes questions grouped into a plurality of tiers ranked according to urgency. Each of the plurality of tiers corresponds to one of a set of triage dispositions. At least a first relevant triage category and a second relevant triage category can be selected from the plurality of triage categories based on information about a medical condition of the person and then accessed. The person can be triaged by (a) identifying from all of the selected relevant triage categories a highest urgency tier that has at least one unasked question; (b) asking the person one of the at least one unasked question of the highest urgency tier; and (c) repeating (a) and (b) for all of the selected triage categories until the triage disposition is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Medcor, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas H. Glimp, Troyt M. Victorson, Diane M. Kinch, Wendy K. Biggerstaff, Joyce H. Zoiss