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20080234587 | AMBULATORY PATIENT MONITORING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A patient monitoring device that combines physiological data collection with actigraphy data collection and associates the physiological data with synchronous actigraphy data. A method for processing actigraphy data by calculating absolute difference vectors of actigraphy signal vectors. | 09-25-2008 |
20080234589 | BLOOD PRESSURE ALGORITHM - A apparatus and method for non-invasively measuring blood pressure. Cuff pressure and oscillometric signals are generated. The signals are conditioned by a plurality of linear filters to remove artifacts and local trends. Rank-order filters are applied to the conditioned oscillometric signal to detect upper and lower envelops. The systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure are calculated using a plurality of multidimensional threshold vectors. | 09-25-2008 |
20090198140 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATION OF FLUID RESPONSIVENESS - The present invention discloses a method and related apparatus for determining a cardiac parameter from either the arterial blood pressure signal or the photoplethysmographic signal to quantify the degree of amplitude modulation due to respiration (pulse pressure variation) and predict fluid responsiveness. The method involves the application of Lempel-Ziv complexity to a filtered and segmented physiologic signal for direct determination of the fluid status of a patient. Real-time monitoring of fluid status involves the implementation of the disclosed method as part of a bedside monitoring apparatus. | 08-06-2009 |
20090281830 | COLLABORATION MARKETPLACE PLATFORM SYSTEM FOR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS - An integrated collaborative platform which allows for data sharing, data analysis, knowledge creation and sharing, problem solving, trading, and accelerated scientific discovery by collaborating teams which may be formed on an ad-hoc basis among users of the system is disclosed. The platform is designed to accelerate research and improve clinical care of chronic conditions. It provides a central place to facilitate interactions between the many different groups that participate in these activities. The central features of the system can be tailored to best suit each chronic condition. | 11-12-2009 |
20100030119 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT OF MOTOR SYMPTOMS IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND ESSENTIAL TREMOR WITH WEARABLE SENSORS - Disclosed embodiments include an apparatus for generating a plurality of movement impairment indices from one or more kinematic signals to characterize movement disorders. Additionally we disclose methods for generating a plurality of movement impairment indices from one or more kinematic signals obtained from one or more kinematic sensors, said methods implemented in a digital computer with one or more processors in order to characterize movement disorders based on spectral analysis, regularity metrics, and time-frequency analsysis. | 02-04-2010 |
20100042013 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS HIGH-FREQUENCY TEMPERATURE ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS - We disclose a system, an apparatus, and a method for high frequency temperature monitoring and analysis. According to a disclosed embodiment the system comprises: (a) a wireless temperature acquisition and logging device especially designed for multi-day, high-frequency, and high-resolution temperature sampling; and (b) an analysis system implemented in a digital computer with one or more processors in order to analyze and characterize said temperature using a plurality of methods including complexity analysis techniques such as Lempel-Ziv complexity, Approximate Entropy, Sample Entropy, Multiscale Entropy, and Detrended Fluctuation Analysis; and other statistical time-series analysis techniques. According to one embodiment the temperature monitoring system is designed to capture the dynamic aspects of temperature in order to enable researchers and clinicians to study temperature regulation, thermal physiology, and clinical thermometry. | 02-18-2010 |
20100076348 | COMPLETE INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF MOVEMENT DISORDERS - Disclosed embodiments include a complete integrated system designed to support continuous monitoring and objective analysis of movement disorders. According to one embodiment the integrated system allows for continuous monitoring of movement disorders during normal daily activities in home and other normal daily environments, as well as in the clinic. The integrated system comprises: 1) wearable movement monitoring devices including a plurality of inertial sensors, 2) a docking station with wireless capabilities, 3) a secure web-enabled data server, and 4) statistical signal processing methods, all of which are integrated to enable monitoring and analysis of movement disorders. | 03-25-2010 |
20100128104 | Communication System for Remote Patient Visits and Clinical Status Monitoring - Disclosed embodiments include a telemedicine communication system designed to make possible “virtual” patient visits by approved visitors such as the spouse, family, and friends of the hospitalized patient having the appropriate digital certificate and visitation/communication permissions. According to one embodiment, the system enables relatives to visit hospitalized patients using audiovisual communication modalities selected according to the severity and health status of the patient. Additionally, the system provides functionality to enable approved relatives to follow the health status of the patient according to their permissions. | 05-27-2010 |
20100145236 | System and Apparatus for Continuous Monitoring of Movement Disorders - Disclosed embodiments include a complete system and platform which allows for continuous monitoring of movement disorders during normal daily activities in the clinic, home, and other normal daily environments. The system comprises: 1) a wearable apparatus for continuous monitoring of movement disorders, 2) a docking station, 3) a web server, and 4) methods for statistical analysis that generate movement impairment measures. Disclosed embodiments include a wearable movement monitoring apparatus comprising of (a) a sensor module including a plurality of low power micro-electromechanical systems kinematics sensors; (b) a microprocessor module including a low power microcontroller configured for device control, device status, and device communication; (c) a data storage module including a solid state local storage medium; (d) a wireless communication module including a low power surface mount transceiver and an integrated antenna; and (e) a power and docking module including a battery, an energy charging regulator circuit, and a docking connector. | 06-10-2010 |
20100183690 | Insect Repellent Textile - Disclosed embodiments include a textile with insect repellent properties comprising (a) a natural or synthetic fabric, (b) a microencapsulated active ingredient having insect repellent properties, and (c) a resin solution to attach said microencapsulated active ingredients to the fabric. According to a particular embodiment, and without limitation, the insect repellent textile uses a resin solution with a concentration designed to control the degree of wash fastness and gradual release of the microencapsulated active ingredient embedded in the textile in order for it to be gradually released by skin pressure and friction. A plurality of microencapsulated active ingredients could be used including microencapsulated permethrin or toluamide. | 07-22-2010 |
20100268551 | SYSTEM FOR DATA MANAGEMENT, ANALYSIS, AND COLLABORATION OF MOVEMENT DISORDER DATA - Disclosed embodiments include a system for managing clinical data comprising: (a) a server configured to receive data from one or more external devices, and (b) a clinical data management application comprising one module for storing raw movement data received directly from at least one external device. The system is especially adapted for research in movement disorders and contains modules for investigators, collaborators, clinical subjects, and objective devices to upload movement disorders data, analyze data, obtain results of automatic analysis, publish results, and collaborate with other investigators. | 10-21-2010 |
20110224517 | Method, System, and Apparatus for Automatic Detection of Obstructive Sleep Apnea from Oxygen Saturation Recordings - Disclosed embodiments include a method for automatic detection of sleep apnea implemented in a medical apparatus, the method comprising (a) extracting a plurality of signal features by analyzing an oxygen saturation signal, (b) performing dimensionality reduction on the plurality of signal features to generate a plurality of signal features in a transformed space; and (c) displaying a sleep apnea diagnosis result based on a statistical classifier that operates on the plurality of signal features in a transformed space. | 09-15-2011 |
20120296182 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING SLEEP APNEA SEVERITY - Disclosed embodiments include a method and an apparatus for monitoring sleep apnea severity that comprise: (a) analyzing an oxygen saturation signal to extract a plurality of time-domain and frequency-domain metrics; (b) calculating an oxygen saturation-based Apnea Hyponea Index (AHI) by employing a predetermined functional mapping between said metrics and polysomnography (PSG)-based AHI; and (c) displaying an oxygen saturation-based AHI to enable a specialist to monitor sleep apnea severity without requiring PSG. According to a particular embodiment, the oxygen saturation signal is nocturnal oxygen saturation and the functional mapping is a multilinear regression model (MLR) or a multilayer perceptron network (MLP). | 11-22-2012 |