Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080282095 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING AND/OR PROVIDING PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DATA OF A DATA OWNER - In a method to transfer and/or to provide personal electronic data of an owner, in particular health-related electronic data of a patient, the personal electronic data are transferred and/or provided in a form stored on a data medium, at least partially encrypted, together with at least one decryptor for at least partial decryption, as well as at least one mechanism to present and/or to access and/or to enable the presentation of and/or the access to at least one part of the personal electronic data. | 11-13-2008 |
20090012811 | METHOD TO COLLECT AND OFFER CERTIFIED INFORMATION ON OPTIMIZED CLINICAL PROCESSES TO HEALTH INSTITUTIONS USING SEARCH ENGINES - A system and method develop and distribute model descriptions for benchmarked and optimized clinical workflows. Benchmarked clinical workflows may be developed and a corresponding database built. The database may be remotely searchable via a search engine over a communications network, such as the Internet. Remote health institution customers may remotely access and download virtual representations of benchmarked clinical workflows. The benchmarked clinical workflows may be modified or optimized to account for the characteristics and/or restrictions of a remote health institution. The savings associated with the benchmarked or optimized clinical workflows may be automatically derived and quantified with respect to manpower, money, and time. In one aspect, the benchmarked clinical workflows may have associated interactive software applications or include modifications to existing software applications that may operate on a customer's local workstation. The software applications may facilitate medical procedures and/or the operation of medical equipment, including medical imaging devices. | 01-08-2009 |
20090024413 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MANAGE CROSS INSTITUTIONAL MAMMA CARCINOMA CARE PLANS - A system and method dynamically update the status of a care plan to be performed at different locations. Worksteps of the care plan may be performed at a number dispersed medical facilities and/or specialists. Data regarding a workstep may be locally entered at the facility that performs the workstep. A virtual representation of the care plan may then be updated, and subsequently remotely accessed via a communications network by other medical facilities to view the current status of the care plan. For instance, before a current workstep is performed, medical personnel may view textual information detailing and images acquired during the performance of a previous workstep performed at a different facility. As a result, an effective and efficient means of transferring information regarding the patient and care plan among medical facilities is provided. Additionally, the performance of each medical facility and individual specialist may be evaluated and the results displayed. | 01-22-2009 |
20090048873 | Method and system to manage coronary artery disease care - A system and method updates the status of an individual care plan to be performed at different locations. Worksteps of the care plan may be performed at a number dispersed medical facilities and/or specialists. Data regarding a workstep may be locally entered at the facility that performs the workstep. A data base of the individual care plan may then be updated, and subsequently remotely accessed via a communications network by other medical facilities to view the current status of the care plan. For instance, before a current workstep is performed, medical personnel may view textual information detailing and images acquired during the performance of a previous workstep performed at a different facility. As a result, an effective and efficient means of transferring information regarding the patient and care plan among medical facilities is provided. | 02-19-2009 |
20090070137 | Method and system to optimize quality of patient care paths - A system and method for optimizing status of a care plan is described, the method including defining a care plan as worksteps associated by a rule-based process. Historical data is collected for a plurality of worksteps for such attributes as diagnosis, clinical outcome and cost. The data may be analyzed by data mining techniques so as to discover the optimum relationships between the patient symptoms, the worksteps and a success criteria. The success criteria may include correct diagnosis, equipment use efficiency, cost, and successful clinical outcome. The rule-based process may be modified to take account of the optimum relationships. A patient presenting with a constellation of symptoms may have the symptoms compared with care plans success ranking to determine an optimum care plan. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070143 | Method and system for differential diagnosis neuro solution - A system and method for diagnosing neurological syndromes is described. A form-based data entry device is used to collect data about the current state of the patient, and the data is supplemented by such data as may be available for a patient history medical data base. A rule-based analysis engine is used to process the data so as to produce a diagnosis of one of ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, or other non-stroke syndrome, and a suitable care path recommended. The rule-based engine may be modified to reflect the capabilities and diagnostic equipment suite available at a specific medical facility, and to implement a version of an approved medical protocol consistent with the local constraints. The diagnosis is linkable to a suitable care path plan. Some of all of the form-based data may be entered by emergency personnel while the patient is in transit to the treatment facility. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070144 | Method and system for stroke prevention and care - A system and method for evaluating patient risk factors and managing the care of patients with risk factors for neurological syndromes is described. A form-based data entry device is used to retrieve medical history data of a patient, to enter updated data, and to request further medical tests and studies. A rule-based analysis engine is used to process the data so as to permit a user to interact with the system so as to determine a suitable care path for either long-term or acute situations. The rule-based engine may be modified to reflect the capabilities and diagnostic equipment suite available at a specific medical facility, and to implement a version of an approved medical protocol consistent with the local constraints. Some of all of the form-based data may be entered by emergency personnel while the patient is in transit to the treatment facility. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070145 | Method and system for coronary artery disease care - A system and method for evaluating patient risk factors and managing the care of patients with risk factors or symptoms of cardiovascular disease is described. A form-based data entry device is used to retrieve medical history data of a patient, to enter updated data, and to request further medical tests and studies. A rule-based analysis engine is used to process the data so as to permit a user to interact with the system so as to determine a suitable care path for either long-term or acute situations. The rule-based engine may be modified to reflect the capabilities and diagnostic equipment suite available at a specific medical facility, and to implement a version of an approved medical protocol consistent with the local constraints. Some of the form-based data may be entered by emergency personnel while the patient is in transit to the treatment facility. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070146 | Method for managing the release of data - A system and method is described for managing the release of information from a personal electronic health record (EHR). A central data warehouse maintains at least a part of the HER along with at least a copy of a patient's permission plan for the release of data to others in the health care system. Requests for information may be made by addressees, each addressee possessing credentials. The system and method compares the credentials of the addressee with the personal permissions plan and releases the information permitted by the permissions plan. Where information is denied by the plan, the patient may be offered the opportunity to modify profiles of the plan so as to permit the release of information. The patient may be provided with background information on the need for release of the data, and legal aspects of the release of the data so as to make an informed choice. | 03-12-2009 |
20090076839 | SEMANTIC SEARCH SYSTEM - A semantic search is provided. The semantic search generates related terms that relate to a search term using a selected ontology domain. The related terms may be compared to information in a medical document. The semantic search may also generate related terms for the medical document. The related terms for the medical document may be compared to the related terms that relate to the search term. | 03-19-2009 |
20090077024 | SEARCH SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING A SECURED MEDICAL SERVER - A search system for searching a secured medical server is provided. The system includes a web-portal and a medical server. The web-portal communicates with a processor and a memory. The processor is operable to communicate with the memory, which is operable to store a medical server password and a medical server location. The medical server includes the medical documents and an access portal. The access portal protects the medical documents in the medical server. The access portal is operable to provide access to the medical documents when provided with the medical server password. The processor is operable to generate and transmit a request signal including a request for information and the medical server password to the healthdata server. | 03-19-2009 |
20090144079 | Patient identification mechanism in a telemonitoring system - A method and a system for obtaining measurement data collected from an object by means of a medical measurement device from a plurality of medical measurement devices. The medical measurement device is personalized by transmitting personalization information to the medical measurement device, the personalization information being related to the object from which the measurement data is to be collected. | 06-04-2009 |
20090185679 | Method for electronically signing electronic documents and method for verifying an electronic signature - A medical professional registers himself with the trust centre (TC) or trusted registry (TR) acting on behalf of and/or operated by the mobile communication service provider. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the trust centre or trusted registry generates a pair of keys (“private key, public key”) and associates the private key with the mobile-phone identity (IMEI, SIM-chip-number or phone number) in a secret table stored at the TC or TR. The TC or TR also associates the public key with the medical author's name (plus office address) as an entry into a directory. | 07-23-2009 |
20090210714 | Method for electronically signing electronic documents and method for verifying an electronic signature - A medical professional registers himself with the trust centre (TC) or trusted registry (TR) acting on behalf of and/or operated by the mobile communication service provider. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the trust centre or trusted registry generates a pair of keys (“private key, public key”) and associates the private key with the mobile-phone identity (IMEI, SIM-chip-number or phone number) in a secret table stored at the TC or TR. The TC or TR also associates the public key with the medical author's name (plus office address) as an entry into a directory. | 08-20-2009 |
20090228444 | System and method for minimizing transmitted data between diverse institutions - A system and method transmitting data in heterogeneous networks is described. A plurality of fillable forms is available to a user, each form having a name and metadata corresponding to the data fields that are displayable or retrievable by the form. The same form name is associated with the same metadata at another site, which may be another user or a central data base. When data values are filled in a form, the data values and the form name is transmitted over a network interface. At another location, the data values are received over a network interface, and a form having the same name as that of the received data is retrieved from a forms data base at the receiving location and used either to display the received data values in a form substantially the same as the transmitting form, or to formulate a query to a data base. | 09-10-2009 |
20090248439 | CONTROLLING AND OPTIMIZING PATIENT PATHWAYS WITHIN AND ACROSS HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - The present invention relates to a system to control and optimize clinical pathways of a plurality of patients within a medical facility as well as across several medical facilities. The method of controlling and optimizing pathways uses real-time localization devices for patients, resources, such as clinical images and employees of the medical facility (e.g. a service technician, a senior consultant or the like). Based on the local position of patients, staff members and/or resources, the system proposes a medical system that generates clinical pathways for patients, is adapted to change clinical pathways and to provide schedules for patients as well as the use of resources. | 10-01-2009 |
20100041963 | Cerebral and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Using Optical -Magnetic Resonance Hybrid Imaging - The invention provides a computer implemented method for calculating a chronic disease risk index for a patient undergoing a first examination, the method comprising providing a first result of the first examination wherein the first examination is selected from a group of medical imaging method;
| 02-18-2010 |
20100042436 | DISEASE ORIENTED USER INTERFACES - There is provided a method and system for case-specific information retrieval from a medical database system. The information to be retrieved comprises at least two categories, clinical guidelines related information and patient related information. The method comprises the steps of accessing a database for retrieval of the clinical guidelines related information and accessing a database for retrieval of the patient related data; matching the accesses; displaying the retrieved clinical guidelines related information and the patient related information and the matched pairs of accesses. | 02-18-2010 |
20110161098 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING A PLURALITY OF MEDICAL DATA SOURCES - An embodiment of the invention explains a method and system for accessing medical data. The method involves providing access to medical data from the plurality of medical data sources and then correlating the medical data from the plurality of sources based on predefined rules. Then a medical expert reviews the correlated medical data by medical expert and associate expert information from the medical expert regarding the correlation of the medical data from different sources to the medical data. | 06-30-2011 |
20130142313 | Contour Collimator Having a Liquid Impermeable to X-Rays - A contour collimator and a method for setting a contour of a radiation path of an x-ray are provided. A liquid impermeable to the x-ray forms the contour. | 06-06-2013 |
20130202091 | Contour Collimator and Adaptive Filter with Electroactive Polymer Elements and Associated Method - A contour collimator and an adaptive filter as well as an associated method for adjusting a contour of a ray path of x-ray radiation are provided. The contour collimator and the adaptive filter include fluid impermeable for x-ray radiation and a number of electroactive polymer elements actively connected to the fluid. On application of an electrical voltage to the electroactive polymer elements, an aperture forming the contour in the fluid is formed. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202092 | Contour Collimator and Adaptive Filter Having a Magnetic Fluid Absorbing X-Ray Radiation and Associated Method - A contour collimator or an adaptive filter for adjusting a contour of a ray path of x-ray radiation is provided. The apparatus includes a magnetic fluid that is impermeable to x-ray radiation and a number of switchable magnet elements, by which an aperture forming the contour may be formed in the magnetic fluid. | 08-08-2013 |
20140025399 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A PATIENT FOR LATER ACCESS TO AN ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD FOR THE PATIENT USING A COMMUNICATION DEVICE BELONGING TO AN INQUIRING PERSON - A method for identifying a patient for later access to an electronic patient record for the patient using a communication device belonging to an inquiring person. The patient record is stored in a database using a primary key which serves to identify the patient and which has at least one unambiguously associated secondary key, where the secondary key used to identify a patient is at least one subscriber information item which characterizes a subscriber in a wireless communication network. The secondary key for identification is transmitted between a mobile terminal used for communication in the wireless communication network and a portal via the at least one communication network. | 01-23-2014 |
20140052815 | FACILITATING A STATELESS TRANSMISSION OF DATA IN AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM - A method for facilitating a stateless transmission of data between data sources and client devices may be provided. A message is received from each of the data sources. The message includes data obtained by the respective data source and data indicative of a destination address for the data. The destination address is associated with a client device of the client devices. For each message, the data is stored based on the destination address for the data. A request for data is received from one of the client devices. The request includes data indicative of an address associated with the one of the plurality of client devices. When the address associated with the one of the plurality of client devices corresponds to the destination address for any of the stored data, the stored data with the corresponding destination address is transmitted to the one of the client devices. | 02-20-2014 |
20140331406 | Patient Transportation Systems - A patient transportation system includes: a patient transportation device configured to dock with a medical instrument, the patient transportation device having a plurality of wheels; a registration apparatus configured to register information; and a control unit configured to change at least one wheel position of at least one wheel of the plurality of wheels based on information registered by the registration apparatus. The system may be used to assist operating staff when the patient transportation device approaches the medical instrument. | 11-13-2014 |
20150007390 | Patient Transport System - A patient transport system includes a patient transport device configured to be docked on a medical instrument, and a detection device configured to determine information relevant to an approach, occurring during docking, of the patient transport device to the medical instrument. The patient transport system assists the docking procedure of the patient transport device on the medical instrument. | 01-08-2015 |
20150032633 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM FOR MOBILE DEVICES FOR EXCHANGING MEDICAL DATA - An authentication system, a mobile electronic device, an instantiating unit and a method, as well as a computer program product are disclosed for the authentication of a patient against a central registry which exchanges data with a repository for the storage of medical data records. In an embodiment, an individualised application is loaded and installed on the mobile radio device in order to sign messages to the registry with a signature. The signature can be triggered in the registry to check the authenticity of the remote patient in order to provide data access. | 01-29-2015 |
20150044971 | Generator Control Device - A generator control device for a system generating x-radiation, and a corresponding operating method, arrangement and system are provided. The operating method for the generator control device includes providing configuration data for the system that generates the x-radiation via at least one first communication interface. The method also includes receiving at least one signal for triggering generation of the x-radiation via a second communication interface or the first communication interface. The method includes receiving information for displaying image data from a unit receiving the x-radiation, and providing at least one smart device with the information via a further communication interface. | 02-12-2015 |
20150065866 | METHOD FOR REPOSITIONING A MOBILE IMAGING SYSTEM, IMAGE CAPTURING UNIT AND OPTICAL MARKER - A method for repositioning a mobile imaging system includes:
| 03-05-2015 |
20150087997 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A BREATHING MOVEMENT OF AN OBJECT UNDER EXAMINATION - A method and device for determining a breathing movement of an object under examination is provided for the method includes determining a breathing movement of an object under examination and includes receiving a mathematical breathing model, the mathematical breathing model including a displacement of a thoracic cage of the object under examination over time, using a projection means to project a structured image pattern onto a sagittal plane and onto a thoracic region of the object under examination, using a camera to record a sequence of at least two images of the thoracic region of the object under examination, and adapting the mathematical breathing model at least in dependence on the recorded sequence of images of the thoracic region of the object under examination. The invention also describes a corresponding device for determining a breathing movement of an object under examination. | 03-26-2015 |