38th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 193 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140278505 | System for Processing and Settling Health Care Benefit Claims - An automated system for administering health care insurance claims utilizes a series of rules, including a hierarchal set of Super Rules, specific Client Rules and General Rules, to apply selected criteria to the parameters of each respective insurance claim. When the criteria of a rule filter is met by the specific insurance claim parameters, an action is applied to the claim, allowing the insurance claim to be resolved without manual negotiation of the claim. If the criteria of none of the rule filters are met, the default action is a manual negotiation of the insurance claim by the claims administrator who is provided with a monitor display containing the pertinent information needed to negotiate a settlement discount for the health care service provided. The automated system provides a filter template to facilitate the creates of new rules to be applied to the administration of an insurance claim. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278506 | AUTOMATICALLY EVALUATING AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK ON VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER - Systems and methods for automatically evaluating and providing feedback on verbal communications of a healthcare provider in real-time or near real-time may involve a mobile device. A plurality of configured communication quality parameters may be stored in memory of the mobile device. Audio data produced by the healthcare provider during interaction with a patient may be received through a microphone of the mobile device. The systems and methods may involve executable instructions stored in memory that, when executed, may extract communication quality data from the audio data based on the communication quality parameters, generate feedback information based on the extracted communication quality data, and display the feedback information in real-time or near real-time via a graphical user interface. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278507 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GROWING AND RETAINING THE VALUE OF BRAND DRUGS BY COMPUTER PREDICTIVE MODEL - The present invention is directed to a brand value growth and retention system for brand drugs commercialized by brand drug advertisers through a brand drug's lifecycle during patent exclusivity and after loss of exclusivity. The brand value growth and retention system iteratively analyzes combined computational models of consumer, healthcare provider retailer and payor segment data to produce brand drug promotional campaigns that are predictive with modifying parameters that transform the promotional campaigns over time. As a result, the brand drug promotional campaign generates an increased number of brand drug purchases while predicting the point where incremental promotional campaign investments produce a diminishing number of incremental brand drug purchases. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278508 | NETWORKED MANAGEMENT OF DISPENSABLES - A system enables dispensing, tracking, storage, processing, analysis, management, fulfillment and/or commerce relating to dispensables, such as consumables. The system may include packages that hold consumables and function either independently or in concert with numerous smart configuration devices, such as table top machines or mobile machines, as well as remote servers, databases, and other cloud-based resources. A distributed software layer ties all devices and packages together and adds advanced interactivity, communication, analysis, and self-regulation functionality. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278509 | EDGE TESTS IN BARTER EXCHANGES - An embodiment provides a system including, but not necessarily limited to: a processor; a memory in communication with the processor; and computer readable program executable by the processor and configured to: receive, for one or more edges, testing data; store, for the one or more edges, testing data; create, by preferring successful edges over untested edges, an exchange plan, wherein, the exchange plan comprises one or more edges. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278510 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR SECURELY DISPENSING ONE OR MORE PRESCRIBED SUBSTANCES TO A SECURELY IDENTIFIED INTENDED USER - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for securely dispensing one or more prescribed substances at a given time and/or date are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, a pill dispensing device may include a generally tamper-proof portable housing. A replaceable cartridge may be configured to be removably disposed within the portable housing. The replaceable cartridge also may be generally tamper-proof. The portable housing and/or the replaceable cartridge may be operable to dispense a predefined amount of a prescribed substance at a given time and/or date. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278511 | INFORMATION EXCHANGE FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS - A method is provided for exchanging healthcare information between a plurality of healthcare providers. The method includes providing a software platform which is prepopulated with the profiles of healthcare providers; assigning a prepopulated profile to a healthcare provider via an authentication process, thus establishing the healthcare provider as a member on the platform; establishing a communication means on the platform which allows a member healthcare provider to (a) communicate with other member healthcare providers via secure messages, and (b) exchange healthcare related documents with each other as attachments to the messages; and creating a network associated with a first healthcare provider on the platform by (a) transmitting an invitation initiated by the first healthcare provider to a second healthcare provider inviting the second healthcare provide to join the first healthcare provider's network, (b) receiving an acceptance of the invitation from the second healthcare provider, and (c) authenticating the second healthcare provider. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278512 | HEALTHCARE CLAIM EDITING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS - A medical claim processing system and method comprising generating default rules and custom rules for inspecting healthcare claims, the default rules having general application to every healthcare claim and the custom rules being created to inspect specific requirements imposed by an insurance company or imposed to a medical code; receiving claim information related to a medical service from a healthcare provider; generating healthcare claims based on the received claim information; and inspecting the medical claims according to the default rules and the custom rules. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278513 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Integrated Behavioral Support - The present invention includes various embodiments of a BSA system that facilitates the collection of relevant health-related data on a continuous basis, integrates such data with pertinent personal and aggregate information, enables users to purchase (directly and indirectly) health-related goods and services, and provides credit, discounts and other economic benefits in connection with such purchases that are determined dynamically based upon the nature and extent of users' interaction with the system. The BSA system facilitates a dynamic feedback process by continually monitoring user interaction and medical and financial behavior, which results in dynamic adjustments to their credit levels and offers of discounts and other promotions, which in turn incentivizes users to continue participating in the process (thereby modifying their system interactions and behavior, and thus perpetuating this feedback loop). As a result, users are incentivized to actively participate in the process and thereby enhance their wellness while reducing healthcare costs. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278514 | Guided Cooperation for Medical Evaluation or Treatment - An electronic device, method, and computer-readable medium are configured to guide cooperation of a patient with a medical activity, such as evaluation and/or treatment of the patient. For example, an electronic device may comprise a processor that, in response to execution of instructions stored in a memory, causes an output to communicate one or more activities to a patient that encourage the patient to perform one or more actions that facilitate performance of a medical evaluation or treatment of the patient, such as by a medical professional. The electronic device may identify one or more actions by a patient that facilitates performance of the medical evaluation or treatment, communicate one or more activities that encourage the patient to perform the one or more actions, and while the patient is performing the one or more actions, provide time for a medical professional to perform the medical evaluation or treatment. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278515 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION FOR BOOKING OF HEALTHCARE APPOINTMENTS ACROSS PRACTICE GROUPS - Systems and methods for aggregating available healthcare appointment times across multiple unaffiliated practitioner groups, including search and display algorithms. A centralized marketplace is provided for real time booking of healthcare appointments which does not require the patient to have a preexisting relationship with the practitioner. The aggregated booking system enhances the number of available near term and conveniently located appointment options while the search and display algorithms reduce the complexity of the patient and practitioner information required to maintain accurate and synchronized database booking records. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278516 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RAPID AND SECURE APPROVAL AND RELEASE OF IMPLANTABLE PRODUCTS - A system and method for ensuring compliance with National Coverage Determination Registry guidelines regarding the implantation of implantable medical devices which comprises: uploading source documentation through a computerized system to a third party evaluation; comparison of said source documentation with criteria established by the National Coverage Determination Registry (NCDR) to determine whether or not there has been compliance; and if there has been compliance, issuing approval documentation. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278517 | Software Application of Implementing Dynamic Graph Analysis to Organize Clinical Entities - A software application that displays clinical entities and the relationships between them allows a user to perform a dynamic graph analysis. A data repository contains information on different clinical entities and the relationships between those clinical entities. The user can select an initial set from those clinical entities and can select a comparison set from those clinical entities. The selected clinical entities are displayed as nodes on a graphic user interface (GUI), and their relationships are displayed as links amongst those nodes on the GUI. The user can graphically rearrange the nodes through the GUI in order to reveal patterns and optimizations amongst those nodes. The software application also graphically integrates organization features into the GUI, which allows the user to further analyze the nodes. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278518 | MEDICAL APPARATUS ADMINISTRATION DEVICE AND MEDICAL APPARATUS ADMINISTRATION METHOD - A medical equipment management apparatus and a medical equipment management method are disclosed, which obtains information for suitably out responding to an alarm from a medical equipment and can perform CQI based on the information related to the timing in which the responding operation is performed is disclosed. The medical equipment management apparatus can obtain responding time information related to the time until a medical equipment, arranged in a different region, which has output abnormal information is reset to a normal state, with region information related to a region in which the medical equipment is arranged and responding operation timing information, produces region and responding timing related responding time information for displaying responding time information in relation to the region information and the responding operation timing information of the medical equipment, and display the region and responding timing related responding time information on a display of a personnel side terminal. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278519 | Expression of Clinical Logic with Positive and Negative Explainability - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for providing explainability to an end-user on why a particular patient failed to qualify for a health-related measure. High-level clinical logic explainability rules are generated on top of high-level clinical logic used to identify members of a population who qualify and who do not qualify for the health-related measure. The explainability rules are designed to identify which components in the high-level clinical logic are not satisfied by the patient's health data, and, more specifically, which of the components' sub-criteria disqualified the patient from the health-related measure. The output of the explainability rules is structured into an easy-to-understand format that is presented on a user interface associated with an end-user such as a clinician. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278520 | Prescription Price Messenger - The transfer of prescription medication pricing requests from a patient is automated through the use of a clearinghouse function that interacts with the client. The patient may transmit from a downloaded mobile application or from a web browser on a mobile device a request for pricing information for one or more drugs or medications. The request will contain an authentication key or the names of drugs or medications and a physical location for the mobile device used by the patient. A drug pricing server then returns the pricing for both name brand and generic forms of all drugs or medications in the request and a location of a pharmacy or fulfillment center within a pre-set distance from the mobile device used by the patient. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278521 | LOCATION LIMITED CHECK-IN KIOSK METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and system for helping a patient check in for a scheduled activity wherein activities occur proximate corresponding locations, respectively, the method comprising the steps of providing a check in resource at the second location for checking clients in for the second subset of activities, associating at least a first electronic kiosk with the first subset activities, positioning the first kiosk at the first location for use by clients to check in for first subset activities, via the first kiosk, receiving identifying information from a first client, identifying at least a first currently scheduled activity for the first client, determining that the first currently scheduled activity is one of the second subset activities and via the first kiosk, indicating that the first client cannot check in for the first currently scheduled activity via the first kiosk. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278522 | RIGHT PATIENT SITUATIONAL AWARENESS SYSTEM - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for notifying a clinician that he or she may be accessing incorrect health information. Based on inputs received from a plurality of healthcare systems, a determination is made that health information being accessed is incorrect because it fails to include patient-identifying information for a particular patient, or it fails to include a patient encounter code associated with a particular ongoing patient encounter. Upon determining that the health information is incorrect, a notification is communicated to the clinician accessing the incorrect health information. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278523 | DYNAMICALLY ASSOCIATING AND DISASSOCIATING PATIENTS AND MEDICAL DEVICES - Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for dynamically associating and disassociating patients and medical devices. A signal communicated via a Bluetooth personal area network is received when a patient is in proximity to a medical device. In various embodiments, the signal originates with a patient wristband or the medical device. The medical device is automatically associated to the patient. When the signal is no longer being received, the medical device may be automatically disassociated from the patient. Data associated with the medical device may be communicated to an EMR associated with the patient. A mobile device associated with a clinician may be communicated with via the Bluetooth personal area network. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278524 | ASSOCIATING PATIENTS AND MEDICAL DEVICES WITH A MOBILE DEVICE VIA BLUETOOTH - Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for associating patients and medical devices with a mobile device via Bluetooth. A signal associated with a patient communicated via a Bluetooth personal area network is received. The patient associated with the signal is recognized. An association request to associate the patient to a medical device is initiated and communicated to a mobile device associated with a clinician when the mobile device is in range. Once the clinician has provided an indication that the association request is approved, the patient is associated to the medical device. Data may be automatically logged in a shift log associated with the clinician while the mobile device is communicating with the medical device or the signal associated with the patient via the Bluetooth personal area network. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278525 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING IMPROVED SEARCHING OF MEDICAL RECORDS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are therefore provided in order to provide improved searching of medical records. In this regard, the method, apparatus, and computer program product may provide a network infrastructure that gathers search analytics for medical records searches performed across a plurality of record keepers. Embodiments may identify correlations between querying record keepers and record keepers that provide records that are properly responsive to queries from the querying record keeper. For example, embodiments may derive search analytics related to which record keepers typically provide correct record results in response to a query from a particular record keeper, and these identified record keepers may be specifically queried in response to future requests received from the querying record keeper. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278526 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING MEDICAL INFORMATION - A method of delivering a message containing medical information regarding a patient via a communications system is shown. The communications system is configured to receive the medical information from a first party and transmit medical information to a second party in a secured manner. The method includes receiving an audio message and a message recipient identity and storing the audio message. The method further includes transmitting the audio message for transcription and receiving a transcribed message data file from the transcription service. The method includes storing the transcribed message data file and analyzing the transcribed message data file to identify a patient identifier. The method includes formatting a notification that includes at least a portion of the transcribed message data file and the patient identifier. The method includes sending the notification to the message recipient. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278527 | LARGE SCALE IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF POPULATION HEALTH RISKS - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for facilitating the management of population health. A parallel processing architecture receives patient population health data from healthcare facilities along with any updated data. A high-level clinical logic is executed against the data to identify, among other things, patients in the population who qualify for health intervention programs. Using this information, healthcare facilities can implement management programs to help care for these patients. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278528 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A DIGITAL MEDICAL ASSISTANT - A digital medical assistant is configured to obtain authorization of a service request. The assistant includes: an input for receiving an electronic medical record (EMR) of a patient and identity of a benefit provider for the patient; a preauthorization engine configured for completing an application by identifying relevant clinical context from the EMR and correlating the relevant clinical context with preauthorization criteria; the preauthorization engine further configured for submitting a completed application as the request to the benefit provider, receiving a decision from the provider, and outputting the decision. A method of use in a computer program product are provided. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278529 | APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO COMPUTER FILES AND FOR SECURING MEDICAL RECORDS - Apparatus for identifying the writer or receiver of a document, where identifying information for each of a plurality of registered human individuals is stored in a database, calls for capturing local images of an individual producing or receiving information and determining whether this individual is the same as one of the registered individuals whose identifying information is stored in the database. The identifying information stored in the database includes both an alphanumeric identifier and at least one image of a unique, visually observable biologic identifier on a body portion of each registered individual. The accuracy of user identification is enhanced by allowing the sender of information to supply visual content which modulates the appearance of a biologic identifier of the user. A human gatekeeper further hardens the system against inappropriate access. Utilization of the system for the document of critical encounters such as medical events is provided. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278530 | ASSOCIATING RECEIVED MEDICAL IMAGING DATA TO STORED MEDICAL IMAGING DATA - Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media, and computer systems for associating received medical imaging data with stored medical imaging data. Medical imaging data associated with a patient is received from a client device. The medical imaging data includes an image object, one or more data objects related to the image object, and metadata associated with the patient encoded in Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) format. The metadata includes personal information about the patient, and time and location at which the DICOM image file was captured. The received metadata is compared with existing metadata associated with multiple existing patients to identify a subset of the existing patients who may be a potential match to the patient. Selection of an existing patient from among the subset is requested. When received, the medical imaging data is associated with the existing patient. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278531 | AUTOMATED REFILL REQUEST PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Automated processing of medication refill requests is provided. A medication refill request is received, and the refill request is parsed to obtain the refill information contained in the refill request. The refill information is used to determine whether to authorize the refill request. Determining whether to authorize the refill request includes determining whether supplemental information used to authorize the refill request is available. If the supplemental information is not available, a notification is provided indicating the supplemental information is not available and a timeout period is set. Processing of the refill request continues when the supplemental becomes available before the timeout period expires. If the timeout period expires before the supplemental information becomes available, then the refill request is discarded. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278532 | Payment Request-Triggered, Pull-Based Collection of Electronic Health Records - EHR data of a Patient is collected from a Provider for each instance of the Provider delivering Healthcare to the Patient, and that collected EHR data is aggregated with any pre-existing EHR data of the Patient to create augmented EHR data for the Patient. The EHR data is collected from the Provider in response to a payment request submitted by the Provider to a Payer, and other techniques. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278533 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING A KNOWLEDGE HUB HEALTH CARE SOLUTION - An apparatus is provided for presenting patient medical information. The apparatus may include at least one memory and at least one processor configured to analyze medical data of a patient generated by a primary clinical application. The medical data may be currently presented via a first window of a user interface for evaluation by a user. The processor is also configured to determine a context of the medical data or an action(s) performed by the user on behalf of the patient. The processor is also configured to detect additional information corresponding to the patient. The additional information may be received from different health care entities. The processor may also be configured to generate a panel including visible indicia denoting the additional information of the patient for consideration by the user. The panel may be arranged adjacent to the first window. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278534 | HEALTHCARE RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - 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. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278535 | HEALTHCARE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - 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. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278536 | Mobile Healthcare Development, Communication, And Management - A computer implemented method and system provides a mobile application development platform (MADP) for dynamically creating a healthcare provider specific customizable composite mobile application (CCMA) and monitoring healthcare elements of a healthcare recipient using the CCMA. The MADP is accessible by a healthcare provider device and a healthcare recipient device via a network. The MADP stores multiple template objects, for example, sub-applications that perform tasks for monitoring the healthcare elements in an application management database (AMD). The MADP acquires a selection of one or more template objects and one or more dynamic content objects defined by a healthcare provider and dynamically creates the CCMA by integrating the selected template objects and dynamic content objects. The MADP stores the CCMA in the AMD. The CCMA facilitates communication between the healthcare provider device and the healthcare recipient device for monitoring the healthcare elements of the healthcare recipient. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278537 | NETWORK-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING HEALTHCARE INFORMATION - Networks are input with instructions from various types of healthcare subscribers, including identification of patients of these subscribers. Networks observe updates generated for the listed patients by healthcare providers, such as hospital encounters. The updates are numerous and update input can be rushed treatment facilities prone to error in information, so networks comprehensively filter the updates against all available instructions and identification to filter out all qualifying updates to be passed on to subscribers. Networks can format, transmit, and otherwise provide the updates based on anything commended by the client instructions. Networks may also share patient information itself with the update source to improve information association and correct client information at these sources. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278538 | Method to format and use matrix bar codes and other identification code conventions and tools to enroll end users of products and services into a data supply chain - A system to use strings of computer readable characters, such as QR codes, biometric data captured from electronic devices, and RFID tags to instruct a server or electronic device to register a user upon receipt of the strings of computer readable characters. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278539 | GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF TIME-ORDERED DATA - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for generating graphical representations of audit events. A party-of-interest is represented by a central node, and one or more peripheral nodes surrounding the central node represent parties having electronic records accessed by the party-of-interest during a selected time frame. The size of the peripheral nodes represents a frequency of access of the node's respective electronic record. Each of the peripheral nodes is actionable enabling a user to view information related to the audit event. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278540 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The storage unit stores pathological image data items associated with patient information, and correspondence relationship information that indicates a correspondence relationship between a first different information processing apparatus accessible to the patient information, and a second different information processing apparatus accessible to the pathological image data items and inaccessible to the patient information. The control unit is capable of controlling the communication unit to receive, from the first different information processing apparatus, a first display request of a first pathological image data item searched for based on predetermined patient information, and generating, based on the correspondence relationship information, a first virtual folder including the first pathological image data item that is accessible by the second different information processing apparatus that corresponds to the first different information processing apparatus that sends the first display request. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278541 | TOOLKIT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DELIVERY OF SERVICES AND CONTENT FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS VIA AN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEM - A system and method for managing the delivery of services such as drug coupons, medical messaging and patient adherence content to healthcare providers at the point of care providing quick access to information without interrupting workflow. The toolkit manager is integrated into the healthcare provider's electronic medical records/electronic health records system. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278542 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL RECORD COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION - A system and method for medical record collection and distribution is provided. The medical records collection and distribution (MRCD) system generally comprises a distributed network of electronic systems in communication with one another; a NAV controller for managing the collection of medical records and viewing the distribution thereof through the patient or provider portals; a dynamic data exchange (DDE), the DDE comprising datasets that include instructions for connecting to the electronic systems and a federated authentication system to validate that the patient or provider is registered with the system and has an active directory record; a domain messaging system adapted to provide a medical record query requesting a patient's medical information; and a means to produce a continuity of care record or documents; the record or documents being provided to the patient or provider portal via the messaging system. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278543 | DATA COLLECTION MARKETPLACE FOR A DATA REGISTRY SYSTEM - In one aspect of the disclosed technology, the system includes a data collection marketplace. In some implementations, marketplace users may request publication of a data collection to the data collection marketplace. Registry users may browse the data collection marketplace and subscribe to a data collection request. In certain embodiments, patient data collected by a registry user is provided to the data collection marketplace. The patient data responsive to data collection requests, in certain embodiments, is made available to the marketplace users that published these data collection requests. Marketplace users may use the data for a variety of purposes, including clinical studies and market research. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278544 | AUTOMATED ALERTS FOR MEDICAL INDICATORS - Automated alerts for medical indicators are provided. Electronic medical records may be stored in memory and monitored. Each electronic medical record may include data regarding a patient and may be updated to reflect current status of the patient. A plurality of alert rules may be provided, each of which identify a set of indicators regarding an elevated risk of death. The monitored electronic medical records and associated updates may be evaluated in light of the applicable alert rules for the patient. It may be determined that one of the electronic medical records matches one of the alert rules. In response, a real-time alert is sent to one or more individuals designated for the patient whose electronic medical record is determined to match one of the alert rules. The real-time alert may be associated with a report indicating the alert rule and associated set of indicators that were the basis for the alert. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278545 | Healthcare Verification System and Method - The present disclosure describes a system, method and computer readable medium capable of verifying healthcare encounters. In one embodiment, an electronic verification process is described which may utilize geographical information to determine the proximity of a health care worker to the patient during a scheduled healthcare visit. The proximity information may then be compared to a threshold value and an electronic signature screen may be presented to the patient based upon the results of the comparison. In one embodiment, a time stamp may be generated and stored to provide confirmation as to the time that the patient's electronic signature was obtained via the electronic signature screen. Verification information stored by the system may be used to simplify the verification process, hasten payments to healthcare organizations and protect against healthcare fraud. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278546 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT CONSIDERING INDIVIDUAL PATIENT RISK AND RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS - A method for population health management includes retrieving patient data associated with one or more patient, retrieving one or more chronic disease management (CDM) programs applicable to each patient based on the patient data, retrieving a health effect and cost for each the applicable one or more CDM programs, recommending a CDM program with a largest health effect and within a budget for each patient, and displaying the recommended CDM program for the one or more patients. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278547 | System and Method For Healthcare Outcome Predictions Using Medical History Categorical Data - A system and method for healthcare outcome predictions using medical history categorical data is provided. The system for healthcare outcome predictions using medical history categorical data comprising a computer system for receiving medical history categorical data, a healthcare outcome prediction engine stored on the computer system which, when executed by the computer system, causes the computer system to process the medical history categorical data to define a set of high-level constructs, calculate smoothed and thresholded Weight of Evidence tables for each high-level construct using training data, calculate an Evidence Ranked Sum value for each instance of each high-level construct based on the Weight of Evidence tables, and build predictive models based on the calculated Evidence Ranked Sum values. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278548 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO PATIENT-RELATED SURGICAL INFORMATION - A system and method for providing electronic access to medical events via a secure mobile to mobile communication network. The system and method includes recording on a first mobile device a photographic, video, audio, or textual format patient relating data during a medical procedure. The recorded data is transmitted to a second mobile device operable for receiving communications via a secure link in the recorded formats. All data is transmitted via a secure encrypted means. Alternatively, the first and second mobile devices may be enabled with software operable for receiving, storing and transmitting data. The first mobile device recording data and storing same in a database or memory resident on the mobile device or housed within a communication server communicably linked to the first mobile device. Thereafter, the data may be unidirectionally transmitted in an encrypted manner to the second mobile device and subsequently viewed by a user. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278549 | Collaborative Synthesis-Based Clinical Documentation - A graphical user interface, referred to herein as a virtual whiteboard, that provides both: (1) an automatically prioritized display of information related to a particular patient that is tailored to the current user of the system, and (2) a “scratch pad” area in which multiple users of the system may input free-form text and other data for sharing with other users of the system. When each user of the system accesses the virtual whiteboard, the system: (1) automatically prioritizes the patient information based on characteristics of the user and displays the automatically prioritized patient information to that user, and (2) displays the contents of the scratch pad to the user. As a result, the whiteboard displays both information that is tailored to the current user and information that is common to all users (i.e., not tailored to any particular user). | 2014-09-18 |
20140278550 | ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS MANAGEMENT PLATFORM AND METHODS - Disclosed are systems and methods for electronic health record management and logging of hand-offs of patient care in a healthcare facility. The system may include a communication module for recording and time stamping a patient's clinical information; a hand-off logging module for recording information relating to the patient's hand-off from a first healthcare provider to a second healthcare provider, and for recording information relating to any subsequent hand-offs of the patient to other healthcare providers. The recorded hand-off information includes the names of the healthcare providers providing health services to the patient, and a time stamp associated with each hand-off, and the hand-off logging module further generates a hand-off log including the recorded hand-off information and the patient admission information. A hand-off threading module generates a hand-off thread that includes a respective clinical synopsis relating to the patient by each named healthcare provider associated with a recorded hand-off. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278551 | PET INSURANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A pet insurance system and method are provided. The pet insurance system provides rapid insurance enrollment and quick claim processing. In addition, the pet insurance system and method generates a pet health status identifier that is displayed to users of the system. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278552 | MODULAR CENTRALIZED PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM - A system for monitoring patients includes an automated computer based platform communicating with a plurality of monitoring devices. The monitoring devices are provided to a plurality of patients. The information from the monitoring devices is analyzed automatically and if parameters, such weight, glucose level, EKG, etc. are found to be abnormal, an alert is sent to the physician in charge of the respective patient. The physician can then access a data site providing him with more complete information about the patient. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278553 | Dynamic Superbill Coding Workflow - A computer system generates an initial set of billing codes based on one or more documents (e.g., clinical notes) representing a patient encounter, such as clinical notes created by a physician. The system expands the initial set of billing codes based on a billing code standard to create an expanded set of billing codes for consideration by the physician. The system provides output representing the expanded billing code set to the physician. The physician selects one or more billing codes from the expanded billing code set for inclusion in a final billing code set for use in a bill for the services provided in the patient encounter. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278554 | USING IMAGE REFERENCES IN RADIOLOGY REPORTS TO SUPPORT REPORT-TO-IMAGE NAVIGATION - A system, method and computer readable storage medium for retrieving a narrative report for at least one study including a plurality of images of a patient from a memory, determining text structure boundaries to identify and classify each text structure in the narrative report, determining image references in each text structure of the narrative report, extracting image references from text structures classified as including an image reference and determining a study to which an extracted image reference corresponds. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278555 | Method and Apparatus for Driver's License Analysis to Support Rental Vehicle Transactions - A number of techniques are disclosed for making it more convenient and efficient for customers to conduct various rental vehicle transactions. As an example, techniques are disclosed for capturing and analyzing images of driver's licenses to assess a validity for the driver's licenses in support of various rental transactions. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278556 | FILTERING MEDICAL INFORMATION - One aspect of this disclosure is directed to methods, apparatuses, and systems for filtering medical findings. Another aspect of this disclosure is directed to methods, apparatuses, and systems for displaying filtered medical findings. Yet another aspect of this disclosure is directed to methods, apparatuses, and systems for generating user interfaces for setting parameters for filtering medical findings. Another aspect of this disclosure is directed to methods, apparatuses, and systems for displaying medical findings that passed through a filter. Other aspect of this disclosure is directed to methods, apparatuses, and systems for filtering and displaying medical information related to medical findings. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278557 | COMPLEX INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for maintaining a system of complex information comprises extracting, from an existing system of complex information, a structure and a plurality of associations. The extracting preserves the structure and plurality of associations. The extracted data is converted to a first intermediate format. The converted data is imported into a first custom database. Information stored in the existing system of complex information data is displayed to a user based on at least the structure and plurality of associations. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278558 | MEDICAL OR HEALTH INFORMATION SEARCH SUPPORT APPARATUS AND MEDICAL OR HEALTH INFORMATION SEARCH SUPPORT SYSTEM - An apparatus includes: an input unit to which a search keyword for searching for medical or health information of search target is inputted; a related disease name acquisition unit configured to analyze an administration information database in which administration information of prescriptions-treatments for patients and disease names are stored in association with each other, and thereby to acquire related diseases name related to the disease name; a medical or health information search unit configured to search for medical or health information stored in a medical or health information database on the basis of the search keyword and the related disease names; and a display unit configured to display the medial or health information thus searched out. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278559 | ADJUDICATION PLATFORM COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT - A method of verifying compliance of an adjudication platform with a requirement, the method comprising: applying a requirement to an adjudication platform, wherein said adjudication platform comprises a plurality of benefit rules and said requirement comprises a plurality of requirements representing at least one of a law and an insurance policy; identifying at least one of said plurality of benefit rules disagreeing with at least one of said plurality of requirements, responsive to a discrepancy between applied said requirement and said adjudication platform; outputting at least one of identified said plurality of benefit rules and said plurality of requirements. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278560 | HEALTH INSURANCE PRODUCT - A health insurance product is provided for an insurance plan holder having a health insurance plan. For a first period, a periodic contribution payment for the health insurance plan is collected and aggregated as an insurance savings allocation balance of collected periodic contribution payments from the first period and at least a period immediately previous to the first period. A new periodic multiplier contribution for the first period is obtained by multiplying the periodic contribution payment for the first period by a variable multiplier that is variable for each period. A new cumulative multiplier contribution balance for the first period is determined, using a tangible computer processor, by adding the new periodic multiplier contribution obtained to a previous cumulative multiplier contribution balance determined for the period immediately previous to the first period. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278561 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING FLOOD RISK - The present invention is a system for communicating the flood risk of a property to a user comprising a computer network, a first computerized device for displaying flood risk information in electronic communication with a computer network, a first database connected to said network, where said first database contains flood zone information arranged by geographic coordinates, a second database connected to said network, where said second database contains terrain elevation data arranged by geographic coordinates, a third database connected to said network, where said third database contains rainfall data arranged by geographic coordinates, a fourth database connected to said network, where said fourth database contains a record of prior flooding arranged by geographic coordinates, a fifth database connected to said network, where said fifth database contains a record of losses arranged by geographic coordinates, and a second computerized device connected to said network which calculates flood risk information for geographic location using an algorithm to process database information contained in said databases. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278562 | System and method for underwriting alimony and child support - A sophisticated Underwriting system to Insure the continuation of Payments under a Child Support/Alimony/Prenuptial/Palimony/Civil Union agreement in the event of unintentional default and pay legal expenses for enforcement due to intentional default by the Payer is disclosed through which either party can purchase coverage. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278563 | System and Method to Satisfy Collateral Posting Obligations Under Corporate Insurance Policies Without Usage of Corporate Credit Capacity - Disclosed herein are means by which a company that is obligated to post collateral to secure contractually arising deductible reimbursement obligation may obtain such collateral from a third party without either using its own credit capacity or its own assets. A third party provider of collateral, the Collateral Provider, is paid a fee by a first party in exchange for posting collateral to secure the first party's contractual obligations to a second party. The collateral may either take the form of a letter of credit, or a trust that names the second party as a beneficiary. Through a contractual relationship, the letter of credit issuer or, as applicable, the trustee, assigns its subrogation rights to the Collateral Provider. Optionally and in addition to subrogation, if the credit documents permit, the contract may also require the first party to directly reimburse the Collateral Provider for the amount of the collateral in the event the second party utilizes the collateral provided by the Collateral Provider. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278564 | DYNAMIC PRICING OF GUARANTEE PRODUCTS - Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, are described for dynamic pricing of guarantee products. A server computing device determines a fee factor for a guarantee product based on an allocation of assets in an investment account linked to the guarantee product. The server computing device assigns an investment profile to the guarantee product based on the fee factor. The server computing device determines a fee percentage for the guarantee product based on the investment profile and a fee payment option selected by an owner of the guarantee product. The server computing device generates a notification including a fee amount for the guarantee product based on the fee percentage. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278565 | Systems and Methods for Cross Border Health Insurance - A system and method for providing healthcare insurance services to a beneficiary outside of a home boundary of the beneficiary, that includes: receiving a request to provide healthcare insurance services to a beneficiary from a healthcare provider at a first location; determining whether the first location of the healthcare provider is within or outside of the home boundary of the beneficiary; and, if the first location is outside of the home boundary of the beneficiary: determining an eligibility of the beneficiary based on the healthcare provider and the first location of the healthcare provider; and providing an insurance coverage amount to the healthcare provider at the first location based on the determination of the eligibility of the beneficiary. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278566 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION RELATIONED RISK ANALYSIS - A system and method for workers' compensated risk analysis. The method comprising transmitting standard workers' compensation questions to a user device, receiving a response to the set of standard workers' compensation, selecting a set of supplemental questions based on the received responses to the set of standard workers' compensation questions and transmitted the set of supplemental questions to the user device, receiving a response to the set of supplemental questions and generating a risk score for workers' compensation insurance based on at least the responses to the standard questions and the supplemental questions. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278567 | DETERMINING REIMBURSEMENT AMOUNTS BASED ON REIMBURSEMENT MODELS - System, methods, and computer-readable media for determining allowed reimbursement amounts for one or more healthcare services rendered by a healthcare provider to a patient are disclosed. The allowed reimbursement amount may be determined in accordance with reimbursement model parameter(s) and/or reimbursement rule(s) associated with a reimbursement model. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278568 | PRICE ESTIMATION MODEL - The present disclosure proposes systems and methods to create an integrated centralized database that aggregates repair material and labor cost data by geographic area in real time and provides a repair cost estimating platform based on data collected from various data sources including directly from roofing contractors who have recently performed repairs. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278569 | RISK EVALUATION BASED ON VEHICLE OPERATOR BEHAVIOR - A method for ascertaining the risk associated with the driver of a vehicle utilizes three-dimensional (3D) motion sensing data. A server gathers motion sensing data from one or more motion sensing modules and clusters the motion sensing data into movement categories. The server then assigns an indication of risk to at least some of the movement categories and combines the motion sensing data from a plurality of movement categories to generate a collective measure of risk associated with the driver of the vehicle. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278570 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING A ROOF - A damage assessment module operating on a computer system automatically evaluates a roof, estimating damage to the roof by analyzing a point cloud of a roof. The damage assessment module identifies individual shingles from the point cloud and detects potentially damaged areas on each of the shingles. The damage assessment module then maps the potentially damaged areas of each shingle back to the point cloud to determine which areas of the roof are damaged. Based on the estimation, the damage assessment module generates a report on the roof damage. The report may be used to determine the financial cost of the damage and/or determine whether the roof should be replaced or repaired. In addition to eliminating the need for an estimator to physically climb onto a roof for evaluation purposes, the damage assessment module improves the consistency and accuracy associated with estimating damage to a roof. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278571 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATING A DAMAGED VEHICLE - A system and method to facilitate treatment of a vehicle damaged in a crash, wherein a repair process or a salvage process is formulated based on an estimate of the extent of damage to the vehicle, and a request to transport the damaged vehicle is transmitted to the appropriate treatment facility. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING A VEHICLE DAMAGED IN A CRASH - A system and method to facilitate treatment of a vehicle damaged in a crash, wherein a treatment process is formulated based on a treatment complexity level associated with an estimate of the extent of damage to the vehicle. The treatment process may include a repair process or a salvage process relating to a price schedule for treating the damaged vehicle, a time duration for completing treatment of the damaged vehicle, or a list of damaged vehicle parts estimated to be damaged by the crash. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278573 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INITIATING INSURANCE PROCESSING USING INGESTED DATA - Methods and systems for pre-filling insurance forms for customers are provided. An insurance provider or other similar entity can receive loss event data associated with a certain loss event that could trigger customers submitting insurance claims. By examining the loss event data and associated customer and insurance policy data, the insurance provider can identify customers who may have experienced damage to property and therefore may be eligible to submit a claim for the damage. According to embodiments, the insurance provider can generate pre-filled forms using at least some of the loss event data and send the pre-filled forms to the potentially eligible customers. The customers can modify the pre-filled forms where necessary and submit insurance claims based on the pre-filled forms for processing by the insurance provider. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVELOPING A DRIVER SAFETY RATING - Driver performance is assessed using existing datasets derived from conventional highway travel, such as a datasets from wireless highway toll payment systems. Existing datasets are processed to develop a driver safety rating and/or otherwise assess driver performance to determine a level of driver performance and/or risk, and to determine suitability for insurance discounts, etc. An exemplary system and method for providing a driver risk rating representative of driver performance involves: receiving from a toll transaction system toll trip data, the toll trip data reflecting data recorded as a result of operation of an automobile associated with at least one driver; processing the toll trip data to determine toll trip metrics as a function of the toll trip data; and processing the toll trip metrics in accordance with predefined data processing logic to develop a driver risk rating for each driver as a function of the toll trip data. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278575 | Systems And Methods Of Processing Insurance Data Using A Web-Scale Data Fabric - Methods and systems for processing data, such as insurance data, using a Web-Scale Data Fabric (WSDF). According to embodiments, a stream ingestion hardware component can ingest messages related to an actionable event and send data objects to an in-memory data store based on the messages. The in-memory data store can retrieve insurance policy information that may be applicable to the actionable event and store the insurance policy information in cache memory. A search-based application interfaces with the in-memory data store to search for and retrieve data associated with the insurance policy information, from which a user or administrator may process or otherwise access the information. The systems and methods can further initiate insurance claim processing as well as enrich the data using various techniques to enable real-time search. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278576 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR OBTAINING COVERAGE REQUEST AUTHORIZATIONS - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided herein for obtaining multiple authorizations for a multiple payee coverage request and facilitating the distribution of coverage payments according to the request. An example method involves receiving a multiple payee coverage request to generate a coverage payment in accordance with a coverage plan, determining two or more payees based on the multiple payee coverage request, receiving transaction data from at least one of the two or more payees and associating the transaction data with the multiple payee coverage request, determining a distribution vehicle for each payee based, at least in part, on the transaction data received, and causing the coverage payment to be distributed according to the respective distribution vehicles determined. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278577 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INSURANCE PREMIUM QUOTES - A computerized system and method for generating insurance premium quotes that operates in the environment of a comparative rater application and that provides variable or adjustable quotes for insurance policy premiums to a user of the comparative rater application. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278578 | System and Method for Conducting On-Site Asset Investigations for Insurance Underwriting - A system and method for conducting on-site asset investigations for insurance underwriting are provided. The system allows a user to conduct an investigation into an asset to be insured while at the asset's location, using a mobile software application executing on a mobile computing device such as smart phone, tablet computer, etc. The mobile application allows the user to acquire information relating to the asset as well as to take photographs of the vehicle or other personal property to be insured, using the mobile computing device. The acquired information is transmitted to an underwriting computer server in communication with the mobile device, which processes the information and generates an underwriting report for the asset. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278579 | Medical Form Generation, Customization and Management - The present invention provides for a computer-implemented method for controlling the generation, customization and management of medical forms, the method comprising receiving current patient identification information, receiving a selection of a medical procedure provided to the current patient for which a medical insurance claim is to be submitted to the current patient's medical insurance provider, identifying one or more individual medical forms required for the medical insurance claim to be submitted to the current patient's medical insurance provider, displaying a sextant image relevant to the selected medical procedure, receiving positional information from a selection made on the displayed sextant image and generating the identified one or more medical forms such that the generated medical forms are automatically populated with the received identification information and the received positional information. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278580 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCOUNT PROCESSING - Systems and methods for account processing are disclosed. In an example, the account processing systems and methods are used to process health care expenses for groups or individuals. Debit or credit transactions can be processed using a notional participant account. Processing a debit transaction can include identifying balances in one or more different portions of the notional participant account and allocating funds in an amount less than or equal to the one or more balances from the account to satisfy all or a portion of the debit transaction. When a balance remains in the debit transaction after allocating the funds, the method can include identifying a participant line-of-credit and allocating a remainder of the debit transaction using the line-of-credit. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278581 | ZIP RATOR - A method of providing an insurance rate comprising storing combinations rates based on fields of information in a database, receiving a piece of information relating to one of the fields of information, and pulling an insurance rate based a pre-calculated average of premiums for individuals. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278582 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING REQUESTS AND QUOTATIONS FOR INSURANCE - Systems and methods for presenting multiple insurance quotations. In an embodiment, a request for insurance, comprising class code(s), is received from a business-user. The request for insurance is communicated to agent-users, and quotations are received from the agent-users. Each quotation comprises, for each class code, a rating basis and a net rate. A user interface for analyzing the quotations is provided to the business-user. Specifically, the user interface comprises information for the quotations in a grid comprising cells arranged in both a vertical and a horizontal direction, with each quotation represented in a first direction, and each class code represented in a second direction. For each quotation and for each class code, cell(s), corresponding to the quotation and the class code comprise the rating basis, net rate, and an insurance premium amount for the class code. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278583 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSURANCE AND CALCULATION OF PREMIUMS FOR FIREARMS AND RELATED EQUIPMENT - A method of calculating an insurance premium for a firearm and related equipment purchased by a buyer includes receiving information of the buyer by a computer, and collecting data from one or more databases about the buyer by the computer in response to the received information. The method calculates the insurance premium based on a type of the firearm purchased and related equipment and the collected data. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278584 | ENHANCED ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEM - The subject matter of the invention relates to systems and methods for creating and managing enhanced electronic health records. The invention comprises a computing device with a display that access a plurality of electronic health records. The computer device display presents the user with a template selection screen allowing the healthcare provider to select templates and input patient data related to a medical visit, billing code, or other financial data for internal use or for the use of one or more insurance providers. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278585 | Systems and Methods for Providing Centralized Insurance Claim Processing and Plan Management - A request is received from an insured member to process a claim for an incident. One or more specific insurance policies for the insured member are retrieved from a database and claim rules for each policy are retrieved from the database, producing one or more claim rules for the insured member. One or more claim questions are generated specifically for the insured member based on the one or more claim rules. One or more claim questions are sent to the insured member regarding an incident. One or more responses are received from the insured member in response to the one or more claim questions. One or more claim forms of the one or more specific insurance policies are selected based on the one or more responses and the one or more claim rules. The one or more claim forms are filled out based on the one or more responses. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278586 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IDENTIFY AND PROFILE A VEHICLE OPERATOR - A method for assessing risk associated with a driver of a vehicle includes receiving a plurality of risk variables associated with a driver, the plurality of risk variables being gathered when the driver operates the vehicle. A driver is then identified based on the plurality of risk variables, and a risk profile is developed for the driver. The development of the risk profile involves determining the risk associated with at least some of the risk variables and generating a risk index, the risk index being a collective measure of risk associated with the driver. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278587 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING PROPERTY DAMAGE - A damage assessment module operating on a computer system automatically evaluates a property, estimating damage to the property by analyzing a point cloud of a property. The damage assessment module identifies individual point clusters or segments from the point cloud and detects potentially damaged areas of the property surface by identifying outlier points in the point clusters. The damage assessment module may be used to determine the financial cost of the damage and/or determine whether the property should be replaced or repaired. In addition to eliminating the need for an estimator to visit the property in person, the damage assessment module improves the consistency and accuracy associated with estimating damage to a property. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278588 | TRANSFORMING DATA FOR RENDERING AN INSURABILITY DECISION - Transformation of disparate data for use in rendering a decision involving a potentially insurable risk. An Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process extracts the data and converts it from a plurality of formats into a standard format for processing. A heuristic engine inferentially processes the converted data to identify information relevant to the decision to be rendered. A consolidation and presentation engine generates presentable knowledge from the relevant information and then presents the knowledge to a decision-making entity for rendering the decision. And an optimization feedback process monitors one or more actions on the presented knowledge by the decision-making entity and adjusts one or more of the ETL process, the heuristic engine, and the consolidation and presentation engine as a function of the monitored actions. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278589 | MOBILE DEVICE ESTABLISHMENT SYSTEM - A method and system and may receive an information request from a user device. An establishment list may be transmitted to the user device in response to the information request, wherein the establishment list includes at least one subscribing establishment. An establishment selection may be received and an establishment option associated with the establishment selection may then be transmitted to the user device. An option selection may then be received from the user device and an establishment record may be updated in response to the selected option, wherein the user device and the subscribing establishments have a pre-existing relationship within the establishment record. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278590 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING A FARE ANALYTIC ENGINE - An exemplary embodiment of a system, method and/or computer program product for creating a fare analytic database, may include: receiving, by at least one processor, fare(s) and fare related data; and creating a graph database of the fare(s) and fare related data; where the creating may include: creating one or more node(s) of the graph database representing at least one component of the fare and fare related data; creating one or more relationship(s) between a plurality of the nodes; and applying at least one property to the node(s) and the relationship(s). A fare analytic engine may further incorporate the database, and the engine may process queries traversing the database for fare and fare related data; and functional programming methods may be used to generate Boolean byte code routines from fare restrictions, according to exemplary embodiments disclosed. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278591 | AUTOMATED DETERMINATION OF BOOKING AVAILABILITY FOR USER SOURCED ACCOMMODATIONS - Methods and systems for updating a calendar entry for an accommodation listing are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating an availability model and an acceptance model for an accommodation listing in an accommodation reservation system and determining based on those models the probability that the accommodation listing would be able to be booked. Furthermore, the result of an accommodation search query can be filtered and/or sorted using the determined probability of booking. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278592 | Apparatus and Method for Seat Management in an Audience Venue - A novel mass audience venue seat is disclosed, which seat can be locked and unlocked by one or more of a variety of security tokens. The seat is designed to prevent ticket holders from ‘cheating down’ into more expensive seats thereby annoying fellow customers. By being electronically connected into a seat management inventory system, moviegoers and sports fans are provided with a legitimate way to upgrade their seat (much like a seat upgrade on a commercial airline), also creating a new revenue stream for venue and stadium owners. The instant mass audience venue seat can be embodied in an item of original equipment manufacture or in a less-costly retrofit kit. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278593 | GROUP TRAVEL OPPORTUNITY RECOMMENDATIONS AND RESERVATIONS BASED ON SHARED INTERESTS - A method for making group opportunity recommendations and reservations may include searching, by a processor, for an opportunity based on at least one shared interest of at least two members of a network. The method may also include transmitting, by the processor, the opportunity to the at least two members of the network in response to finding the opportunity based on the at least one shared interest. The method may further include providing, by the processor, a feature associated with the opportunity that allows each of the at least two members to accept the opportunity based on a condition. The condition may include at least one of accepting the opportunity by another of the at least two members, accepting the opportunity by at least one other designated member of the network, and accepting the opportunity by a preset number of the members of the network. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278594 | System and Method for Facilitating Workplace Utilization and Occupancy Management Using Mobile Devices - The present invention provides a system and method for facilitating workplace utilization and occupancy management using mobile devices. The present invention integrates a workplace management component, a sensor or location-based management system and an actual use of space analysis engine to provide significantly enhanced data accuracy regarding use of space, which improves system effectiveness and affects individual behavior. In one embodiment, the location-based management component incorporates global positioning system and/or near-field communication system technologies to determine when a user with a suitable mobile communications device is approaching a real estate resource where a reservation has been made, and in that event, issuing a notification to the user's device prompting action connected to the reservation. By affecting individual behavior, the system produces even greater data accuracy and improved control and management of resources. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278595 | VENUE TICKET BUYBACK WITH SMART PRICING - A venue ticket buyback system may facilitate repurchasing of venue tickets from ticketholders. An option for venue ticket buyback may be presented to a user. A user selection of the option for venue ticket buyback may be processed. An identification reference received from the user for a venue ticket may be processed. The identification reference for the venue ticket may be authenticated with ticket information. The user may be authenticated with authentication information. A buyback price for the venue ticket may be determined at least partially based on a profile of a potential buyer. The venue ticket may be repurchased at the buyback price on behalf of the potential buyer. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278596 | ADAPTIVE RESERVATION PROCESSING - Techniques for adaptive reservation processing are provided. Policies define trigger events when a customer's travel plans are being disrupted in some manner that would warrant an incentive from an enterprise associated with those plans. Custom rules are automatically applied to the circumstances surrounding the disruption and a list of incentives is presented for selection by the customer. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278597 | TRAVEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for managing corporate travel provides a search module in which a traveler may search travel options and receive travel approval in line with the travel policies of an organization. The traveler completes the booking outside the system, by any means, through any supplier or reseller. The completed booking is then reconciled within the system with credit card transaction information and/or expense report information with a reconciliation module. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278598 | CACHING RESERVATION OPTIONS - Caching travel options, in which a first request is received for lowest available fare data and, responsive to the first request, a determination is made that data for the lowest available fare is not included in a cache. Based on the determination, a request is provided to a core system for the data and the data for the lowest available fare is received from the core system. The received data is stored in the cache and used to respond to the first request. After storing, in the cache, the received data, a second request is received for the lowest available fare. Responsive to the second request, a determination is made that the data for the lowest available fare is included in the cache and, based on that determination, the data is accessed from the cache and used to respond to the second request. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278599 | Mobile Device-Enhanced User Selection of Specific Rental Vehicles for a Rental Vehicle Reservation - A number of techniques are disclosed for making it more convenient and efficient for customers to conduct various rental vehicle transactions. As an example, a technique for performing an automated pickup of a rental vehicle using a mobile device is disclosed. As another example, a technique for performing an automated return administration of a rental vehicle using a mobile device is disclosed. As another example, a technique for permitting customer to select a particular rental vehicle for a rental vehicle transaction using a mobile device is disclosed. Also disclosed is a technique for permitting a customer to keylessly start a rental vehicle using a machine-sensible item such as his/her mobile device without requiring the customer to possess a smart key. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278600 | AUCTION BASED DECENTRALIZED TICKET ALLOTMENT - Described is a method for auction based decentralized ticket allotment. The method includes receiving a ticket indicating a system problem, generating an auction for the ticket, receiving at least one bid, based on the auction, to resolve the system problem from at least one agent, the at least one bid including one of a time to resolution, a hold and a no bid, and allotting the ticket to an agent based on the at least one bid. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278601 | GROUP TRAVEL OPPORTUNITY RECOMMENDATIONS AND RESERVATIONS BASED ON SHARED INTERESTS - A method for making group opportunity recommendations and reservations may include searching, by a processor, for an opportunity based on at least one shared interest of at least two members of a network. The method may also include transmitting, by the processor, the opportunity to the at least two members of the network in response to finding the opportunity based on the at least one shared interest. The method may further include providing, by the processor, a feature associated with the opportunity that allows each of the at least two members to accept the opportunity based on a condition. The condition may include at least one of accepting the opportunity by another of the at least two members, accepting the opportunity by at least one other designated member of the network, and accepting the opportunity by a preset number of the members of the network. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RESERVING SPACE ATTENDED DELIVERY/PICKUP LOCATIONS - A system for enabling users to reserve space at attended delivery/pickup locations to at least substantially guarantee that the attended delivery/pickup locations will have capacity to receive parcels requested to be delivered to them. In various embodiments, the system is configured to substantially automatically reserve space in response to receiving a request to delivery one or more parcels to a particular attended delivery/pickup location. In other embodiments, the system is configured to enable users to reserve space at attended delivery/pickup locations. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278603 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF LOCATING AND SELLING ITEMS AT ATTENDED DELIVERY/PICKUP LOCATIONS - A system and method for locating nearby attended delivery/pickup locations with a particular item in stock is described. The system receives a request from an individual to purchase a particular item from an on-line retailer. The system receives information associated with attended delivery/pickup locations, including location and inventory information. The system then determines which (if any) attended delivery/pickup locations (e.g., the attended delivery/pickup locations are not the on-line retailer) are near the individual and have the particular item in stock and notifies the individual. In various embodiments, the system enables the user to purchase or reserve the particular item at the particular attended delivery/pickup location. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278604 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OFFERING PARTIALLY-REFUNDABLE VOUCHERS FOR GOODS AND SERVICES - The present disclosure provides a system for generating a voucher including a voucher value, a refund value, and an expiration date, wherein the voucher value is at least based on information received from a consumer. If the system receives payment information from the consumer for the voucher and the system does not receive confirmation that the purchased voucher was not redeemed by the expiration date, the system will refund the consumer the refund value associated with the voucher. | 2014-09-18 |