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20080201166 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO BILL A HEALTHCARE ENTITY FOR USE OF AN ASSET OF A SUPPLIER - A system to bill a healthcare entity for use of an asset of a supplier is provided. The system includes a computer in communication to track use of the asset, and a computer readable storage medium having programmable instructions for execution by the computer. The programmable instructions include receiving a request from the healthcare entity for use of the asset; identifying an identifier correlated to the request, the identifier correlated to a request for reimbursement from the insurer; tracking use of the asset by the healthcare entity; detecting receipt of the reimbursement at the healthcare entity from the insurer; calculating a percentage of the reimbursement to bill the healthcare entity for use of the asset correlated to the reimbursement; and generating an output for communication to the healthcare entity. The output includes a display that shows the identifier and the percentage of the reimbursement billed to the healthcare entity. | 08-21-2008 |
20090281822 | System and Method to Automate Service Delivery to Medical Equipment - A system and method to manage service delivery to a customer is provided. In one embodiment, a system may include a computing device that, in turn, includes a memory having a plurality of routines stored therein and a processor configured to execute the plurality of routines. The plurality of routines of one embodiment may include a response engine configured to receive an indication of an event with respect to a medical resource and to receive a plurality of region-specific parameter sets including a parameter set associated with a geographic region in which the medical resource is located. Additionally, the response engine may be configured to generate an output including a recommended action based at least in part on the event and the parameter set associated with the geographic region such that the recommended action is customized for the geographic region in which the medical resource is located. | 11-12-2009 |
20090281867 | System and Method to Service Medical Equipment - A system and method to facilitate service delivery to a client is provided. In one embodiment, a system may collect service event data corresponding to one or more failure modes from a population of devices and analyze the service event data in accordance with a reliability growth model to detect a trend in occurrences of the one or more failure modes. The system may also predict future client demand for service of the population of devices attributable to the one or more failure modes based at least in part on the detected trend, and generate a report indicating at least one of the detected trend or the predicted future client demand. | 11-12-2009 |
20100082363 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MANAGE A QUALITY OF DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE - A system and method to manage a quality of delivery of healthcare to a patient. The method includes tracking completion of a portion of a protocol associated with one of a series of candidate hypotheses to deliver healthcare to the patient; tracking a change in a quality of care metric directed to the patient with completion of a portion the protocol, the quality of metric including at least one of a time to rate of reduction in a health risk to the patient and a time to or rate of reduction in symptom or abnormal biometric data of the patient; and outputting an alert in response to the quality of care metric exceeding a threshold. | 04-01-2010 |
20120173259 | System and Method for Scheduling Medical Procedures - Present embodiments are directed to a system and method for calculating an estimated procedure time. Specifically present embodiments include systems and methods for estimating a procedure time for a patient to undergo an imaging procedure. The estimated procedure time may be calculated with a difficulty score that is used to adjust a base procedure time associated with a procedure protocol for the imaging procedure. Present embodiments are also directed to scheduling an amount of time corresponding to the estimated procedure time on a schedule. | 07-05-2012 |
20120215556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MANAGE A QUALITY OF DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE - A system and method to manage a quality of delivery of healthcare to a patient. The method includes tracking completion of a portion of a protocol associated with one of a series of candidate hypotheses to deliver healthcare to the patient; tracking a change in a quality of care metric directed to the patient with completion of a portion the protocol, the quality of metric including at least one of a time to rate of reduction in a health risk to the patient and a time to or rate of reduction in symptom or abnormal biometric data of the patient; and outputting an alert in response to the quality of care metric exceeding a threshold. | 08-23-2012 |
20140114685 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MANAGE A WORKFLOW IN DELIVERING HEALTHCARE - An example system to allocate a resource to a plurality of patients includes a first agent to track a first property associated with a first patient to obtain first tracking data and a second agent to track a second property associated with a second patient to obtain second tracking data. The example system includes a bidding engine to receive the first tracking data from the first agent and the second tracking data the second agent. In the example system, the bidding agent to dynamically generate a first bid associated with the first patient based on the first tracking data and a second bid associated with the second patient based on the second tracking data. The example system includes a broker to assign the resource to one of the first patient or the second patient. In the example system, the broker is to dynamically communicate with the bidding engine to assign the resource based on at least one of the first bid, the second bid, or a property associated with the resource. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114686 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MANAGE A WORKFLOW IN DELIVERING HEALTHCARE - An example method to assign a plurality of resources to patient progressing through a workflow of events includes tracking a first property of a first resource, tracking a second property of a second resource, calculating a first set of bids for the first and second resources based on the respective first and second properties, assigning one of the first resource or the second resource to the slot in the workflow of events based on the first set of bids, introducing a third resource and tracking a third property of the third resource and calculating a second set of bids for the first, second and third resources based on the respective first, second and third properties, and reassigning one of the first resource, the second resource or the third resource to the slot in the workflow of events based on the second set of bids. | 04-24-2014 |
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20090089112 | Service Resource Evaluation Method and System - A method for determining the value of service knowledge is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a database of service knowledge, including one or more service knowledge objects, corresponding to a system. The method may also include associating the service knowledge with a plurality of taxonomic service categories associated with respective service events. Further, the method may include establishing a value of the one or more service knowledge objects. Such value may be established through a comparison of a first and second expected maintenance costs for the system determined from the service knowledge without and with, respectively, the one or more service knowledge objects. Additionally, the method may include storing or outputting the established value. Various other methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed. | 04-02-2009 |
20100292827 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A DEVICE - A technique is provided for installing a device in which a part of the device and the location of the part are automatically determined. An installer is notified of the part and its location for installation. Routines implementing some or all of the technique may be provided on a computer-readable medium. A method is also provided for locating a part to be installed using a project manager application. An installer retrieves the part from the location and installs the part. In one embodiment, the present techniques are implemented using an installation system including a processor-based system and a locator system. The processor-based system is configured to indicate a location of a part to be installed while the locator system is configured to provide the location to the processor-based system. | 11-18-2010 |
20120226508 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICE DATA ANALYSIS - Certain embodiments of the present disclosure describe the combined analysis of dynamic models and static models generated as part of a healthcare delivery process. Based on the combined analysis, As-Is and variation models (each having dynamic and static components) are generated. In one embodiment, the As-Is model components may be used in strategic planning. Likewise, in one embodiment, the variation model components may be used to derive respective dynamic and static quality metrics that may be used in report and control processes applied to the healthcare delivery process. | 09-06-2012 |
20130054265 | AUTOMATED EMERGENCY ADMISSION WORKFLOW METHOD FOR CARDIAC AND OTHER TIME OR CRITICAL CARE PATIENTS - A system, computer program product and method for automated admission of a patient to a specialized care unit of a health care facility from a pre-hospital setting includes a controller with a memory in communication with a processor, the memory including program instructions for execution by the processor to detect an initiation of a specialized patient care protocol, link an identifier of a patient locator device associated with the patient to an electronic medical record of the patient in an electronic admission system of the health care facility, poll one or more specialized care units to identify an available specialized care unit, automatically schedule a procedure in the available specialized care unit, and electronically route the patient from the pre-hospital setting directly to the available specialized care unit. | 02-28-2013 |
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20080284674 | Digital control architecture for a tunable impedance surface - A digitally controlled tunable impedance surface. The tunable impedance surface is of the type having a two dimensional array of conducting plates disposed adjacent a dielectric medium; a ground plane spaced from the two dimensional array of conducting plates, the dielectric medium occurring at least between and separating the two dimensional array of conducting plates and the ground plane; and conductors coupling alternating ones of the conducting plates to the ground plane. A plurality of voltage controlled capacitors are coupled between adjacent plates in the two dimensional array of conducting plates and an array of digital to analog converters are disposed preferably on or near the ground plane. Each digital to analog converter has analog output voltage pads coupled to selected ones of adjacent conducting plates and has at least a digital input for receiving digital words representing at least in part analog voltages to be applied to the selected ones of the adjacent conducting plates. The digital to analog converter may also have a digital output for serially coupled the received digital data words to downstream connected digital to analog converters. | 11-20-2008 |
20100066629 | Multiband tunable impedance surface - A tunable impedance surface capable of steering a multiband radio frequency beam in two different, independently band-wise controllable directions. The tunable surface has a ground plane and a plurality of first conductive elements disposed in a first array a first distance therefrom, the first distance being less than a wavelength of a lower frequency band of the multiband radio frequency beam. A first capacitor arrangement controllably varies capacitance between selected ones of the first conductive elements. A plurality of second conductive elements are disposed in a second array a second distance from the plurality of first conductive elements, the second distance being less than a wavelength of a higher frequency band of the multiband radio frequency beam, the plurality of first conductive elements serving as a ground plane for the plurality of second conductive elements. A second capacitor arrangement controllably varies capacitance between selected ones of the second conductive elements. | 03-18-2010 |
20100073261 | TUNABLE FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE - An apparatus and methods for operating a frequency selective surface are disclosed. The apparatus can be tuned to an on/off state or transmit/reflect electromagnetic energy in any frequency. The methods disclosed teach how to tune the frequency selective surface to an on/off state or transmit/reflect electromagnetic energy in any frequency. | 03-25-2010 |
20120026068 | TUNABLE FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE - An apparatus and methods for operating a frequency selective surface are disclosed. The apparatus can be tuned to an on/off state or transmit/reflect electromagnetic energy in any frequency. The methods disclosed teach how to tune the frequency selective surface to an on/off state or transmit/reflect electromagnetic energy in any frequency. | 02-02-2012 |