38th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 192 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140278405 | AUTOMATIC NOTE TAKING WITHIN A VIRTUAL MEETING - Arrangements relate to automatically taking notes in a virtual meeting. The virtual meeting has meeting content that includes a plurality of meeting content streams. One or more of the meeting content streams is in a non-text format. The one or more meeting content streams in a non-text format can be converted into text. As a result, the plurality of meeting content streams is in text format. The text of the plurality of meeting content streams can be analyzed to identify a key element within the text. Consolidated system notes that include the key element can be generated. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278406 | OBTAINING DATA FROM UNSTRUCTURED DATA FOR A STRUCTURED DATA COLLECTION - Techniques for obtaining data from unstructured data for a structured data collection include receiving unstructured data that includes text; identifying an attribute associated with a structured data collection; obtaining at least one of historical data associated with the attribute or additional data associated with a user of the computing system; identifying one or more terms from the unstructured data as being associated with the attribute based on at least one of the historical data or the additional data; and storing the identified one or more terms in a data record of the unstructured data collection. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278407 | LANGUAGE MODELING OF COMPLETE LANGUAGE SEQUENCES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for language modeling of complete language sequences. Training data indicating language sequences is accessed, and counts for a number of times each language sequence occurs in the training data are determined. A proper subset of the language sequences is selected, and a first component of a language model is trained. The first component includes first probability data for assigning scores to the selected language sequences. A second component of the language model is trained based on the training data, where the second component includes second probability data for assigning scores to language sequences that are not included in the selected language sequences. Adjustment data that normalizes the second probability data with respect to the first probability data is generated, and the first component, the second component, and the adjustment data are stored. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278408 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a memory configured to store recorded voice data; a display unit configured to display a graphic object representing a reproduction progress of the recorded voice data; and a controller configured to receive a selection signal indicating a portion of the graphic object has been selected, select a section of the recorded voice data including a point-in-time at which the graphic object is selected, convert keyword voice data included in the selected section of the recorded voice data to keyword text data, and display the keyword text data on the display unit. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278409 | PRESERVING PRIVACY IN NATURAL LANGAUGE DATABASES - An apparatus and a method for preserving privacy in natural language databases are provided. Natural language input may be received. At least one of sanitizing or anonymizing the natural language input may be performed to form a clean output. The clean output may be stored. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278410 | TEXT PROCESSING USING NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING - Techniques for converting spoken speech into written speech are provided. The techniques include transcribing input speech via speech recognition, mapping each spoken utterance from input speech into a corresponding formal utterance, and mapping each formal utterance into a stylistically formatted written utterance. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278411 | SPEECH RECOGNITION VOCABULARY INTEGRATION - A method for vocabulary integration of speech recognition comprises converting multiple speech signals into multiple words using a processor, applying confidence scores to the multiple words, classifying the multiple words into a plurality of classifications based on classification criteria and the confidence score for each word, determining if one or more of the multiple words are unrecognized based on the plurality of classifications, classifying each unrecognized word and detecting a match for the unrecognized word based on additional classification criteria, and upon detecting a match for an unrecognized word, converting at least a portion of the multiple speech signals corresponding to the unrecognized word into words. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278412 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO CHARACTERIZATION - Characterizing an acoustic signal includes extracting a vector from the acoustic signal, where the vector contains information about the nuisance characteristics present in the acoustic signal, and computing a set of likelihoods of the vector for a plurality of classes that model a plurality of nuisance characteristics. Training a system to characterize an acoustic signal includes obtaining training data, the training data comprising a plurality of acoustic signals, where each of the plurality of acoustic signals is associated with one of a plurality of classes that indicates a presence of a specific type of nuisance characteristic, transforming each of the plurality of acoustic signals into a vector that summarizes information about the acoustic characteristics of the signal, to produce a plurality of vectors, and labeling each of the plurality of vectors with one of the plurality of classes. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278413 | TRAINING AN AT LEAST PARTIAL VOICE COMMAND SYSTEM - An electronic device with one or more processors and memory includes a procedure for training a digital assistant. In some embodiments, the device detects an impasse in a dialogue between the digital assistant and a user including a speech input. During a learning session, the device utilizes a subsequent clarification input from the user to adjust intent inference or task execution associated with the speech input to produce a satisfactory response. In some embodiments, the device identifies a pattern of success or failure associated with an aspect previously used to complete a task and generates a hypothesis regarding a parameter used in speech recognition, intent inference or task execution as a cause for the pattern. Then, the device tests the hypothesis by altering the parameter for a subsequent completion of the task and adopts or rejects the hypothesis based on feedback information collected from the subsequent completion. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278414 | UPDATING A VOICE TEMPLATE - Updating a voice template for recognizing a speaker on the basis of a voice uttered by the speaker is disclosed. Stored voice templates indicate distinctive characteristics of utterances from speakers. Distinctive characteristics are extracted for a specific speaker based on a voice message utterance received from that speaker. The distinctive characteristics are compared to the characteristics indicated by the stored voice templates to selected a template that matches within a predetermined threshold. The selected template is updated on the basis of the extracted characteristics. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278415 | Voice Recognition Configuration Selector and Method of Operation Therefor - A method includes obtaining a speech sample from a pre-processing front-end of a first device, identifying at least one condition, and selecting a voice recognition speech model from a database of speech models, the selected voice recognition speech model trained under the at least one condition. The method may include performing voice recognition on the speech sample using the selected speech model. A device includes a microphone signal pre-processing front end and operating-environment logic, operatively coupled to the pre-processing front end. The operating-environment logic is operative to identify at least one condition. A voice recognition configuration selector is operatively coupled to the operating-environment logic, and is operative to receive information related to the at least one condition from the operating-environment logic and to provide voice recognition logic with an identifier for a voice recognition speech model trained under the at least one condition. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278416 | Method and Apparatus Including Parallell Processes for Voice Recognition - A method and apparatus for voice recognition performed in a voice recognition block comprising a plurality of voice recognition stages. The method includes receiving a first plurality of voice inputs, corresponding to a first phrase, into a first voice recognition stage of the plurality of voice recognition stages, wherein multiple ones of the voice recognition stages includes a plurality of voice recognition modules and multiples ones of the voice recognition stages perform a different type of voice recognition processing, wherein the first voice recognition stage processes the first plurality of voice inputs to generate a first plurality of outputs for receipt by a subsequent voice recognition stage. The method further includes, receiving by each subsequent voice recognition stage a plurality of outputs from a preceding voice recognition stage, wherein a plurality of final outputs is generated by a final voice recognition stage from which to approximate the first phrase. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278417 | SPEAKER-IDENTIFICATION-ASSISTED SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for performing speaker-identification-assisted speech processing. In accordance with certain embodiments, a communication device includes speaker identification (SID) logic that is configured to identify a user of the communication device and/or the identity of a far-end speaker participating in a voice call with a user of the communication device. Knowledge of the identity of the user and/or far-end speaker is then used to improve the performance of one or more speech processing algorithms implemented on the communication device. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278418 | SPEAKER-IDENTIFICATION-ASSISTED DOWNLINK SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for performing speaker-identification-assisted speech processing in a downlink path of a communication device. In accordance with certain embodiments, a communication device includes speaker identification (SID) logic that is configured to identify the identity of a far-end speaker participating in a voice call with a user of the communication device. Knowledge of the identity of the far-end speaker is then used to improve the performance of one or more downlink speech processing algorithms implemented on the communication device. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278419 | VOICE COMMAND DEFINITIONS USED IN LAUNCHING APPLICATION WITH A COMMAND - A voice command definition file (VCDF) declaratively defines voice commands for an application. For example, the VCDF may include definitions for: voice commands; one or more phrases/utterances that may be said to execute each of the commands; a navigation location to navigate to within the application (e.g. a page); phrase lists containing items that may be used as a parameter in a voice command; examples; feedback; and the like. A user may say a single utterance to launch the application, navigate to the associated location of the command and execute the command. The VCDF may define multiple ways to listen for a particular command. The VCDF may be edited/defined by a user and may include a user friendly name for an application. A speech engine loads the VCDF for use such that it may recognize the commands associated with an application. The definitions may be updated during runtime. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278420 | Method and Apparatus for Training a Voice Recognition Model Database - An electronic device digitally combines a single voice input with each of a series of noise samples. Each noise sample is taken from a different audio environment (e.g., street noise, babble, interior car noise). The voice input/noise sample combinations are used to train a voice recognition model database without the user having to repeat the voice input in each of the different environments. In one variation, the electronic device transmits the user's voice input to a server that maintains and trains the voice recognition model database. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278421 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING LANGUAGE PRONUNCIATION - A system and methods for analyzing pronunciation, detecting errors and providing automatic feedback to help non-native speakers improve pronunciation of a foreign language is provided that employs publicly available, high accuracy third-party automatic speech recognizers available via the Internet to analyze and identify mispronunciations. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278422 | INDEXING DIGITIZED SPEECH WITH WORDS REPRESENTED IN THE DIGITIZED SPEECH - Indexing digitized speech with words represented in the digitized speech, with a multimodal digital audio editor operating on a multimodal device supporting modes of user interaction, the modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal digital audio editor operatively coupled to an ASR engine, including providing by the multimodal digital audio editor to the ASR engine digitized speech for recognition; receiving in the multimodal digital audio editor from the ASR engine recognized user speech including a recognized word, also including information indicating where, in the digitized speech, representation of the recognized word begins; and inserting by the multimodal digital audio editor the recognized word, in association with the information indicating where, in the digitized speech, representation of the recognized word begins, into a speech recognition grammar, the speech recognition grammar voice enabling user interface commands of the multimodal digital audio editor. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278423 | Audio Transmission Channel Quality Assessment - A device, system and method for audio transmission quality assessment that occurs during the transmission. A transmission channel such as the internet is used to transmit speech that is spoken by a human speaker, captured at a first end, and transmitted over the transmission channel for reproduction at a second end. The processors at each end of the transmission channel are configured to determine one or more characteristics of the speech such as phonemes. The phonemes are transmitted over a backchannel of the transmission channel to a processor that compares the speech characteristics that were determined at both ends of the call. The participants are notified of a transmission problem that has had an effect on the intelligibility of the speech that was reproduced at the far end if the comparison does not meet a predetermined quality metric. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278424 | KERNEL DEEP CONVEX NETWORKS AND END-TO-END LEARNING - Data associated with spoken language may be obtained. An analysis of the obtained data may be initiated for understanding of the spoken language using a deep convex network that is integrated with a kernel trick. The resulting kernel deep convex network may also be constructed by stacking one shallow kernel network over another with concatenation of the output vector of the lower network with the input data vector. A probability associated with a slot that is associated with slot-filling may be determined, based on local, discriminative features that are extracted using the kernel deep convex network. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278425 | DATA SHREDDING FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION LANGUAGE MODEL TRAINING UNDER DATA RETENTION RESTRICTIONS - Training speech recognizers, e.g., their language or acoustic models, using actual user data is useful, but retaining personally identifiable information may be restricted in certain environments due to regulations. Accordingly, a method or system is provided for enabling training of a language model which includes producing segments of text in a text corpus and counts corresponding to the segments of text, the text corpus being in a depersonalized state. The method further includes enabling a system to train a language model using the segments of text in the depersonalized state and the counts. Because the data is depersonalized, actual data may be used, enabling speech recognizers to keep up-to-date with user trends in speech and usage, among other benefits. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278426 | DATA SHREDDING FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION ACOUSTIC MODEL TRAINING UNDER DATA RETENTION RESTRICTIONS - Training speech recognizers, e.g., their language or acoustic models, using actual user data is useful, but retaining personally identifiable information may be restricted in certain environments due to regulations. Accordingly, a method or system is provided for enabling training of an acoustic model which includes dynamically shredding a speech corpus to produce text segments and depersonalized audio features corresponding to the text segments. The method further includes enabling a system to train an acoustic model using the text segments and the depersonalized audio features. Because the data is depersonalized, actual data may be used, enabling speech recognizers to keep up-to-date with user trends in speech and usage, among other benefits. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278427 | DYNAMIC DIALOG SYSTEM AGENT INTEGRATION - A method for dialog agent integration comprises discovering a dialog agent required for a dialog request including dialog information comprising terms required for audio feedback in a service domain required for the dialog request, extracting the dialog information from the discovered dialog agent, integrating the dialog information to existing dialog information of a dialog system (DS) that provides dialog functionality for an electronic device, and expanding the service domain dialog functionality of the DS with the integrated dialog information. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278428 | TRACKING SPOKEN LANGUAGE USING A DYNAMIC ACTIVE VOCABULARY - Systems and methods to provide a set of dictionaries and highlighting lists for speech recognition and highlighting, where the speech recognition focuses only on a limited scope of vocabulary as present in a document. The systems and methods allow a rapid and accurate matching of the utterance with the available text, and appropriately indicate the location in the text or signal any errors made during reading. Described herein is a system and method to create speech recognition systems focused on reading a fixed text and providing feedback on what they read to improve literacy, aid those with disabilities, and to make the reading experience more efficient and fun. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278429 | IDENTIFYING CORRESPONDING POSITIONS IN DIFFERENT REPRESENTATIONS OF A TEXTUAL WORK - Described herein are techniques for determining corresponding positions between different representations of a textual work. In some of the techniques, portions of one or more representations may be processed. A determination of a corresponding position may be made in response to a request received from a user, such as a reader that desires to switch between representations. The request may indicate a position in one representation and the representation to which the user would like to switch. In response to receiving the request, one or more portions of one or more representations of a textual work may be processed. In some techniques, a corresponding position between different representations may be determined without processing the entirety of one or more representations of the textual work. For example, a corresponding position may be determined without processing an entire audio representation. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278430 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR EXPEDITED TEXT READING USING STAGED OCR TECHNIQUE - A system and method are provided for accelerating machine reading of text. In one embodiment, the system comprises at least one processor device. The processor device is configured to receive at least one image of text to be audibly read. The text includes a first portion and a second portion. The processor device is further configured to initiate optical character recognition (OCR) to recognize the first portion. The processor device is further configured to initiate an audible presentation of the first portion prior to initiating OCR of the second portion, and simultaneously perform OCR to recognize the second portion of the text to be audibly read during presentation of at least part of the first portion. The processor device is further configured to automatically cause the second portion of the text to be audibly presented immediately upon completion of the presentation of the first portion. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278431 | Method and System for Enhancing a Speech Database - A system, method and computer readable medium that enhances a speech database for speech synthesis is disclosed. The method may include labeling audio files in a primary speech database, identifying segments in the labeled audio files that have varying pronunciations based on language differences, identifying replacement segments in a secondary speech database, enhancing the primary speech database by substituting the identified secondary speech database segments for the corresponding identified segments in the primary speech database, and storing the enhanced primary speech database for use in speech synthesis. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278432 | Method And Apparatus For Providing Silent Speech - Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus for providing a silent speech solution which allows the user to speak over an electronic media such as a cell phone without making any noise. In particular, measuring the shape of the vocal tract allows creation of synthesized speech without requiring noise produced by the vocal chords. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278433 | VOICE SYNTHESIS DEVICE, VOICE SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A VOICE SYNTHESIS PROGRAM STORED THEREON - A voice synthesis device includes a sequence data generation unit configured to generate sequence data including a plurality of kinds of parameters for controlling vocalization of a voice to be synthesized based on music information and lyrics information, an output unit configured to output a singing voice based on the sequence data, and a processing content information acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of processing content information, associated with each of pieces of preset singing manner information. Each of the content information indicates contents of edit processing for all or part of the parameters. The sequence data generation unit generates a plurality of pieces of sequence data, and the sequence data are obtained by editing the all or part of the parameters included in the sequence data, based on the content information associated with one of the pieces of singing manner information specified by a user. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278434 | Methods and Apparatus for Message Playback - A system for playback of messages. Context appropriate messages for an environment may be played back. Messages may be user behavior interactive and subject to user behavior initiated message playback conditions. User generated environment events may be automatically analyzed and user behavior interactive messages may be automatically coordinated. An automated themed message playback apparatus may have a self-contained housing within which a stored themed message, an in situ user generated environment event sensor, and an automated themed message playback device are housed. User generated environment events may be automatically sensed in situ. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278435 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A VOICE COMMAND - Some aspects include a method of monitoring an acoustic environment of a mobile device operating in a low power mode, the mobile device having a first and second processor, the method comprises receiving acoustic input while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, performing at least one first processing stage on the acoustic input using the first processor, prior to engaging the second processor, to evaluate whether the acoustic input includes a voice command, performing at least one second processing stage on the acoustic input using the second processor to evaluate whether the acoustic input includes a voice command if further processing is needed to determine whether the acoustic input includes a voice command, and initiating responding to the voice command when either the at least one first processing stage or the at least one second processing stage determines that the acoustic input includes a voice command. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278436 | VOICE INTERFACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A voice-controlled system is described that can be accessed by a mobile computing device. A user can communicate requests using natural language utterances. A microphone can collect the utterances and provide them to the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device can transmit the human utterance to a voice interface system. The voice interface system can utilize user preferences when executing the request to provide a personalized user experience. Computer-implemented methods are also described herein. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278437 | USER SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW POWER VOICE COMMAND ACTIVATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method of activating voice control on a wireless device includes sampling signals from a plurality of sensors on the device, determining if the device is in a hands-on state by a user on the basis of the signal sampling, and enabling a voice activated detection (VAD) application on the device on the basis of the determination. A voice controlled apparatus in a wireless device includes a plurality of sensors arranged on the device, a microphone, a controller to sample signals from one or more of the plurality of sensors, a processor coupled to the controller, and a voice activated detection (VAD) application running on the processor coupled to the controller and the microphone. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278438 | Providing Content on Multiple Devices - Techniques for receiving a voice command from a user and, in response, providing audible content to the user using a first device and providing visual content for the user using a second device. In some instances, the first device includes a microphone for generating audio signals that include user speech, as well as a speaker for outputting audible content in response to identified voice commands from the speech. However, the first device might not include a display for displaying graphical content. As such, the first device may be configured to identify devices that include displays and that are proximate to the first device. The first device may then instruct one or more of these other devices to output visual content associated with a user's voice command. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278439 | VOICE BASED AUTOMATION TESTING FOR HANDS FREE MODULE - An electronic control unit (ECU) of a hands-free module may be tested by an automated voice based testing tool in a first device. The tool reads test input data from an Excel input file. The tool generates simulated audible voice commands in a specified language, accent, pitch, volume or speed to test the hands-free module. The voice commands are transmitted via a speaker to a hands-free module microphone. The hands-free ECU is coupled to a CAN bus and the tool receives CAN bus information corresponding to hands-free module operations. The tool outputs test verdict information and/or CAN bus message logs as text in an Excel file. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278440 | FRAMEWORK FOR VOICE CONTROLLING APPLICATIONS - A system for voice control of applications includes an electronic device that receives speech signals and converts the speech signals into words. A voice navigation module analyzes an application and determines application type and enabled features. A command registration module registers commands based on the determined application type and enabled features. The commands control the application when matched with associated speech. A speech command interpretation module receives the words and detects a speech mode for matching commands with interpreted speech, and executes matched commands for navigating through and controlling the application. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278441 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SWITCHING PROCESSING MODES USING GESTURES - Systems and methods for switching between voice dictation modes using a gesture are provided so that an alternate meaning to a dictated word may be applied. The provided systems and methods time stamp detected gestures and detected words from the voice dictation and compare the time stamp at which a gesture is detected to the time stamp at which a word is detected. When it is determined that a time stamp of a gesture approximately matches a time stamp of a word, the word may be processed to have an alternate meaning, such as a command, punctuation, or action. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278442 | VOICE TRANSMISSION STARTING SYSTEM AND STARTING METHOD FOR VEHICLE - A voice transmission starting system and starting method for a vehicle are provided to start a voice transmission device through recognition of a motion. The method includes outputting, by a controller, an ultrasonic wave having substantially uniform amplitude and recognizing the output ultrasonic wave as an input. In addition, the controller generates a signal based on information regarding the recognized ultrasonic wave and transmits the signal to start the voice transmission device. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278443 | Voice Control User Interface with Progressive Command Engagement - A method include placing a first processor in a sleep operating mode and running a second processor that is operative to wake the first processor from the sleep operating mode in response to a speech command phrase. The method includes identifying, by the second processor, a speech command phrase segment and performing a control operation in response to detecting the segment in detected speech. The control operation is performed while the first processor is maintained in the sleep operating mode. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278444 | CONTEXT-SENSITIVE HANDLING OF INTERRUPTIONS - A speech output to be provided to a user of a device is received. Thereafter, it is determined if the device is currently receiving speech input from a user. Upon determining that the device is not currently receiving speech input from the user, the speech output to the user is provided. On the other hand, upon determining that the device is receiving speech input from the user it is determined if provision of the speech output is urgent. When the speech output is urgent, the speech output is provided to the user. When the speech output is not urgent, provision of the speech output to the user is stayed. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278445 | INTEGRATED SENSOR-ARRAY PROCESSOR - An integrated sensor-array processor and method includes sensor array time-domain input ports to receive sensor signals from time-domain sensors. A sensor transform engine (STE) creates sensor transform data from the sensor signals and applies sensor calibration adjustments. Transducer time-domain input ports receive time-domain transducer signals, and a transducer output transform engine (TTE) generates transducer output transform data from the transducer signals. A spatial filter engine (SFE) applies suppression coefficients to the sensor transform data, to suppress target signals received from noise locations and/or amplification locations. A blocking filter engine (BFE) applies subtraction coefficients to the sensor transform data, to subtract the target signals from the sensor transform data. A noise reduction filter engine (NRE) subtracts noise signals from the BFE output. An inverse transform engine (ITE) generates time-domain data from the NRE output. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278446 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DATA EMBEDDING AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DATA EXTRACTION - A data embedding device includes a storage unit configured to store a code book that includes a plurality of prediction parameters; a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, extracting a plurality of candidates, of which a prediction error in prediction coding, the prediction coding being based on signals of other two channels, of a signal of one channel among signals of a plurality of channels is within a predetermined range, of a prediction parameter from the code book and extracting the number of candidates of the prediction parameter, the candidates being extracted; converting at least part of data that is an embedding object into a number base based on the number of candidates; and selecting a prediction parameter, the prediction parameter being a result of the prediction coding, from the candidates. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278447 | DIGITAL WATERMARK DETECTION DEVICE AND DIGITAL WATERMARK DETECTION METHOD, AS WELL AS TAMPERING DETECTION DEVICE USING DIGITAL WATERMARK AND TAMPERING DETECTION METHOD USING DIGITAL WATERMARK - A digital watermark detection device includes a first chirp z-transform unit ( | 2014-09-18 |
20140278448 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ERRORS AND/OR CRITICAL RESULTS IN MEDICAL REPORTS - Systems and methods for analyzing a medical report to determine whether the medical report includes at least one instance of at least one category selected from a group consisting of: gender error, laterality error, and critical finding. In some embodiments, one or more portions of text are identified from the medical report. Contextual information associated with the medical report is used to determine whether the identified one or more portions of text comprise at least one instance of at least one category selected from the group. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278449 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GUIDING PATIENTS TOWARD HEALTHCARE GOALS - System and method for guiding patients toward completion of recommended healthcare actions based on the individual patient's profile, as well as incorporating aggregate patient population data (e.g., generally accepted or current best practices) in one or more healthcare fields for driving the recommendations to the patient population most likely to benefit from such practices. In addition, the system/method allows different providers (e.g., healthcare providers, insurance providers, and other providers) to establish their own rules for their own subsets of patients. The system/method may include monitoring and tracking patient completion of the recommended actions. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278450 | Searching for Service Providers based on Consumer Symptoms - A computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to consult with a medical service provider; accessing a data repository that stores information pertaining to medical service providers, including present availability of the medical service providers for participating in a consultation and qualifications of the medical service providers; determining which of the medical service providers are presently available; identifying from the qualifications of the presently available medical service providers and the one or more terms included in the request, one or more medical service providers appropriate to consult with the consumer; transmitting information indicative of the identified one or more medical service providers appropriate to consult with the consumer regarding the consumer's one or more symptoms; receiving a selection of one of the identified one or more medical service providers; and establishing a communication channel between the device used by the consumer and a device used by the selected medical service provider. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278451 | Integration of Diagnostic Devices into a Brokerage System - An apparatus comprises a diagnostic device configured to be operated by a first medical service provider to collect diagnostic data indicative of a physiological condition of a patient; and a processing device configured for communication with the diagnostic device and a brokerage system during a real-time consultation between the patient and a second medical service provider, over a real-time communication channel established by the brokerage system, with the processing device being further configured to cause the diagnostic data to be transmitted to a device used by the service provider during the real-time consultation to promote diagnosis of the physiological condition of the patient. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278452 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMS FOR CONNECTING APPLICATIONS AND TOOLS WITHIN MEDICAL TASKFLOWS - A medical image evaluation and diagnosis system to dynamically connect clinical tools, clinical applications and clinical findings includes a work context auto alignment manager (WAALM). The WAALM extracts, from a clinical application and tool initiation request, clinical application and tool information for a first clinical taskflow, and connects, with at least a first clinical application initiated in response to the clinical application and tool initiation request, at least a first clinical tool based on the extracted clinical application and tool information, the first clinical tool being independent of the first clinical application. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278453 | Medical Treatment Management - A medical treatment management system disclosed herein collects psychological data for a patient and a sequence of functional data about the functional status of the patient. The system generates a modified patient profile, such as a biopsychosocial profile, using the sequence of functional data and the psychological data. Subsequently, the modified patient profile is compared with a normative patient profile to generate a patient treatment regimen that may be prescribed for the patient. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278454 | DYNAMIC PRICING OF HEALTHCARE RESOURCES - A dynamic pricing system for scheduling healthcare resources to deliver healthcare services during optimal time periods is disclosed. In some embodiments, a system and method for scheduling appointment slots for use in allocating utilization of a healthcare resource based on dynamic pricing constraints is disclosed. In some embodiments, a system and method for computing prices corresponding to appointment slots associated with a healthcare resource using dynamic pricing constraints is disclosed. The dynamic pricing constraints are derived from resource data including real-time data, historical data, and provider data. The dynamically computed price for each appointment slot associated with the healthcare resource reflects the flow in supply and demand associated with the resource. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278455 | Providing Feedback Pertaining to Communication Style - An approach is described herein for providing feedback to the participants of a communication session. The approach entails automatically collecting cue information that characterizes, at least in part, the communication behavior that is exhibited during the communication session. The approach then generates signal information based on the cue information. In one case, the signal information conveys the empathy that is exhibited during the communication session. In one case, the signal information may have an affiliation dimension and a control dimension. Any participant can use the signal information during and/or after the communication session to gain awareness of his or her communication style, and to potentially modify his or behavior in response thereto. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278456 | DETERMINING INCREASED REIMBURSEMENTS RESULTING FROM AN INCREASE IN A REIMBURSEMENT PARAMETER ASSOCIATED WITH A HEALTHCARE PRODUCT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for performing filtering and selection processing to identify, from among healthcare products associated with increases in reimbursement rates for a reimbursement parameter, those products that are candidates for valuation processing, and for performing valuation processing for the candidate healthcare products. The valuation processing may include determining a value indicative of total increased reimbursements associated with a candidate healthcare product. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278457 | Tracking Changes Between Versions Of Medical Device Data Sets - The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for comparing two data sets and generating a report based on the comparing. In one aspect, the method can include accessing an original data set having one or more fields and accessing a revised data having one or more corresponding fields. The original and revised data sets can include original and revised configuration setting, respectively, for one or more medical devices. The method can further include comparing the fields in the revised data set with the fields in the original data set and generating a report based on the comparing. This report can characterize the differences between the fields in the original data set and the revised data set and identify these differences with formatting representative of the difference. The method can further include providing data characterizing the report. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278458 | MANAGEMENT OF CARE AREA TRANSITIONS OF INTRAVENOUS INFUSIONS - An infusion device providing an in-progress infusion of at least one of a drug or a fluid consistent with one or more parameters of a first care area in a hospital can be transitioned to a second care area of the hospital. Details of the in-progress infusion can be compared against one or more second parameters defined for the second care area, and a compatibility determination can be made between the in-progress infusion and the one or more second parameters defined for the seconds care area. A handling mode of the in-progress infusion in the second care area can be selected based on the compatibility determination, and the in-progress infusion can be resolved consistent with the selected handling mode. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278459 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ACTION PLANS TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER PERFORMANCE - Apparatuses and methods are provided that can acquire benchmarking data regarding a particular performance metric, compare a pharmacy's performance with the performance of other pharmacies using the benchmarking data, and recommend action plans aimed at improving the pharmacy's performance. The action plans may be customized for the particular pharmacy, so as to provide the pharmacy with a detailed, pharmacy-specific recommendation for improving performance in one or more targeted areas. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278460 | Mobile Physician Charge Capture Application - A system and method for allowing a user to create and edit a charge capture slip on an electronic device. The disclosure is suited for use on mobile, touch-sensitive electronic devices. A template screen is presented to a user with medical procedure codes, diagnosis codes, and a summary viewable simultaneously. The user can select codes to add to the summary and can also create customized templates. The user is presented with a multitude of options when viewing a created charge capture slip. The user can delete, modify, and multiply codes. The user can reposition a procedure code on the charge capture slip, while diagnosis codes associated with that procedure code are automatically also repositioned so as to maintain their relationship with the procedure code. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING A MEDICAL SEQUENCING APPARATUS AND LABORATORY SYSTEM INTO A MEDICAL FACILITY - A method may include accessing an order including a request for analysis by high throughput sequencer apparatus, where the order is associated with a biological sample identifier and a patient identifier, and scheduling, for processing with the sequencer apparatus, the request. The method may include determining availability of result information, including raw data generated by the sequencer apparatus, and assembling the raw data into aligned data, where assembling includes aligning the raw data against one or more references. The method may include analyzing the aligned data with respect to information identified by the request, and providing the raw data and/or the aligned data for long term storage. The method may include formatting a report for review by a medical professional, including information derived through analyzing the aligned data, and providing information associated with the report to a separate medical facility computing device for association with the patient identifier. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278462 | INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - An information system may include a server with a computer processor. Medical provider availability data, payment data, medical provider expertise data, patient clinical data, medical provider physical location data, patient data, and patient status data may be supplied by each of a plurality of medical providers to the server. A referral module may be accessible by a user to communicate with the plurality of medical providers and to provide from the server the medical provider availability data, payment data, medical provider expertise data, patient clinical data, medical provider physical location data, patient data, and/or patient status data to the user. A scheduling module in communication with the server may schedule any of the plurality of medical providers based upon the medical provider availability data, payment data, medical provider expertise data, patient clinical data, medical provider physical location data, patient data, and/or patient status data. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278463 | CLINICAL DASHBOARD FOR MEDICAL DEVICE - A clinical dashboard device, system, method for providing clinical data for clinical dashboard display on a device is disclosed. The system includes a server for providing clinical dashboard data, which may include data from one or more defibrillators, and further includes a clinical dashboard device. The clinical dashboard device includes a processor, a communication module configured for enabling communication between the processor and the server for receiving the clinical dashboard data from the server, and a clinical dashboard client. The clinical dashboard client includes a clinical dashboard data manager module including an instance of a clinical dashboard data manager service that provides managed clinical dashboard data between one or more clinical dashboard applications and the server. The instance of the clinical dashboard data manager service further provides managed display of managed clinical dashboard data on the display of the clinical dashboard device. The processor is configured to execute the instance. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278464 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ONLINE MULTI-SESSION INTERVIEWS - A method for managing a plurality of scheduled online interviews between a user and a plurality of professionals is provided. The method includes initiating a first online interview between the user and a first professional at a first predefined time, and once a first predetermined period of time has elapsed from the first predefined time, terminating the first online interview. The method further includes determining if a second professional is available to conduct a second online interview with the user, and based on the determining that the second professional is not available to conduct the second online interview with the user, replacing the second professional with a third professional that is available to conduct the second online interview with the user at a second predefined time, and initiating the second online interview between the user and the third professional at the second predefined time. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278465 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING HEALTH MONITORING EVENT ANTICIPATION AND RESPONSE - A contact center is described along with various methods and mechanisms for administering the same. In particular, the contact center may be configured to execute a work assignment engine and the contact center may also contain a health monitoring module that is configured to monitor events in the work assignment engine, compare the monitored events with a grammar defining expected events and an expected sequence of the expected events, and determine whether the work assignment engine is behaving appropriately based on the comparison. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278466 | PHARMACY WORKFLOW - A method for managing workflow in a pharmacy includes receiving a pharmaceutical prescription and assigning to it a priority and a time at which the prescription is to be filled. The prescription and assigned information are entered into a first “triage queue”; high-priority prescriptions are selected from this queue for filling. These prescriptions may then be entered into a second “production queue.” | 2014-09-18 |
20140278467 | HOME PATIENT HOSPITAL CARE COMMUNICATION BRIDGE SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention is a data bridge system for coordinating digital data from multiple sources and delivering them on a single data server from a patient to a healthcare provider. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278468 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING TREATMENT USING MEDICATION COMPLIANCE PATTERNS AND GLUCOSE SENSOR - Methods and apparatus monitor medication usage data for one patient or a population of patients, which can be processed to determine compliance patterns. Such methods and systems can associate, analyze, organize and present medication usage data, compliance patterns, and correlations between compliance patterns and outcomes data for electronic analysis or analysis by a caretaker. Such methods and apparatus permit analysis of compliance patterns to enable, for example, establishment or adjustment of safe and effective treatment regimens, and may include feedback systems for ensuring authenticity of medication and/or effects of medication on a patient. Such methods and apparatus also permit detection of medication in a biological sample of the patient through a medication monitor having a detection device, such as a skin-prick device, and a glucose sensor that can detect a target agent in the biological sample. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278469 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING AND DESIGNING CLINICAL TRIALS - Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for planning, activating, analyzing, and monitoring clinical trials. A planning process gathers clinical trial initiation parameters and produces a clinical trial plan. An activation process prepares and activates clinical sites in various countries to screen, enroll, and provide clinical trial drugs or devices to subjects. An analysis process tracks the rate at which trial completion objectives are completed and models progress scenarios (e.g., best case, worst case, base, etc.) and potential outcomes. Finally, a monitoring process allows a clinical trial manager to monitor the progress of the clinical trial and modify the clinical trial plan as needed to meet trial completion objectives. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278470 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A WELLNESS RATING FOR AN ORGANIZATION - A computer program product for determining a wellness rating for an organization. The computer program product records measurements of a plurality of wellness factors for a plurality of individuals related to an organization, determines a raw score of each wellness factor for the organization, generates a relative score of each wellness factor for the organization based upon the raw score and a baseline score for each wellness factor, and calculates a wellness rating for the organization based upon the relative scores of each wellness factor. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278471 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME BI-DIRECTIONAL CHARGE CAPTURE-CENTRALIZED CONVERSATION BETWEEN BILLING AND PROVIDER ENTITIES - A system for providing real-time bi-directional charge capture-centralized conversation between Billing and Provider entities, comprising a first computer apparatus with a computer apparatus charge capture module installed and a second computer apparatus with a computer apparatus billing module installed that are used to transmit and/or receive real-time charge capture centralized conversation data. Real-time charge capture-centralized conversation data is comprised of real-time charge capture data, which can be combined to create real-time claim data. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278472 | INTERACTIVE HEALTHCARE MODELING WITH CONTINUOUS CONVERGENCE - A method comprises receiving a prediction request that comprises a target patient population definition; in response to receiving the prediction request, performing in real-time: parsing the prediction request to identify the target patient population definition; mapping the one or more target patient population characteristics to a function of one or more input variables of a particular dataset, from a plurality of datasets; computing a weighted subset of patients; based, at least in part, on the target patient population definition and the particular dataset; computing the prediction data based on the weighted subset of patients; returning the prediction data. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278473 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A GENERICIZED MEDICAL DEVICE ARCHITECTURE - Systems, methods, and computer readable storage medium for providing a genericized medical device architecture common to a plurality of medical devices are disclosed. The architecture may comprise at least one diagnostics module associated with at least one of the plurality of medical devices, wherein the at least one diagnostics module is configured to monitor an operational status of the at least one medical device. At least one hardware abstraction layer may be associated with at least one of the plurality of medical devices, and may be configured to provide abstracted access to hardware of the at least one medical device. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278474 | Helping People with Their Health - Among other things, a computer-implemented method includes, on successive occasions over a period of time, gathering measured data and self-reported data that represent health states of participants in a health goal system, based on at least some of the gathered data, determining, by machine learning, data representing a relationship between sequences of self-applied interventions and health states of participants who belong to respective groups that share similar characteristics, calculating scores representing characteristics of interactions between participants and the health goal system, and based on the scores and the data determined by machine learning, choosing elements of conversations to be provided to the participants, elements of the conversations being chosen to affect (i) behaviors, (ii) health states, or (iii) health awareness, or a combination of any two or more of them, of the participants, the elements of the conversations comprising questions posed to the participants on user interfaces of electronic devices. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278475 | Tele-analytics based treatment recommendations - Systems and methods are disclosed to provide automatic messaging to a client on behalf of a healthcare treatment professional by: setting up one or more computer implemented agents with rules to respond to a client condition, wherein each agent communicates with another computer implemented agent, the client or the treatment professional; during run-time, receiving a communication from the client and in response selecting one or more computer implemented agents to respond to the communication; and automatically formatting a response to be rendered on a client mobile device to encourage healthy behavior. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278476 | IDENTIFYING ADDITIONAL VARIABLES FOR APPRAISAL TABLES - A computerized method of identifying additional influential variables in multi-aspect adjudication frameworks comprising: acquiring an appraisal table having a set of variables affecting at least one adjudication aspect of a multi-aspect adjudication framework; identifying a set of additional variables affecting at least one adjudication aspect of a multi-aspect adjudication framework which fulfills an objective function, said objective function having a plurality of rules, said objective function assessing the compliance of at least one of said appraisal table and said set of additional variables with said plurality of rules; and outputting said set of additional variables. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278477 | ARCHITECTURE FOR ORCHESTRATING THE ELECTRONIC EXECUTION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CONTENT (AOC) - A system and method for orchestrating electronic execution of acknowledgment of content includes a service engine that generates at least a first type of data and a second type of data in response to at least one sample request order that is processed and validated. The system and method include a compliance engine that receives and stores the first type of data and the second type of data from the service engine. The system and method include an orchestration engine that verifies the first type of data and forwards an electronic proof of acknowledgement through an interface to the compliance engine such that the electronic proof is appended to both the first type of data and the second type of data. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278478 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYTICS-BASED PATIENT MANAGEMENT - Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for managing one or more patients using non-linear analytics to monitor, respond to, and report patient conditions and/or to develop and optimize interventions or treatments. In one implementation, a clinical management strategy is generated based on cardiovascular function status of one or more patients. Clinical intelligence that is generated based on structured and unstructured data according to an operational mode is received, and the clinical management strategy is optimized based on the clinical intelligence. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278479 | FRAUD DETECTION IN HEALTHCARE - A system for, among other purposes, detecting health care fraud, comprises a data import component for importing health care data from data source(s) such health care providers, insurers, or pharmacies; data repositor(ies) in which the data import component creates health care objects such as provider objects that describe health care providers, patient objects that represent health care recipients, and health care event objects that describe one or more of: health care claims, prescriptions, medical procedures, or diagnoses; a correlation component that identifies correlations between the health care objects; a graph generator component that generates graphs of networks identified based at least on the correlations identified by the correlation component, the graphs comprising linked nodes that represent health care objects in the identified networks; and an interface generator that generates interfaces that display the graphs generated by the graph generator. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278480 | Method and System for Automated Healthcare Care Coordination and Care Transitions - A system and method configured for coordinating healthcare services is disclosed. The method can comprise selecting a patient for care coordination based in part on a patient diagnosis and data analytics, assigning a predetermined patient care flow plan to a patient based in part on the patient diagnosis, modifying the predetermined patient care flow plan in response to input from at least one of a healthcare provider and the patient, and generating a customized patient care flow plan for the patient, executing the customized care flow, and engaging the patient by providing to the patient at least one of patient scheduling, notifications, a personal health record, patient home monitoring, and patient education and medication information materials. The present disclosure further includes computer program product of a computer-readable medium usable with a programmable computer and having computer-readable code embodied therein for coordinating healthcare services. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278481 | 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 one or more documents that are in human-readable form. From the human-readable document, computer-readable code is generated that includes high-level clinical logic is executed against the population health 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 |
20140278482 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED PHARMACEUTICAL ACCURACY AND UNDERSTANDING - The present disclosure in some embodiments relates to a computer-based method for improving the pharmaceutical understanding of a user. The method includes receiving medication data from a source, wherein the medication data is related to a user's prescribed, dispensed, or claimed medicines; associating a unique ID for each user with the medication data for the user; providing a user interface, whereby the data for a user is accessible to the user only after the user has provided an authentication, wherein the medication data accessible to the user via the user interface comprises the one or more medications the user is taking. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278483 | 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 |
20140278484 | PATIENT CONSENT FORM WITH VOICE MODULE - A medical consent form includes a written consent portion having one or more form fields regarding consent of a patient to a medical procedure marked thereon. The written consent portion is marked on a material suitable for writing by a writing instrument. A voice recorder module is embedded in the material. An actuator is coupled to the voice recorder to cause the voice recorder module to record the patient's voice consent. Prior to a medical procedure, the patient records information regarding the medical procedure using the voice recorder module. The information in the recording is compared with other written information in the operating theater to confirm the proper medical procedure is being performed on a proper consenting patient. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278485 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MARKET PARTICIPANT-BASED AUTOMATED DECISIONING - One embodiment includes an environment and system for analyzing, including predictive analysis of, various data associated with industry participants, processing the data to generate one or more participant influence scores and/or to identify key opinion leaders, and for utilizing such data to assess or optimize a practice, company, product or service, and/or to automate decisions regarding a company's operations, product development, marketing and/or allocation of resources. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278486 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AND DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA - Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a task screen, in response to the user input, processing user-specific data to determine one or more patient icons, each patient icon representing a time-sensitive, patient-associated task, and displaying the task screen on the mobile device, the task screen displaying one or more patient icon groups, each patient icon group including a patient icon of the one or more patient icons. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278487 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AND DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA - Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a consults screen, in response to the user input, processing user-specific data to determine one or more user-specific patient icon groups, and displaying the consults screen on the mobile device, the consults screen including one or more display regions and one or more patient icon groups, each display region displaying a patient icon group, the patient icon groups including a pending patient icon group. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278488 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AND DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA - Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a location screen, in response to the user input, processing user-specific data and facility-specific data to determine one or more graphical representations to be displayed, and displaying the location screen on the mobile device, the location screen including one or more display regions and the one or more graphical representations, each graphical representation depicting at least a portion of a facility. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278489 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BROADCASTING APPOINTMENT AVAILABILITIES - System and methods are disclosed for broadcasting notifications pertaining to appointment availabilities in schedules associated with medical practitioners. Medical practitioners are provided with access to a plurality of notification features. Selections may be received for activating the notification features and customizing settings for broadcasting notifications pertaining to the appointment availabilities. The settings can be used to identify a subset of patients that receive the notifications. The notifications are periodically transmitted to the subset of patients based on the selections provided by the medical practitioners. The notifications identify appointment availabilities in the schedules for the medical practitioners and permit the subset of patients to reserve the identified appointment availabilities. The subset of patients are provided with access to the notifications via the scheduling platform. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278490 | System and Method For Grouping Medical Codes For Clinical Predictive Analytics - A system and method for grouping medical codes for clinical predictive analytics is provided. The system for predictive modeling using medical information comprising a computer system for electronically receiving a data set of medical diagnosis codes and applying indicator variables to the data set, the computer system allowing a user to define a target and one or more thresholds conditions, a supervised variable grouping engine executed by the computer system, said engine calculating, for each indicator variable, a vector length and a distance to a target vector, wherein each indicator variable initially forms a group, automatically combining two groups of indicator variables that satisfy threshold conditions to create a combined group, recalculating the combined group's vector length, distance to the target vector, and distance to vectors of other remaining groups, iteratively combining and recalculating until there are no two groups that satisfy the threshold conditions or until a satisfactory number of groups is formed; and generating an altered data set of medical code groupings with reduced dimensionality and inputting the altered data set into a predictive model. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278491 | HEALTH CARE INCENTIVE APPARATUS AND METHOD - An embodiment of the invention provides, among other things, a method for providing a cost modification of a health care item for a subject. In an example method, a request is received for a health care item from a point of purchase of the health care item. Cost adjustment data is received from at least one source. The cost adjustment data is used to determine a cost modification for the health care item. The cost modification is communicated to a point of purchase of the health care item. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278492 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVING MEDICAL CARE ALGORITHMS TO A USER - The use of a medical care algorithm in clinical care reduces the number of mistakes made in treating a patient. The use of a medical care algorithm in clinical care also increases the confidence of a health care provider in providing care for a patient. The invention provides a system and a method for effectively, thoroughly, and easily granting a health care provider with real-time access to critical, semi-critical, and non-critical medical care algorithms. The invention also provides a system and a method for a health care provider to consult proactive guidelines commonly used in health care. The invention also allows the health care provider a method to utilize the algorithms as a refresher tool for review and continuing education. Furthermore, the invention provides a method for the documentation of algorithm based treatments as an electronic medical record. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278493 | Method and System for Determination of Value Units for Use in Physician Compensation Analysis - This invention relates to a software-based tool for enabling physicians, medical service providers and/or health care providers to accurately track RVUs associated individual service procedures performed during each patient visit/encounter and thereby facilitate recovery of fair reimbursement for such individual procedures. The invention also tracks other data and metrics to further refine the value of the service or procedure performed to further facilitate appropriate reimbursement and compensation. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278494 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEALTH CARE ACCOUNT PROCESSING - Systems and methods are described herein to provide a health care account processing solution that can (1) provide financial security when a participant experiences unexpected major medical expenses the participant may not otherwise be able to afford, (2) provide control of health care decisions to participants and providers, (3) reduce overhead and structural costs required to administer traditional health insurance plans, (4) reduce over-utilization and under-utilization of health care through a participant-controlled health care spending account that can be coupled with a health and wellness program (e.g., a rewards-based wellness program), and (5) encourage provider competition through the use of cash based, point-of-sale payments and transparent pricing. The systems and methods discussed herein describe, among other things, computer-implemented, rules-based systems for managing the health care accounting solution introduced above. In some examples, the rules-based systems are applicable for processing other types of transactions than health care-related transactions. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278495 | HEALTHCARE NEEDS FULFILLMENT SYSTEM - Systems for filling and managing a patient's healthcare needs are provided. Some systems and methods described herein relate to a total healthcare fulfillment system. The healthcare fulfillment system of various embodiments is a central portal which coordinates with physicians, retail pharmacies, mail-order pharmacies, specialty providers, and patients in order to address all of a patient's prescription drug needs or other healthcare needs. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278496 | System and Method for Medical Resource Scheduling - Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a medical resource scheduling method. The method includes creating first and second virtual machines associated with respective first and second procedure rooms, the first and second virtual machines executing within a computing system, and the computing system having computing resources. The method also includes receiving a procedure request identifying a first procedure to be performed in the first procedure room during a first time slot and determining a first amount of the computing resources necessary to process medical data generated by the first procedure. Further, the method includes determining whether the first amount of the computing resources is less than an unreserved amount of the computing resources available during the first time slot and, if the first amount of the computing resources is less than the unreserved amount, reserving the first amount of the computing resources for the first time slot. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278497 | Accident Claims Management System - A method includes receiving a document indicating information and a charge, identifying a patient in response to a determination that a portion of the information matches a portion of information of a plurality of candidate patients, and determining an eligibility of the patient for a payor. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278498 | SOCIAL NETWORK FOR MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS - A social network for medical professionals allows medical professionals a means for reviewing, sharing and organizing documents, images and communications, Information is made available and actions are conducted through a web portal. Actions available through the social network include finding and inviting other medical professionals, uploading images, videos, and documents, reading and sending secure messages, creating or participating on networks, posting or consuming targeted articles. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278499 | BLOOD SUPPLY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system and method for managing blood product inventory, acquisition, transport and tracking. Blood centers can collect blood and other biologics and place supply information on a virtual market where hospitals and other healthcare institutions can see available quantities and types, select the amount and type needed, and make a purchase. The system and method enables distribution of blood and other biologics to institutions like hospitals and other healthcare institutions to be more efficient and more consistent in terms of quality and cost. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278500 | METHOD FOR ASSISTING PATIENTS IN NAVIGATING A HEALTHCARE NETWORK FROM PRE-PROCEDURE THROUGH POST-ADMISSION - In an embodiment, a first communication that is an electronic hospital census and/or an outpatient authorization report is received by a control device operated by an entity that is a different entity than the hospital. The first communication identifies an individual admitted to a hospital and/or individual scheduled for an elective outpatient procedure. The control device stores a file for the patient identifying a service needed by the patient, and the service is a pre-procedure service, a post-procedure service, a pre-discharge service, and/or a post-discharge service. The entity that operates the control device performs a second communication that coordinates the service from a provider that is a different entity than the entity that operates the control device. The second communication is performed at a time that is at least one of before admission to the hospital, at admission to the hospital, before the procedure, after the procedure, or at discharge. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278501 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FACILITATING THE COORDINATION OF BENEFITS FOR A PLURALITY OF HEALTH PLANS - The disclosure relates to systems and methods of facilitating the coordination of benefits for a plurality of health plans that individually have at least some responsibility to pay for healthcare services received by members covered by more than one health plan. The coordination of benefits may be facilitated before payments are made, streamlining the payment process. The system may correlate health plan information received from various health plans and determine that a particular member is covered by more than one health plan based on the correlated health plan information. The system may generate, update, and provide a COB registry that includes coverage information related to other health plans that cover the particular member. The COB registry may include primacy information used to identify health plans having primary, secondary, and/or other responsibility to pay for a given healthcare service for a member covered by the identified health plans. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278502 | CLINIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A clinic management system may include a computing device including a clinic identifier, a list of location-based devices in the clinic, a list of role-based users affiliated with the clinic, and a user interface configuration with a one-touch interactive icon for each role-based user, a message generation area, a messaging display area, and an algorithm for facilitating communication between the location-based devices and the computing device where the computing device also includes a processor for processing downloads of user interfaces and the interfaces may be based on the stored user interface configuration, setup information provided by the clinic, a selected location-based device, and at least a portion of the role-based users and when a one-touch interactive icon is selected for a role-based user, a message is generated and displayed calling the role-based user to the location associated with the message. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278503 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ONE OR MORE SUBJECTS - System and methods configured to permit a user such as a health care provider to organize and manage patient information quickly and efficiently from a simplified representation. Such simplified representations may include a patient representation and a context representation. The representations may be updated to represent real-time patient conditions through the input of information directly from treatment or monitoring devices or from user input. | 2014-09-18 |
20140278504 | Medical Research Technology Information Consortium - Systems and methods for communicating an accumulation of medical and healthcare research within an electronic nationwide medical research technology information consortium (MRTIC) housed at a centralized location. The manipulable electronic databases associated with the system function to respond to queries from both professionals and private individuals (patients) in a particular medical or healthcare field. The system operates to disseminate information and to identify areas where duplication of effort may be replaced by collaborative efforts. The information disseminated is non-proprietary in nature and serves primarily to identify rather than quantify current and past research efforts. The system therefore benefits broad categories of researchers, institutes, government organizations, sponsors, and patients. | 2014-09-18 |