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20090112618 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIEWING BIOMETRICAL INFORMATION AND DYNAMICALLY ADAPTING SCHEDULE AND PROCESS INTERDEPENDENCIES WITH CLINICAL PROCESS DECISIONING - Certain embodiments provide a method for viewing biometrical information, determining the clinical state of the patient, and dynamically adapting schedule and process interdependencies in a clinical environment. The method includes deriving a schedule including at least one patient treatment protocol based on a mathematical model using people and asset information as input. The method also includes processing input biometrical data indicating a patient status. Additionally, the method includes adapting the at least one patient treatment protocol based on the biometrical data. Further, the method includes revising the schedule based on adapting the at least one patient treatment protocol. In certain embodiments, the method includes recalculating a critical path, schedule tasks, and resource allocation based on adapting the at least one patient treatment protocol and revising the schedule. In certain embodiments, the method includes communicating with affected process stakeholders and assets regarding the revised schedule. | 04-30-2009 |
20090119126 | METHOD TO VIEW SCHEDULE INTERDEPENDENCIES AND PROVIDE PROACTIVE CLINICAL PROCESS DECISION SUPPORT IN DAY VIEW FORM - A system and method for use in managing and preparing for scheduled procedures that are characterized as being interdependent and variable. The disclosed method enables schedule risk management and provides a look-ahead capability along with process diagnostics to isolate specific assets and tasks that can be managed to reduce schedule risk. The method facilitates review of upcoming tasks by the process stakeholders for education as to where the schedule risks reside and in an emulation mode for review and improved scheduling going forward. Clinical workflow is integrated such that process stakeholders and assets are directed in such a way as to keep on, reduce delay risk or recover the schedule. | 05-07-2009 |
20120154582 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTOCOL ADHERENCE - The system and method disclosed herein provides an integrated and automated workflow, sensor, and reasoning system that automatically detects breaches in protocols, appropriately alarms and records these breaches, facilitates staff adoption of protocol adherence, and ultimately enables the study of protocols for care comparative effectiveness. The system provides real-time alerts to medical personnel in the actual processes of care, thereby reducing the number of negative patient events and ultimately improving staff behavior with respect to protocol adherence. | 06-21-2012 |
20130136298 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING AND RECOGNIZING PEOPLE - A tracking and recognition system is provided. The system includes a computer vision-based identity recognition system configured to recognize one or more persons, without a priori knowledge of the respective persons, via an online discriminative learning of appearance signature models of the respective persons. The computer vision-based identity recognition system includes a memory physically encoding one or more routines, which when executed, cause the performance of constructing pairwise constraints between the unlabeled tracking samples. The computer vision-based identity recognition system also includes a processor configured to receive unlabeled tracking samples collected from one or more person trackers and to execute the routines stored in the memory via one or more algorithms to construct the pairwise constraints between the unlabeled tracking samples. | 05-30-2013 |
20140095181 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING PERFORMANCE BASED SLEEP PATIENT CARE PROTOCOLS - Methods, systems and non-transitory computer readable media for automated workflow management for sleep quality are presented. A subject in a resting state is monitored using one or more sensors for acquiring one or more physiological parameters. A phase of sleep of the subject at a specific time using the physiological parameters is detected and inferred. Further, a recuperative benefit of the detected sleep phase is estimated. Additionally, it is determined is if an activity in a patient care workflow scheduled proximate to the specific time hinders sleep of the subject. The patient care workflow is then automatically reconfigured if scheduled activity hinders patient sleep, if the determined recuperative benefits exceed a designated threshold and/or if a proposed reconfiguration satisfies one or more designated criteria accounting for both restorative benefits to the patient and objectives of competing care delivery activities for both a given patient and a department. | 04-03-2014 |
20140108033 | HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE SIMULATION MODEL INITIALIZED WITH SNAPSHOT DATA - Snapshot data may be received indicative of a current state of resources that deliver healthcare to a plurality of patients associated with a healthcare enterprise. The received snapshot data may be automatically used to initialize a healthcare enterprise simulation model. The healthcare enterprise simulation model may then be executed to automatically generate a predicted future state of the resources at a predetermined point in time. Some embodiments may automatically suggest mitigation strategies based on simulated scenarios reflecting potential bottlenecks and appropriate actions that may be taken by the enterprise. The system may continuously and automatically monitor forecast accuracy to detect potential anomalies. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108034 | CONTINUOUS AUTOMATED HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Current resource data may be continuously and automatically received indicative of a current state of resources that are used to deliver healthcare to a plurality of patients associated with a healthcare enterprise. The current resource data may be automatically used to update a healthcare enterprise simulation model. The healthcare enterprise simulation model may be executed to automatically generate a predicted future state of the resources. A resource request may then be received, and a resource assignment engine may automatically assign a particular resource to the resource request based at least in part on the predicted future state of the resources. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108035 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AUTOMATICALLY ASSIGN RESOURCES IN A NETWORK OF HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISES - According to some embodiments, first current resource data indicative of a current state of first resources that are used to deliver healthcare to a plurality of patients associated with a first healthcare enterprise is continuously and automatically received. The first current resource data may be automatically used to update a healthcare enterprise simulation model. The healthcare enterprise simulation model may automatically generate a predicted future state of the first resources, wherein the predicted future state of the first resources is based at least in part on second resource data indicative of a state of second resources that are used to deliver healthcare to a plurality of patients associated with a second healthcare enterprise remote from and networked with the first healthcare enterprise. | 04-17-2014 |
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20080274388 | Solid Oxide Type Fuel Cell - It is possible to improve the power generation efficiency by uniformalizing the temperature distribution of a fuel cell stack in lamination direction. In a solid oxide type fuel cell, a power generation cell and a separator are alternately laminated so as to constitute a fuel cell stack. On the middle stage of the fuel cell stack in the lamination direction, a radiator ( | 11-06-2008 |
20100104916 | Separator for fuel cell, method for producing separator, and solid oxide fuel cell - Gas discharge ports are provided in almost the entire area of a layer surface of a separator, and a gas for reaction is discharged like a shower from the separator toward a power generation cell. The separator is constructed by layering plate-shaped members containing iron-base alloy, nickel-base alloy, or chrome-base alloy as the base material. Silver, silver alloy, copper, or copper alloy is plated on both sides or one side of the base material of the plate-shaped member. The construction above can increase durability of a separator and enables the separator and a solid oxide fuel cell to be stably used for a long period. | 04-29-2010 |
20100233062 | Apparatus and method for producing trichlorosilane - An apparatus and a method for producing trichlorosilane are provided, which effectively suppresses the reaction converting trichlorosilane to tetrachlorosilane and the formation of polymers, thereby achieving a high recovery ratio of trichlorosilane. The apparatus for producing trichlorosilane includes: a converter reactor for converting a raw material gas containing tetrachlorosilane and hydrogen into a reaction product gas; a cooler for cooling the reaction product gas fed from the converter reactor; and a plurality of provided in the cooler for spraying cooling liquids. Average droplet diameters of the cooling liquids sprayed from a plurality of the nozzles are different from each other, and a cooling liquids volume sprayed from each of the plurality of nozzles is able to be individually adjusted. | 09-16-2010 |