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Deformable models in medical image analysis: a survey

A method of maintaining digital medical records, comprising a step of receiving a medical transaction record (102), encrypted with a key in accordance with a patient-file association. Also comprising a step of accessing the encrypted medical transaction record according to a patient association with the record (111). And further comprising a step of re-encryption of the encrypted accessed medical transaction record with a key associated with an intended recipient of the medical record. The system and method according to the present invention presents a new business model for creation, maintenance, transmission, and use of medical records. The invention also allows financial burdens to be reallocated optimally and equitably, resulting in decreased overall societal cost and providing a successful business model for a database proprietor. Secure entrusted medical records are held in trust by an independent third party on behalf of the patient (113), and serve the medical community at large. Separately encrypted record elements may be aggregated as an information polymer.

Information record infrastructure, system and method

An improved apparatus and method for providing healthcare information, the apparatus comprising a processor for processing at least one of symptom information and condition information corresponding to a patient, in conjunction with at least one of healthcare information, healthcare theories, healthcare principles, and healthcare research, wherein the processor generates a diagnostic report, and further wherein the diagnostic report contains information regarding at least one of a diagnosis and a possible diagnosis for the at least one of symptom information and condition information. The improvement includes the processor generating a diagnostic report containing a list of possible diagnoses, a transmitter for transmitting the diagnostic report to at least one of a computer and a communication device associated with a healthcare provider, and a receiver for receiving a final diagnosis from the list of possible diagnoses, wherein the final diagnosis is received from the at least one of a computer and a communication device associated with the healthcare provider. The processor generates a claim form for submission to at least one of a healthcare payer and a healthcare insurer.

Apparatus and method for processing and/or for providing healthcare information and/or healthcare-related information

A system and method for communicating information between a first party and a second party, comprising the steps of receiving, by an intermediary, an identifier of desired information and accounting information for a transaction involving the information from the first party, transmitting an identifier of the first party to the second party, and negotiating, by the intermediary, a comprehension function for obscuring at least a portion of the information communicated between the first party and the second party. The data transmission may be made secure with respect to the intermediary by providing an asymmetric key or direct key exchange for encryption of the communication between the first and second party. The data transmission may be made secure with respect to the second party by maintaining the information in encrypted format at the second party, with the decryption key held only by the intermediary, and transmitting a secure composite of the decryption key and a new encryption key to the second party for transcoding of the data record, and providing the new decryption key to the first party, so that the information transmitted to the first party can be comprehended by it.

System and method for secure three-party communications

A system and method is described that enables a health care provider to monitor and manage a health condition of a patient. The system includes a health care provider apparatus operated by a health care provider and a remotely programmable patient apparatus that is operated by a patient. The health care provider develops a script program using the health care provider apparatus and then sends the script program to a remotely programmable patient apparatus through a communication network such as the World Wide Web. The script program is a computer-executable patient protocol that provides information to the patient about the patient's health condition and that interactively monitors the patient health condition by asking the patient questions and by receiving answers to those questions. The answers to these health related questions are then forwarded as patient data from the remotely programmable patient apparatus to the health care provider apparatus through the communication network. The patient data may also include information supplied by a physiological monitoring device such as a blood glucose monitor that is connected to the remotely programmable patient apparatus. When the patient data arrives at the health care provider apparatus, the patient data is processed for further management of the patient's health condition by the health care provider, such as forwarding another script program to the remotely programmable patient apparatus.

Remote health monitoring and maintenance system

The server includes a layer for dynamically generating web pages and other data objects using scripts, such as graphic, audio and video files, in dependence on stored information indicating the user's needs and preferences, including those presumed from stored information as to the user's function, job, or purpose for being at the hospital, and logged usage profiles, the level of the user's access privileges to confidential patient information, and the computer and physical environments of the user. Notably, the content is generated in dependence on the display resolution and lowest bandwidth link between the server and browser to limit the waiting time for downloads as well as the server load.

Personalizing hospital intranet web sites

This invention includes methods and apparatus for browsing markup language documents from within the context of a client-server application running on an end-user device. Browser functionality, which is configured according to user profile information specifying each user's authorization and preferences, is embedded in the application, and can be activated by application controls. While some users have unrestricted authorization and access, others are restricted to certain browser functions and to certain allowed network resources. This restriction is enforced by preventing the browser functionality from generating network addresses that are not on a list of allowed network addresses also present in the user profile information. Network access restriction is achieved, in part, by filtering markup language documents before display to delete linking information that is not allowed. Document filtering methods are presented for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and extensible Markup Language (XML) documents. The document filtering methods are extendable to additional markup languages.

Method and apparatus for controlling browser functionality in the context of an application

An 3D imaging method registers relatively deformed first and second volumetric images of an object which may be obtained from different imaging modalities, and/or at different times by performing an elastic geometric transformation on one of the volumetric images. The method includes extracting first and second corresponding surfaces from the respective first and second images, which surfaces delineate the same feature, such as a bone/tissue interface. This is done by extracting a stack of contours for each surface. The first surface is iteratively warped toward alignment with the second surface to arrive at a global translation vector and a set of residual surface distortion vectors. Volume distortion vectors, determined by applying a weighting function to the residual surface distortion vectors, are used to indicate the locations in the second volumetric image of voxel centers whose interpolated intensities are to be moved to lattice points. The weighting function includes a constant indicative of elastic stiffness of the second volume. The extraction of the first surface, surface warping, and volume distortion vector determination steps are repeated in successive iterations until a measure of mis-registration between the volumetric images is less than a predetermined value, with the elastic stiffness constant being decreased each time.

Registration of volumetric images which are relatively elastically deformed by matching surfaces

The invention is directed to methods for bookmarking, or saving, multiple profiles associated with a user of a computer system, and for activating saved user profiles. At a top operating system level, a bookmarked user profile indicates the arrangement of the user's display devices available, including the type, position and size of open windows, as well as other of the user's preference parameters. At lower application levels, a bookmarked user profile indicates the arrangement of an application window, as well as other application preference parameters. A bookmark, or a bookmarked user profile, is simply activated by selection from a menu that can be displayed in the top level operating system desktop or within an application window. Commands are also provided for creating and managing bookmarks associated with a user. The invention is also directed to computer systems to software structures for practicing these bookmarking methods, and to computer readable media containing the software.

System and method for computer system management using bookmarks

A Computer-based Patient Record (CPR) system includes user equipment devices which are configured for speech synthesis in response to speech markup language text and which are connected via a network to a middle tier of a server system. The CPR system further includes a message delivery facility for delivery of textual messages to any of pager, electronic mail, or voice mail (after text-to-speech synthesis) message delivery vehicles. The server system accesses a user specific data store containing speech synthesis profiles which include prosodic information of the voices and speech of users, and message delivery profiles which specify which of the aforementioned message delivery vehicles are to be used and in what order. The stored speech synthesis information associated with an originator of a message and the stored message delivery information associated with the recipient of message are provided by the server to user equipment or a reminder generator to produce speech markup files containing information needed to synthesize the vocal and speech characteristics of the originator accompanied by delivery instructions reflecting the message delivery preferences of the recipient.

Mehran Moshfeghi

Papers

Personalizing hospital intranet web sites

Method and apparatus for controlling browser functionality in the context of an application

Registration of volumetric images which are relatively elastically deformed by matching surfaces

System and method for computer system management using bookmarks

Computer-based patient record and message delivery system