Enhanced communication link for patient diagnosis and treatment
AssigneeSearete LLC, a limited liability corporation of the State of Delaware
InventorsEdward K.Y. Jung, Royce A. Levien, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, John D. Rinaldo, Lowell L. Wood
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Abstract
Exemplary embodiments provide a verification technique that facilitates administration of a health-related procedure to an intended recipient patient or group of patients. An interface template or signal protocol may be configured to establish suitable matching between the patient and various types of objects used to administer the health-related procedure.
Claims54
1-58. (canceled)
A patient identification system comprising:
- a health-related procedure that is intended to be rendered to at least one particular patient;
- a signal confirmation protocol to facilitate suitable matching of the health-related procedure with the at least one particular patient;
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- an interface module associated with the at least one particular patient, which interface module includes primary identification information capable of correlation with complementary secondary identification information associated with one or more product components used in connection with the health-related procedure pursuant to signal transmission to or from the interface module.
A patient identification system comprising:
- a health-related procedure that is intended to be rendered to one or more patients;
- one or more product components to be used in connection with the health-related procedure;
- a communication module incorporated with the one or more product components;
- a signal confirmation protocol to facilitate suitable matching of the health-related procedure with the one or more patients;
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- identification information associated with the one or more product components, which identification information is capable of correlation with complementary patient identification information associated with the one or more patients pursuant to signal transmission to or from the communication module.
73-82. (canceled)
A computer program product comprising instructions encoded on carrier media, wherein the instructions implement a patient verification process including:
- providing a signal confirmation protocol based on identification information related to a particular patient, which identification information includes a first version incorporated in an interface module associated with the particular patient and a second version incorporated in a communication module associated with one or more product components used in connection with a selected health-related procedure intended for the particular patient;
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- implementing the signal confirmation protocol via a signal transmission between the communication module and the interface module to verify suitable matching of the selected health-related procedure with the particular patient.
A method of patient verification comprising:
- providing a signal confirmation protocol to facilitate suitable matching of a health-related procedure with at least one particular patient, wherein the signal confirmation protocol is based on primary identification information associated with the at least one particular patient;
- correlating the primary identification information with complementary secondary information associated with one or more product components used in connection with the health-related procedure;
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- implementing the signal confirmation protocol via a signal transmission between a patient interface module and a product component communication module to verify matching of the health-related procedure with the at least one particular patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.