Anesthesia Auditing Program
2015-159 – The Anesthesia Auditing Program Software provides quality improvement for anesthesia medication administration. The program audits all anesthesia medication transactions across a number of databases. The program has demonstrated significant improvements in patient safety, financial charge capture, drug diversion prevention, and documentation accuracy. The program has the ability to work or... Read More
WEB Based Fitness Assessment Tool
2013-273 – Background: Aerobic fitness is one of the best predictors of all-cause mortality but not easily assessed on a large scale accurately. Technology Description: A web based health fitness assessment tool which may be carried out at any location and requires nothing more than a device camera, web portal, a step, and a chair. Using technology based light reflection and color spectrum, heart... Read More
Clinical Deterioration Prediction Tool
2012-136 – A patient’s heart rate, systolic blood pressure, Braden Skin Scale (a nursing assessment), arterial oxygen saturation, and respiratory rate are entered into a simple mathematical equation that calculates the patient’s risk of having cardiac arrest, emergency transfer to the ICU, or Rapid Response Team activation in the next 2-12 hours. The calculation is made every time any one of those... Read More
Shape-Based Software Biomarkers of Altered Right Ventricular Load
2012-029 – Biomarkers capable of detecting early, rapidly progressing, or subtle alterations of cardiac right ventricular (RV) load could substantially contribute to timely diagnosis and effective treatment of RV disorders, which in same cases could escalate to severe or even life threatening conditions, such as acute pulmonary embolism. This invention describes novel RV shape biomarkers sensitive to... Read More
Strategic Advantage of Semantic Analysis of Medical Resources (SAMR)
2011-154 – The purpose of SAMR is to help clinicians find answers to clinical questions. The medical literature needed to correctly treat a patient grows exponentially. Data shows that both health care institutions and individual physicians are overwhelmed trying to incorporate this new knowledge. SAMR is a tool that could bridge this gap to improve patient care. SAMR uses semantic elements, the meaning... Read More
SIMS--Supply Information Management System
2011-073 – Technology Description Hospitals and surgery centers face significant cost pressure when it comes to maintaining materials and supplies. With supply costs representing a significant expense in surgical services, close and careful monitoring is needed to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. Developed at Mayo Clinic, the Supply Inventory Management System (SIMS) is a comprehensive program... Read More
Intravascular Ultrasound Detection of Vasa Vasorum Blood Flow Distribution in Artery Wall
2010-038 – The individual cross-sectional images along the arteries were analyzed individually by creating a Region-of-Interest (ROI) that encompassed the vessel wall. To ensure that the entire arterial wall was included into the ROI, the radius of the lumen ® was measured, which was used as the width of the annular ROI surrounding the arterial lumen (12). By creating a binary image of the punctate... Read More
Surgery Education Video
2009-144 – Using audiovisual support we have created educational videos in all facets of General Surgery Education: Knot tying, Syringe, Specimen handling, Operative procedures, reading Chest X-rays/CT Scans/ MRI, etc. Basically we are creating a library of AV clips (30 seconds - 5 minutes) that educate Students/Residents/Fellows/Staff on everything in surgery.