PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16189331
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["705", "002000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are unique systems and methods for remotely located physician specialists to diagnose and treat patients in a non-acute care facility having symptoms typically indicating a need for transfer to an acute care facility. The disclosed principles minimize the transfer of patients from a non-acute care facility to an acute care facility when not needed. The disclosed principles provide for the use of telemedicine units by geographically remote physician specialists to diagnose and treat patients in a non-acute care facility. If the physician specialist determines via the telemedicine unit that transfer of the patient to higher level of facility is needed, then the patient is transferred. If the physician specialist determines that the patient's new, elevated condition may be treated in the current, lower level facility, the physician specialist can prescribe a treatment for the current facility's staff to implement, even under the supervision of the physician specialist if it is needed. This unique approach is possible by providing an advanced telemedicine unit for use by the physician specialist that is geographically remote from the patient and his current lower level of care facility. Accordingly, the disclosed telemedicine program uses remote physicians having a higher level of skill or specialty to diagnose and treat patients currently located in a lower level healthcare facility than that type of specialty physician is typically found.

Claim (Index 11):
A telemedicine unit for providing remote diagnosing and treating for patients by geographically remote physicians, the telemedicine unit comprising:\n a support structure configured to secure components of telemedicine unit in a single moveable unit, the support structure comprising a base and a mast vertically extending therefrom; a display unit connected to the support structure and configured to present live video of a remotely located physician employing the telemedicine unit to diagnose and treat a patient from a geographically remote location; one or more audio speakers associated with the display unit and configured to provide audio from the remote physician to the patient's location during the remote diagnosis or treating of the patient by the remote physician; a moveable camera unit connected to the support structure and configured to be remotely controlled by the remote physician using one or more of pan, tilt, zoom and focus commands to the camera unit; a microphone associated with the camera unit and configured to capture audio from the patient's location and side and provide it to the remote physician during the remote diagnosis or treating of the patient by the remote physician; a communications unit connected to the support structure and configured to be connected to a communications network at the patient's location for transmitting and receiving data regarding the patient with communications equipment employed by the remote physician during the remote diagnosis or treating of the patient by the remote physician, the communications unit comprising one or more peripheral input devices for providing information to the communications unit during the remote diagnosis or treating of the patient by the remote physician; a power supply connected to the support structure and configured to provide electrical power to components of the telemedicine unit via wired electrical connection to a standard electrical outlet and via battery power when wired electrical power is not present; and a plurality of wheels connected to the base and configured to provide mobility of movement to the telemedicine unit, at least one of the plurality of wheels comprising a wheel lock for preventing movement of the telemedicine unit when engaged.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45361
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15487955', '11415936', '15548694', '15685991', '13051675']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1187937687084381
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.495484450358668
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1564628368734611
- Mean Citation Score: 260.790444
- Max Citation Score: 270.89526
- Similarity Product: 216.43650340479616

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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