Hewlett-packard Company

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Pelikan Technologies, Inc.

Michael C Higgins

Dominique M Freeman

Dirk Boecker

Michael Greenstein

Rick Pittaro

James M Lindauer

Mousa N Shaya

Wai-Ling Hew

A portable medical analyzer comprising a sampling module with a sample port for receiving body fluid, an assay sensor module for analysis of the body fluid, an analytical detector module with detection of information from the assay, and a communications module for transferring the information to a remote location via a wired or wireless network.

Universal diagnostic platform

An interactive medical information display system and method for displaying user-definable patient events is provided. The system includes a mechanism for acquiring physiological parameters from a patient and a mechanism for storing the parameters in a real-time database. In addition, the system includes a mechanism for users to define event types in an event defintion language and a mechanism for users to modify existing event types. Users then select a set of event types for display, and an event generator accesses the database to monitor the physiological parameters in order to detect event occurrences as defined by the event types. A display mechanism displays the event occurrences and provides users with the ability to select event occurrences randomly or sequentially. Upon selection, other information is displayed.

Interactive medical information display system and method for displaying

A method for displaying the joint variation of two or more dependent numerical variables v.sub.1 and v.sub.2 with respect to a third, independent numerical variable v.sub.3. For each of a sequence of numerical values of v.sub.3, the coordinate pairs (v.sub.1 (v.sub.3), v.sub.2 (v.sub.3)) are displayed on a two-dimensional Cartesian graph of v.sub.1 versus v.sub.2. A cursor or other indicator is provided on this graph that identifies the numerical value of the third variable v.sub.3 at any of the original sequence of such values. The cursor position is continuously interpolated between two consecutive numerical values of v.sub.3, corresponding to continuous variation of v.sub.3 between these two consecutive numerical values. The joint variation of v.sub.1 and v.sub.2 is also displayed by provision of two univariate graphs that exhibit v.sub.1 and v.sub.2 separately as functions of the third variable v.sub.3, with a suitable cursor or other movable indicator associated with each graph. The joint variation of v.sub.1 and v.sub.2 is also displayed as a numerical table of the values of v.sub.1, v.sub.2 and v.sub.3, with a cursor indicating the current choice of value of the variable v.sub.3. The graph of v.sub.1 (v.sub.3) versus v.sub.2 (v.sub.3) may be provided with an overlay showing normal and/or abnormal ranges of the coordinate pair (v.sub.1, v.sub.2).

Display of multiple variable relationships

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Michael C Higgins