The present disclosure includes a medical monitoring hub as the center of monitoring for a monitored patient. The hub includes configurable medical ports and serial ports for communicating with other medical devices in the patient's proximity. Moreover, the hub communicates with a portable patient monitor. The monitor, when docked with the hub provides display graphics different from when undocked, the display graphics including anatomical information. The hub assembles the often vast amount of electronic medical data, associates it with the monitored patient, and in some embodiments, communicates the data to the patient's medical records.

A method for generating a flow profile of an inhalation device is described. The method comprises the step of measuring acoustic emissions induced by inhalation flow through the inhalation device. The method further comprises the step of detecting peak frequencies in the measured acoustic emissions and generating a flow profile based on the detected peak frequencies. A corresponding device is also described.

A system and method are provided for screening and treating respiratory diseased animals such as livestock. Health measurements are taken of incoming animals to a location such as a feed yard. The measurements are used as inputs to an algorithm. Processing of the algorithm results in a prediction whether the animal is likely to become sick. A treatment decision is automatically generated by processing of the algorithm for display to a user. A “treat” decision may trigger a predetermined treatment protocol for the particular evaluated animal, while a “don't treat” decision allows the animal to be released.

In certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for detecting liveness of a user during biometric authentication. The method comprising identifying a speech signal in a pre-determined time interval associated with the speech signal. Furthermore, the method comprising determining a speech respiration co-occurrence (SRC) score associated with the speech signal. In addition, the method comprising detecting liveness of the user, if the SRC score is above a predefined threshold, wherein the detection of liveness further aids in increasing the security of biometric authentication system.

An oral appliance is disclosed that provides electrical stimulation to a patient's tongue in a manner that prevents collapse of the tongue and/or soft palate during sleep. More specifically, the appliance may induce a reversible current or currents in a lateral direction across the tongue in a manner that shortens the patient's Palatoglossus muscle and/or Styloglossus muscle SGM, which in turn elevates the base of the tongue toward the roof of the oral cavity, changes the shape of the tongue, pulls the patient's soft palate downward towards a base of the tongue, and/or decreases a volume of the tongue.

A tubing assembly for electronic catheter guidance systems is provided and can include a catheter, an internal acoustic transducer and an external acoustic transducer. The catheter extends in a longitudinal direction and has proximal and distal ends that define a lumen therebetween. Further, the catheter is configured for placement within a patient's digestive or respiratory tract. The internal acoustic transducer can be located within the catheter's lumen, and the external acoustic transducer can be located on or outside the patient's body. The transducers can transmit and/or receive acoustic signals as directed by a processor and communicate with the processor to deliver sound data to a display device. The frequency response and/or attenuation of the signals can indicate placement of the catheter in the digestive tract compared to the respiratory tract. A catheter guidance system and method for accurately placing a catheter in the digestive or respiratory tract are also provided.

A method for monitoring physiological signals of a subject from sounds produced by the subject, including: receiving recorded sounds, including sounds from the subject's chest and being transmitted by the subject's biological tissues to the subject's ears, the recorded sounds being recorded by sound recording element(s) positioned inside earcup(s) of headphones worn by the subject; receiving signals from an accelerometer and a gyroscope being recorded simultaneously with the recorded sounds; detecting heart beats from the cardiac peaks sounds and calculating inter-beat intervals from the heart beats; extracting a first estimation of the breathing signal from the inter-beat intervals presenting respiratory sinus arrhythmia; extracting a second estimation of the breathing signal from residual sounds; extracting a third estimation of the breathing signal and motion artifacts from the signals of the accelerometer and the gyroscope; calculating the breathing signal by combining the first, second and third estimations of the breathing signal.

Respiratory rate can be calculated from an acoustic input signal using time domain and frequency domain techniques. Confidence in the calculated respiratory rate can also be calculated using time domain and frequency domain techniques. Overall respiratory rate and confidence values can be obtained from the time and frequency domain calculations. The overall respiratory rate and confidence values can be output for presentation to a clinician.

A system having a scope with a longitudinal length extending between a proximal end and a distal end includes a plurality of markers spaced along the longitudinal length. The system also includes a disassociation and positioning device that is configured to enhance unsedated transnasal endoscopic procedures by at least partially occluding the vision of a patient while enabling body cavity access, and optionally record and sense body functions such as temperature, heart rate and oxygenation of the blood stream. The system further includes a sensor integrated into the distraction device, wherein the sensor is configured to detect the markers on the longitudinal length of the scope.

Introduced here is a decentralized computing system that is designed to efficiently connect various stakeholders involved in the healthcare system. An application that runs on the decentralized computing system may be responsible for performing activities in a secure manner to accelerate the accumulation and sharing of information among the various stakeholders. These activities may be governed by iterative protocols (e.g., blockchain protocols) that are implemented by the application using the decentralized system.