What is claimed is:
1. An inventory management system for patient goods and services as prescribed by a prescribing party, comprising:
a funding resource center having a resource control system therein, for receiving patient funds, and for allocating at least one of patient funds, purchased third-party goods and purchased third-party services according to said resource control system;
an eligibility processing center for receiving patient claim and patient evaluator information, and providing patient qualification determination information to said resource center; and
an aggregate resource center having a contracting system for optimizing the delivery of third party goods and services according to qualified prescribed patient needs and logistics, said aggregate resource center also including a goods warehouse and distribution system for conveying said qualified prescribed patient needs and services.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein said funding resource center comprises one of a private healthcare provider, a public healthcare provider and an insurance company.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein said funding resource center includes a business-to-business purchasing system for purchasing goods from at least one of a manufacturer and a supplier.
4. The system of claim 3, wherein said purchasing system includes a system for shipping goods acquired by said funding resource center from said manufacture and said supplier to said aggregate resource center.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein said aggregate resource center includes a capital funding source.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein said aggregate resource center comprises a third party.
7. The system of claim 1, further including small goods and service providers.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein one of said funding resource center and said aggregate resource center includes a service provider scheduler.
9. The system of claim 1, further including a disposal system for disposing of goods which have exceeded their economic lifetime.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein said eligibility processing center comprises a third party eligibility processing center.
11. A method of managing inventory and distribution of patient goods and services as prescribed by a prescribing party, comprising the steps of:
controlling patient resources including the steps of receiving money for said patient and distributing said money upon receipt of a prescription request and eligibility pre-certification;
pre-certifying patient prescriptions for disbursement of patient resources by comparing said patient prescription to a predetermined pre-certification requirement; and
distributing to said patient at least one of goods and services in response to money distributed by said step of controlling patient resources.
12. The method of claim 11, further including the step of purchasing goods for distribution to said patient.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein said step of purchasing goods comprises the step of business-to-business purchasing goods.
14. The method of claim 12, further comprising the steps of:
receiving goods back from said patient, and
updating system inventory.
15. The method of claim 14, further including the step of redistributing the goods to a subsequent patient.
16. The method of claim 11, further including the step of scheduling the delivery of said goods and service according to said step of controlling patient resources.
17. The method of claim 16, further including the step of coordinating the delivery of goods and services with the discharge of said patient from a hospital.
18. The method of claim 16, wherein said services comprises one of third party therapy and third party technical services.
19. The method of claim 16, wherein the step of scheduling delivery includes the step of scheduling payment to providers of said goods and services.
20. The method of claim 11, wherein said step of distributing further includes the steps of
selecting a plurality of third-party source of said goods and services,
patient selecting of one of said plurality of third party sources, and
distributing patient money thereto for rendering prescribed goods and services to said patient.
21. The method of claim 11, further including the steps of:
determining the need of goods from prior patient prescriptions, and
centrally manufacturing said goods in a quantity according to said prior patient need.
22. The method of claim 11, further including the steps of:
anticipating patient needs according to prior patient needs, and
geographically distributing said goods according to the anticipated patient needs.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for recognizing a valuable document, comprising:
collecting multimodal information of a valuable document to be recognized, wherein the multimodal information comprises two or more of optical information, electrical information, magnetic information and physical information of the valuable document to be recognized; and
recognizing the valuable document to be recognized according to a pre-generated fusion strategy and the collected multimodal information of the valuable document to be recognized, and obtaining a recognition result.
2. The method for recognizing the valuable document according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:
pre-generating a fusion strategy based on the multimodal information of the valuable document, according to inherent characteristics of a standard valuable document.
3. The method for recognizing the valuable document according to claim 1, wherein the step of recognizing the valuable document to be recognized according to the pre-generated fusion strategy and the collected multimodal information, and obtaining a recognition result comprises:
analyzing the multimodal information of the valuable document to be recognized and extracting a features of the multimodal information, wherein the feature comprise a feature to be fused and a feature not to be fused;
fusing the features to be fused according to a fusion strategy of feature level in the fusion strategy, and obtaining a new fused feature of the multimodal information; and
recognizing the valuable document to be recognized according to the features not to be fused and the new fused feature, and obtaining a recognition result.
4. The method for recognizing the valuable document according to claim 3, wherein the step of recognizing the valuable document to be recognized according to the features not to be fused and the new fused feature, and obtaining a recognition result comprises:
recognizing respectively the features not to be fused and the new fused feature and obtaining recognition results corresponding to these features; and
performing a decision fusion for the recognition results according to a fusion strategy of decision level in the fusion strategy, and obtaining a decided recognition result.
5. The method for recognizing the valuable document according to claim 1, wherein the step of recognizing the valuable document to be recognized according to a pre-generated fusion strategy and the multimodal information of the valuable document to be recognized and obtaining a recognition result comprises:
analyzing the multimodal information of the valuable document to be recognized and extracting features of the multimodal information;
recognizing respectively the extracted features of the multimodal information and obtaining recognition results corresponding to these features; and
performing a decision fusion for the recognition results according to a fusion strategy of decision level in the fusion strategy, and obtaining a decided recognition result.
6. The method for recognizing the valuable document according to claim 1, wherein the valuable document comprises a banknote, valuable securities, a ticket or a bill.
7. A device for recognizing a valuable document, comprising:
a collection module for collecting multimodal information of a valuable document to be recognized, wherein the multimodal information comprises two or more of optical information, electrical information, magnetic information and physical information of the valuable document to be recognized; and
a recognition module for recognizing the valuable document to be recognized according to a pre-generated fusion strategy and the collected multimodal information of the valuable document to be recognized, and obtaining a recognition result.
8. The device for recognizing the valuable document according to claim 7, wherein the device further comprises:
a pre-generation module for pre-generating a fusion strategy based on the multimodal information of the valuable document according to inherent characteristics of a standard valuable document.
9. The device for recognizing the valuable document according to claim 7, wherein the device further comprises:
a storage module for storing the pre-generated fusion strategy, and the multimodal information collected by the collection module.
10. The device for recognizing the valuable document according to claim 9, wherein the recognition module comprises:
a first feature extraction unit for analyzing the multimodal information of the valuable document to be recognized which is stored by the storage module and extracting features of the multimodal information, wherein the features comprise features to be fused and features not to be fused;
a feature fusion unit for fusing the features to be fused which are extracted by the first feature extraction unit according to a fusion strategy of feature level in the fusion strategy stored by the storage module, and obtaining a new fused feature of the multimodal information; and
a first recognition unit for recognizing the valuable document to be recognized according to the features not to be fused which are extracted by the first feature extraction unit and the new fused feature obtained by the feature fusion unit, and obtaining a recognition result.
11. The device for recognizing the valuable document according to claim 10, wherein the first recognition unit comprises:
a recognition subunit for recognizing respectively the features not to be fused which are extracted by the first feature extraction unit and the new fused feature obtained by the feature fusion unit and obtaining recognition results corresponding to these features; and
a decision subunit for performing the decision fusing for the recognition results obtained by the recognition subunit according to a fusion strategy of decision level in the fusion strategy stored by the storage module, and obtaining a decided recognition result.
12. The device for recognizing the valuable document according to claim 9, wherein the recognition module comprises:
a second feature extraction unit for analyzing the multimodal information of the valuable document to be recognized which is stored by the storage module and extracting features of the multimodal information;
a second recognition unit for recognizing respectively the features of the multimodal information extracted by the second feature extraction unit and obtaining recognition results corresponding to these features; and
a decision fusion unit for performing the decision fusing for the recognition results obtained by the second recognition unit according to a fusion strategy of decision level in the fusion strategy stored by the storage module, and obtaining a decided recognition result.
13. The device for recognizing the valuable document according to claim 8, wherein the device further comprises:
a storage module for storing the pre-generated fusion strategy, and the multimodal information collected by the collection module.