Acute Care Kit Integrating Personalized Devices With Networked Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current healthcare systems face challenges in providing personalized, real-time monitoring and treatment for acute cardiovascular events, especially outside specialized facilities, due to fragmented data storage, lack of integrated electronic health records, and absence of standardized management systems for guiding acute care based on national clinical practice guidelines.
Innovation Solution
A cardiovascular monitoring and treatment kit equipped with sensors, an automated external defibrillator, medication container, and a computing device with a mobile application that transmits alarms to preselected recipients when cardiovascular parameters exceed predetermined thresholds, along with a centralized tracking system for acute care management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If patient healthcare data is stored in separate silo systems from various healthcare organizations, then data security and organizational autonomy are maintained, but immediate access to integrated electronic health records is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges data from multiple siloed healthcare systems into a centralized electronic health record system that provides immediate access to integrated patient information across all care settings, while maintaining data security through controlled access protocols
Solution Approach 2:
The electronic health record system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it stores data from various organizations, provides immediate access to caregivers, maintains data security, and supports both individual patient care and population-based management
2Reliability
If standardized management ecosystems are implemented to guide acute care based on national clinical practice guidelines, then treatment quality and outcomes are improved, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures standardized care pathways and protocols based on national clinical practice guidelines before acute events occur, allowing caregivers to immediately implement evidence-based treatment without complex decision-making during emergencies
Solution Approach 2:
The management ecosystem automatically guides acute care delivery through standardized protocols and algorithms that enable non-specialty caregivers to provide high-quality care without requiring extensive specialized training or complex clinical judgment
3Loss of time
If real-time monitoring with customized devices is deployed for organized acute care, then patient outcomes and response time are improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system is segmented into modular components that can be selectively deployed based on patient needs and resource availability, allowing real-time monitoring capabilities to be implemented without requiring complex complete systems
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a centralized coordination platform that acts as an intermediary, integrating data from multiple simple monitoring devices across different care settings and coordinating acute care responses without requiring each individual device to be complex
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AI summary
A personalized acute care treatment kit is provided that includes components necessary for a lay caregiver to treat an acute cardiac event. The kit includes a medication box provided with medications selected according to the needs of the owner, a CPR device, a pacemaker, a defibrillator, monitoring and diagnostic devices and a computing device. The computing device is provided with a mobile application that captures patient data from the devices in the kit and automatically sends an alarm to a treatment professional when the patient data exceeds a predetermined threshold and establishes a communication link to with the treatment professional to allow the treatment professional to instruct the lay caregiver in using the contents of the kit to provide acute care.