Augmented Treatment Pathway Interface for Clinical Decision Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current treatment pathways for diseases like cancer are complex and lack essential information for making informed decisions, such as treatment costs and toxicity, which can influence patient care and treatment planning.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for presenting an augmented treatment pathway that integrates diagnostic, radiation, chemotherapy, and surgical elements, including indicators for pricing, efficacy, and toxicity, and allows for quick reference to additional information and other pathways, facilitating decision-making by patients and treating physicians.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If treatment pathways are simplified to improve ease of operation, then patient and physician decision-making becomes easier, but the pathway loses comprehensive information about pricing, efficacy, and toxicity
Solution Approach 1:
The treatment pathway is segmented into multiple interactive layers. The primary pathway view presents high-level treatment steps for easy navigation, while additional information about pricing, efficacy, and toxicity is segmented into expandable detail sections and pop-up windows that can be accessed on-demand by users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from a two-dimensional static pathway diagram to a multi-dimensional interactive interface. Users can expand pathway elements vertically to access detailed information, hover over elements to see tooltips, and navigate between different levels of detail, effectively adding dimensional layers of information without cluttering the primary view.
2Reliability
If comprehensive information about pricing, efficacy and toxicity is added to enhance reliability, then treatment decisions become more informed, but the pathway complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Detailed information about pricing, efficacy, and toxicity is nested within the pathway structure. Each pathway element contains expandable sections that hold detailed data, similar to nested dolls. The primary pathway structure remains clean and simple, while detailed information is nested within specific elements and can be accessed by expansion or pop-up actions.
Solution Approach 2:
Interactive controls serve as intermediaries between the simple pathway structure and the comprehensive information. Buttons, expandable sections, and pop-up windows act as mediators that allow users to access detailed information only when needed, preventing information overload while maintaining comprehensive data availability.
3Ease of operation
If additional controls for accessing information are added to improve ease of operation, then user access to detailed data is enhanced, but the interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Detailed information about pricing, efficacy, and toxicity is extracted from the main pathway visualization and placed into separate expandable sections and pop-up windows. This extraction allows the primary pathway interface to remain clean and simple while detailed information is available through dedicated access points that don't clutter the main view.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium are provided, including a method for presenting information for treating patients. The method comprises presenting, in a user interface, a pathway for use in treating a patient with a disease and including a combination of therapeutic and diagnostic pathway elements including an integration of diagnostic, radiation, chemotherapy, surgical and other elements. The method further comprises augmenting the pathway including providing controls for accessing additional information associated with a given pathway element, augmenting pathway elements to include indicators for pricing, efficacy and/or toxicity of a treatment associated with a given treatment element, and augmenting the pathway with a connection to another pathway including providing a link to another pathway at a point in a given pathway that provides information for a related pathway. The method further comprises presenting an augmented pathway to a patient or treating physician.