Automated nursing assessment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current nursing assessments are labor-intensive and time-consuming, particularly in automating the qualitative evaluation of a patient's mental and emotional state, which hinders efficient data entry into electronic medical records.
Innovation Solution
An automated nursing assessment device captures video and audio data to determine a patient's mood, physical, psychosocial, and neurological states using human condition recognition techniques and psychosocial/neurological state assessment questions, generating a report that can be used to populate patient records automatically.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual nursing assessments are performed by skilled practitioners, then qualitative evaluation of patient mental and emotional state is accurate, but labor time and transcription time increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-assessment by having patients complete psychosocial and neurological questionnaires independently through a user interface, eliminating the need for nurse administration and transcription of these portions of the assessment
Solution Approach 2:
Manual assessment procedures are replaced with an automated computer-based system that presents questions, captures responses, and generates reports electronically, substituting the mechanical process of manual evaluation and transcription
2Productivity
If automated video analysis is used to determine mood and physical state, then assessment speed increases, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The nursing assessment device is designed as a multi-functional system that performs video capture, audio recording, questionnaire administration, and automated report generation within a single integrated platform, consolidating multiple assessment functions
3Loss of information
If comprehensive psychosocial and neurological questions are asked, then assessment completeness improves, but assessment time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary automated analysis of video and audio data to determine mood, physical state, and other conditions before presenting targeted psychosocial and neurological questions, allowing the assessment to be completed more efficiently by focusing questions based on preliminary findings
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AI summary
This document describes automated nursing assessments. Automation of the nursing assessment involves a nursing-assessment device that makes determinations of a person's mood, physical state, psychosocial state, and neurological state. To determine a mood and physical state of a person, video of the person is captured while the person is positioned in front of an everyday object, such as a mirror. The captured video is then processed according to human condition recognition techniques, which produces indications of the person's mood and physical state, such as whether the person is happy, sad, healthy, sick, vital signs, and so on. In addition to mood and physical state, the person's psychosocial and neurological state are also determined. To do so, questions are asked of the person. These questions are determined from a plurality of psychosocial and neurological state assessment questions, which include queries regarding how the person feels, what the person has been doing, and so on. The determined questions are asked through audible or visual interfaces of the nursing-assessment device. The person's responses are then analyzed. The analysis involves processing the received answers according to psychosocial and neurological state assessment techniques to produce indications of the person's psychosocial and neurological state.