Cardiac Implantable Device Data Normalization for Urgent Triage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical providers face challenges in efficiently managing cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) due to disparate manufacturers' unique proprietary data formats, leading to inefficient care management, resource wastage, and missed urgent reviews, exacerbated by cumbersome workflows and lack of reimbursement for remote monitoring.
Innovation Solution
A medical device management platform that normalizes interrogation data from CIEDs into manufacturer-independent format, assigns processing statuses, and aggregates data into categories for user actions, facilitating efficient management across various device types.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If medical providers review transmissions in the order received without normalization, then all transmissions are processed, but urgent transmissions cannot be identified and resource waste occurs on non-clinically relevant transmissions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies visual indicators (color coding) to transmissions based on their clinical urgency and relevance. Transmissions are categorized with visual markers that allow medical providers to quickly identify urgent cases without reading each transmission in detail, enabling prioritization and reducing review time while maintaining reliability in identifying critical cases.
2Reliability
If medical providers manually review all transmissions from disparate manufacturers, then complete monitoring is achieved, but workflow becomes cumbersome and resources are wasted on non-relevant data
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary filtering, normalization, and categorization of transmissions before they reach the medical provider. Data is pre-processed to identify clinically relevant information, aggregate similar transmissions, and prioritize urgent cases, so that providers receive already-sorted information requiring minimal manual review while maintaining complete monitoring coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple transmissions from different manufacturers into unified categories based on clinical relevance and urgency. By aggregating similar transmissions and presenting them in consolidated groups rather than as individual discrete items, the system reduces the overall review burden while maintaining comprehensive monitoring of all devices.
3Adaptability or versatility
If proprietary data formats from multiple manufacturers are supported, then device compatibility is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a normalization layer that acts as an intermediary between manufacturer-specific proprietary formats and the unified clinical interface. This mediator component automatically translates and standardizes data from various manufacturers into a common format, enabling multi-vendor compatibility while shielding the clinical system from the underlying complexity of multiple proprietary protocols.
Data Source
AI summary
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for patient device management. In one implementation, interrogation data is received from a cardiac implantable electronic device corresponding to an interrogation for a patient. The interrogation data includes device data for the cardiac implantable electronic device and patient specific data for the patient. The interrogation data is normalized into manufacturer independent interrogation data. The manufacturer independent interrogation data is associated with a permitted user. A processing status is assigned to the interrogation using the manufacturer independent interrogation data. The interrogation is aggregated into a category based on the processing status, and the category is associated with an action by the permitted user.