Cardiac Device Data Normalization Platform

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Solution Overview

Problem

Medical providers face challenges in efficiently managing cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) due to disparate proprietary data formats from various manufacturers, leading to cumbersome workflows and resource wastage, particularly in reviewing clinically irrelevant data transmissions.

Innovation Solution

A medical device management platform that normalizes interrogation data from CIEDs into manufacturer-independent formats, assigns processing statuses, and aggregates data for permitted users to facilitate efficient patient care across multiple device types and manufacturers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If medical providers review all data transmissions from CIEDs in the order received, then all transmissions are processed, but clinically irrelevant transmissions waste medical providers' time and resources

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of data reviewVSAvoidtime spent on clinically irrelevant transmissions

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing of data transmissions by automatically analyzing and categorizing them before presentation to the medical provider. This includes determining clinical relevance, assigning priority levels, and organizing transmissions so that clinically relevant data is reviewed first, eliminating the need to review all transmissions in received order and reducing time spent on irrelevant data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If medical providers manage data from multiple manufacturers' CIEDs, then comprehensive patient care is provided, but disparate proprietary data formats increase system complexity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to manage multiple device typesVSAvoidcomplexity of data management system

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that receives data transmissions from multiple manufacturers' CIEDs in their proprietary formats, automatically converts and normalizes them into a unified format, and presents standardized data to the medical provider. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of multiple data formats internally while maintaining simplicity for the end user, enabling comprehensive multi-manufacturer device management without proportionally increasing system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20240347193A1Systems and methods for managing patient medical devices

Publication Date: 2024.10.17 MURJ INC

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.