Clinical Collaboration Roster System for Expert Matching

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Solution Overview

Problem

Clinicians face challenges in quickly and effectively locating and collaborating with other experts to interpret patient-focused clinical data, as experts may be scattered and difficult to find, and existing systems lack dynamic, electronic collaboration tools for sharing various forms of data.

Innovation Solution

A computerized system that generates a roster of potentially available clinicians for collaboration sessions based on patient-focused clinical data, facilitating electronic communication and data exchange through a receiving, roster generation, and interfacing component, allowing remote collaboration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If clinicians rely on traditional methods to locate experts (tracking down authors manually), then they can identify specific individuals, but the process is time-consuming and experts may be unavailable

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetime to locate and engage expertsVSAvoidefficiency of clinical collaboration

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a computer system as an intermediary between requesting clinicians and potential collaborators. The system receives collaboration requests, analyzes them against clinician profiles and availability data, and generates optimized rosters of potential collaborators, thereby mediating the connection process and reducing time loss

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-analyzing clinician profiles, expertise areas, and availability status before collaboration requests are made. This advance preparation enables rapid generation of appropriate collaborator rosters when requests are received, eliminating the need for manual searching at the moment of need

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If clinicians are scattered across distributed health systems accessed remotely, then electronic record access is improved, but face-to-face contact and quick collaboration become difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess to electronic patient recordsVSAvoidcomplexity of locating and coordinating collaboration

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The computer system provides universal functionality by serving multiple purposes: storing and accessing clinician profiles, analyzing collaboration requests, generating optimized rosters, and facilitating communication. This multi-functional system handles diverse collaboration needs across distributed locations through a single unified platform

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system acts as an intermediary that bridges distributed clinicians by analyzing their profiles, locations, and availability, then generating coordinated collaboration rosters that enable efficient connection despite physical dispersion and system complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If clinicians need additional contextual information about patients for collaboration, then collaboration quality improves, but information retrieval and sharing becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvequality of clinical collaborationVSAvoidcomplexity of information exchange system

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple information sources including clinician profiles, patient contextual information, availability data, and collaboration history into a unified analysis framework. This integration enables comprehensive assessment and generation of optimized collaborator rosters with all relevant contextual information in one place

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The computer system serves as an intermediary that collects, organizes, and manages diverse contextual information about patients and clinicians, then presents it in a coordinated manner to support high-quality collaboration without requiring clinicians to manually gather information from multiple sources

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS7953608B2System and method for orchestrating clinical collaboration sessions

Publication Date: 2011.05.31 CERNER INNOVATION INC

AI summary

A system and associated methods for orchestrating a collaboration session are disclosed. One method involves orchestrating a collaboration session between a requesting clinician and another clinician where information is exchanged electronically. According to the method, requests for collaboration sessions are received by a computer system from the requesting clinician, with a given request related to a piece of patient-focused clinical data. Each request is analyzed to build a roster of potentially available clinicians for collaboration. A collaboration session is then facilitated between the requesting clinician and one or more of the potentially available clinicians on the roster.