Clinical Workflow Layout Propagation by View Importance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing medical information processing systems face issues with layout changes in clinical workflows, leading to potential trouble and inefficiencies in screen management during transitions between steps.
Innovation Solution
A display server system that records layout changes, calculates the importance of added views, and determines whether to apply these changes to subsequent steps based on importance, using databases to manage user, step, and view information, and includes functions for layout recording, transition detection, importance calculation, and display control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If layout changes are applied to all subsequent steps, then consistency across workflow is improved, but unnecessary changes and trouble are increased
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter of layout application from binary (all or none) to selective (based on importance degree). By calculating an importance degree for each layout change and comparing it against a threshold, the system dynamically determines which changes to propagate to subsequent steps, resolving the contradiction between consistency and efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically evaluates and prioritizes layout changes without requiring manual review for each change. The importance calculation function autonomously determines which changes warrant propagation based on predefined criteria, reducing the burden on users while maintaining quality control.
2Ease of operation
If layout changes are restricted to only important views, then workflow efficiency is improved, but layout consistency across steps deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an importance degree parameter to differentiate between various types of layout changes. By setting a threshold for this parameter, the system achieves selective propagation that balances consistency and efficiency - important changes are propagated while less important ones are not, resolving the contradiction.
3Reliability
If manual review of each layout change is performed, then change quality is improved, but time consumption and productivity are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automatic importance calculation and threshold-based filtering, eliminating the need for manual review of each layout change. The automated process maintains quality control by objectively evaluating changes based on predefined criteria, significantly improving productivity while preserving reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms the qualitative assessment of layout changes into a quantitative process by calculating importance degrees. This parameter-based approach enables automated decision-making, replacing time-consuming manual reviews with efficient algorithmic evaluation that maintains quality standards.
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AI summary
A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to record, when a layout of a display area is changed at a first step included in a clinical workflow, layout change information that indicates a changed content, determine, when the layout of the display area is changed at the first step, whether to change a layout of a display area set in advance for a second step that is any step after the first step, based on the layout change information, and change the layout at the second step based on a result of determination.