Unified Clinical Risk Score Interface Reducing Redundant Data Entry
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical risk score systems lack synergy when using multiple calculators, requiring redundant user input and lacking flexibility in data presentation across different vendors' equipment and devices.
Innovation Solution
A web-based user interface on a vendor-agnostic platform, such as the SICKBAY platform, allows for a configurable monitoring station to display user-selectable risk scores from various patients and vendors, using real-time physiological data and enabling flexible monitoring across devices, including mobile devices, with automatic updates and validated/unvalidated data visualization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple independent risk score calculators are used, then comprehensive risk assessment is improved, but user interaction and data entry burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent risk score calculators into a single integrated system that automatically retrieves and processes patient data from electronic health records. The system merges data from multiple sources and calculates multiple risk scores simultaneously, eliminating the need for users to manually enter data into separate calculators while maintaining comprehensive risk assessment capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal platform that performs multiple risk assessment functions through a single interface. It can calculate various types of risk scores (sepsis, mortality, complications) using the same data entry point, allowing the system to serve multiple purposes without requiring separate tools for each risk assessment type.
2Reliability
If vendor-specific systems are used, then device functionality is improved, but system adaptability and interoperability worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a vendor-agnostic architecture that can interface with multiple different electronic health record systems and data sources. The system uses standardized data exchange protocols and can adapt to different vendors' equipment and devices, allowing it to function reliably across diverse healthcare technology environments without being locked into a single vendor's ecosystem.
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AI summary
A user interface for clinical personnel provides selectable views of a plurality of medical risk scores. Questions whose answers are needed for calculation of those risk scores are asked in a question and answer area of the user interface, which allows some questions to be answered based on real time patient physiological data streams that are overridable by user provided answers. Where multiple risk score calculations require answers to the same question, the user provided answer may be supplied as an answer to the corresponding question for each risk score, rather than requiring the user to answer multiple times. Sparklines may be provided with the displayed risk scores to show trends in the risk score values, and may be updated in real time based on real time physiological data streams. The display of risk scores may visually distinguish between risk scores that have been validated and those are based on unvalidated answers to the questions.