Automated Workflow Access Based on Clinical Role and Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
Clinicians face inefficiencies when accessing electronic medical records due to frequent login requirements and navigation across different devices and applications while moving between healthcare facilities or areas, leading to mistakes in accessing the correct patient records.
Innovation Solution
A system that automates workflow access by detecting a clinician's location and role, launching relevant applications on their device, and suspending/resuming sessions across devices to ensure seamless access to patient records while maintaining privacy and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If clinicians manually login to different devices and applications in different healthcare facilities, then they can access patient records, but time is lost due to repeated login and navigation requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting the clinician's location and automatically launching the appropriate applications and patient records before the clinician needs to access them. This eliminates the need for manual login and navigation steps, as the system has already prepared and opened the required resources in advance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service by automatically detecting clinician location through location services, determining the appropriate application based on location and role, and launching the necessary applications without requiring clinician intervention. The system serves itself by managing the authentication and application launch process autonomously.
2Reliability
If clinicians access electronic medical records across multiple devices and facilities, then continuity of care is improved, but errors occur when incorrect patient records are viewed
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback by continuously monitoring the clinician's location and using this information to dynamically determine which patient records should be displayed. The location data provides feedback that ensures the correct patient records are accessed based on the clinician's current position in the healthcare facility, preventing errors from viewing incorrect records.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by tailoring the application and record display to the specific location and role of the clinician. Different locations within the healthcare facility have different quality requirements for record access, and the system ensures that the appropriate records are displayed based on the local context of where the clinician is located.
3Adaptability or versatility
If different software applications are used in different healthcare facilities, then local needs are met, but device complexity increases requiring multiple logins and view changes
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves universality by creating a unified access mechanism that works across multiple different healthcare facilities and software applications. The location-based automatic application launch system serves as a universal interface that adapts to different facility-specific applications without requiring separate login processes for each, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, computer-readable media for automating displays based on admissions, transfers, and discharges are provided. In embodiments, a location associated with a clinician is detected. A role associated with the clinician authenticated to a first device is determined. One or more applications associated with the clinician based on the location and the role is automatically launched on the first device. In embodiments, authentication requests from the clinician are received for a second device. A session associated with the one or more applications is suspended on the first device and resumed on the second device.