Unified Clinical Workspace for Multi-Disciplinary Care Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current clinician workflow applications require navigating multiple systems to address clinical findings, leading to inefficiency and increased error chances, especially in multi-disciplinary care settings where coordination of care for patients with multiple medical problems is challenging, and searching through voluminous clinical documents is cumbersome.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface (GUI) that presents a list of declared clinical problems, allowing interaction with care team icons to access clinician information, new orders, documents, and contact details, facilitating care coordination among multi-disciplinary teams and enabling efficient document searching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If clinicians use traditional workflow applications to address clinical findings, then they can access and view information, but they must navigate away from the current application to access related information, increasing time consumption and error risk
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate workflow applications (clinician workflow, ordering application, clinical note application) into a single integrated interface. The care team workspace consolidates access to clinical findings, related orders, and documentation in one location, eliminating the need to navigate between separate applications and reducing time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The care team workspace serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays clinical findings, provides access to related orders, enables documentation creation, and facilitates team communication. This multi-functional design allows clinicians to address all aspects of a clinical finding without switching applications.
2Adaptability or versatility
If specialists work independently in highly-specialized healthcare settings, then they can focus on their specific areas of expertise, but they lack access to workflows detailing care given by other specialists, reducing coordination efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The workspace segments care team members by specialty (e.g., internal medicine, cardiology, gastro-enterology) while presenting a unified view of all specialists' workflows. Each specialist can access their specific care tasks while also viewing integrated information from other specialists, maintaining both specialization and coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The care team workspace acts as an intermediary platform that connects independent specialists. It provides a common interface where each specialist can access workflows and documentation from other specialists without requiring direct communication or system integration between individual specialist applications.
3Loss of information
If clinicians search through voluminous clinical documents using traditional methods, then they can access complete patient records, but the process is cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts relevant information from voluminous clinical documents and presents it in a streamlined, organized manner within the care team workspace. Related orders and documentation are automatically associated with clinical findings and presented in a condensed format, allowing clinicians to access necessary information without reviewing entire document sets.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for facilitating the care of a patient by a multi-disciplinary care team. A graphical user interface presents one or more clinical problems associated with a patient. For each clinical problem, actionable care team icons are presented that, among other things, identify care teams responsible for caring for the clinical problem and any actions taken by the care teams to address the clinical problem.