Clinician Activity Management Interface for Workflow Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
Clinicians face challenges in managing patient activities due to increased workloads and existing computer-based solutions that overwhelm them with information, requiring them to navigate multiple applications and often resulting in manual note-taking and disrupted workflows.
Innovation Solution
A patient activity list with a common view that limits information presentation while being fully navigable, combined with an activities navigator that allows clinicians to manage and prioritize activities, enabling them to review, reschedule, and document tasks within the context of their workflow.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If computer-based solutions present comprehensive patient information to clinicians, then information completeness is improved, but information overload and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patient information is segmented into multiple hierarchical levels: summary view, detailed views, and specific activity views. The interface divides comprehensive patient data into organized sections that can be accessed progressively, allowing clinicians to see only essential information at each level while maintaining access to complete data when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds temporal and contextual dimensions to information presentation by displaying activities in a timeline view and organizing data by clinical roles. This multi-dimensional organization allows clinicians to navigate information based on time-based workflows and role-specific perspectives rather than browsing through flat, comprehensive data sets.
2Adaptability or versatility
If clinicians use multiple separate applications to access patient information, view activities, and document completion, then functional versatility is improved, but workflow continuity and context maintenance deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges previously separate functions (patient information access, activity management, and documentation) into a single integrated interface. All these functions are accessible within one unified application that maintains continuous context through persistent displays and state management, eliminating the need to switch between multiple applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The single application interface is designed to be universal, handling multiple clinical tasks and information types within one system. The interface adapts to display different types of information and perform various functions based on the clinician's needs while maintaining a consistent user experience and continuous workflow context.
3Adaptability or versatility
If clinicians are interrupted during workflow, then task flexibility is improved, but workflow resumption efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically saving the current workflow state, pending activities, and documentation progress before interruptions occur. The interface maintains pre-loaded information and preserves the clinician's position in the workflow, so when the clinician returns after an interruption, the system is already prepared to continue from where it left off without requiring re-navigation or re-loading.
Data Source
AI summary
Management of patient activities for a clinician is provided by a patient activity list the may present the clinician's role relevant activities in conjunction with multidisciplinary activities to be performed for a patient. A timeline view area is presented having role relevant scheduled activities for one or more patients assigned to the clinician. Each role relevant scheduled activity comprises an activity to be performed by the clinician and is presented in the timeline view area based on a scheduled time and in association with a corresponding patient. When a user selection of at least one of the patients is received, one or more multidisciplinary activities for the patient are presented within the timeline view area. The multidisciplinary activities include activities scheduled to be performed by other clinicians, and each multidisciplinary activity is presented in the timeline view area based on a scheduled time.