Clinician Location Tracking for Clinical Notification Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Clinicians often face inefficiencies in accessing up-to-date clinical information and notifications, and family members or patients are not adequately included in the clinical experience, leading to delays and missed opportunities in healthcare delivery.
Innovation Solution
A system using sensors to track clinician and patient locations, providing notifications and routing clinicians to necessary resources within a healthcare environment, and enabling non-present parties to receive alerts and turn-by-turn directions to return to patients through mobile devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If clinicians manually check for clinical events and notifications, then they can access clinical information, but time is lost and efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated notification feedback mechanisms where clinicians receive real-time alerts about clinical events, test results, and consultations through their mobile devices, eliminating the need for manual checking and significantly reducing time loss while maintaining high clinical efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by proactively notifying clinicians of clinical events before they need to check manually, ensuring that information is delivered in advance so clinicians can prepare and respond promptly, thereby improving productivity without time loss
2Adaptability or versatility
If family members are excluded from clinical events, then privacy is maintained, but family members cannot be included in the clinical experience
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by providing differentiated information access where family members receive notifications about clinical events relevant to them, allowing selective inclusion in the clinical experience while maintaining privacy boundaries through controlled information distribution
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile notification system acts as an intermediary that selectively shares clinical event information with authorized family members, enabling their inclusion in the clinical experience while maintaining appropriate privacy boundaries through controlled access mechanisms
3Ease of operation
If clinician locations are tracked using sensors, then notification efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor tracking system serves multiple functions including locating clinicians, determining proximity for notifications, and enabling routing to tangible items, thereby improving notification efficiency while justifying the added complexity through versatile multi-functional operation across various clinical scenarios
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing clinical information to clinicians are provided. In embodiments, a patient's electronic health record is accessed to identify that a first clinician has requested a consult with a second clinician. Each clinician is associated with a clinician identifier that is identified by a plurality of sensors. A location for both the first and second clinician is received from the plurality of sensors. A determination is made whether the first and second clinicians are near one another. Upon determining that the first and second clinicians are near one another, a notification is presented to the first clinician. Such tracking of clinician location helps avoid missed opportunities and provides efficient communication among clinicians.