Composite Display Interface for Clinical Data and Task Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing healthcare systems require numerous clicks and displays to initiate actions on patient data, separating viewing from action functions, which impedes clinical administrative and treatment processes by not providing a consolidated, user-defined image display with associated clinical actions and tasks.
Innovation Solution
A user interface system generates a single composite display image with multiple window areas for clinical observation and healthcare worker task data, allowing clinicians to view, modify, and document data within the same page, with automatic updates to task lists, optimizing workflow by minimizing context changes and ensuring actions are performed correctly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If known systems separate viewing of data from functions supporting actions on clinical information, then data security and functional organization are improved, but user navigation complexity and time to initiate actions increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple previously separate functions (data viewing, clinical actions, task management) into a single integrated user interface display. This consolidation allows clinicians to access and perform actions on patient data without navigating through multiple screens, thereby maintaining security while significantly improving ease of operation and reducing navigation time.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated display serves multiple functions simultaneously: presenting clinical observation data, displaying healthcare worker task data, enabling data entry and modification, and showing task updates. This multi-functional interface eliminates the need for separate specialized screens for each function, resolving the contradiction between organized functionality and navigation complexity.
2Reliability
If known systems require numerous clicks and displays to initiate actions on patient data, then data processing control is improved, but clinical workflow efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
By merging data presentation and action initiation functions into a single integrated display, the system allows clinicians to perform clinical actions directly from the patient data view without requiring multiple navigation steps. This maintains controlled data processing while dramatically improving workflow efficiency by reducing the number of clicks and screen transitions required.
Solution Approach 2:
The system prepares and displays all necessary information and action options in advance within the single integrated interface. Clinical actions are pre-configured and immediately accessible alongside patient data, eliminating the need for sequential navigation through multiple screens to initiate actions, thus improving efficiency while maintaining control.
3Ease of operation
If known systems display only a subset of data selected by currently active user, then display focus is improved, but context awareness and impact assessment deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent resolves this contradiction by adding a temporal dimension to data display. The integrated interface simultaneously presents current patient data, historical clinical observations, and future task requirements in a unified view. This allows clinicians to maintain focus on relevant information while preserving context awareness of the complete patient journey and impact of clinical actions across different time points.
Solution Approach 2:
The single integrated display functions as both a focused viewing interface and a comprehensive context display. It selectively highlights relevant patient data for immediate action while simultaneously providing access to the broader context of clinical history and task requirements, eliminating the need to switch between focused and contextual views.
4Device complexity
If known systems require users to select another view to assess impact of actions, then data organization is improved, but time to evaluate clinical decisions increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges impact assessment functionality directly into the primary patient data view. When clinicians perform clinical actions or make decisions, the integrated interface automatically updates and displays the anticipated or actual impact within the same screen, eliminating the need to navigate to separate assessment views. This maintains organized data presentation while reducing decision evaluation time.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated display provides immediate feedback on clinical actions and their impacts within the same interface. The system automatically updates task lists and clinical data displays to reflect the consequences of clinician actions, allowing real-time impact assessment without requiring navigation to other views, thus reducing decision evaluation time while maintaining data organization.
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AI summary
A system provides an improved clinician workflow by providing a composite display image supporting documenting clinical actions, reviewing previous actions and other clinical information and automatically indicating impact of changed clinician data on worker task lists. A user interface system for processing and displaying patient medical information includes at least one repository of information including clinical observation data comprising clinical observations of a particular patient and healthcare worker task data indicating tasks for performance by a healthcare worker. A display generator generates data representing a single composite display image incorporating multiple different image window areas. The multiple different image window areas include a first window area for presenting the clinical observation data and a second window area for presenting the healthcare worker task data and the display image supports user entry of a clinical observation item to change the clinical observation data in the first window area. A data processor detects a clinical observation in the first window is changed and automatically initiates change of the healthcare worker task data in the second window area, in response to the detection.