EHR Agent Overlay for Patient Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Healthcare practitioners face inefficiencies when accessing patient medical information, as they need to constantly switch between applications and search for patient data, especially when encountering patient references outside of electronic health records (EHR) systems.
Innovation Solution
An EHR agent is integrated to provide a patient information overlay process, allowing users to access and display patient data by hovering over a patient identifier in various applications (like email, messaging, or PDFs) and triggering a preconfigured input sequence, which copies and searches for the identifier, displaying relevant patient information in an overlay interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a healthcare practitioner uses traditional EHR application methods to access patient information, then patient data can be retrieved accurately, but the practitioner must constantly switch between applications and search for patients, reducing workflow efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the EHR system with a communication application by integrating an overlay interface that displays patient information directly within the communication app window. This merging eliminates the need to switch between separate EHR and communication applications, allowing practitioners to access patient data while remaining in their workflow context.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an overlay interface dimension that sits on top of the existing communication application interface. This additional layer provides patient information without replacing or disrupting the underlying communication app, enabling simultaneous access to both communication and EHR functions in a unified visual space.
2Ease of operation
If an overlay interface is displayed to show patient information, then access to patient data is improved, but the interface may clutter the display and interfere with the primary application
Solution Approach 1:
The overlay interface displays patient information locally near the cursor position or selected text within the communication application. This localized approach ensures that patient data is accessible exactly where the practitioner needs it in their workflow, without occupying the entire display or interfering with other application areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The overlay interface is designed to be dynamic, appearing when triggered by user interaction (such as selecting patient information in a message) and disappearing when no longer needed. This dynamic behavior allows the interface to adapt to user needs, providing information when required and clearing display space when not in use.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes displaying a window of a first application which includes text corresponding to a patient identifier for a first patient. The method further includes receiving input corresponding to a preconfigured input sequence associated with an electronic health records (EHR) agent, and initiating, by the EHR agent in response to the preconfigured input sequence, a patient information overlay process. The patient information overlay process includes sending a copy command to copy first text from the window of the first application to the clipboard, accessing the first text, searching the accessed first text for an identification of a patient, determining that the patient identifier represents an identification of a patient, accessing patient information for the first patient based on the patient identifier, and displaying an overlay interface overlaid over the window proximate a cursor, the overlay interface including accessed patient information for the first patient.