EHR Platform Clinical Trigger Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Healthcare providers lack timely access to up-to-date, high-quality medical information, which can impact optimal treatment outcomes.
Innovation Solution
An electronic medical record advertising platform integrates clinical alerts and disease awareness messaging into electronic health records, using clinical triggers to deliver targeted information to healthcare providers at the point of care, including patient affordability messaging and prescription data, through a system that correlates medical product content with ICD codes and activates relevant advertisements based on patient interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If healthcare providers use traditional information access methods, then they maintain simple system operations, but they experience delayed access to up-to-date medical information
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-loads and stores medical information, clinical alerts, and disease awareness content in the EHR platform before they are needed. When a clinical trigger occurs, the pre-prepared information is immediately retrieved and presented to the provider, eliminating access delays without requiring complex real-time search operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system layer between information sources and healthcare providers. This intermediary automatically correlates clinical triggers with relevant medical information and delivers it through the EHR interface, resolving the contradiction by providing fast access through automated mediation rather than direct provider searching.
2Loss of information
If the system integrates targeted medical information and advertisements into EHR, then providers receive relevant medical information, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The EHR platform is enhanced with multi-functionality to handle both traditional health record management and the new information integration tasks. The system uses existing EHR infrastructure components (interfaces, databases, display systems) to deliver clinical alerts and disease awareness content, reducing the need for separate complex systems while maintaining information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters such as information delivery timing (trigger-based vs. continuous), information format (targeted alerts vs. general content), and integration depth (embedded in workflow vs. separate system) to provide comprehensive medical information while managing system complexity through parameter optimization rather than structural complexity.
3Reliability
If the system delivers targeted information at point of care, then treatment decisions are improved, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by delivering specific, targeted information to specific providers at specific moments in the clinical workflow based on clinical triggers. Rather than providing general information to all providers, the system correlates trigger data with relevant medical content and delivers it locally to the appropriate provider interface, improving decision quality while keeping processing focused and manageable.
4Loss of information
If the system integrates advertisements and educational materials into EHR workflow, then providers receive relevant medical information, but workflow disruption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The information delivery system is segmented into discrete, modular clinical triggers and corresponding information units. Each trigger (e.g., diagnosis entry, medication order) activates a specific information segment rather than overwhelming the provider with continuous content. This segmentation allows providers to access relevant information without workflow disruption, as each information unit is triggered only when clinically relevant.
Data Source
AI summary
The embodiments disclose a medical product processing system including a first graphical user interface (GUI) coupled to an EHR platform and configured to display to a medical provider (MP) predefined conditions of a patient of the MP, a database with records stored therein containing predefined information relating to medical products related to the predefined conditions, a second GUI coupled to the database and configured to display to a medical product provider (MPP) adjustable condition trigger (CT) settings, wherein the adjustable CT settings are configurable by the MPP to associate a predefined condition with related predefined information, a processor coupled to the database, the first GUI and the second GUI, and wherein when the first GUI displays at least one condition to the MP, the processor automatically sends related predefined information from the database to be displayed on the first GUI based on the adjustable CT setting configured by the MPP.