Electronic Chart Page Turning for Faster Medical Detail Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
The transition from paper to electronic medical charts in dentistry is hindered by the need for more efficient retrieval of medical treatment details, as users are accustomed to the analog method and face challenges in navigating the limited screen displays.
Innovation Solution
Implementing an animation effect on electronic charts that mimics paper chart page turning, allowing users to interact naturally by applying animation effects based on user interaction, such as touch or drag, to switch pages and display medical treatment details efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If electronic charts display medical treatment details on a limited screen, then information density is improved, but user search time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic chart is divided into multiple virtual pages, each displaying a specific time period or category of medical treatment details. This segmentation allows information to be organized in manageable portions while maintaining high information density on each page, reducing the time users need to search through all information at once.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a temporal dimension to information display by organizing medical treatment details across multiple pages representing different time periods. This dimensional organization allows users to navigate through time-based information efficiently, improving search speed while maintaining comprehensive information display.
2Ease of operation
If animation effects are applied to mimic paper chart page turning, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent copies the familiar page-turning interaction pattern from physical paper charts and implements it in the electronic chart interface. By replicating the analog interaction experience in the digital environment, users can operate the electronic chart with existing muscle memory and intuition, improving ease of operation without requiring complex new interaction paradigms.
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AI summary
Disclosed are a page turning method for turning the pages of an electronic chart through a user interaction, and a computing device. The page turning method allows a user's interactive operation on an electronic chart to be sensed by considering the user's behavior of retrieving medical treatment details of a patient from a conventional paper chart, and allows pages of the electronic chart to be adjusted according to the sensed interactive operation so that a desired page of the user can be moved in the electronic chart and displayed on a screen.