EMR Browser Dynamic Window Management for Screen Space Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional electronic medical record (EMR) systems are inefficient due to their siloed data storage and navigation models, requiring multiple steps to access and manage records, leading to user fatigue and suboptimal display of information on screens.
Innovation Solution
The method involves selectively displaying entities on a screen by converting and combining attributes of prompt and answer entities, optimizing the layout to reduce vertical space, exclude insignificant elements, and allow dynamic control over document criteria, enabling more information to be displayed at once with fewer navigation operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional EMR navigation steps are used to access and view documents, then information can be retrieved, but user fatigue increases and navigation efficiency decreases due to multiple required clicks and scrolls
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the navigation process by allowing users to open multiple documents in separate windows simultaneously rather than requiring sequential navigation through close-open cycles. Each document becomes an independent accessible unit, eliminating the need to close one document to access another.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new dimension to document access by implementing a window management system where documents can be accessed across multiple windows and tabs. This transforms the traditional single-document-at-a-time model into a multi-document workspace, allowing navigation without sequential closing and opening.
2Area of stationary object
If full screen mode is used to display documents, then more content is visible, but navigation to other EMR areas requires additional mouse aiming and clicking actions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic window management where document windows can be resized, moved, and arranged flexibly. Users can adjust window sizes to optimize display area while maintaining access to navigation controls, creating a dynamic balance between viewing area and navigation capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a multi-functional window system that serves both as a full-screen document viewer and as a navigable interface. The window system integrates document display, navigation controls, and chart browser functionality, eliminating the need to exit full-screen mode for navigation.
3Loss of information
If multiple documents are displayed simultaneously, then more information is accessible at once, but screen space management becomes challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the screen into multiple independent window regions, each displaying a different document. This allows simultaneous viewing of multiple documents without requiring a single large screen, as each document occupies its own manageable space segment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements nested window arrangements where smaller document windows can be positioned within or alongside larger windows, allowing efficient use of screen real estate. Documents can be arranged in cascading or overlapping configurations that maximize information visibility while maintaining screen space efficiency.
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AI summary
Methods for utilizing a document group to generate an output that is formatted for a peripheral output device. The output may be generated by creating output documents, adapting elements from documents of the document group, including or excluding certain elements based on criteria that may be predetermined and/or calculated, and by formatting the included elements to decrease the amount of vertical space used in the formatted output and retain all the significant text, perhaps even using a larger font. For screens, less vertical space may equate to more information fitting on the screen at a time and less scrolling. For printers, less vertical space may equate to less paper to print the same document. Further, the output may be configured to include certain documents and/or document areas based on the content of audit logs that track user-view of an input. Also disclosed are systems and devices for implementing the methods.