EMR URL Construction for Patient-Specific Treatment Algorithms
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Solution Overview
Problem
Healthcare providers face challenges in delivering evidence-based care for chronic conditions within the limited time allocated for patient encounters, often resulting in suboptimal treatment adherence to national guidelines, which contributes to high healthcare expenditures.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that links electronic medical records (EMRs) with web-based treatment algorithms, where a URL in the EMR directs healthcare providers to customized treatment guidelines based on patient-specific data, enhancing decision support at the point of care.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If clinicians follow national treatment guidelines for chronic conditions, then treatment quality improves, but time required for patient encounters increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-constructs URLs containing treatment algorithm information based on patient data before the clinician needs it. When a clinician views a patient's EMR, relevant treatment guidelines are already prepared and linked, eliminating the need to search for or generate them during the time-constrained patient encounter.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a URL construction system as an intermediary between patient data and treatment guidelines. This automated system translates patient EMR data into customized URLs that link to specific treatment algorithms, reducing the cognitive load and time required for clinicians to find appropriate guidelines.
2Loss of information
If clinicians review comprehensive treatment guidelines, then decision support improves, but complexity of information processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of presenting all treatment guidelines uniformly, the system customizes URLs to provide locally relevant information based on specific patient conditions. Each URL is tailored to the patient's unique data, presenting only the treatment algorithms and guidelines applicable to that specific case, thereby reducing information complexity while maintaining decision support quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes the parameters of information presentation by constructing URLs that encode specific patient data points. This transforms static, comprehensive guidelines into dynamic, personalized information streams that adapt to each patient's condition, reducing the complexity of information processing while preserving decision support完整性.
3Measurement precision
If treatment algorithms are customized for each patient, then care precision improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The URL construction system operates autonomously by automatically extracting relevant patient data from EMR fields and generating customized URLs without requiring manual intervention. This self-service capability achieves precise, personalized treatment algorithm linking while minimizing the complexity of system operation and maintenance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal URL construction mechanism that can handle multiple patient conditions and data types through a single system. By designing a multi-functional URL generation process that works across different chronic conditions and EMR structures, the system achieves high care precision without proportionally increasing system complexity.
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AI summary
A data processing system and method that, in some cases, include an EMR system and a web server. In some cases, the EMR system includes a plurality of electronic medical records for a plurality of patients. One or more of the electronic medical records may include a URL or HTTP Post message that defines a path to a web-based resource, such as a treatment algorithm or medical calculator. In some embodiments, the URL and/or HTTP Post message is constructed based on information in a patient's medical record.