EMS Interface for Selective Patient Data Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing patient monitoring devices in emergency medical services (EMS) face limitations in communication capabilities and data retrieval efficiency, often requiring costly hardware or software retrofits and inefficient data transfer processes.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising an interface device with a memory, wireless transceiver, and processor to format and transmit patient monitoring information as data objects, enabling selective data retrieval and real-time communication via a wireless network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If existing patient monitoring devices use traditional communication interfaces, then device reliability is maintained, but data transfer speed and communication efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an interface device as an intermediary component that couples with the patient monitoring device. This interface device contains a processor that formats data into objects and a wireless transceiver that enables modern wireless communication protocols. The intermediary approach allows the original reliable monitoring device to communicate through a newer, faster interface without modifying the core monitoring functionality, thus improving data transfer speed while preserving device reliability.
2Loss of information
If users retrieve entire memory card content for data upload, then data completeness is ensured, but data transfer time and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the data stored in the memory card into discrete data objects, where each object represents a specific EMS incident or data type. The interface device's processor can identify and extract only the relevant data objects needed for upload, rather than transferring the entire memory card content. This segmentation enables selective data retrieval that maintains completeness of required information while significantly reducing transfer time by excluding unnecessary data.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface device performs preliminary actions by pre-formatting and organizing data into structured objects with metadata that identifies the EMS incident, data type, and other relevant information. This preliminary organization allows users to quickly search for and select specific data objects based on incident criteria without having to process or review entire memory card contents, thereby reducing both transfer time and processing time while ensuring complete retrieval of selected data.
3Productivity
If defibrillator devices incorporate advanced communication capabilities, then communication efficiency improves, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The interface device serves as an intermediary that handles all complex communication functions, including data formatting, wireless transmission, and protocol management. The defibrillator device itself remains relatively simple, focusing on its core monitoring and treatment functions. This separation of concerns allows advanced communication capabilities to be implemented without significantly increasing the complexity of the critical defibrillator device, while still achieving high communication efficiency through the specialized interface device.
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AI summary
A system for providing clinical decision support during a clinical encounter with a patient includes a mobile computing device and a remote computing device communicatively coupled to and remotely located from the mobile computing device, the remote computing device configured to receive clinical data during the clinical encounter from a medical device associated with the patient, provide a first interactive display including the clinical data, enable the mobile computing device to access the clinical data, receive user input based on the clinical data from the mobile computing device, and provide the user input and the clinical data at the first interactive display, where the mobile computing device is configured to access the clinical data, provide the clinical data at a second interactive display, prompt a user for the user input based on the clinical data via the second interactive display, and transmit the user input to the remote computing device.