Handheld Medical Imaging Device for Digital Record Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical facilities outside of Radiology and Cardiology face challenges in optimizing the workflow for capturing and storing medical imaging data digitally, as existing systems are time-consuming and require substantial user coordination, often resulting in lost clinical references due to non-digital storage of photographs and videos.
Innovation Solution
A handheld mobile imaging and communications device with an optical imaging component, input component, wireless two-way communication, memory, and program that authenticates users and captures medical image data, allowing for direct transmission to a patient's electronic medical record on a server with unique subject identifying information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If digital photographs are printed and stored in locked cabinets, then physical storage is achieved, but the photographs are lost to future clinical reference and workflow efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of physical printing and cabinet storage with a digital electronic storage system. The mobile device captures images digitally and transmits them directly to the electronic medical record system, eliminating the need for physical photographs and locked cabinets while ensuring permanent digital preservation and immediate clinical accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates digital copies of medical images that are stored in the electronic medical record system. Instead of relying on single physical photographs that can be lost, multiple digital copies are created and preserved in the electronic system, ensuring redundancy and permanent availability for future clinical reference.
2Reliability
If photographs are loaded from camera to computer and manually associated with patient records, then image storage is achieved, but the process is time consuming and requires substantial user coordination
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile device performs self-service by automatically capturing images, identifying the patient through scanning or selection, and transmitting the images directly to the electronic medical record system without requiring manual intervention. The device autonomously completes the entire workflow from capture to storage, eliminating the need for user coordination between camera, computer, and record system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary automated identification system that bridges the camera and electronic medical record system. The mobile device automatically identifies the patient using scanning technology or selection from a list, serving as an intermediary that eliminates manual user coordination while ensuring accurate image-patient association.
3Reliability
If manual coordination between camera, computer, and electronic medical record system is required, then image association is achieved, but device complexity and user burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functions of camera, patient identification system, and electronic medical record interface into a single integrated mobile device. This combination eliminates the need for separate devices and manual coordination between them, reducing system complexity while maintaining accurate image-patient association through integrated automated processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device performs multiple functions: capturing images, identifying patients through scanning or selection, and transmitting data to the electronic medical record system. This multi-functional approach replaces the need for separate specialized devices and reduces the complexity of coordinating multiple devices, while ensuring reliable image-patient association.
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AI summary
A method of acquiring medical image data of a first subject by a user is provided. The method includes providing a mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device that includes an optical imaging component, an input component, a wireless two-way communication component, a memory and a program. The program includes authenticating the user and the program includes a request for subject identifying information. The method further includes providing user authenticating data and wirelessly transmitting the user authenticating data. The method further includes the user capturing first medical image data related to a first subject with the mobile device. The optical imaging component of the mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device is operated by the user to capture the first medical image data. The first subject is one of a plurality of different subjects, each of whom has a distinct subject medical record on a server and for each of whom medical image data is stored in the distinct subject medical record. The method further includes storing the first medical image data in the memory. The method further includes providing first subject identifying information that uniquely identifies a first subject medical record on the mobile device in response to a program request, and wirelessly transmitting the first medical image data together with the first subject identifying information to a second device for storage in the first subject medical record on the server.