Hub Application for Concurrent EHR and Patient Portal Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional patient portal systems require healthcare providers to interrupt their workflow and lose context when accessing patient portal data, as they need to switch between EHR applications and separate patient portal client applications, disrupting the relevant EHR context.
Innovation Solution
A computer-executable hub application that provides a unified graphical user interface, allowing healthcare workers to access and display contextually relevant patient and clinician information alongside EHR data, enabling seamless integration of patient portal data without interrupting the EHR workflow by transmitting context information between the EHR, hub application, and patient portal server.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a separate patient portal client application is used to access patient portal data, then patient portal functionality is provided, but workflow continuity is disrupted and EHR context is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the patient portal application with the EHR application into a single integrated application. This integration allows healthcare providers to access both EHR functionality and patient portal data within one unified interface, eliminating the need to switch between separate applications and maintaining workflow continuity while preserving EHR context.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a separate patient portal client application is used, then patient portal data can be accessed, but application complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
By combining patient portal and EHR functionalities into a single application, the patent reduces the overall system architecture from multiple separate applications to one integrated application. This merger simplifies the application structure while maintaining all necessary functionalities through a unified codebase and shared data access mechanisms.
3Adaptability or versatility
If healthcare providers switch between EHR and patient portal applications, then both systems can be used, but time is lost due to context switching
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated application enables continuous workflow by allowing healthcare providers to access patient portal data and EHR functionality without interruption. The unified interface maintains persistent context across different data types and operations, eliminating the need to close or switch between applications and ensuring uninterrupted access to all necessary patient information.
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AI summary
Described herein are various technologies pertaining to a patient portal interface application for a hub application that is displayed concurrently on a display with a graphical user interface (GUI) for a client electronic health record application (EHR). The hub application facilitates access to supplement applications, wherein at least one of the supplement applications is a patient portal interface application. The patient portal interface application communicates with a patient portal server to facilitate presentment of patient portal data to a user of the client EHR. The patient portal interface application provides a current context of the EHR to the patient portal server, and receives contextually-based patient portal data from the patient portal server. The contextual patient portal data is then displayed by way of a GUI of the patient portal interface application.