Icon-Based Healthcare Record Stack Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current patient healthcare record systems are time-consuming and inefficient, particularly due to text-based formats that hinder navigation and comprehension, especially when dealing with multiple records and varying information formats.
Innovation Solution
An icon-based healthcare management system that presents patient records as a stack of unit boxes, allowing navigation through gestures and animations, enabling intuitive access, creation, updating, and removal of records, and facilitating language-independent information presentation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If text-based formats are used to store patient records, then information can be stored in a structured manner, but navigation and comprehension become time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color-coded icons to represent different types of healthcare information (e.g., red for critical alerts, yellow for warnings, green for normal status). This visual coding system allows users to instantly comprehend the nature and urgency of medical information without reading text, dramatically improving navigation efficiency and reducing comprehension time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates visual copies of medical data in the form of icons that represent essential information from patient records. Instead of presenting raw text data, the system generates icon-based visual representations that capture key medical information, enabling rapid scanning and understanding of patient status across multiple records.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple patient records are presented in a traditional interface, then comprehensive information is available, but the interface complexity increases and usability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments complex patient records into discrete icon categories representing different medical domains (vital signs, medications, allergies, diagnostics, etc.). Each icon serves as a visual container for specific types of information, allowing users to navigate through comprehensive medical data by interacting with organized icon groups rather than overwhelming text interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional text-based layouts to a multi-dimensional icon-based interface where information is organized in spatial arrangements, hierarchical levels, and interactive layers. This dimensional transformation allows comprehensive medical information to be presented in a more intuitive spatial structure that reduces perceived complexity while maintaining information completeness.
3Loss of information
If text-based records are used, then precise information can be stored, but language barriers hinder understanding and communication
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal icon language that transcends linguistic barriers. Standardized icons represent medical concepts, conditions, and statuses in a language-independent manner, allowing the same visual symbols to convey precise medical information across different languages and cultures. This universal visual language maintains information precision while eliminating language comprehension barriers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces icons as an intermediary layer between the original text-based medical data and the user. These icons serve as visual mediators that translate complex medical information into universally understandable symbols, bridging the gap between precise medical data storage and cross-language comprehension needs.
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AI summary
Within the field of computing, many user interfaces may present a set of records. Presented herein are user interfaces that may be advantageous in some scenarios, involving the presentation of a stack of unit boxes having a stack order. A current unit box may present a record filling an entirety of the display and including at least two icons respectively depicting an item of information in the record. The device may also accept a gesture from a user along a first axis, such that a gesture in a forward direction along the first axis (e.g., tapping a right half of a touch-sensitive display) visual transitions to a next unit box in the stack order, and a gesture in a direction opposite the forward direction (e.g., tapping a left half of the display) along the first axis visually transitions to a preceding unit box in the stack order.