Imaging Workflow Coordination Across Multiple Radiography Rooms
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Solution Overview
Problem
In large medical facilities with multiple imaging places, operators managing multiple medical imaging systems face confusion when imaging timings conflict, leading to inefficiencies and potential errors.
Innovation Solution
An imaging management device that acquires progress status information from each imaging place and controls access or provides guide information to synchronize imaging timings across multiple systems, using processors to manage medical imaging systems and reduce operator confusion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If operators manage multiple medical imaging systems at multiple imaging places, then the number of operators can be smaller than the number of imaging places for efficiency, but operator confusion occurs when imaging timings conflict
Solution Approach 1:
An imaging management device is introduced as an intermediary system between operators and multiple imaging places. This device receives imaging timing information from various imaging systems, determines conflicts, and automatically adjusts timing to resolve conflicts without requiring operators to manually coordinate each imaging place, thus maintaining efficiency while eliminating confusion
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging management device implements a feedback mechanism by continuously monitoring imaging timing information from multiple imaging systems, analyzing conflicts, and automatically implementing timing adjustments. This closed-loop feedback system ensures that imaging operations are coordinated without operator intervention, resolving the contradiction between efficiency and ease of operation
2Ease of operation
If imaging timing is manually coordinated by operators across multiple imaging places, then operator control is maintained, but time loss occurs due to operator confusion and coordination delays
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging management device enables the system to self-coordinate imaging timings across multiple imaging places without operator intervention. The device automatically receives timing information, detects conflicts, determines adjustment plans, and implements corrections, allowing the system to manage itself and eliminate time-consuming manual coordination while maintaining operational control
3Ease of operation
If automated timing adjustment is implemented across multiple imaging systems, then operator confusion is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging management device is designed as a universal system that can interface with and manage multiple different types of imaging systems simultaneously. By creating a single multi-functional platform that handles timing coordination, conflict detection, and adjustment across various imaging modalities, the system reduces overall complexity compared to having separate management mechanisms for each imaging system
Data Source
AI summary
A CPU of an imaging management device has a status recognition unit, an entrance control unit, a speaker control unit, and a monitor control unit. The status recognition unit acquires progress status information indicating a progress status of radiography at each of the plurality of radiography rooms, such as subject position information indicating a position of a subject in the radiography room. The entrance control unit performs entrance control of the subject into the radiography room based on the progress status information. The speaker control unit and the monitor control unit perform output control of guide voice and guide information regarding imaging toward the subject. The entrance control by the entrance control unit and the output control by the speaker control unit and the monitor control unit are performed, thereby shifting the timing of the radiography at the plurality of radiography rooms.