Infusion Map System for Real-Time Medical Record Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medication delivery systems in hospitals face challenges due to lack of complete and consistent information among healthcare professionals, leading to errors in drug administration, such as unnoticed drug incompatibilities and incorrect infusion setups, as pharmacists and nurses often lack a clear view of the infusion system and medical records are not sufficiently specific.
Innovation Solution
A patient information software system that provides a real-time, interactive infusion map, allowing clinicians to view and modify the infusion setup, update electronic medical records, and perform drug compatibility checks to reduce errors and improve decision-making.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If nurses manually map and label infusion lines and manually record information in medical records, then the system can accommodate multiple patients throughout a shift, but the medical records lack the specificity required for pharmacists to fully verify drug interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a digital copy of the infusion map that is automatically synchronized with the electronic medical record. This digital representation captures all infusion line details, drug compatibility information, and routing configurations, providing pharmacists with the specific information needed to verify drug interactions while allowing nurses to manage multiple patients efficiently.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides real-time feedback by automatically updating the medical record with the current infusion map status. When nurses modify infusion settings, the system immediately reflects these changes in the electronic record, ensuring that pharmacists always have access to the most current and specific infusion information for verification purposes.
2Ease of operation
If pharmacists rely on the patient's medical record when checking prescriptions, then the workflow remains simple, but pharmacists cannot see the physical infusion system setup leading to potential drug incompatibility errors
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the infusion map visualization with the electronic medical record. The infusion map is no longer a separate manual documentation but is integrated directly into the electronic record, allowing pharmacists to view both the prescription information and the physical infusion system setup in a single interface, thereby maintaining workflow simplicity while improving verification reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The electronic medical record serves as an intermediary that bridges the gap between the physical infusion system and pharmacist verification. The system automatically synchronizes infusion map data with the electronic record, providing pharmacists with accurate, real-time information about the physical infusion setup without requiring them to manually review separate documentation.
3Productivity
If a single nurse is responsible for many patients throughout a shift, then resource utilization is optimized, but the nurse cannot provide sufficient attention to accurately document and verify each patient's infusion setup
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service documentation where the infusion pump or infusion management system automatically captures and records infusion parameters, drug compatibility information, and routing configurations directly into the electronic medical record. This eliminates the need for nurses to manually document each detail, allowing them to manage more patients while maintaining high accuracy in infusion map documentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces the mechanical process of manual documentation with an automated electronic system. Instead of nurses manually typing and verifying infusion details in the medical record, the system automatically extracts infusion data from the infusion pump and synchronizes it with the electronic record, improving documentation accuracy while enabling nurses to focus on patient care across multiple patients.
Data Source
AI summary
An infusion map system includes a memory storing at least infusion mapping instructions, and a processor that executes the stored instructions. When the processor executes the infusion mapping instructions, the infusion map system performs a displaying function that displays at least a portion of an electronic medical record associated with a patient and a diagramming function that receives the electronic medical record and generates an infusion map showing all intravenous drugs being administered to the patient. For each of the drugs, the infusion map further illustrates a route of administration for the drug. An order administering function performed by the system allows a user to alter the infusion map, and a record updating function of annotating the electronic medical record to correspond to the altered infusion map.