Infusion Pump Touchscreen Interface Direct Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical devices, particularly infusion pumps, face challenges in providing an intuitive graphical user interface that balances information display with ease of navigation, leading to inefficiencies and potential clinical errors due to complex programming requirements and lack of flexibility in programming parameters.
Innovation Solution
A medical pump system with a touch screen interface that includes a far view screen with direct navigation to a titration screen, allowing clinicians to quickly access and program infusion therapy parameters without needing to switch between multiple screens, featuring quick titration buttons and improved navigation methods to enhance programming speed and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a traditional multi-screen interface is used for programming infusion pumps, then comprehensive information can be displayed, but navigation complexity increases and programming time is extended
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple screens into a single integrated touchscreen interface that displays far view, near view, and titration screens simultaneously. This allows clinicians to access all programming functions and information from one screen without navigating between multiple screens, thereby reducing programming time while maintaining complete information display.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a sequential multi-screen navigation model to a spatial multi-view model where different screen perspectives (far view, near view, titration) are displayed concurrently in different regions of the same touchscreen. This dimensional change allows simultaneous access to multiple functions without increasing navigation steps.
2Loss of information
If a traditional multi-screen interface is used for programming infusion pumps, then comprehensive information can be displayed, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate screens and their associated navigation mechanisms into a single touchscreen interface. By merging the far view screen, near view screen, and titration screen into one integrated display, the system reduces the number of separate components and navigation layers, thereby simplifying the overall interface complexity while maintaining full information display capabilities.
3Productivity
If direct navigation to titration screen is implemented, then programming speed increases, but information display completeness may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the titration screen with the far view and near view screens into a single integrated touchscreen interface. This allows direct access to titration functions without screen transitions while simultaneously displaying all relevant information (infusion status, parameters, and titration controls) on the same screen, thus maintaining information completeness while improving programming speed.
Data Source
AI summary
A medical pump system includes an input device for entering a command or a value of a pump programming parameter and a memory for storing a programming code. A processor is in communication with the memory and the input device in order to generate a display signal for an output device to generate one of a plurality of screens, such as near view and far view screens. The programming code is operable to display on a far view screen a plurality of medical therapy buttons that can be used to navigate directly to a near view programming screen. The far view screen can also concurrently display quick titration buttons that are associated with the medical therapy buttons and can be used to navigate directly to a quick titration screen without having to go to a general near view delivery screen or near view programming screen.