Interactive Medical Guideline Engine with Graph Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical guidelines are typically large documents with hundreds or thousands of pages, making it difficult for clinicians to navigate and identify relevant treatment options and outcomes for patients at different stages of disease or treatment, especially when managing multiple patients.
Innovation Solution
An interactive medical guideline engine with a navigation interface that provides a graphical representation of a medical guideline as a directed graph, allowing clinicians to navigate through decision trees in tree mode or step mode, track and record clinical decisions, and update treatment plans based on updated guidelines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If medical guidelines are provided as large documents with hundreds or thousands of pages, then comprehensive treatment information is available, but navigation and identification of relevant treatment options becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the large medical guideline document into a hierarchical structure with a table of contents, chapters, sections, and subsections. This segmentation allows clinicians to navigate to specific relevant sections without reading through the entire document, thus maintaining comprehensive information availability while dramatically improving ease of navigation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a graphical user interface that adds a visual navigation dimension to the traditional text-based guideline. The interface displays the hierarchical structure graphically, allowing users to see the document structure and navigate through multiple levels (chapters, sections, subsections) visually, transforming the one-dimensional text navigation into a multi-dimensional interactive experience.
2Adaptability or versatility
If medical guidelines include all available decision/treatment options and outcomes at different stages, then complete treatment coverage is achieved, but document size increases to hundreds or thousands of pages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments comprehensive treatment information into a hierarchical structure where the table of contents provides an overview of all available options. Clinicians can access specific treatment options and outcomes by navigating to relevant chapters and sections, rather than presenting all information in a single continuous document, thus maintaining completeness while managing document length.
Solution Approach 2:
The graphical user interface serves multiple functions: it displays the hierarchical structure, provides navigation to different sections, shows treatment options and outcomes, and allows searching. This multi-functional interface consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate documents or appendices, maintaining comprehensive coverage in a unified accessible format.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for providing an interactive guideline are provided. In one example, a method comprises: receiving, from a database, data of a directed graph representing a medical guideline, the medical guideline including a decision tree including a plurality of clinical decisions and preconditions leading to at least some of the clinical decisions, the directed graph including a plurality of nodes representing the clinical decisions and the preconditions and edges connecting the plurality of nodes to represent dependency relationships among the clinical decisions and the preconditions; providing, via a navigation interface, a graphical representation of at least part of the directed graph; receiving, via the navigation interface, a selection of a node of the directed graph from the graphical representation; and based on the selection of the node, updating the graphical representation of the at least part of the directed graph to provide a navigation result of the medical guideline.