Configurable Lane GUI for Historical Patient Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional medical informatics systems have limited capability in viewing historical patient data due to difficulties in data capture and storage, as well as inflexible and inadequate user interfaces for displaying data.
Innovation Solution
A web-based graphical user interface (GUI) is developed to display historical patient data in a flexible and customizable manner, allowing clinical practitioners to view data at various time scales, with options for strip views, alarms, lab results, and medications, and the ability to export data to electronic medical records.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional medical informatics systems are used, then data storage and capture are maintained, but the user interface flexibility and data viewing capability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface is segmented into multiple configurable lanes, each capable of displaying different types of patient data (vital signs, lab results, medications, etc.). Each lane can be independently configured, resized, and positioned, allowing flexible data presentation without increasing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The user interface employs dynamic elements including draggable lanes, resizable display areas, and adjustable time scale sliders. These dynamic features allow the interface to adapt to different viewing needs while maintaining a consistent underlying system architecture.
2Ease of operation
If historical patient data is displayed with flexibility and customization, then data viewing capability is improved, but the complexity of data capture and storage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complexity of data capture and storage from the user interface layer. The GUI simply displays and manipulates data that has already been captured and stored by the underlying medical informatics system, separating the display flexibility requirements from the data acquisition complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The user interface acts as an intermediary layer between the clinician and the historical patient data. It provides flexible visualization and manipulation capabilities without directly handling the complex tasks of data capture and storage, which are performed by the backend system.
3Quantity of substance
If multiple types of patient data are displayed simultaneously, then comprehensive data review is enabled, but the interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Different types of patient data are segmented into separate lanes within the user interface. Each lane handles a specific data type (vital signs, lab results, medications), allowing multiple data types to be displayed simultaneously without creating a single complex interface. Each lane can be independently configured and managed.
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AI summary
A graphical user interface of a medical patient monitoring system allows clinical personnel to view and manipulate historical patient data in ways not available in traditional patient monitoring systems. The graphical user interface allows zooming in or out on the historical patient data, with a format of the data adjusted at certain zoom levels. A plurality of lanes of displayed historical patient data may be displayed in the graphical user interface, and a plurality of signals may be displayed in a single lane. An electrocardiogram strip view may be enabled to present historical patient data in the form of a traditional strip view if desired.