Centralized Alarm Data Integration for Medical Device Awareness
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Solution Overview
Problem
The lack of communication between medical devices leads to issues such as lack of context and situational awareness, alarm fatigue, inefficient prioritization and response, and increased risk of missed or delayed alarms, compromising patient safety and adding complexity to healthcare provider workflows.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method that receives and converts data from multiple sources into a common format, forming a consolidated uniform data set for online availability, enabling integrated alarm management across devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple medical devices operate independently without communication, then each device can function autonomously with its own alarm system, but alarm coordination and situational awareness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized alarm management system that acts as an intermediary between multiple medical devices. This system receives alarm data from various devices, processes it centrally, and distributes coordinated alarm information back to devices and healthcare providers, enabling communication without compromising device autonomy
Solution Approach 2:
The alarm management system serves multiple functions: it collects alarms from different device types, standardizes alarm formats, prioritizes alarms based on clinical significance, and distributes notifications across multiple channels. This multi-functional approach enables a single system to handle diverse alarm sources while maintaining situational awareness
2Adaptability or versatility
If alarms from multiple devices are managed separately, then device-specific alarm handling is maintained, but alarm fatigue and response efficiency worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges alarm management functions into a centralized system that consolidates alarms from multiple devices. By combining alarm data streams and processing them together, the system reduces the total number of separate alarm events that healthcare providers must respond to, directly addressing alarm fatigue while maintaining device-specific alarm characteristics through standardized formatting
3Loss of information
If a centralized alarm management system is implemented, then alarm coordination and situational awareness improve, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized alarm management system is segmented into distinct functional modules: alarm data reception from multiple devices, standardized formatting and processing, priority classification algorithms, and distributed notification channels. This segmentation reduces overall system complexity by making each component independent and manageable while maintaining comprehensive alarm coordination
4Productivity
If alarm data from multiple devices is integrated, then prioritization and response efficiency improve, but data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining alarm priority levels and response protocols before actual alarm events occur. Alarm categories and priority thresholds are established in advance, allowing the system to quickly classify and route alarms without requiring complex real-time analysis, thereby reducing data processing requirements while maintaining efficient response prioritization
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: receiving a plurality of data from a plurality of sources having a plurality of formats; converting the plurality of data from the plurality of sources having the plurality of formats into a common format, thus defining a plurality of common format data sets; combining the plurality of common format data sets to form a consolidated uniform format data set; and enabling the online availability of at least a portion of the consolidated uniform format data set, thus defining an online data resource.