Medical Alert Message Pre-configuration and Mission Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical alert message handling procedures are inefficient, leading to delayed responses due to the inability of medical staff to timely handle numerous alerts from multiple medical apparatuses, resulting in some messages not being addressed promptly.
Innovation Solution
A method for configuring medical alert messages in advance, filtering and prioritizing them, and temporarily assigning tasks using a medical communication device that receives shift, classification, and priority configurations, allowing for instant task assignment and status updates via a network, enabling timely handling of alerts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If medical staff monitor multiple sickbeds with multiple medical apparatuses simultaneously, then comprehensive monitoring coverage is improved, but the ability to handle medical alert messages timely deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the handling of medical alert messages by introducing multiple nursing station workstations, each capable of independently monitoring and handling alerts. This distributes the monitoring load across multiple terminals rather than relying on a single staff member to handle all alerts from multiple apparatuses, thereby maintaining comprehensive monitoring coverage while improving response timeliness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between medical apparatuses and nursing station workstations. The server receives alert messages from multiple apparatuses, manages message distribution, and coordinates task assignment to different workstations. This intermediary layer enables efficient handling of numerous alerts without overwhelming individual staff members, resolving the contradiction between monitoring scope and response speed.
2Productivity
If traditional medical alert message handling procedures are used, then system simplicity is maintained, but message handling efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring task assignment rules and message filtering criteria before alerts occur. The server is pre-programmed with algorithms to automatically filter, prioritize, and distribute alerts based on predefined conditions. This preliminary setup enables efficient automated handling of alerts without requiring complex real-time decision-making, improving productivity while keeping the operational complexity manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes key parameters of the alert handling system by introducing automated filtering based on message priority levels, source apparatus types, and patient conditions. These parameter-based filtering mechanisms transform the handling process from manual review to automated triage, significantly improving message handling efficiency. The system complexity increases only in the configuration stage, while runtime operations remain streamlined.
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AI summary
A medical alert message handling method for a medical communication device is disclosed. The medical alert message handling method includes receiving a shift, a medical alert message classification configuration and a medical alert message priority configuration, receiving at least one medical alert message, filtering the medical alert message according to the shift to generate a personal alert message, displaying the personal alert message, filtering the medical alert message according to the medical alert message classification configuration and the medical alert message priority configuration, receiving a selection command to select one of the medical alert message, and noting a handling status and a handling problem of the selected medical alert message.