Medical Assistance Device Data Range Recommendation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The rapid advancement of medical research and technology leads to a proliferation of diagnostic assistance programs, making it burdensome for users to remember recommended data ranges for each program, thereby reducing work efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A medical assistance device that includes a program selection unit, a recommended data range output unit, and a designated data range receiving unit, which assists users by providing a common medical data display screen for multiple programs, displaying recommended and designated data ranges, and supplementing missing data to ensure accurate diagnostic assistance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple diagnostic assistance programs are developed for different purposes, then diagnostic assistance capability is improved, but user burden increases due to needing to remember recommended data ranges for each program

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvediagnostic assistance capabilityVSAvoiduser burden
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The medical data display screen is designed to serve multiple diagnostic assistance programs simultaneously. The screen includes a common display area that can display medical data and recommended data ranges for different programs, and a designation input area that can receive data range designations applicable across programs. This universal screen design eliminates the need for users to learn and remember separate data range requirements for each program.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The medical data display screen acts as an intermediary between the multiple diagnostic assistance programs and the user. Instead of requiring users to directly interact with each program's specific data range requirements, the screen consolidates this information and provides a unified interface for data range designation that serves all programs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If users designate data ranges manually for each program, then accuracy of diagnostic assistance is improved, but work efficiency decreases due to time-consuming operations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of diagnostic assistanceVSAvoidwork efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system displays recommended data ranges in the common display area before users make their final designations. This preliminary display of guidance information allows users to make accurate designations more quickly by referencing the pre-presented recommendations, rather than having to recall or search for appropriate data ranges.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The medical data display screen provides visual feedback by displaying the recommended data ranges and showing how user designations compare to these recommendations. This immediate feedback helps users make accurate designations while reducing the time and cognitive effort required.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10714214B2Medical assistance device, operation method and operation program for medical assistance device, and medical assistance system
Publication Date: 2020.07.14 FUJIFILM CORP
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AI summary

There are provided a medical assistance device, an operation method of a medical assistance device, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, and a medical assistance system capable of improving work efficiency by reducing the burden on a user. A recommended data range output unit receives a program ID of a diagnostic assistance program from a request receiving unit. The recommended data range output unit reads a recommended data range corresponding to the received program ID from a recommended data range list, and transmits the recommended data range to a screen generation unit. The screen generation unit includes a check box and a period designating bar for designating designated data items and a designated data period, which form a designated data range, and generates a medical data display screen on which displays of recommended data items and a recommended data period, which forms a recommended data range, are made.