Medical Diagnostic Collaboration System Interoperability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical diagnostic collaboration systems are inefficient due to the lack of interoperability between disparate systems, leading to increased costs and decreased productivity, and they fail to facilitate seamless communication and interaction between healthcare practitioners, which can result in delayed or ineffective treatment.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that includes a conversation manager, collaboration session manager, and context manager to facilitate real-time collaboration between devices over a network, allowing users to view, share, and comment on medical studies, with features like instant messaging, screen sharing, and Smartlink for synchronizing the state of medical studies across devices, and an interrupt workflow for seamless transitions between studies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If disparate best-of-breed systems are used to manage advanced technologies and improve diagnosis, then diagnostic capabilities are enhanced, but system interoperability deteriorates and cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a collaboration session manager as an intermediary system that mediates between disparate healthcare information systems. This manager handles the complexity of interoperability by providing a unified interface for initiating, managing, and terminating collaboration sessions between different systems, thereby enabling diagnostic capabilities to be enhanced without increasing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The collaboration session manager serves multiple functions within a single system component: it manages session initiation, authentication, authorization, state synchronization, and termination across different healthcare systems. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate interoperability layers in each system, allowing diverse systems to work together while maintaining manageable complexity.
2Loss of information
If face-to-face meetings or teleconferences are used for diagnostic collaboration, then communication between practitioners is achieved, but time and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of scheduling and attending face-to-face meetings or teleconferences with an automated electronic collaboration system. The collaboration session manager automatically establishes digital communication channels, synchronizes medical study states, and enables real-time collaboration without requiring physical presence or manual scheduling, thereby eliminating time consumption while maintaining communication effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service collaboration where the collaboration session manager automatically manages the entire collaboration process without requiring manual intervention for scheduling, connection establishment, or state synchronization. Users simply initiate a collaboration session and the system handles the rest automatically, reducing the time and energy practitioners would otherwise spend on coordination.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple collaboration tools and systems are integrated to support diverse workflows, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the collaboration management functionality into distinct, manageable components within the collaboration session manager: session initiation module, authentication module, authorization module, state synchronization module, and termination module. This segmentation allows the system to support diverse workflows through modular components that can be independently configured, thereby improving adaptability while keeping integration complexity manageable through clear functional separation.
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AI summary
Certain examples provide systems and methods for medical diagnostic collaboration. An example medical collaboration system includes an imaging service manager to provide a first device access to images from a database in response to a request received, the images to be viewed at the first device as first images; a collaboration server to access a request to initiate a conversation between the first device and a second device, in response to the conversation being initiated between the first device and the second device, the collaboration server to generate a study identifier that describes a viewport hanging protocol of the first images at the first device; a conversation manager to: access the images from the database in response to the second device launching the study identifier, the images to be viewed at the second device as second images; organize the second images based on the viewport hanging protocol; and enable the second images to be viewable at the second device to enable real-time collaboration between the first device and the second device.