Unified Medical Data Timeline Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical record systems, both paper-based and electronic, are inefficient in processing and presenting large amounts of patient data, leading to delays in diagnosis and treatment due to fragmented data interpretation and lack of concurrent control over physiologic parameters.
Innovation Solution
An object-oriented system and user interface that automatically acquires and processes multiple medical parameters, displaying them on a single variable scale timeline, allowing concurrent control and synchronization of image windows for a unified view of patient data, enabling clinicians to view and manage patient information effectively.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple medical parameters are displayed separately in different systems (electronic monitoring and oximetry), then each parameter can be monitored independently, but the clinician must navigate through multiple separate views which delays diagnosis and treatment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate medical monitoring systems (electronic monitoring, oximetry, and charting) into a single integrated display interface. All patient parameters are presented concurrently in unified image windows that share common controls, eliminating the need to navigate through separate systems and views.
Solution Approach 2:
The display system provides universal controls that simultaneously manage multiple types of medical data presentations. A single interface allows clinicians to control and synchronize various physiological parameter displays (waveforms, numerical values, trends) together, rather than requiring separate control mechanisms for each parameter type.
2Loss of information
If clinicians navigate through multiple separate views to understand patient data, then comprehensive information can be accessed, but the time required to process and understand the data increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments patient information into multiple synchronized image windows that can be displayed concurrently. Each window presents a specific aspect of patient data (different parameter types or time scales) but all windows are synchronized to the same timeline, allowing comprehensive information access without sequential navigation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds a temporal synchronization dimension to the display architecture. By linking all image windows to a shared variable scale timeline, the system enables simultaneous multi-dimensional viewing of patient data without requiring sequential access, effectively transforming the navigation paradigm from sequential to parallel.
3Adaptability or versatility
If different clinicians record information in various styles, then individual preferences and specialized data can be captured, but the interpretation becomes more complex and fragmented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent allows different regions or windows of the display to have specialized characteristics tailored to specific parameter types or clinical needs, while maintaining overall system coherence through synchronized timeline presentation. Each image window can be optimized for its specific data type while contributing to a unified clinical picture.
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AI summary
Illustrative embodiments comprise systems, user interfaces, machine-readable media, and/or methods for automatically acquiring data representing a plurality of different types of medical parameters of a patient, processing the data for presentation to a user via a display device, and initiating display of one or more different image windows, which present processed data representing and corresponding to the plurality of different types of medical parameters of the patient on the display device. Each of the plurality of different image windows is referenced to a single variable scale timeline and is arranged on the display device to permit the user to view values for each of the plurality of different types of medical parameters corresponding to a substantially common time from the single variable scale timeline. A plurality of user interface elements are implemented using object oriented executable code. Each of the plurality of user interface elements are adapted to provide a user with selectable single setting of image display format characteristics shared by the plurality of image windows.