Medical Device Data Transfer to EMR
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to efficiently and accurately record verified data from medical devices into a patient's electronic medical record (EMR), leading to errors and inefficiencies due to manual data transfer and lack of positive patient verification.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for electronically transferring data from a medical device to a patient's EMR, involving patient and device identification, data acquisition, editing, and secure transmission, with disassociation of the device after data transfer to allow association with another patient, ensuring accurate and timely data entry.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual data transfer from medical device to EMR is used, then data can be recorded, but data transfer time and error rate increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of writing data on paper and later transcribing it to EMR with an automated electronic data transfer system. The medical device directly communicates patient data to the EMR through electronic interfaces, eliminating the manual transcription process that caused both time delays and errors.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary application that acts as a bridge between the medical device and the EMR. This application receives data from the medical device, allows for verification and editing by clinicians, and then transmits the verified data to the appropriate patient EMR, ensuring both accuracy and timeliness.
2Ease of operation
If manual data recording is used without verification, then data entry is simpler, but errors in recording data to wrong patient records increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the application displays patient information and device data to the clinician for verification before transmission. The system provides feedback loops that allow clinicians to confirm patient-device matching and review data accuracy, preventing errors while maintaining ease of operation through intuitive interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary actions by automatically matching patients to medical devices based on identifiers before data transfer occurs. The system pre-associates devices with correct patient records and pre-verifies data integrity, so that when clinicians enter data, the matching is already confirmed, maintaining simplicity while ensuring accuracy.
3Productivity
If medical device is continuously associated with patient, then data transfer is seamless, but device cannot be efficiently used for multiple patients
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic association between patients and medical devices. The application automatically manages the temporal association, binding devices to patients during active monitoring periods and automatically disassociating when monitoring ends or when the device is moved to another patient. This dynamic management allows seamless data transfer during use while enabling efficient multi-patient utilization without manual reconfiguration.
Data Source
AI summary
A medical device for facilitating data direction to storage in a patient-specific electronic record is provided herein. In embodiments, the medical device visually presents patient data received from devices that more directly capture physiological data. The medical device is associated with a patient corresponding to the physiological data, and communicates the patient data to a centralized server for processing and forwarding to a database, which includes an electronic record that is specific to the patient. Then, the medical device may be dissociated from the patient.