Unified Mobile App for Clinician Patient Data Access

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Solution Overview

Problem

Clinicians face challenges in accessing and managing aggregated patient information from disparate sources in real-time, hindering informed and efficient decision-making in healthcare settings.

Innovation Solution

A mobile application that allows clinicians to authenticate, access patient data, request admissions, receive updates, and analyze performance metrics on their mobile devices, facilitating secure communication and data management across healthcare facilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If clinicians use traditional healthcare information systems, then patient information can be electronically stored, but real-time access to aggregated patient information from disparate sources is hindered

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess to patient informationVSAvoidtime to access and manage patient data

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile application consolidates access to multiple disparate healthcare information systems into a single unified interface. The system merges data from electronic medical records, laboratory systems, and other healthcare facilities into one accessible platform on the clinician's mobile device, eliminating the need to switch between multiple systems and thereby reducing time loss while maintaining complete information access.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The mobile application serves as an intermediary device between clinicians and multiple healthcare information systems. It acts as a mediator that retrieves, aggregates, and presents patient information from various sources through a single interface, solving the contradiction by providing real-time access without requiring direct connection to each disparate system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If clinicians access multiple disparate healthcare information systems, then comprehensive patient information can be obtained, but system complexity and difficulty of operation increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompleteness of patient informationVSAvoidease of accessing and managing data

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile application implements a universal interface that can access and display information from multiple different healthcare information systems through a single unified platform. This multi-functional capability allows clinicians to obtain comprehensive patient information from disparate sources while interacting with only one system interface, thereby maintaining information completeness while dramatically improving ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the complexity of accessing multiple healthcare information systems by separating the data retrieval function from the user interface. The mobile application handles the complex interactions with various systems in the background, while presenting a simplified, unified view to the clinician, thus maintaining comprehensive information access while reducing operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Productivity

If real-time access to patient information is implemented, then clinician efficiency is improved, but secure communication and data management across facilities becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveclinician efficiencyVSAvoidcomplexity of secure communication system

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile application acts as a secure intermediary that handles the complexity of cross-facility communication and data management. It implements security protocols, data encryption, and authentication mechanisms within the application layer, allowing clinicians to access real-time patient information efficiently without directly managing the underlying security infrastructure complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service security mechanisms where the mobile application automatically handles authentication, data encryption, and secure transmission without requiring clinicians to manually configure security settings. This automated approach maintains high clinician efficiency while the system independently manages the complexity of secure communication across multiple facilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12080392B1Interconnected medical systems and clinician mobile device applications

Publication Date: 2024.09.03 TELETRACKING TECHNOLOGIES INC

AI summary

An embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, from a mobile device, clinician credentials; authenticating, using a processor, a clinician using the clinician credentials; displaying, at the mobile device, a clinician specific data within a mobile device application, wherein the clinician specific data includes a plurality of patients currently associated with the clinician credentials; displaying, at the mobile device, an admission request form for requesting that a patient of the plurality of patients be admitted to another healthcare facility; accepting, at the mobile device, user input that populates one or more data fields of the admission request form; communicating, over a network connection, to a remote device an admission request generated using the user input; receiving, at the mobile device, admission confirmation data; and updating, using a processor, an admission status for the patient. Other embodiments are described and claimed.