Modular Medical Data Interface for Workflow Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Developing organization programs for medical facilities is labor-intensive and costly due to the need for custom programming for each department, with specialists having to navigate multiple programs to access and manage patient data, leading to inefficiencies and high training costs.
Innovation Solution
A method using modular program code packages for a basic page and content pages that allow for a unified operating environment, enabling easy adaptation to different workflows by reusing existing code, allowing specialists to locate and access patient data records with predefined criteria through a single interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If custom organization programs are developed for each department, then specific workflow features can be accommodated, but development time and costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The organization program is divided into separate, interchangeable modules including display templates, data source connections, and workflow components. Each department can assemble customized programs by selecting and configuring pre-developed modules rather than building from scratch, reducing development time while maintaining workflow specificity.
Solution Approach 2:
A library of universal display templates and organizational structures is created that can serve multiple departments. These templates contain generic placeholders and configurable parameters that adapt to different departmental workflows through configuration rather than custom programming, eliminating redundant development efforts.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate programs are provided for different activities, then specialized functions can be performed, but the complexity of the system increases and training becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple separate programs for different activities (patient management, scheduling, documentation) are merged into a single integrated organization program. The program uses a unified interface and shared data structures, allowing specialists to perform all activities through one system rather than switching between multiple programs, thereby reducing perceived complexity while maintaining functional versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The organization program employs dynamic configuration that adapts the interface and available functions based on the user's role, department, and current task. This dynamic behavior presents a simplified, context-relevant interface to each user while providing comprehensive functionality behind the scenes, effectively managing system complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If department-specific programs are used, then workflow requirements are met, but specialists must be trained separately for each program
Solution Approach 1:
A universal user interface design is implemented across all departmental configurations, using consistent navigation patterns, terminology, and interaction methods. Department-specific workflows are achieved through configuration options and customizable display templates rather than different programs, allowing specialists to transfer their skills across departments and reducing training requirements.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple programs and utility routines are provided, then complete functionality is available, but the cost of equipping departments with computer workstations increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple separate programs and utility routines are merged into a single integrated organization program that provides complete functionality through modular components. This consolidation reduces software licensing costs, simplifies hardware requirements, and eliminates the need for multiple separate applications, thereby reducing the overall cost of equipping computer workstations while maintaining functional completeness.
Data Source
AI summary
In large medical facilities such as hospitals or group practices run by physicians individual patients are often examined and treated by a number of specialists in succession. In view of this it is important, in spite of great differences in the workflows of the individual medical facilities, to coordinate the work of said specialists by way of an operator control device having a uniform user interface. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, methods and a program product for enabling data records to be located are provided for that purpose. By way of the methods and/or the program product, in at least one embodiment a basic page and at least one content page are provided, wherein by use of the basic page at least one display field for presenting information extracted from a data record can be generated on a screen display and wherein by use of the content page, information extracted from a data record can be displayed in a display field.