Medical Monitoring Device with Dynamic Guidance Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current patient monitoring systems face challenges in user friendliness, particularly with complex measurement techniques like Pulse Contour Cardiac Output (PiCCO), due to complicated operations, limited training effectiveness, and inadequate guidance from traditional user manuals and quick operation cards, leading to low adoption and error rates among medical personnel.
Innovation Solution
A monitoring device and method that incorporates a touch display screen with a graphical user interface, storing guidance information for measurement steps, generating interactive interfaces to associate guidance with current operation steps, and displaying physiological parameters, measurement operation interfaces, and guidance information, enhancing user interaction and error detection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional user manuals and quick operation cards are provided for new parameter techniques, then basic operation information can be conveyed, but the content is either too complicated to read quickly or easily damaged/lost, and cannot provide in-depth guidance or detect errors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital copy of the quick operation card as a software module within the monitoring device. This digital copy can be displayed on the device's screen, providing the same concise operational guidance without the physical vulnerabilities of paper cards (damage, loss). The digital guidance information remains accessible and updateable without degradation over time.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring device automatically detects when a user is operating a measurement component and provides relevant guidance information without requiring the user to manually consult separate manuals or cards. The system self-provides error detection and correction guidance, eliminating the need for users to actively search for information during critical operations.
2Reliability
If specialized trainings are performed for new parameter techniques, then medical care personnel can learn the techniques, but the training requires significant manpower and resources and cannot cover all personnel
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-programmes comprehensive operational guidance and error detection capabilities into the monitoring device before deployment. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for extensive real-time training, as the device automatically provides step-by-step instructions and error corrections, allowing any personnel to operate advanced measurement techniques reliably without formal training.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring device acts as an intermediary between the complex measurement techniques and the user. It translates sophisticated operational requirements into simple, automated guidance information and detects errors automatically, shielding the user from complexity while ensuring correct operation. This intermediary function replaces the need for complex training programs.
3Ease of operation
If quick operation cards are made small and concise, then they are easily understood and can be prominently displayed, but the content is limited and cannot provide in-depth guidance or detect errors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the static quick operation card into a dynamic digital interface that adapts its content based on the current measurement operation. The guidance information can expand to provide in-depth explanations, examples, and error detection capabilities as needed, while maintaining a clean, easy-to-understand interface. The system dynamically adjusts the level of detail based on user interaction and operational context.
Data Source
AI summary
A monitoring device includes: a signal collection unit for collecting physiological parameters for representing a physiological status of a human body; a storage unit for storing guidance information of the physiological parameters, the guidance information corresponding to at least one measurement operation step of the physiological parameters; a processing unit for generating a monitoring interface for the physiological parameters and a measurement operation interface corresponding to current measurement operation step and for associating the guidance information corresponding to the current measurement operation step with the measurement operation interface; and a display unit for displaying at least one of the monitoring interface comprising the physiological parameters, the measurement operation interface, and the guidance information.