Neonatal Organ Maturation Tracking With Biomarker Visualizations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Patients and their families often lack real-time understanding of a patient's medical status along a medical trajectory, leading to frustration and anxiety, especially in cases involving premature infants in neonatal intensive care units, due to limited interaction with medical specialists and emotional vulnerability.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that displays designating queries to ascertain biomarker severity levels, correlates responses with severity levels, and provides graphical representations of medical progress, including supportive queries to guide caregivers through the medical trajectory.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If medical specialists provide detailed real-time information to patients and families, then patient understanding and engagement improve, but medical specialists cannot maintain confidentiality and data security
Solution Approach 1:
A parental portal system acts as an intermediary between medical specialists and parents, allowing detailed information sharing while maintaining security. The portal provides controlled access to medical data, educational content, and communication tools without requiring direct specialist-parent interaction for every information exchange.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates copies of medical information in multiple formats (visual aids, written summaries, educational materials) that can be accessed by parents through the portal. This allows specialists to share comprehensive information without being constantly available to explain everything directly.
2Loss of information
If medical specialists spend more time communicating with patients and families, then patient understanding improves, but specialists have less time for clinical tasks
Solution Approach 1:
The portal enables periodic, structured communication cycles where specialists can update information batches rather than requiring continuous interaction. Parents can access updates at scheduled intervals, reducing the need for constant specialist availability while maintaining thorough communication.
Solution Approach 2:
The portal allows parents to independently access medical information, educational resources, and track their child's progress without requiring specialist intervention for every query. This self-service capability frees specialists to focus on clinical tasks while parents remain engaged and informed.
3Reliability
If the NICU environment provides comprehensive medical monitoring, then infant health outcomes improve, but parental stress and anxiety increase
Solution Approach 1:
The portal provides structured feedback mechanisms that translate complex medical data into understandable progress indicators for parents. By presenting information in manageable formats with clear progress tracking, parents gain confidence in the care their child receives rather than feeling overwhelmed by the complexity of NICU monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides preliminary educational content and preparation materials to parents before they need to process complex medical information. This advance preparation helps parents understand what to expect and reduces anxiety when facing difficult medical situations.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein are techniques for determining neonatal organ maturation. A system can include a device to record data about a patient corresponding to breathing, eating, temperature, sleep, and growth of the patient over a period of time and a computer system in communication with the device. The computer system can receive the recorded data, identify biomarkers of the patient, generate biomarker information for the biomarkers based on processing the received data, determine severity levels of the biomarkers, determine a maturation level of the patient based on a combination of the severity levels of the biomarkers, translate the maturation level and at least a portion of the biomarker information for the patient into graphic displays, and return instructions, that, when executed, cause a computing device to present, in a graphical user interface (GUI), the graphic displays.