Notification Distribution System Role-Based Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
In a healthcare environment, the increasing number of devices connected to a computing network leads to a surge in message traffic, overwhelming recipients with irrelevant or marginally useful notifications.
Innovation Solution
The system distributes notifications to users based on their subscriptions to specific notification categories, allowing users to assign priority levels to these categories, and customizing the display of notifications accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the number of devices connected to the network increases, then more treatment information can be monitored and communicated, but the number of notifications and message traffic rapidly increases, overwhelming recipients
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system segments notifications into different categories (e.g., critical alerts, routine updates, informational messages) and distributes them to different user groups based on their roles and subscriptions. This segmentation prevents information overload by delivering only relevant notifications to each user rather than broadcasting all notifications to all users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary notification management layer between devices and users. This intermediary filters, categorizes, and routes notifications based on user profiles, roles, and subscription preferences, thereby mediating the information flow to prevent overwhelming recipients while maintaining comprehensive device connectivity.
2Reliability
If all notifications are distributed to all users, then no important information is missed, but irrelevant notifications create clutter and reduce efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by tailoring notification delivery to each user's specific needs, role, and preferences. Different users receive different subsets of notifications based on their clinical roles, department affiliations, and subscription choices, ensuring each user gets the right information without irrelevant clutter.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification distribution system is dynamic, allowing users to adjust their subscription preferences and receive different notification types at different times. The system adapts to changing user needs and device statuses, dynamically routing notifications rather than using a static all-to-all distribution model.
3Ease of operation
If notification categories are created based on device functions and locations, then notifications can be better organized, but the system complexity increases due to user subscriptions and role assignments
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses universal user roles and department categories that can apply across multiple devices and locations. Rather than creating unique subscription rules for each device, the system defines role-based notification preferences that work universally across the healthcare facility, simplifying the subscription management complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary organization of notifications by category and user role before delivery. By pre-configuring notification templates, categories, and role-based subscription rules in advance, the system reduces the complexity of real-time notification management and makes the organized delivery process more efficient.
Data Source
AI summary
The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for distributing notifications to a user. The method can include receiving data encapsulating notifications from a device connected to a network that provide information relating to the device's status. The device can provide a health related treatment. The method can associate each notification with one or more notification categories relating to a function performed by the device or a location of the device. A table of users having one or more subscriptions to these notification categories can be accessed. The subscriptions can be automatically assigned to users based on the users' role. A user can be identified from the table to distribute the one or more notifications to. The user can have a subscription that matches a notification category of the received notifications, and data comprising the notifications can be distributed to the user. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.