Interactive Offline Medical Device Data Review Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical device programmers are limited when disconnected from medical devices, as they can only use static, non-interactive reports for reviewing historical user session data, lacking the ability to interactively manipulate and view data in a format similar to live programming sessions.
Innovation Solution
An external programming device with a graphical user interface that retrieves and reconfigures data into a unified format, allowing interactive manipulation and viewing of historical user session data while disconnected, similar to a live programming session, using processing circuitry to present and manipulate data on a display screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If static, non-interactive reports are used while disconnected from the medical device, then device complexity is reduced and ease of operation is improved, but data manipulation capability and information accessibility are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the medical device's programming interface and data structure in the external programming device. This copy allows clinicians to interact with historical session data using the same intuitive interface and manipulation capabilities as during live programming sessions, without requiring actual connection to the medical device. The copy includes data structures, display interfaces, and manipulation tools that replicate the live programming experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The external programming device serves as an intermediary between the clinician and the medical device data. It retrieves historical session data from the medical device, stores it in a unified format, and presents it through a familiar programming interface. This intermediary enables data manipulation and review without requiring direct connection to the medical device during analysis.
2Productivity
If interactive data manipulation is enabled while disconnected, then data accessibility and review speed are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The external programming device performs preliminary actions by retrieving historical session data and reconfiguring it into a unified format during offline operations. This preparation work is done in advance so that when clinicians need to review data, it is already formatted and ready for immediate interactive manipulation through the familiar programming interface, eliminating the need for complex real-time data conversion during review.
Solution Approach 2:
The external programming device achieves multi-functionality by using the same programming interface and data structures for both live programming operations and historical data review. This universal interface handles both connected and disconnected modes, allowing the device to provide interactive data manipulation capabilities without requiring separate specialized interfaces, thereby managing complexity through reuse of existing code and architecture.
3Loss of information
If historical data is retrieved and reconfigured into unified format, then information availability and data comprehension are improved, but processing time and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The external programming device extracts only the necessary historical session data from the medical device's memory and stores it locally in a unified format. By taking out only the essential information needed for review rather than copying the entire device state, the system minimizes data transfer and processing requirements, thereby reducing energy consumption while maintaining full information availability for the intended review purposes.
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AI summary
A user interface of a computing device for programming a medical device configured to review historical user session data while disconnected from the medical device. During a programming session, the user interface on the computing device may include features to control the functionality of the medical device as well as view and manipulate available data stored at the medical device. The user interface may interactively view screens and features and manipulate data using the programming user interface, e.g., as if the external programming device were in a live programming session with the medical device, but while disconnected from the medical device and not in a live programming session. As one example, the user interface of the external programming device may permit flexible, extensive manipulation and viewing of sensed signals, patient events, and operational information, such as patient adjustments made over time or coincident with particular signals or events.