Patient Cohort Query Engine With Configurable Multi-Pane Interface

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current healthcare information technology systems lack the capability to generate and utilize patient cohorts based on configurable criteria, limiting the ability to provide an enhanced healthcare experience by leveraging information across multiple patients.

Innovation Solution

A data processing system that enables the generation and reporting of user cohorts through configurable user interfaces, allowing for the selection of a key patient record, launching a patient-cohort generator, and configuring a user interface to display and modify patient records based on identifiers and metadata.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If healthcare information technology systems store and process medical records of patients, then the quantity of patient information available is improved, but the capability to generate and utilize patient cohorts based on configurable criteria deteriorates (lacks this feature)

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvequantity of patient informationVSAvoidcapability to generate patient cohorts

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments patient information into structured records with defined identifiers and metadata fields, enabling systematic grouping and cohort generation based on specific criteria while maintaining the overall quantity of patient data

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements dynamic cohort generation capabilities where users can configure and modify cohort criteria at runtime, allowing the system to adaptively create patient groups based on changing requirements while preserving the underlying patient information repository

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Device complexity

If the system processes patient records in silo (single patient focus), then the simplicity of processing is improved, but the ability to utilize information across multiple patients deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecomplexity of processingVSAvoidability to utilize information across patients

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements multi-functionality by enabling both single-patient processing and multi-patient cohort analysis through a unified platform, allowing healthcare providers to leverage information across multiple patients while maintaining the capability for individual patient care

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Loss of information

If the system provides comprehensive patient record access, then the completeness of information is improved, but the ease of generating configurable patient cohorts deteriorates (lacks this feature)

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompleteness of patient informationVSAvoidease of generating patient cohorts

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary cohort generation layer between the comprehensive patient record repository and the user interface, which automatically processes and groups patient data based on configurable criteria, making cohort generation easy while preserving complete patient information

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12204548B2User cohort query engine

Publication Date: 2025.01.21 CEDARON MEDICAL

AI summary

Described herein is a cohort engine that generates a cohort of patients with respect to a selected key patient record. The cohort engine receives, via a first user interface (UI), a key patient record. A patient-cohort generator is launched to determine an initial set of patient records that are to be included in the patient cohort. A second UI is configured to provide the initial set of patient records, where the second UI comprises at least three panes. Upon receiving, via the second UI, an input corresponding to at least one identifier being modified, an equation (i.e., query) is generated based on a combination of identifiers included in the second pane. An updated set of patient records is provided in a third pane of the second UI in response to the at least one identifier being modified.