Unified Patient Data Aggregation Layer for Mobile Clinical Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
The disparate storage of patient information across multiple healthcare facilities complicates retrieval and display of relevant data for healthcare providers, leading to inefficiencies in clinical decision-making and patient care.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device-based system that integrates and unifies patient data from various sources, providing a scalable, data- and vendor-agnostic architecture to securely deliver patient information and enable timely clinical decision-making across the healthcare continuum.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If patient data is stored across multiple healthcare facilities with separate EMRs, then each facility can maintain its own data source and storage system, but retrieval and display of relevant patient information becomes complicated and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a data aggregation layer that acts as an intermediary between multiple facility EMRs and the user interface. This layer collects, standardizes, and consolidates patient data from disparate sources into a unified view, eliminating the need for providers to manually access multiple separate systems while preserving each facility's independent data storage capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal data access interface that can retrieve and display patient information from any connected healthcare facility through a single platform. This multi-functional approach allows the same interface to handle data from different vendors, formats, and facilities, providing ease of operation without sacrificing storage flexibility
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vendor-specific EMRs are used across healthcare facilities, then each facility can choose its preferred system, but data integration and unified display become complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs parameter transformation by converting data from various vendor-specific formats and protocols into a standardized internal representation. The system adjusts and normalizes data parameters (formats, structures, identifiers) from different EMR vendors into a common schema, enabling unified display without requiring complex point-to-point integrations between each vendor system
Solution Approach 2:
A data aggregation and standardization layer serves as an intermediary that handles the complexity of vendor-specific EMR integrations. This layer translates and harmonizes data from multiple vendors into a unified format, shielding the user interface from integration complexity while preserving the ability to connect to diverse vendor systems
3Loss of information
If patient data is accessed from multiple separate sources, then comprehensive patient information can be obtained, but the time and effort required for retrieval increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges patient data from multiple separate healthcare facility sources into a single consolidated view displayed through one interface. By combining data retrieval and display functions into a unified system, providers can access complete patient information without the time-consuming process of manually navigating multiple separate EMR systems
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables continuous access to comprehensive patient data through a persistent unified interface. Once connected to multiple facilities, the system maintains ongoing data aggregation and presentation, allowing providers to continuously access complete patient information without repeated manual retrieval actions across separate systems
Data Source
AI summary
Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a monitoring screen for a particular patient, processing patient-specific data and event data to provide one or more event summaries, each event summary including a graphical representation of an event based on the patient-specific data, and displaying the monitoring screen on the mobile device, the monitoring screen including the one or more event summaries, each event summary including at least a portion of patient-specific data displayed as a waveform associated with an event.