Unified Patient Data Aggregation 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 accessing and managing patient information across a healthcare continuum.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device-based system that integrates and unifies patient data and information from various data sources, using a data- and vendor-agnostic architecture to provide secure, real-time access to patient data and information, enabling timely clinical decision-making and improved tracking of quality metrics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If patient information is stored across multiple healthcare facilities with separate data sources, then each facility can maintain its own data storage and management systems, but retrieval and display of relevant patient information becomes complicated and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a centralized data aggregation layer that acts as an intermediary between multiple facility-specific data sources and the user interface. This layer collects, standardizes, and consolidates patient information from disparate sources (hospitals, clinics, laboratories) into a unified view, enabling efficient retrieval without requiring changes to individual facility systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal data access platform that can retrieve and display patient information from multiple different data sources through a single interface. This multi-functional approach allows the same system to handle data from various facilities with different formats and structures, providing consistent access across the healthcare continuum.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vendor-specific electronic medical records are used across healthcare facilities, then each facility can choose its preferred EMR system, but data integration and unified display become complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a vendor-agnostic data aggregation layer that mediates between multiple EMR systems and the display interface. This intermediary handles format conversion, data standardization, and integration logic, allowing facilities to maintain their preferred EMR vendors while achieving unified data display without direct complex integrations between systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates standardized data representations (copies) of patient information from various EMR sources in a unified format. Rather than directly integrating disparate systems, the patent generates standardized data copies that can be easily manipulated, displayed, and processed, reducing the complexity of handling vendor-specific formats.
3Loss of information
If patient data is accessed from centralized storage across multiple facilities, then comprehensive patient information can be retrieved, but access time and data transmission requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary data aggregation and preprocessing at the centralized layer, where patient information from multiple facilities is collected, validated, and organized in advance. This preliminary action ensures that when a user requests patient data, the information is already prepared and ready for immediate display, reducing access time while maintaining completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments patient data access into hierarchical levels, presenting summarized key information immediately while allowing drill-down into detailed facility-specific records on demand. This segmentation allows comprehensive data to be available without requiring complete transmission and processing of all detailed information at once, reducing access time while preserving data completeness.
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 task screen, in response to the user input, processing user-specific data to determine one or more patient icons, each patient icon representing a time-sensitive, patient-associated task, and displaying the task screen on the mobile device, the task screen displaying one or more patient icon groups, each patient icon group including a patient icon of the one or more patient icons.