Pre-operative Assessment System Integrating Medical Image Analysis and Inventory Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
The process of performing a pre-operative assessment for a patient is tedious and time-consuming due to disjointed, incomplete, or difficult-to-access resources.
Innovation Solution
A system that communicates with client electronic devices via a network, using computing devices and a computer-readable storage medium to receive patient information, process medical images, identify implant components, determine inventory status, and automatically order necessary components, generating a pre-operative assessment for display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual pre-operative assessment processes are used with disjointed resources, then healthcare providers can perform assessments, but the process becomes tedious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges previously disjointed resources including patient information systems, medical image databases, implant component catalogs, and inventory management systems into a single integrated pre-operative assessment system. This consolidation allows automatic retrieval and correlation of all necessary data, eliminating the manual searching and compilation steps that previously made the process tedious and time-consuming.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically retrieving patient information, medical images, and implant component specifications before the assessment begins. It pre-processes medical images to extract relevant measurements and pre-queries implant catalogs to identify suitable components, so that when the provider reviews the case, all necessary data is already prepared and organized.
2Reliability
If comprehensive patient information and medical images are collected for accurate assessment, then assessment accuracy improves, but data access and interpretation difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that automatically retrieves, validates, and structures data from multiple sources including electronic health records, medical image databases, and implant catalogs. This intermediary system correlates patient information with relevant medical images and pre-processes images to extract key measurements, presenting organized, interpreted data to providers rather than raw unconnected information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically querying multiple data sources, retrieving patient histories, accessing medical images, and extracting relevant measurements without requiring manual searching. It self-organizes the information hierarchically, presenting only the most relevant data for each assessment scenario, thereby reducing the cognitive load on providers.
3Ease of operation
If implant component identification is performed manually by matching measurements, then component selection is possible, but the process becomes more complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of measuring patient anatomy and manually searching implant catalogs with an automated computational system. The system uses image processing algorithms to automatically extract measurements from medical images, then uses these measurements to query implant component databases and identify suitable components, eliminating manual matching operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters by automatically extracting multiple anatomical measurements from medical images and using these parameters to query implant catalogs. It transforms the component selection process from a manual visual matching task to an automated parameter-based search, where implant components are identified by matching their specification parameters with the extracted patient measurements.
4Loss of information
If implant component inventory status is checked manually, then inventory awareness is achieved, but the assessment process becomes more tedious
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple functions into the pre-operative assessment system, including patient data retrieval, medical image processing, implant component identification, and inventory status checking. This multi-functional system automatically queries inventory databases as part of the component identification process, providing real-time inventory status information without requiring separate manual checks, thereby maintaining assessment throughput.
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AI summary
A system of generating a pre-operative assessment of a patient includes an assessment system configured to communicate with client electronic devices. The system receives patient information pertaining to a patient, uses the patient information to access one or more medical images associated with the patient, performs one or more image processing techniques on the one or more medical images to identify measurements pertaining to an internal bodily structure of the patient, identifies one or more implant components for the patient, determines whether the one or more implant components are currently stocked, in response to determining that the one or more implant components are not currently stocked, automatically generates and placing an order for the one or more implant components that are not stocked, generates a pre-operative assessment for the patient, and causes the assessment to be displayed on a display device of a client electronic device.