Pre-Procedural Coordination Workflow Using Content Queue Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Surgery preparation involves extensive unstructured data exchange and repetitive tasks, leading to errors, delays, and miscommunication among healthcare entities.
Innovation Solution
A digital system using a processor and memory to automate pre-procedural coordination workflows through a content retrieval data structure trained on training examples, enabling data exchange and generating recommended actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual data exchange and coordination tasks are performed among healthcare entities, then flexibility and adaptability are maintained, but errors, delays, and miscommunication increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service through the automated coordination apparatus that independently manages data exchange, task assignment, and workflow coordination between healthcare entities without requiring manual intervention for each interaction
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical coordination processes with an automated digital system that uses processors, memory, and structured data formats to handle data exchange and workflow management, eliminating human error while maintaining system adaptability
2Loss of information
If extensive paperwork and follow-up phone calls are used for surgery preparation, then comprehensive data collection is achieved, but time consumption and operational delays increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically collecting, validating, and organizing pre-procedural data before surgical procedures begin, ensuring all necessary information is gathered and coordinated in advance through automated workflows rather than reactive phone calls and paperwork
Solution Approach 2:
The automated coordination apparatus serves multiple functions simultaneously: data collection, validation, storage, task assignment, and communication coordination, replacing the need for separate paperwork processes and phone call follow-ups with a single integrated system
3Productivity
If repetitive coordination tasks are performed manually among multiple entities, then data exchange between all parties is maintained, but human errors and outdated information increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that automatically track and update the status of pre-procedural coordination tasks, ensuring all entities have access to current information and allowing the system to detect and correct errors through continuous monitoring of workflow state
Solution Approach 2:
The apparatus creates and maintains standardized digital copies of pre-procedural data and coordination status across all healthcare entities, replacing manual reproduction of information through paperwork and phone calls with accurate, consistent digital replicas that are automatically updated
Data Source
AI summary
Apparatus and methods for automating pre-procedural coordination workflows in a digital environment include at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to generate, using a trained content retrieval data structure, a plurality of content retrieval parameters, receive, from a first entity, an input including an input data structure as a function of the plurality of content retrieval parameters, populate, using the input data structure, a content queue comprising a plurality of content elements, query a second entity using at least a content element of the plurality of content elements, update the content queue as a function of at least a query response received from the second entity, generate a recommended course of action as a function of the updated content queue, and perform the recommended course of action.