Remote Patient Assessment Coordination via Centralized Video Link
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Solution Overview
Problem
Intensive care units (ICUs) face challenges in providing consistent and proactive patient assessments across multiple locations, requiring efficient remote evaluation systems to identify patient needs and ensure ongoing care integrity, while existing solutions lack comprehensive and coordinated approaches for regular assessments and triage evaluations.
Innovation Solution
A network system comprising a consult coordination center (CCC) and doctor computers, which facilitates remote evaluation sessions through video and audio connections, enabling regular patient assessments, generating records, and channeling patients to appropriate care levels, with modules for scheduling, data management, and communication to ensure process integrity and identify common failure modes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If remote evaluation systems are implemented across multiple ICU locations, then patient assessment consistency and care integrity are improved, but system complexity and coordination requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
A centralized coordination center acts as an intermediary between multiple ICU locations and remote evaluators. The center manages scheduling, coordinates evaluation sessions, and handles data flow between locations and experts, thereby standardizing assessments across sites without requiring each location to independently manage complex remote evaluation logistics.
Solution Approach 2:
The coordination center provides universal functionality across multiple ICU locations by consolidating scheduling, data management, and communication capabilities in a single system. This multi-functional platform serves all locations uniformly, ensuring consistent assessment protocols while reducing the need for location-specific complex infrastructure.
2Reliability
If regular remote patient assessments are conducted, then patient safety management and care quality are improved, but time requirements and resource allocation increase
Solution Approach 1:
Patient data, including electronic health records and vital signs, are prepared and transmitted to the coordination center in advance of remote evaluation sessions. This preliminary data organization allows evaluators to review information before appointments, reducing the time required during actual assessment sessions and improving overall efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements scheduled periodic assessment sessions at standardized intervals for different patient populations. This structured periodic approach ensures consistent patient safety monitoring while optimizing resource utilization by predicting and planning evaluation time requirements in advance.
3Reliability
If comprehensive patient data management is implemented, then care coordination and process integrity are improved, but data management complexity and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The coordination center serves as an intermediary data management platform that centralizes patient information storage and processing. By consolidating data management functions in a single secure system, the platform ensures consistent data handling protocols, maintains process integrity across locations, and reduces the burden on individual ICUs to manage complex data infrastructure independently.
Data Source
AI summary
A consult coordination center (CCC) computer may comprise a database and a processor. A scheduling module executed by the processor may schedule a patient assessment session for a facility, the patient assessment session comprising an assessment of at least one patient in the facility by a remote health care professional to determine whether the at least one patient should be given more immediate care. An assignment module executed by the processor may assign the scheduled patient assessment session to a health care professional computer. A connection module executed by the processor may create a remote connection between the health care professional computer and a computer at the facility via a network to facilitate the patient assessment session, the remote connection comprising a video feed from the computer at the facility to the health care professional computer. A data module executed by the processor may retrieve a report of a previous patient assessment session at the facility from the database, send the report of the previous patient assessment session at the facility to the health care professional computer, receive a report of the patient assessment session, and store the report of the patient assessment session in the database.