Remote Patient Management Workflow Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing amount of clinical data from implantable medical devices and home external medical devices overwhelms clinicians, making it difficult to efficiently track and analyze data for timely recognition of clinical events or conditions, especially as remote patient monitoring systems manage more patients, leading to a need for streamlined patient management workflows.
Innovation Solution
A remote patient management system that allows users to customize workflow settings, including data processing, analysis, and communication tasks, through a central programmer with a user interface, enabling personalized or 'best practices' workflows based on patient data and device transmissions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If remote patient monitoring systems monitor more patients, then the coverage and effectiveness of patient care is improved, but the amount of data the clinician is responsible for tracking increases, leading to overwhelming workload
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the data management process into automated workflow operations that handle different aspects of patient data independently. The system divides complex data tracking into discrete, manageable tasks that can be executed automatically based on predefined criteria, reducing the cognitive burden on clinicians while maintaining comprehensive monitoring of multiple patients.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service through automated workflow operations that autonomously perform data analysis, event detection, and clinical action determination without requiring manual clinician intervention for each data point. The automated operations process patient data independently, freeing clinicians from the overwhelming task of manually tracking every parameter across multiple patients.
2Reliability
If clinicians manually track and analyze all patient data, then thorough patient care is maintained, but the time and effort required becomes unsustainable as the number of monitored patients increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where automated workflow operations continuously monitor patient data and provide structured information to clinicians only when predefined criteria are met. This feedback approach ensures that clinicians receive relevant, actionable information maintaining thorough patient care, while automated processing eliminates the time-consuming manual analysis of routine data that would otherwise require sustained clinician attention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary data analysis and event detection automatically before presenting information to clinicians. Workflow operations pre-process patient data, identify potential clinical events, and prepare structured summaries in advance, so that when clinicians do review patient information, the most relevant data is already organized and highlighted, reducing the time needed for thorough assessment.
3Ease of operation
If the system performs all patient management operations automatically, then clinician workload is reduced, but the ability to customize workflow according to individual clinician preferences is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic workflow operations that can be customized by clinicians according to their individual preferences and practice patterns. The system allows clinicians to configure workflow parameters, select which automated operations to enable, and adjust sensitivity thresholds based on their specific needs. This dynamic customization capability ensures that automation adapts to each clinician's workflow rather than imposing a rigid structure, maintaining ease of operation while preserving adaptability.
Data Source
AI summary
A remote patient management system and method are provided including customizable workflow preferences. The method includes storing a user-programmed or “best practices” set of workflow operations, receiving a remote medical device data transmission, selecting a workflow preference in response to information contained in or relating to the data transmission, and performing remote patient management operations according to the selected workflow preference.