Shift-Change Reporting for Coordinated Medical Alarm Prioritization
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Solution Overview
Problem
The lack of communication between medical devices leads to issues such as lack of context and situational awareness, alarm fatigue, inefficient prioritization and response, and increased risk of missed or delayed alarms, compromising patient safety and adding complexity to healthcare provider workflows.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method utilizing ML and generative AI models to generate shift-change reports that summarize patient history, provide recommendations, and justify actions based on monitored data signals from various medical devices, enabling effective alarm management and communication across devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple medical devices are used to monitor patients, then monitoring capability and data coverage are improved, but alarm coordination and situational awareness deteriorate due to lack of communication between devices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges data from multiple independent medical devices into a centralized communication hub that consolidates alarm information, patient data, and device status into a unified interface, enabling comprehensive situational awareness while maintaining data from all source devices
Solution Approach 2:
The communication hub acts as an intermediary device that receives data signals from multiple medical devices, processes and coordinates alarm information, and distributes synthesized alerts to appropriate recipients, thereby improving information coordination without requiring direct device-to-device communication
2Reliability
If alarms are generated from multiple devices independently, then detection coverage is improved, but alarm fatigue and response efficiency deteriorate due to uncoordinated alarm proliferation
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the communication hub receives alarm signals from multiple devices, evaluates their priority and context, and provides coordinated feedback to healthcare providers with synthesized alarm information that reflects the overall patient status rather than isolated device alerts
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies partial action by selectively filtering and prioritizing alarms based on clinical significance, transmitting only the most critical coordinated alarms to providers while suppressing redundant or low-priority alerts, thereby maintaining detection coverage without overwhelming staff with excessive uncoordinated alarms
3Device complexity
If devices operate independently without communication, then device complexity and integration requirements are reduced, but patient safety and clinical outcomes deteriorate due to missed or delayed alarms
Solution Approach 1:
The communication hub serves multiple functions including data aggregation, alarm coordination, priority assignment, and information distribution to various stakeholders, providing a universal platform that improves patient safety without requiring each individual medical device to be complex or具备 communication capabilities
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: monitoring a plurality of data signals associated with one or more patients within a medical environment over a defined period of time; generating a shift-change report for the one or more patients, wherein the shift-change report includes one or more of: a summary of the medical history of the one or more patients over the defined period of time, a recommendation concerning the one or more patients based, at least in part, upon the history of the one or more patients over the defined period of time, and a justification for the recommendation for the one or more patients.