Healthcare Worker Smart Visor for Patient Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Healthcare environments face challenges in accurately identifying patients and managing patient information, leading to potential misidentification and incorrect treatment procedures, while also requiring efficient communication and augmented reality support for healthcare workers.
Innovation Solution
A healthcare worker smart visor equipped with a radio transceiver, camera, processor, and head-up display projector, which performs facial recognition, two-factor authentication, and communicates with servers to provide patient information and equipment data, while attenuating pathogen transmission and offering augmented reality features for improved workflow.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If facial recognition and two-factor authentication are implemented, then patient identification accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication system is divided into multiple independent components: facial recognition module, fingerprint sensor, and two-factor authentication protocol. Each component handles a specific aspect of verification, allowing the system to achieve high accuracy while maintaining modularity and manageability.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart visor acts as an intermediary device between the healthcare worker and the patient information systems. It captures facial images, processes authentication data, and retrieves patient information automatically, reducing the complexity burden on individual components by distributing functions across the entire system.
2Productivity
If multiple sensors and communication modules are integrated, then information access efficiency is improved, but device weight increases
Solution Approach 1:
The smart visor is designed as a multi-functional device that integrates camera, fingerprint sensor, radio transceiver, and display capabilities into a single wearable unit. This allows healthcare workers to perform multiple tasks (patient identification, information retrieval, communication) without carrying separate devices, justifying the weight increase through enhanced productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple functional components (sensors, communication modules, processing units) are merged into a single integrated head-mounted device. This consolidation improves information access efficiency by providing all necessary functions in one device, while the distributed architecture helps manage the overall system weight.
3Reliability
If real-time patient information display is implemented, then treatment accuracy is improved, but information transmission time increases
Solution Approach 1:
Patient information is pre-loaded and organized in the system database before clinical interactions occur. When a patient is identified through facial recognition, the system has already prepared relevant treatment protocols, medical history, and current status information for immediate display, reducing actual transmission time during critical moments.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements real-time feedback loops where patient information is continuously updated and displayed on the visor. As new data becomes available from sensors or databases, it is immediately transmitted and presented to the healthcare worker, ensuring treatment accuracy while minimizing delays through efficient feedback mechanisms.
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AI summary
A healthcare worker smart visor. The smart visor comprises a radio transceiver, a non-transitory memory, a camera, a processor communicatively coupled to the radio transceiver, the non-transitory memory, and the camera, an optical visor, a head-up display projector that is communicatively coupled to the processor and that is operable to project an image on an inside surface of the optical visor, a headband retaining the radio transceiver, the non-transitory memory, the camera, the processor, the optical visor, and the head-up display projector, and a smart visor application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor performs two-factor authentication of a healthcare worker, transmits a request for current indications of healthcare equipment via the radio transceiver to the healthcare equipment based on the identity of the healthcare equipment, and presents the current indications on the inside surface of the optical visor via the head-up display.