Stacked Waveform Strip for Mobile Patient Data Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile devices face limitations in efficiently transmitting, receiving, and displaying medical data due to constraints related to speed, performance, memory, and display size, particularly over low-speed, low-bandwidth, and intermittent wireless connections, which is critical for reliable healthcare data management.
Innovation Solution
The implementation provides methods and systems for processing and displaying patient data on mobile devices through graphical representations, such as stacked waveform strips, allowing for zooming and scrolling of historical and real-time data, and enabling secure access to integrated and unified views of patient information across healthcare continua.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If patient data is transmitted over mobile devices with low-speed, low-bandwidth wireless connections, then accessibility to patient information is improved, but data transmission reliability and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments patient data into structured components (patient information, physiological data, graphical representations) that can be selectively transmitted and cached. This allows critical data to be accessed offline while minimizing bandwidth usage, resolving the contradiction between accessibility and transmission reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by caching patient data locally on mobile devices before connectivity is needed. This pre-caching enables reliable access to patient information even when wireless connections are intermittent or low-speed, directly addressing the reliability concern while maintaining accessibility.
2Productivity
If comprehensive patient data is displayed on mobile devices, then clinical decision-making capability is improved, but device memory and display capacity requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments comprehensive patient data into organized categories (demographic information, physiological parameters, waveform data, clinical notes) that can be selectively loaded and displayed. This segmentation allows clinicians to access only relevant data portions, improving decision-making capability while managing device memory and display capacity constraints.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms complex multi-dimensional patient data into simplified graphical representations (waveform strips, trend graphs, visual summaries) that convey comprehensive clinical information in a space-efficient format. This dimensional transformation enables full clinical capability on devices with limited display and memory resources.
3Loss of information
If real-time patient monitoring data is transmitted continuously, then data completeness is improved, but bandwidth consumption and device performance worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic data transmission and local caching mechanisms that update patient monitoring data at optimized intervals rather than continuously. This periodic approach maintains data completeness for clinical decisions while significantly reducing bandwidth consumption and device performance demands, especially during periods when continuous connectivity is unavailable.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying at least one graphical representation as a stacked waveform strip, the stacked waveform strip including: a first strip segment, the first strip segment being associated with a first time period, a second strip segment, the second strip segment being associated with a second time period earlier than the first time period and being displayed beneath the first strip segment, and a third strip segment, the third strip segment being associated with a third time period earlier than the second time period and being displayed beneath the second strip segment.