Asynchronous Telemedicine Map Capture with Visual Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current telemedicine solutions are limited by synchronous data capturing and sharing, where healthcare professionals and patients must be simultaneously online, making it difficult to separate data collection, viewing, and navigation of bodily regions for efficient and effective remote diagnostics.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method for capturing a user-constructed map of bodily regions of interest using a designated capture-device, providing visual feedback to ensure quality and completeness, allowing asynchronous data collection and navigation, and encrypting data for privacy and security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If synchronous data capturing and sharing is used in telemedicine, then real-time interaction between healthcare professionals and patients is enabled, but it requires both parties to be simultaneously online which reduces flexibility and increases loss of time
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows patients to perform data capture actions in advance before the healthcare professional is available. The captured data is stored and made available for later viewing, eliminating the need for simultaneous presence while ensuring data is ready when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The telemedicine process is divided into separate stages: data capture by the patient, data transmission and storage, and data analysis by the healthcare professional. These segments can occur at different times, breaking the synchronous requirement while maintaining reliability through structured data flow.
2Ease of operation
If data capture, viewing, and navigation are integrated in current telemedicine systems, then comprehensive control is maintained, but it becomes difficult to separate these functions for efficient remote diagnostics
Solution Approach 1:
The system separates data capture functionality from data analysis functionality. Patients can capture and upload data independently, and healthcare professionals can analyze and navigate the data separately. This segmentation allows each party to work at their own pace and optimize their respective workflows.
Solution Approach 2:
A server acts as an intermediary between the patient's capture device and the healthcare professional's analysis interface. The server receives, stores, and manages the data, enabling asynchronous communication while maintaining data integrity and accessibility for both parties.
3Manufacturing precision
If visual feedback is provided to guide data capture quality, then completeness and accuracy of bodily region mapping improve, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides visual feedback to the patient during data capture, showing the current state of the bodily region map and indicating areas that need additional coverage. This feedback loop guides the patient to capture complete and quality data without requiring complex manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The visual feedback system automatically monitors capture quality and guides the patient through the process without requiring healthcare professional intervention. The system self-adjusts and provides real-time guidance, reducing the need for complex external control mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implemented method for capturing a user constructed map of bodily region of interest for remote telemedicine navigation includes receiving, by a user-device, a request for capturing data for constructing a model of the bodily region using a designated capture-device. The method further includes generating, by the user-device, a visual feedback for capturing the data. Generating the visual feedback includes displaying a representation of the bodily region, and modulating, in response to the capture-device scanning the bodily region, the representation with a first indicator that indicates a duration to maintain a position of the capture-device. Generating the visual feedback includes further modulating, in response to completion of scanning the bodily region, the representation with a second indicator that indicates completion of the scan. The method further includes constructing, by the user-device, the model of the bodily region using data that is acquired by the capture-device by scanning the bodily region.