Configurable Timeline GUI for Clinical Data Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic health record systems face challenges in presenting clinically relevant information across various user interfaces, particularly on smaller devices like smartphones, leading to issues with readability and accessibility of patient data, which can hinder timely and informed medical decision-making.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for generating and presenting a configurable, custom timeline view that displays clinically relevant data, including clinical diagnoses, diagnostic parameters, and medications, in a format that maintains context and trends, adaptable to different user interface sizes through the use of a GUI that includes a first timeline area with equidistant date indications and duration indicators, and a second timeline area for diagnostic parameters, along with medication information grouped by classification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If information is displayed on smaller user interfaces like smartphones, then portability and accessibility are improved, but readability and input area size deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the display layout based on the user interface size. It presents a summarized view on smaller devices with key information prominently displayed, while providing comprehensive detailed views on larger screens. The interface automatically adapts its structure, information density, and navigation mechanisms to match the capabilities of the display device.
Solution Approach 2:
The information display is segmented into different levels of detail. A summarized view provides overview information for quick access on mobile devices, while detailed views with full information are available through expansion or separate displays. This segmentation allows the same system to serve both portable and fixed interface scenarios effectively.
2Loss of information
If comprehensive patient information is displayed, then completeness of medical records is improved, but user interface complexity and information overload increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patient information is divided into multiple organized sections including demographics, medical history, current conditions, medications, and lab results. Each section can be independently accessed and displayed, allowing comprehensive information to be presented in a structured manner that prevents overload while maintaining accessibility to all necessary data.
Solution Approach 2:
The system utilizes temporal organization by presenting information in a timeline format that shows patient data chronologically. This dimensional approach to organizing information allows comprehensive records to be viewed in a logical sequence, making the complexity more manageable and the information more easily digestible.
3Measurement precision
If detailed clinical information is presented, then accuracy of medical decisions is improved, but time required for review increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary organization and pre-processing of patient information, arranging it in a logical timeline sequence and highlighting critical data points. This preliminary structuring allows clinicians to quickly locate and review essential information without having to search through unorganized records, reducing review time while maintaining accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface provides feedback by highlighting the most clinically relevant information based on the patient's current conditions and medical history. It can emphasize urgent issues, critical lab values, and relevant historical data, allowing clinicians to quickly identify what needs their attention while maintaining comprehensive review of all information.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and GUIs are provided for visually communicating clinically relevant information in a manner that maintains context and trends across various sizes of user interfaces, such as smaller user interfaces on mobile devices. In an embodiment, a user interface may display a first timeline area with a first indication of a timespan that represents a portion of the timeline. The first indication of the timespan may be scrollable to change the portion of the timeline displayed. The first timeline area may further comprise a set of clinical diagnoses with corresponding duration indicators. The user interface may also display a second timeline area with a second indication of a timespan, which may mirror the first indication of the timespan. The second timeline area may further comprise a set of diagnostic parameters and associated measurements. The user interface may also present a medication area having lists of medications separated by classification.