Timeline Screen Synchronization Across Medical Servers
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Solution Overview
Problem
In medical facilities, synchronizing the displayed periods of multiple timeline screens from different departments or systems is time-consuming and effort-intensive, as users must manually adjust each screen to show the same period, especially when displaying information from various medical and non-medical sources.
Innovation Solution
A display system and apparatus that synchronize the displayed periods of timeline screens across different servers and systems by communicating changes in displayed periods, allowing one server or display apparatus to update the others to show the same period of information, ensuring uniformity across all screens.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple timeline screens from different departments or systems are displayed, then comprehensive medical information can be viewed, but the displayed periods cannot be synchronized automatically requiring manual adjustment
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by detecting when a user changes the displayed period on one timeline screen and automatically transmitting this information to other timeline screens via servers. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures all screens remain synchronized without requiring manual intervention, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive display capability and operational ease.
Solution Approach 2:
Servers act as intermediaries between multiple timeline screens, receiving displayed period information from one screen and distributing it to other screens. This intermediary component enables automatic synchronization across distributed systems, eliminating the need for direct manual coordination between each screen while maintaining comprehensive information access.
2Manufacturing precision
If users manually adjust each timeline screen to show the same period, then displayed periods can be synchronized, but time and effort are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The timeline screens perform self-service synchronization by automatically detecting period changes and updating other screens without user intervention. The system serves itself by using the displayed period information from one screen to automatically adjust other screens, eliminating the need for users to manually synchronize each screen while maintaining precise period alignment.
Solution Approach 2:
The feedback mechanism continuously monitors displayed period changes and automatically transmits this information to maintain synchronization across all timeline screens. This automated feedback loop ensures precise period alignment is maintained dynamically without consuming user time or effort, resolving the contradiction between synchronization precision and time loss.
3Adaptability or versatility
If each timeline screen is independently operated, then flexibility in viewing is maintained, but complexity of coordinating multiple screens increases
Solution Approach 1:
Servers serve as intermediaries that manage coordination between independently operated timeline screens. Each screen maintains its independent operation and flexibility, while servers handle the complexity of synchronizing displayed periods across all screens. This intermediary layer absorbs the coordination complexity, allowing individual screens to operate independently without increasing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A display apparatus includes a display and a hardware processor. The display displays timeline screens showing different kinds of display target information in chronological order. The hardware processor performs control to synchronize displayed periods of the timeline screens so that the timeline screens show the display target information of an identical period.