Unified Patient Data Access via Intermediary Aggregation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The disparate storage of patient information across multiple healthcare facilities complicates retrieval and display of relevant data for healthcare providers, leading to inefficiencies in accessing and managing patient information across a healthcare continuum.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device-based system that integrates and unifies patient data from various sources, using a data- and vendor-agnostic architecture to provide secure access to patient information, enabling timely clinical decision-making and improved tracking of quality metrics through graphical representations and unified views of patient data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If patient information is stored across multiple facilities with separate data sources, then each facility can maintain its own data storage system, but retrieval and display of relevant patient information becomes complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a centralized data aggregation system that acts as an intermediary between multiple facility data sources and healthcare providers. This system collects, standardizes, and stores patient information from various facilities in a unified repository, enabling simplified retrieval through a single access point while preserving the autonomy of individual facility data storage systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal data access platform that can retrieve and display patient information from multiple different facility systems through a single interface. This multi-functional system handles data aggregation, standardization, storage, and retrieval operations, allowing healthcare providers to access relevant patient information regardless of its original source facility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vendor-specific electronic medical records are used, then each facility can utilize specialized systems, but data integration and unified display become complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms data from various vendor-specific EMR systems by changing its parameters and format. A data aggregation system collects information in different formats from multiple vendors, standardizes it into a unified structure with consistent parameters, and stores it in a centralized repository. This parameter transformation enables seamless integration while preserving the capabilities of original vendor-specific systems.
3Loss of information
If healthcare providers access patient data from multiple facilities, then comprehensive patient information can be obtained, but access time and operational efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary data aggregation and consolidation actions. Patient information from multiple facilities is collected, standardized, and pre-assembled into a unified record before clinical needs arise. This preliminary organization eliminates the need for real-time queries to multiple facilities, significantly reducing access time while ensuring complete patient information is readily available when needed.
Data Source
AI summary
Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a location screen, in response to the user input, processing user-specific data and facility-specific data to determine one or more graphical representations to be displayed, and displaying the location screen on the mobile device, the location screen including one or more display regions and the one or more graphical representations, each graphical representation depicting at least a portion of a facility.