Unified Patient Data Display via Intermediary Integration
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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 data across a healthcare continuum.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device-based system that integrates and unifies patient data from various sources, using a data management system to process and present patient-specific and lab results data in a color-coded and annotated format, enabling secure access and collaborative clinical decision-making.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If patient data is stored across multiple healthcare facilities with separate EMRs, then each facility can maintain its own data source and storage format, but retrieval and display of relevant patient information becomes complicated and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a data integration layer that acts as an intermediary between multiple facility EMRs and the mobile device. This layer receives data requests, queries multiple source systems, integrates results from disparate formats, and returns unified patient information to the mobile device, thereby maintaining storage flexibility while improving retrieval efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device application provides a universal interface that can access and display patient data from multiple different healthcare facilities and EMR systems through a single platform. The system aggregates data from various sources (hospitals, clinics, laboratories) and presents them through common display templates, enabling one system to serve multiple data sources.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vendor-specific EMRs are used across healthcare facilities, then each facility can choose its preferred system, but data integration and unified display become complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system handles vendor-specific data by transforming and standardizing data parameters from different EMR systems into a common format. The data integration layer maps various vendor data structures, codes, and formats to standardized parameters that can be uniformly processed and displayed across all facilities regardless of the original source system.
3Loss of information
If patient data is accessed from multiple sources, then comprehensive patient information can be retrieved, but the time and effort required to compile and display relevant data increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data aggregation and integration by querying multiple source systems in advance and compiling results before the healthcare provider needs to view the information. The mobile device application pre-loads and caches patient data from multiple facilities, so when a provider accesses the application, the data is already integrated and ready for immediate display, reducing compilation time.
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 laboratory results screen for a particular patient, processing patient-specific data and lab results data to provide one or more tables, and displaying the laboratory results screen on the mobile device, the laboratory results screen including the one or more tables, each table of the one or more tables providing one or more discrete data values, wherein a discrete data value of the one or more discrete values is user-selectable to provide detailed result information.