Multi-site Video Platform for Remote Diagnostic Assistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
In medical settings, specialists often cannot be physically present during routine examinations, such as ultrasounds, limiting their ability to provide informed opinions without additional information or contact with the patient.
Innovation Solution
A multi-site video-based data sharing platform that allows for the transfer of medical records and live video feeds, enabling specialists to remotely assist in medical procedures by receiving biometric imaging data, medical data, and supplemental information, and sending user inputs to adjust acquisition characteristics of medical devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If specialists are not physically present during routine examinations, then examination productivity is improved, but the quality of diagnostic opinions deteriorates due to lack of direct patient contact
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a video conferencing system as an intermediary that connects the examining practitioner with the specialist remotely. This mediator enables real-time visual and auditory communication, allowing the specialist to observe the examination procedure and patient condition directly without physical presence, thus maintaining diagnostic quality while enabling productivity improvement.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical requirement of physical presence with an electronic communication system. Instead of requiring the specialist to be physically at the examination site, the system uses video streams, audio transmission, and digital data sharing to substitute the mechanical interaction, achieving remote expertise delivery.
2Loss of information
If multiple data streams are transmitted simultaneously to remote specialists, then information completeness is improved, but network bandwidth requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the data transmission into different streams with varying priorities and qualities. Critical real-time video and audio streams are separated from less time-sensitive data such as patient records and imaging data. This segmentation allows the system to optimize bandwidth usage by transmitting essential information with higher priority while reducing or delaying non-critical data transmission.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements selective data transmission where only necessary information is sent to the specialist at any given time. The system can adjust the level of detail and quantity of data transmitted based on network conditions and clinical needs, avoiding excessive data transmission while ensuring complete information availability when required.
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a stream of biometric imaging data of a patient; receiving medical data about the patient; receiving a video stream depicting a source of the biometric imaging data; receiving supplemental information selected from a group consisting of: a second video stream depicting a human, one or more use cases corresponding to the biometric imaging data, an image of anatomy comparable to the biometric imaging data; and preparing for simultaneous output to a graphical user interface on a single display screen: the biometric imaging data, the medical data, the video stream depicting a source of the biometric imaging data, and the supplemental information. Each of the biometric imaging data, the medical data about the patient, the video stream depicting a source of the biometric imaging data, and the supplemental information is simultaneously output in a unique region of the graphical user interface.