Virtual Avatar Telemedicine System with Real-Time Professional Override
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current telemedicine systems face challenges in dynamically adapting treatment plans for patients undergoing rehabilitation, as medical professionals struggle to monitor progress and modify plans remotely, leading to inefficiencies and inaccuracies in treatment delivery.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system that uses a virtual avatar to guide patients through exercise sessions, with a server computing device providing the avatar and replacing it with a medical professional's multimedia feed upon detecting a trigger event, allowing for real-time adjustments to the treatment apparatus based on patient feedback and machine learning models to optimize treatment plans.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a virtual avatar is used to guide patients through exercise sessions, then the system can provide continuous guidance and monitoring, but the medical professional cannot provide real-time direct intervention when trigger events occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a server as an intermediary component that receives data from the treatment apparatus, processes trigger events, and coordinates communication between the patient interface and medical professional. This intermediary enables continuous automated guidance while ensuring reliable real-time intervention capability through structured communication protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where the treatment apparatus continuously monitors patient data, compares it against threshold values, and automatically triggers communication with the medical professional when anomalies are detected. This feedback loop ensures both continuous guidance and reliable real-time intervention capability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system monitors patient data continuously to detect trigger events, then real-time adaptation of treatment plans is enabled, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the data processing function by implementing local processing at the treatment apparatus (monitoring and threshold comparison) and centralized processing at the server (comprehensive analysis and treatment plan adaptation). This segmentation reduces the processing burden on any single component while enabling real-time adaptation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing threshold values and monitoring protocols at the treatment apparatus. This preliminary configuration enables automatic real-time adaptation without requiring complex processing during critical moments, as the threshold comparison and trigger initiation are already prepared.
3Ease of operation
If a virtual avatar presents treatment information to the patient, then engagement and guidance consistency are improved, but the personalization and immediacy of medical professional interaction are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the virtual avatar's consistent guidance function with the medical professional's personalized insight function through integrated communication. The avatar presents standardized treatment information while the server simultaneously facilitates real-time professional interaction, combining both approaches to eliminate information loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual avatar serves multiple functions: providing consistent guidance, presenting treatment information, and facilitating communication with the medical professional. This multi-functionality maintains patient engagement while preserving the ability to access professional insights through integrated communication channels.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented system includes a treatment apparatus manipulated by a patient while performing an exercise session and a patient interface that receives a virtual avatar. The patient interface presents the virtual avatar. The virtual avatar uses a virtual representation of the treatment apparatus to guide the patient through an exercise session. A server computing device provides the virtual avatar of the patient to the patient interface and receives a message pertaining to a trigger event. The message includes a severity level of the trigger event. The server computing device determines whether a severity level of the trigger event exceeds a threshold severity level, and responsive to determining the severity level of the trigger event exceeds the threshold severity level, replaces on the patient interface the presentation of the virtual avatar with a presentation of a multimedia feed from a computing device of the medical professional.