Location-Aware Virtual Care Interface for Clinician Workflow
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current virtual healthcare systems are fragmented, leading to inefficiencies such as increased clinician time loss, miscommunication, patient abandonment, and medical errors due to disconnected workflows and lack of real-time clinical collaboration.
Innovation Solution
A virtual care system that utilizes geofences to automatically generate context-specific user interfaces for clinicians based on location, integrating features such as patient data and teleconferencing capabilities, and integrates with patient data, and incorporates modules for patient data, and integrates with electronic medical record systems to provide patient data, and care team collaboration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If clinicians use multiple disconnected platforms to access patient information and communicate, then they can access various healthcare services, but they experience significant time loss and reduced productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple disconnected healthcare platforms and services into a single integrated virtual care system. The system consolidates patient information access, communication tools, teleconferencing capabilities, and electronic medical record integration into one unified platform, eliminating the need for clinicians to switch between multiple applications and thereby restoring productivity while maintaining service versatility.
2Ease of operation
If clinicians manually curate their daily patient schedule and navigate multiple applications, then they can manage patient care, but they lose oversight of their complex schedule and spend excessive time on administrative tasks
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated schedule curation and management features that allow the system to self-organize patient appointments and clinician schedules based on patient needs, clinician availability, and care requirements. This automation eliminates manual schedule curation, reduces administrative time loss, and maintains ease of patient care management through the unified interface.
3Loss of information
If care team members navigate multiple applications and databases to locate and collaborate with providers, then they can access comprehensive patient information, but they experience miscommunication and confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple data sources and communication channels into a single integrated platform that provides comprehensive patient information access while ensuring reliable communication. By consolidating electronic medical records, patient data, and communication tools into one system, it eliminates the fragmentation that causes miscommunication while preserving complete information access for all care team members.
4Reliability
If the system provides immediate information updates to all care team members, then communication reliability improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal notification and update distribution mechanism that serves multiple functions simultaneously. The same infrastructure that provides immediate information updates to all care team members also handles data synchronization, communication routing, and coordination across different modules of the virtual care system, thereby achieving reliable communication without proportionally increasing system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A virtual care system can include a location module configured to receive location information associated with a device from the device, and a graphical user interface (GUI) module configured to generate a medical provider user interface accessible via the device. The medical provider user interface can be contextually generated based on the location information and includes interface characteristics associated with the location information.