Virtual Patient Interface for Unified Clinical Timeline Navigation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Veterinarians face difficulties in obtaining a comprehensive understanding of a patient's medical history due to the dispersed nature of health information across different systems and user interfaces, making it challenging to make informed clinical decisions.

Innovation Solution

A patient information system that integrates image capture, display, and processor functionalities to generate a virtual patient representation, allowing for the display of clinical and diagnostic information on a single interface, with interactive features like area selection and timeline navigation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If veterinarians access multiple different systems to obtain complete patient information, then the completeness of medical information is improved, but the complexity of operation and time required increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompleteness of patient medical informationVSAvoidease of accessing patient information

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple separate systems (clinical visit system, diagnostic system, imaging system, billing system) into a single integrated user interface that displays all patient information simultaneously. This merging eliminates the need to access multiple separate systems while maintaining complete information access.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The user interface is designed to serve multiple functions within a single system - displaying clinical data, diagnostic results, imaging information, and billing details all in one place. This multi-functional interface replaces the need for multiple specialized systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Loss of information

If veterinarians access multiple different systems to obtain complete patient information, then the completeness of medical information is improved, but the time required to gather information increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompleteness of patient medical informationVSAvoidtime to access patient information

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-integrates all patient information from various sources into a unified database and interface structure, so that when a veterinarian accesses the system, all information is already organized and ready for immediate display without requiring sequential access to multiple systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If vast amounts of patient information are displayed on a single interface, then the ease of obtaining a holistic view is improved, but the display area requirements and information overload increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of obtaining holistic patient viewVSAvoiddisplay area required

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The user interface is divided into multiple sections or panels, each displaying specific types of patient information (clinical data, diagnostics, imaging, billing). This segmentation allows comprehensive information to be organized into manageable sections that can be displayed simultaneously without overwhelming the user or requiring excessive display area.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses multi-dimensional organization of information, such as tabs, layers, or hierarchical structures, allowing veterinarians to navigate through vast amounts of data in different dimensions rather than requiring all information to be displayed in a single flat plane, thus reducing the required display area.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS12544015B2Clinical diagnostic and patient information systems and methods

Publication Date: 2026.02.10 IDEXX LABORATORIES INC

AI summary

A patient information system is described. A virtual representation of a patient is generated using a captured image of the patient. A graphical user interface is displayed on the display, the graphical user interface including a first screen portion configured to display the virtual representation of the patient and a second screen portion configured to display information. A selection of an area of interest is received on the virtual representation of the patient. Clinical and diagnostic information associated with the selected area of interest is received and displayed in the second screen portion of the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface also includes a timeline that displays events of interest. A selection of an event of interest causes the second screen portion of the graphical user interface to display clinical and diagnostic information associated with the selected event of interest.