Virtual Visit Object for Telemedicine Infrastructure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Telemedicine and virtual interactions lack the organizational infrastructure and information sharing capabilities present in physical visits, such as healthcare settings, making it difficult to manage and document virtual events and maintain patient confidentiality.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a virtual visit object that creates a digital infrastructure for organizing and managing virtual visits, including a virtual room with changing status to simulate physical location changes, and access rules to control data and communication access among participants.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If telemedicine visits are conducted independently of existing medical enterprise systems, then patient accessibility and convenience are improved, but organizational infrastructure and information sharing capabilities deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges telemedicine virtual visit functionality with existing medical enterprise systems by integrating virtual visit objects into the EHR system. This combination allows telemedicine to benefit from both patient accessibility improvements and existing organizational infrastructure, resolving the contradiction by making the two previously separate components work together seamlessly.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual visit object serves multiple functions: it organizes virtual events, manages patient information, facilitates communication, and integrates with existing enterprise systems. This multi-functionality allows a single solution to address both accessibility and infrastructure requirements simultaneously.
2Ease of operation
If virtual visits replace physical visits, then patient convenience and privacy are improved, but information sharing and documentation capabilities deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the physical visit experience through the virtual visit object, which replicates the organizational infrastructure and information sharing capabilities of physical visits in a digital format. This copy maintains all necessary information flow while providing patient convenience and privacy benefits.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual visit object acts as an intermediary between patients and the medical enterprise system, facilitating seamless information sharing and documentation while maintaining patient convenience and privacy. It mediates the interaction to ensure both accessibility and information integrity.
3Reliability
If virtual rooms simulate physical location changes through status changes, then continuity of care is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual room dynamically changes its status to reflect different phases of the virtual visit (e.g., waiting room, exam room, post-op). This dynamic behavior simulates physical location changes and maintains continuity of care while using a straightforward status-change mechanism that manages system complexity effectively.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods provide an infrastructure for supporting wholly or partially virtual visits. Example methods include instantiating a virtual visit object for a subject participant, assigning a virtual room in the virtual visit object to a first room status, assigning at least a service team member to the virtual room based on room access rules applicable to the first room status. The method may also include providing a first user interface to the subject participant configured according to room participant access rules for the first room status to collect a data element from the subject participant. Changing the room status to a second room status may change the user interface, add a second service team member to the room participants for the virtual room based on a second room access rule applicable to the second room status and may remove the first service team member from the room participants.