APPROACHES TO DOCUMENTING MEDICAL EVENTS THROUGH SPATIAL COMPUTING AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES ALLOWING FOR REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF THE SAME
Introduced here are approaches for capturing and recording details related to medical events, generally as those medical events occur. A recording begins when an operator inputs a request to initiate recording. The operator may use a recording system with a combination of input devices to record medical actions. The recording system acknowledges the operator's actions by various means which may include icons displayed for the operator. The operator's interactions with the icons indicate corresponding actions observed by the operator, which are recorded as a log of the actions in temporal order that serves as a non-transient record of the medical event. An analysis of the recorded details of the medical event, by comparing the actions to prescribed actions in one or more professional standards, can provide an assessment of the actions taken.
1 . A non-transitory medium with instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving input that is indicative of a request, from an operator, to initiate recording of actions that are performed in response to a medical event that occurs in a given space;
causing display of an interface that includes (i) a representation of a patient and (ii) a plurality of icons that are representative of personnel, medications, or equipment available in the given space;
over the course of the medical event,
recording, in a data structure, actions that are performed in real time through continuous recognition of interactions with the plurality of icons,
wherein each interaction corresponds to a real-world action that is performed during the medical event, as recorded by the operator by interacting with an appropriate one of the plurality of icons, and
wherein each interaction is represented, in the data structure, with
(i) an indication of the real-world action, and
(ii) a time stamp that indicates when the operator completed that interaction; and
adjusting the plurality of icons presented on the interface based on an analysis of (i) digital images that are generated by a camera that monitors the given space, (ii) data that is available from an inventory system, or (iii) data that is available from an access management system, so as to dynamically reflect changes in the personnel, medications, or equipment in the given space.