Graphical user interfaces including touchpad driving interfaces for telemedicine devices

Inventors

Jordan, Charles S. • Young, Andy • Ng, Mei Sheng • Lurie, Yair • Lai, Fuji • Wright, Timothy C. • Herzog, Cody • Whitney, Blair • Rizzi, Bill • Ballantyne, James • Wang, Yulun • Wong, Cheuk Wah • Kearns, Justin • Taka, Orjeta • Karandikar, Ramchandra

Assignees

Teladoc Health Inc • Jonata Sub Two Inc

Abstract

The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote telepresence devices. An RPI may allow a user to interact with a telepresence device, view a live video feed, provide navigational instructions, and/or otherwise interact with the telepresence device. The RPI may allow a user to manually, semi-autonomously, or autonomously control the movement of the telepresence device. One or more panels associated with a video feed, patient data, calendars, date, time, telemetry data, PED data, telepresence device data, healthcare facility information, healthcare practitioner information, menu tabs, settings controls, and/or other features may be utilized via the RPI.

Core Innovation

The remote presence interface is implemented on a portable electronic device and is configured to retrieve and selectively display a list of patients. The interface receives a selection of a patient from the patient list and uses the facility admissions, discharges, and transfers (ADT) data source to determine a current location of the selected patient within the facility, then automatically selects a remote presence device from a plurality of remote presence devices based on being nearest the current location of the selected patient within the facility.

After the remote presence device is selected, the portable electronic device communicatively connects to the selected remote presence device and displays a live video feed from a camera of the remote presence device in a video panel on an electronic display of the electronic device. The live video feed is updated as the selected remote presence device moves to the selected destination, enabling a telemedicine telepresence workflow where the local interface continuously presents updated live video.

The remote presence interface also provides a text-searchable endpoint list for the selected patient, and the endpoint list includes connectivity states and persons scheduled to be associated with or currently associated with the selected patient. The interface displays and selectively displays this endpoint list, receives a selection from the endpoint list, and supports filtering and connectivity-state categories for endpoint selection within a patient dashboard, including invitation and navigation instructions.

Claims Coverage

One independent claim covers patient selection, ADT-based nearest remote presence device selection, and connection to the selected remote presence device to display and continuously update a live camera video feed as the remote device moves to a destination. Additional inventive features cover endpoint-list selection with connectivity states and filtering, and selection rules that include minimizing travel through areas of poor wireless connectivity.

The claims center on selecting a remote presence device associated with a selected patient using facility ADT to determine the patient’s current location, then connecting to that remote presence device and presenting an updating live camera video feed. The claim set also includes a text-searchable endpoint list with connectivity states and persons, filtering categories and parameters, and device-selection rules including minimizing travel through areas of poor wireless connectivity.

Stated Advantages

Documented Applications