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 H. • Taka, Orjeta • Karandikar, Ramchandra

Assignees

Teladoc Health Inc

Abstract

The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote presence 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 uses a portable electronic device to support telepresence within a healthcare facility by presenting a user with a list of patients and receiving a user selection of a patient from the patient list. The system automatically selects, from a plurality of telepresence robots, a telepresence robot that can reach the selected patient without traveling through one or more areas indicated as undesirable within the healthcare facility, and does not select another telepresence robot that must travel through the one or more undesirable areas.

After the telepresence robot is automatically selected, the portable electronic device communicatively connects to the selected telepresence robot. The portable electronic device displays a live video feed from a camera of the telepresence robot in a video panel on an electronic display of the electronic device and updates the live video feed as the telepresence robot moves to the selected patient.

The undesirable areas include one or more areas indicated as undesirable within a healthcare facility, including an area with poor wireless connectivity, a confined area, high-traffic areas, sensitive or secure areas, and dangerous areas. The described approach also includes user interface concepts for displaying patient-related information and controlling navigation and driving modes within the remote presence interface.

Claims Coverage

The document includes three independent claims: a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, a telepresence system, and a telepresence method. Across these claims, the coverage centers on automatic selection of a telepresence robot that can reach a selected patient without traveling through undesirable areas, followed by communicative connection and display of an updating live video feed as the robot moves to the patient.

All independent claims converge on automatic selection of a telepresence robot that can reach a selected patient without traveling through one or more undesirable areas, followed by communicative connection and display of a live video feed that is updated as the robot moves to the selected patient.

Stated Advantages

Documented Applications