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 document describes a remote presence interface (RPI) for telemedicine that presents patient information and supports user selection of a patient. A portable electronic device retrieves a list of patients, selectively displays the list of patients, and receives a user selection of a patient from the patient list for subsequent remote presence operations.

After patient selection, the portable electronic device automatically selects a remote presence device from a plurality of remote presence devices based on proximity to the selected patient and reduction of travel to the selected patient through one or more areas indicated as undesirable areas. The automatic selection includes not selecting another telepresence robot that must travel through the one or more undesirable areas.

The portable electronic device communicatively connects to the automatically 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. The RPI is further described with map-based navigation and destination-based navigation panels, along with graphical user interface features such as toolbars, status bars, picture-in-picture, full-screen video mode, and full-screen data mode.

The document also describes remote telepresence sessions that integrate patient telemetry data and provide a patient monitoring dashboard. Media management for recording, storing, and editing audiovisual data is described, along with notifications and alerts, multi-participant telepresence sessions, care team panels, and help and training overlays.

Claims Coverage

The patent document provides three independent claims (a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, a telepresence system, and a telepresence method). Across the independent claims, there are multiple inventive features centered on patient list presentation and proximity-based remote presence device selection that avoids undesirable areas, followed by connecting to the selected device and displaying a live video feed.

The independent claims consistently require patient-list retrieval and selective display, user selection of a patient, automatic selection of an appropriate remote presence device using proximity while reducing travel via one or more undesirable areas, and then communicating with the selected remote presence device to display a live camera video feed in a video panel.

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