Healthcare system for providing medical insights

Abstract

To provide healthcare systems and methods, which enable provision of medical insights.SOLUTION: A healthcare system (1) for providing medical insights by receiving medically relevant data (MRD) and providing results of medical algorithms using the medically relevant data (MRD) is provided. The medically relevant data (MRD) comprises quantitative medical data generated based on at least one diagnostic measurement method. The healthcare system (1) comprises two or more medical algorithm modules (3) and a service module (2), and functionalities are separated between the medical algorithm modules (3) and the service module (2).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Claims

1. 1. A healthcare system (1) for receiving medically relevant data (MRD) and providing medical insights by using said medically relevant data (MRD) to provide results of medical algorithms, wherein said medically relevant data (MRD) comprises quantitative medical data generated based on at least one diagnostic measurement method; The healthcare system (1) comprises two or more medical algorithm modules (3) and a service module (2); The medical algorithm module (3) each including a medical algorithm (33), said medical algorithm (33) designed to algorithmically generate a result using medically relevant data (MRD); each hosted in an isolated runtime environment for that medical algorithm (33); Each of the medical algorithm application programming interfaces (30) comprises: receiving medically relevant data (MRD) from outside the medical algorithm module (3) and providing the medically relevant data (MRD) to the medical algorithm (33) of the medical algorithm module (3); and Providing results from said medical algorithm (33) external to said medical algorithm module (3). a medical algorithm application programming interface (30) designed to enable The service module (2) comprises a service application programming interface (20); The service application programming interface (20) providing medically relevant data (MRD) to said medical algorithm module (3); and receiving the results of the medical algorithm from said medical algorithm module (3); designed to interact with said medical algorithm application programming interface (30) to enable The service application programming interface (20) is designed to interact with one or more integration modules (4); and receiving medically relevant data (MRD) from said one or more integration modules (4); providing the results of medical algorithms to said one or more integrated modules (4); and receiving service data (SD) from said one or more integration modules (4); Designed to enable The service module (2) an encryption module (21) designed to decrypt and / or encrypt data; a security module (22) designed to monitor possible security risks to said medical algorithm (33); an authorization module (23) designed to authorize the use of at least one of said medical algorithms (33) using the received service data (SD); an activity tracking module (24) designed to record at least some activities associated with said medical algorithm (33); A healthcare system (1) that includes:

2. 2. The healthcare system (1) of claim 1, wherein the medical algorithms (33) of the two or more medical algorithm modules (3) of the healthcare system (1) are designed to process quantitative medical data.

3. The healthcare system (1) of claim 1 or 2, wherein none of the medical algorithm modules (3) comprises encryption / decryption, security, authorization, or activity tracking functionality.

4. Each of the medical algorithm modules (3) comprises a medical algorithm graphical user interface (38), the medical algorithm graphical user interface (38) comprising: A user inputs medically relevant data (MRD) into the medical algorithm module (3) and provides the medically relevant data (MRD) to the medical algorithm (33) of the medical algorithm module (3); and Displaying the results from said medical algorithm (33).

3. A healthcare system (1) according to claim 1 or 2, designed to enable:

5. The service module (2) comprises at least one additional service sub-module (25), the at least one additional service sub-module (25) being: a medical algorithm catalogue database (25a) designed to provide information related to said medical algorithms available via said healthcare system (1); a medical algorithm search module (25b) designed to search for the medical algorithms available via the healthcare system (1); a product labeling information module (25c) designed to provide product labeling information regarding and / or by each manufacturer of the medical algorithms available via the healthcare system (1); a user management module (25d) designed to manage user access to the medical algorithms available through the healthcare system (1); a billing module (25e) designed to manage billing information relating to the use of at least one of said medical algorithms available via said healthcare system (1); a subscription module (25f) designed to manage subscriptions for using at least one of the medical algorithms available via the healthcare system (1); a usage statistics module (25g) designed to provide usage statistics; a resource management module (25h) designed to allocate computing and / or networking resources to components of said healthcare system (1); a resource monitoring module (25i) designed to monitor computing and / or networking resources within said healthcare system (1); a usage prediction module (25j) designed to predict future usage of the medical algorithm module (3) and to initiate and / or terminate the medical algorithm module (3) according to said prediction of future usage; and a general input validation module (25k) designed for general validation of the medically relevant data (MRD) provided to the healthcare system (1); 3. The healthcare system (1) according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the healthcare system (1) is one or more of:

6. 3. The healthcare system (1) according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the service module (2) is designed to process the medically relevant data (MRD) and the results of the medical algorithm without adding any medical value to the medically relevant data (MRD) or the results of the medical algorithm.

7. 6. The healthcare system (1) of claim 5, wherein the healthcare system (1) is designed such that the isolated runtime environment of a medical algorithm module (3) does not have direct access to the computing and / or networking resources of the isolated runtime environment of any other medical algorithm module (3).

8. 3. The healthcare system (1) according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the healthcare system (1) is designed such that the medical algorithm modules (3) can communicate with each other via the service modules (2).

9. The healthcare system (1) comprises at least one medical algorithm adapter (6) designed to connect with an external medical algorithm (73) contained in an external application (7), the medical algorithm adapter (6) comprising: receiving medically related data (MRD) from said service module (2); Providing medically relevant data (MRD) to said external application (7); receiving the results of the external medical algorithm (73) from the external application (7); and Providing the results of said external medical algorithm (73) to said service module (2).

3. The healthcare system of claim 1, further comprising an adapter application programming interface (60) designed to enable:

10. A healthcare system (1) according to claim 1, A combination (100) of a healthcare system with an integration module (4), comprising: The integrated module (4) providing medically relevant data (MRD) to said healthcare system (1); receiving the results of a medical algorithm from the healthcare system (1); Providing service data (SD) to the healthcare system (1) A combination healthcare system (100) comprising an integrated module interface (40, 48) designed to:

11. The healthcare system combination (100) of claim 10, wherein the healthcare system (1) and the integration module (4) are in a shared secure network (11).

12. The healthcare system combination (100) of claim 10, wherein the healthcare system (1) is in a first protected network (11) and the integration module (4) is in a second protected network (41).

13. A medical algorithm module (3) designed as one of the two or more medical algorithm modules (3) of each of the healthcare systems (1) of the combination of healthcare systems (100) according to claim 10.

14. A method for operating a healthcare system (1) according to claim 1 or one of the healthcare system combinations (100) according to claim 10, comprising: The method comprises: receiving, by said service application programming interface (20), encrypted medically related data (MRD) and service data (SD), wherein said service data (SD) includes an indication that a result of a medical algorithm (33) of said healthcare system (1) based on said medically related data (MRD) is ordered, said medical algorithm (33) being referred to as said ordered medical algorithm (33); decrypting, by said encryption module (21), said encrypted medically relevant data (MRD) received; monitoring, by the security module (22), at least the ordered medical algorithm (33) for possible security risks; authorizing the use of the ordered medical algorithm (33) by said authorization module (23) and using said received service data (SD); providing the received medically related data (MRD) by the service application programming interface (20) to the medical algorithm application programming interface (30) of at least one medical algorithm module (3) containing the ordered medical algorithm (33), which medical algorithm module (3) provides the received medically related data (MRD) to the selected medical algorithm module (3); providing the received medically relevant data (MRD) to the medical algorithm (33) of the selected medical algorithm module (3) by the medical algorithm application programming interface (30) of the selected medical algorithm module (3); algorithmically generating a result by the ordered medical algorithm (33) of the selected medical algorithm module (3) and using the received medically relevant data (MRD), this result being called the ordered result; providing the ordered results to the medical algorithm application programming interface (30) of the selected medical algorithm module (3) by the ordered medical algorithm (33) of the selected medical algorithm module (3); providing the ordered results to the service application programming interface (20) by the medical algorithm application programming interface (30) of the selected medical algorithm module (3); recording, by the activity tracking module (24), at least some activities associated with the ordered medical algorithm; A method comprising:

15. The method comprises: encrypting said ordered result by said encryption module (21); providing the encrypted ordered results to an integration module (4); 15. The method of claim 14 for operating the healthcare system (1), further comprising:

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