Anonymous Medical Record Database for Verified Patient Data Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical social networking sites lack trustworthiness due to unverified information and self-selection biases, which undermines the quality of information shared among patients and healthcare professionals.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes an anonymous medical record database linked to terminal devices, allowing verified patient information to be shared securely among patients and physicians, with anonymous identifiers ensuring patient privacy while enabling accurate data exchange and clustering based on medical conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If medical social networking sites allow patient information sharing, then patient support and information exchange are improved, but information trustworthiness and data quality deteriorate due to unverified sources and self-selection bias
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary verification system where healthcare professionals act as mediators to validate patient information before it is shared on the platform. This intermediary layer ensures that only verified medical data from authenticated sources is disseminated, resolving the contradiction between easy information sharing and information reliability.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If anonymous identifiers are used to protect patient privacy, then patient confidentiality is improved, but the ability to verify information sources and ensure data accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the identification system into multiple layers: public anonymous identifiers for privacy protection and private verified identifiers for authentication. This segmentation allows the system to simultaneously protect patient privacy while maintaining the ability to verify information sources through the separate authentication channel.
3Adaptability or versatility
If self-selected patient participation is allowed, then community engagement and support are improved, but information quality and representativeness deteriorate due to selection bias
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where healthcare professionals continuously verify and validate patient information, providing corrective feedback to maintain data quality. This feedback loop ensures that self-selected participation does not compromise information representativeness, as verified data is flagged and unverified data is corrected or removed.
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AI summary
A computerized system provides a set of terminal devices accessible to physicians allowing for the electronic exchange of information through a display and data input device and the server system communicating between the anonymous medical record database and the terminal devices to: (1) allow a searching by a given physician of the anonymous medical record database according to search criteria entered by the given physician to provide a search result of patients; and (2) allow communication by the given physician with at least one patient's physician for a patient in the search result using the anonymous identifier to the patient's physician.