Blockchain Mediator for Unified Electronic Medical Records
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic medical records systems face challenges in providing consistent and unified access to patient data across disparate databases, leading to issues with data availability and reliability, especially in healthcare settings where timely access to multiple sources of information is critical for diagnosis and treatment.
Innovation Solution
The Unity server creates a virtual environment that unifies disparate databases, allowing access based on context rather than location or structure, using context translators to enable applications to access data without knowing where it is stored, and automatically rerouting data to ensure continuous access even if one database goes offline.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data is stored in disparate databases across different locations, then data availability and accessibility improve, but data consistency and reliability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a blockchain-based intermediary layer that mediates between disparate databases. This blockchain network acts as a trusted mediator that records and verifies data transactions, ensuring data consistency and reliability across distributed databases without requiring centralized control. The blockchain's immutable ledger provides a reliable reference that all participating systems can trust.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple disparate databases into a unified blockchain-based data ecosystem. By merging the trust and verification mechanisms of blockchain with the data storage capabilities of distributed databases, the system achieves both data accessibility and consistency simultaneously. The blockchain layer unifies the trust model across previously siloed database systems.
2Device complexity
If traditional database interfaces are used to access patient records, then system simplicity is maintained, but integration across multiple databases becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal blockchain-based interface that can access and integrate data from multiple different database types and locations through a single standardized protocol. This universal interface eliminates the need for separate integration interfaces for each database, reducing both system complexity and integration time while maintaining the ability to work with diverse data sources.
3Speed
If data access is based on knowing where and how data is stored, then direct access efficiency is improved, but system adaptability to changing data locations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic data access system where the blockchain network dynamically routes data requests to the appropriate data sources. Instead of static access paths, the system uses smart contracts and blockchain-based routing mechanisms that can adaptively direct requests to wherever data is currently stored, maintaining fast access speeds while being flexible to data location changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The blockchain network provides real-time feedback about data location and availability to accessing systems. Through the immutable ledger and smart contract mechanisms, the system continuously updates information about where data is stored and how to access it, enabling fast and adaptive data retrieval without requiring accessing systems to know predetermined data locations.
4Device complexity
If centralized database control is used, then data management simplicity is maintained, but system reliability and fault tolerance deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized database control model into distributed autonomous nodes connected by a blockchain network. Each node maintains its own data and control, eliminating single points of failure. The blockchain provides a segmented yet coordinated management structure where each participant manages their own data while the network ensures overall consistency, achieving both simplicity and reliability.
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AI summary
A community electronic medical record provides access to a patient's records. A unity server of the present invention allows a user to enter a query requesting the information that a medical provider needs such as past history, allergies, billing information, and other medical data that may be related to the patient. The unity server queries at least one database, preferably many, to access the patient's records relevant to the provider's query. The unity server retrieves information from multiple sources to provide increased information for treatment of the patient.