CE Management Platform Using Rules Engine for Compliance Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Healthcare providers face complexities in managing continuing education (CE) requirements due to varying state, board, and institution-level regulations, asynchronous timelines, lack of customization in existing computer systems, and insufficient guidance, leading to errors in tracking and compliance.

Innovation Solution

A centralized system that aggregates CE rules and regulations, uses algorithms to determine user-specific requirements, and presents personalized recommendations through a task-driven dashboard, integrating user preferences and metadata for efficient CE content management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional computer systems provide static web pages listing license requirements, then the system structure is simple, but the system lacks customization and cannot determine course relevance to user requirements

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates personalized CE recommendations by having the algorithm independently analyze user profiles, track completion status, and match courses to requirements without manual intervention, enabling the system to serve itself in creating customized content

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes multiple parameters including user-specific requirements, course relevance scores, completion status, and recommendation priorities to generate personalized CE pathways that adapt to each user's unique situation and progress

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If the system tracks multiple CE requirements across different licenses and certifications, then compliance accuracy improves, but the complexity of tracking and data management increases exponentially

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance accuracyVSAvoidtracking complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments complex CE tracking into discrete manageable components including individual tasks, specific credit requirements, separate deadline tracking, and modular course recommendations, allowing each element to be tracked independently while maintaining overall compliance

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary algorithm that acts as a mediator between multiple license requirements and course offerings, automatically matching and coordinating diverse CE requirements across different licenses through centralized intelligent processing

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system provides comprehensive CE management across multiple jurisdictions, then the applicability and versatility increase, but the data completeness and control requirements increase severely

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemulti-jurisdiction applicabilityVSAvoiddata completeness

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a universal CE management platform that handles multiple jurisdictions, license types, and certification requirements through a single integrated system, allowing one system to perform multiple functions across diverse regulatory environments

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors and tracks user progress, completion status, and remaining requirements, providing real-time feedback to both users and administrators to maintain accurate data completeness and enable proactive compliance management

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

4Productivity

If the system offers personalized course recommendations based on user requirements, then productivity and efficiency improve, but the computational complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveCE management efficiencyVSAvoidalgorithm complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing user profile data, pre-calculating requirement matchings, and pre-organizing course recommendations before users need them, reducing real-time computational complexity while maintaining high productivity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20230064041A1Systems and methods for improving efficiency in continuing education management

Publication Date: 2023.03.02 MY MOC INC DBA MOCINGBIRD

AI summary

Systems and methods for improving efficiency in continuing education management may include a cloud-based continuing education (CE) management platform customized for the user to streamline end-to-end CE management. The system may accept license and certification information from the end user and utilize a rules engine and a CE content library database to generate a task-driven dashboard with personalized CE content recommendations as output for the end user. The systems and methods may include the conversion of a regulation into a standardized task component structure that may enable task generation with specific due dates and credit calculations. The systems may include an additional layer of metadata created for each element of CE content in the system to identify course relevance to a rules task via keywords.