Centralized Healthcare Database for Chronic Care Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
The healthcare system faces inefficiencies due to uncoordinated care among multiple providers, overutilization of resources, and wasteful practices, particularly in managing complex and chronic conditions, where patients' data is fractured and decentralized, leading to suboptimal treatment and increased costs.
Innovation Solution
A method that centralizes patient healthcare information, allowing coordinated care through a network of providers, with remote screening and home-based treatment options, using a database that aggregates data from various sources and updates it regularly, enabling efficient management of chronic conditions and reducing unnecessary facility visits.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If healthcare is administered through multiple brick and mortar facilities, then patients receive treatment from specialized providers, but patient data becomes fractured and decentralized leading to uncoordinated care
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges data from multiple brick and mortar facilities into a single centralized database that all providers access. This allows specialized care from different providers while maintaining unified patient information, resolving the contradiction between specialized treatment and data fragmentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized database acts as an intermediary between multiple healthcare providers and patient data. It consolidates information from various facilities and makes it accessible to all providers, enabling coordinated care without requiring physical centralization of facilities.
2Ease of operation
If patients seek treatment at traditional facilities based on self-assessment, then they receive in-person care, but healthcare resources are overutilized with many unnecessary visits
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary remote screening via telehealth before patients visit brick and mortar facilities. This preliminary assessment determines whether in-person visits are necessary, reducing unnecessary resource utilization while maintaining easy patient access to care when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the healthcare delivery process into remote screening (via telehealth) and in-person treatment (at facilities). This segmentation allows triage of patients, directing only those who need physical examination to facilities, thereby reducing resource waste while maintaining accessibility.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple healthcare providers treat the same patient independently, then patients receive comprehensive care for different conditions, but providers lack access to each other's medical records and vital information
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized database provides universal access to all healthcare providers treating a patient, regardless of which facility or specialization they represent. This single system serves multiple functions: storing records, enabling communication, and supporting various providers simultaneously, thus maintaining comprehensive care while ensuring information accessibility.
4Loss of energy
If home-based care is promoted to conserve resources, then healthcare resource utilization decreases, but ensuring high-quality care and appropriate treatment decisions becomes more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized database acts as an intermediary that enables high-quality home-based care by providing providers with complete patient information regardless of where care is delivered. This ensures that even when care occurs at home rather than in facilities, providers have access to all necessary medical records and can make informed treatment decisions.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention discloses substantially more efficient and effective methods for delivering healthcare whereby patient care can be coordinated effectively and efficiently through changes in different physical settings and levels of care. Coordinated care helps ensure that patients seeking healthcare, and in particular chronically ill patients, with comorbidities get timely care to avoid unnecessary emergency room visits and admissions. Through risk and disease stratification, member profiling, interdisciplinary team follow-up and patient education, the methods of the present invention are operative to effectively allocate available resources, formulate and execute individualized care plans and successfully manage high risk members.