Cloud IFU Interface Integration for Implantable Device Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical facility information systems lack the ability to provide standardized, on-demand, and centralized implantable medical device instruction for use (IFU) information across various medical facilities, practitioners, and manufacturers, while ensuring patient data privacy and reducing logistical burdens on manufacturers.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based system integrating data from multiple data sources to enable a medical facility information system (HIS) to provide IFUs on-demand, with user interfaces allowing access to IFU information and contact details for implantable medical devices, while ensuring patient data privacy and reducing computational burdens on manufacturers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If IFU information is provided to multiple third party data stores by manufacturers, then information availability to medical facilities improves, but logistical and computational burden on manufacturers increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized third-party data store (medical facility information system) that acts as an intermediary between manufacturers and medical facilities. This mediator consolidates IFU information in a single location, eliminating the need for manufacturers to distribute information to multiple data stores while ensuring information is readily available to all medical facilities that need it.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized data store serves multiple functions: it stores IFU information from various manufacturers, provides on-demand access to medical practitioners, maintains information current across all users, and protects patient privacy. This universal system replaces multiple specialized distribution channels that manufacturers would otherwise need to maintain.
2Device complexity
If IFU information is centralized in a single data store, then manufacturer burden is reduced, but information accessibility to multiple medical facilities decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-loads and stores comprehensive IFU information in the centralized data store before any medical practitioner needs it. This preliminary action ensures that when a practitioner requests information, it is immediately available without requiring real-time generation or distribution from the manufacturer, thus maintaining fast access while simplifying manufacturer operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized system creates and maintains copies of IFU information in a standardized format that can be rapidly retrieved and delivered to any number of medical facilities simultaneously. This copying mechanism allows single-source information to be efficiently distributed to unlimited users without increasing manufacturer burden.
3Reliability
If on-demand IFU information is provided to medical practitioners, then information currency and relevance improves, but system complexity and data management burden increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the centralized data store tracks information requests from medical practitioners and automatically updates or refreshes IFU content based on usage patterns and manufacturer updates. This feedback loop ensures information remains current and relevant without requiring complex manual management, as the system self-adjusts based on actual needs.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure enables a cloud computing instance containing a first program and a first relational database managed by the first program. The first relational database stores a set of data for an implantable medical device containing an identifier of the implantable medical device, an instruction on use of the implantable medical device associated with the identifier, and a set of contact information for the implantable medical device associated with the identifier. The cloud computing instance further includes an object storage storing a set of artifacts sourced from the set of data for the implantable medical device containing the identifier of the implantable medical device, the instruction on use of the implantable medical device associated with the identifier, and the set of contact information for the implantable medical device associated with the identifier; and a logical unit containing a second program and a second relational database managed by the second program.