Community Infection Testing Workflow for Group Quarantine Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing infectious disease testing methods are inefficient and fail to prevent the spread of diseases within community groups due to individual deviations, asymptomatic carriers, and lack of collective management and notification systems.
Innovation Solution
A method and computing apparatus for conducting infectious disease tests on a community group level, integrating test results, and providing management and notification systems to health managers, including statistical data and infection indexes for quarantine management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If individual infectious disease testing is conducted based on personal decision, then users can test for infection, but the spread of infectious disease cannot be prevented when users with symptoms or asymptomatic carriers avoid testing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual testing into collective community group testing. By organizing users into community groups and conducting tests collectively, the system ensures that all members are tested together, preventing symptomatic users and asymptomatic carriers from avoiding testing. The health manager receives integrated test results for the entire group, ensuring comprehensive coverage and reliable disease prevention.
2Productivity
If collective community group testing is implemented, then the spread of infectious disease can be quickly blocked, but the complexity of test management and result integration increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a health manager as an intermediary to manage community group testing. The health manager receives test results from multiple users, integrates them into a unified result, and manages quarantine rules. This intermediary simplifies the complexity for individual users while enabling rapid collective response to infectious diseases.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where test results are integrated and communicated back to the health manager, who then applies quarantine rules and manages the community group. This feedback loop enables rapid response to test outcomes, allowing quick blocking of disease spread while maintaining organized management through automated result processing and notification systems.
3Reliability
If test results are integrated and provided to health managers, then effective quarantine management can be achieved, but the system requires complex result processing and notification mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The health manager serves multiple functions: receiving individual test results, integrating them into unified community group results, determining quarantine levels, applying quarantine rules, and notifying users. This multi-functional role consolidates complex processing requirements into a single management entity, improving quarantine effectiveness while organizing system complexity into manageable functions.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a method and computing apparatus for testing a community group for an infectious disease and notifying the test results, and relates to a method and computing apparatus for testing a community group for an infectious disease and notifying the test results so that infectious disease tests are more efficiently conducted and managed within each community group for individuals living in a group at a workplace, a church, a nursing home, or the like.