Host-Client Diabetes Data Sharing System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current diabetes care systems lack an efficient and integrated solution for managing and analyzing diabetes care data across multiple platforms, making it difficult for diabetics and healthcare professionals to track and share relevant health information effectively.

Innovation Solution

A host-client data sharing system is implemented, featuring a web-based host database for storing and analyzing diabetes care data, with a client-resident database on personal devices, enabling secure data sharing, synchronization, and generation of customizable reports, including graphical and text-based analyses.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a host-client data sharing system is implemented for managing diabetes care data, then data management efficiency and analysis capability are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata management efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system is divided into distinct components: a host database system for centralized data storage and population-level analysis, client databases on personal devices for local data management, and a data warehouse component for advanced analytics. Each component operates independently but communicates through standardized interfaces, allowing the complex functionality to be distributed and managed in manageable segments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A data warehouse component serves as an intermediary between the host database and analytical tools. This intermediate layer aggregates data from multiple sources, applies security mechanisms, and provides processed information to analysts, simplifying the interaction between diverse data sources and analysis requirements while maintaining system efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If secure data sharing and synchronization are enabled across multiple platforms, then care coordination between patients and healthcare professionals is improved, but data security requirements and system overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecare coordinationVSAvoiddata security overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Security mechanisms are implemented at the data warehouse component level before data is accessed or shared. Data is pre-processed, authenticated, and authorized at this intermediate stage, ensuring that security requirements are met before data reaches end users or healthcare professionals, thereby reducing the security burden on individual client devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The host database system provides universal access and synchronization capabilities across multiple platforms (personal computers, portable devices, healthcare professional systems). A single centralized host system handles authentication, data sharing permissions, and synchronization protocols for all clients, eliminating the need for each device to implement complex security independently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Measurement precision

If customizable reports with multiple selection criteria and pattern recognition are generated, then diagnostic accuracy and insights are improved, but data processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvediagnostic accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The data warehouse component pre-processes and aggregates diabetes care data from multiple sources before analytical queries are executed. Data is organized, cleaned, and structured in advance, allowing pattern recognition algorithms and reporting tools to work with pre-prepared datasets rather than raw data, significantly reducing processing time while maintaining diagnostic accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates summarized copies and aggregated views of diabetes care data at the data warehouse level. Instead of processing all raw glucose readings, insulin dosages, and patient records for every analytical query, the system uses pre-computed summaries and statistical representations that preserve diagnostic information while reducing computational requirements and processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS10963417B2Systems and methods for managing diabetes care data
Publication Date: 2021.03.30 ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC
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AI summary

A host-client data sharing system manages diabetes care data. A host database, preferably web or internet based, is implemented for storing diabetes care data relating to multiple diabetics. A client or local database stores the diabetes care data relating to multiple diabetics on a personal appliance such as a PC, or a portable or handheld microprocessor-based computing device. The host database uses multiple servers for handling client interactions with the system.