Disease Progression Map for Proactive Treatment Planning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current health treatment plans are largely reactive and lack a clear understanding of disease progression, making it difficult for physicians to administer appropriate treatments and for patients to plan for future expenses and complications, while also hindering health insurance companies and researchers in providing effective assistance and developing better treatment protocols.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and system that generates a health profile for individuals, using a disease progression map to determine their current state and display a graphical representation of disease progression, including modules for automatic profile generation, question prediction, cost analysis, treatment protocol determination, and co-morbidity identification.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If treatment plans are reactive (treating only presented symptoms), then immediate treatment can be provided, but disease progression cannot be predicted and preventive treatments cannot be planned

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime for disease progression predictionVSAvoidinformation about disease progression
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by establishing complete disease progression maps before they are needed for clinical decision-making. These maps pre-document all possible disease states, transitions, and treatments in advance, allowing the system to quickly determine current disease status and predict future progression without losing time when a patient presents.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the complete disease progression model and compares the patient's actual health data against this reference copy. By copying the established disease progression map and overlaying patient-specific data, the system can rapidly determine where the patient stands in the progression and what future states are likely, without needing to observe the entire progression in real-time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Loss of information

If comprehensive disease progression maps are created, then complete disease understanding is achieved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of disease informationVSAvoidcomplexity of disease progression map
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex disease progression information into distinct, manageable components: disease states, transitions between states, treatments, and patient health data. Each segment can be independently processed and stored, making the overall complex information structure easier to manage and query while maintaining completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary layer - the disease progression map structure itself - that mediates between the raw complexity of medical knowledge and the simple query needs of clinicians. This intermediary organizes comprehensive disease information into a standardized format with defined states and transitions, allowing complex information to be accessed through simple comparisons without exposing the underlying complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of time

If disease progression maps are established for all diseases, then proactive treatment planning is enabled, but data storage requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime for treatment planningVSAvoiddata storage capacity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies universality by creating disease progression maps that serve multiple functions simultaneously: they document disease natural history, guide treatment decisions, predict future progression, and enable proactive planning. This multi-functionality justifies the data storage investment, as the same comprehensive data structure supports numerous clinical applications without requiring separate systems for each function.

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

Data Source

PatentUS10593001B2Apparatus, system and method for generating and displaying a treatment protocol
Publication Date: 2020.03.17 OPTUMINSIGHT
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AI summary

A relationship management device and method providing a user interface containing treatment protocol for an individual comprising: (a) a user interface electrically connected with a data storage device; (b) a server electrically connected with the user interface and the data storage device; and (c) a treatment processor electrically connected with the server, wherein the treatment processor is configured to generate an optimized treatment protocol for the individual.