Donor Criteria Alert System for Tissue Eligibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for tissue donation lack real-time notification and integration of electronic health information from multiple sources, resulting in a low donation rate, with only about 2% of potentially eligible tissues being harvested for donation.
Innovation Solution
A computerized system that receives electronic health information, applies exclusionary criteria, and provides near-real-time notifications to clinicians about tissue eligibility for donation by integrating data from various sources, including electronic medical records and third-party systems using formats like FHIR, to identify eligible and ineligible tissues.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a comprehensive system for tracking tissue eligibility is implemented, then the donation rate can be improved, but the system complexity and data integration requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs an intermediary processing layer that receives data from multiple disparate sources (electronic health records, third-party systems, FHIR sources) and transforms it into a standardized format for donation eligibility assessment. This intermediary layer abstracts the complexity of data integration from the core donation management system, allowing clinicians to benefit from comprehensive tissue tracking without directly managing the complex data infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the tissue donation process into distinct functional modules: data collection from multiple sources, data standardization and integration, eligibility criteria application, and notification generation. This segmentation allows each module to be developed and maintained independently, reducing overall system complexity while enabling comprehensive tissue tracking across the entire donation workflow.
2Speed
If real-time notification systems are implemented, then the speed of tissue donation processing improves, but the computational resources and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data standardization and eligibility pre-assessment as data is collected from various sources, rather than processing everything in real-time when a notification is needed. By preparing and validating data in advance, the system can generate rapid notifications when tissue eligibility is determined without the computational overhead of real-time data processing and integration.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive health information from multiple sources is integrated, then the accuracy of tissue eligibility determination improves, but the difficulty of data integration and standardization increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal data interface layer that can receive and standardize information from multiple different sources including electronic health records, third-party systems, and FHIR sources. This universal interface uses standardized data formats and protocols to harmonize diverse data sources, enabling accurate eligibility determination across all information sources without requiring separate integration logic for each source.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and devices in accordance with embodiments automatically provide notifications to clinicians regarding tissue (including organs and fluids) that are eligible or ineligible for donation. In some cases, information about a potential donor is crawled, including from third-party sources, and comprehensive data for a potential donor is automatically analyzed against donor criteria, to provide an alert to remote devices without requiring accessing of full medical records for the potential donor.