Drug Delivery Data Capture With Irreversible Readout Disable
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing drug delivery systems face challenges in securely managing and protecting sensitive administration data, particularly after the end of their lifecycle, as disposable devices are discarded without ensuring unauthorized use of captured data is prevented.
Innovation Solution
An electronically-controlled capturing system with a data reading disabling unit that switches to an activated state, irreversibly preventing data access or communication, often by disconnecting or corrupting the processing unit and storage, ensuring data remains inaccessible after the device's lifecycle.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If data capturing systems are integrated into disposable drug delivery devices, then administration data can be collected and monitored, but sensitive data may be accessed by unauthorized persons after the device is discarded
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by implementing a data reading disabling unit that is activated before the device is discarded. This unit irreversibly prevents data access by corrupting or disconnecting the storage unit, processing unit, or both, ensuring that sensitive administration data cannot be accessed after the device reaches its end-of-life, thus preventing unauthorized data access before disposal occurs
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the state of the data storage and processing components by transitioning them from an accessible state to an inaccessible state. The data reading disabling unit modifies parameters such as connectivity between storage and processing units, or the integrity of stored data, transforming the system from data-accessible to data-protected after activation
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the data reading disabling unit is activated to prevent unauthorized access, then data security is improved, but the ability to retrieve data for legitimate purposes is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by implementing a data reading disabling unit that is activated before the device is discarded. This unit irreversibly prevents data access by corrupting or disconnecting the storage unit, processing unit, or both, ensuring that sensitive administration data cannot be accessed after the device reaches its end-of-life, thus preventing unauthorized data access before disposal occurs
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies preliminary anti-action by implementing measures that prevent future unauthorized access. The data reading disabling unit is designed to permanently block data retrieval operations, counteracting any potential future attempts to access the data by making the storage or processing components inaccessible or corrupted
Data Source
AI summary
An electronically-controlled capturing system for capturing data representing an amount of a drug expelled or discharged from a drug reservoir includes an electronic circuit including an electric energy unit, a processing unit operable by electric power obtained from the electric energy unit and operable to acquire data, and an electronic storage unit connected to the processing unit and configured to store the acquired data. The processing unit is operable to write the acquired data in the storage unit and is operable to read and provide the stored data from the electronic storage unit. The capturing system also includes a data reading disabling unit operably connected to the processing unit, the electronic storage unit and/or the electric energy unit. The data reading disabling unit is switchable into an activated state, in which the data reading disabling unit persistently prevents readout or providing of stored data from the electronic storage unit.