AI-Driven East Asian Medicine Patient Analytics

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Solution Overview

Problem

The dynamic and multivariate nature of factors in East Asian Medicine makes it challenging for practitioners to provide accurate and timely diagnostics and recommendations, relying heavily on manual calculations and experience.

Innovation Solution

A system and method utilizing Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning to collect and process patient and environmental data, applying East Asian Medicine principles to provide analytics, diagnostics, and recommendations through convolutional neural networks and wearable sensors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If practitioners rely on manual calculations and experience-based diagnosis, then diagnostic accuracy can be maintained through expert knowledge, but diagnostic efficiency and timeliness deteriorate due to the complex and dynamic nature of multivariate factors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvediagnostic efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual mechanical calculations and human expert analysis with an automated information handling system that uses machine learning algorithms and neural networks to process diagnostic data, thereby improving efficiency while managing complexity through computational automation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-learning through machine learning algorithms that automatically analyze patterns in patient data and environmental factors, enabling the system to improve diagnostic accuracy over time without requiring manual reprogramming or expert intervention for each case

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If practitioners consider all related factors and determine relative environment and time, then diagnostic accuracy improves, but time consumption increases due to the need to process multiple dynamic variables

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvediagnostic accuracyVSAvoiddiagnostic time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system collects and pre-processes environmental data and patient information in advance, preparing datasets before diagnostic needs arise. This preliminary data gathering and organization enables rapid analysis when diagnostic decisions are required, improving both accuracy and speed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The machine learning system continuously learns from diagnostic outcomes and adjusts its algorithms based on feedback from practitioner decisions and patient outcomes, improving diagnostic accuracy over time while maintaining efficient processing through optimized algorithms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If manual data collection and processing is used, then data accuracy can be maintained through practitioner expertise, but productivity deteriorates due to the labor-intensive nature of processing multivariate patient data

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing efficiencyVSAvoiddata processing completeness
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The information handling system is designed to handle multiple types of data simultaneously - patient symptoms, environmental factors, temporal variations, and diagnostic criteria - through a unified processing platform that can analyze all these diverse data types together, improving both efficiency and completeness

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

Data Source

PatentUS20230260650A1Patient Analytics Directed to East Asian Medicine
Publication Date: 2023.08.17 INFINU HEALTH INC
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AI summary

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed that provide patient analytics based East Asian Medicine (EAM) or Oriental Medicine (OM) or principles. Data specific to a patient along with environmental data related to the patient are collected. The collected data is processed using EAM principles through Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML). The collected data is processed with EAM principles and output form AI/ML to provide patient health status over different time intervals. Diagnostics and recommendations are provided based on the AI/ML and symptoms checking.