Human-Centric EHR System Data Privacy Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic health record (EHR) systems fragment patient data across multiple sources, making comprehensive medical history inaccessible, and lack secure and user-friendly authentication processes, leading to patient uncertainty and anxiety regarding medical results.
Innovation Solution
A Human-Centric EHR system that allows patients to manage their data through a server arrangement with a data privacy configurator GUI, enabling fine-grained control over data access, secure authentication, and secure communication of medical results.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If patient data is stored at multiple distributed sources, then data confidentiality and security are maintained through decentralization, but comprehensive medical history becomes inaccessible and data fragmentation occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized EHR system that acts as an intermediary between distributed data sources and users. This central system aggregates data from multiple sources (physicians, pharmacies, HMOs, patients) while maintaining security through controlled access mechanisms, thus resolving the contradiction between decentralization security and centralized accessibility
2Reliability
If authentication processes require multiple steps and increased complexity, then security of confidential data is improved, but user-friendliness and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service authentication mechanisms where users can register their own biometric data (fingerprints, voice patterns) and manage their own access credentials. This eliminates the need for complex multi-step authentication processes while maintaining high security through biometric verification, thus resolving the contradiction between security and ease of operation
3Reliability
If third parties require consent from patients for each data source and must access multiple sources separately, then data confidentiality is maintained, but the process becomes tedious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple distributed data sources into a single centralized EHR system that provides unified access to all patient information. Third parties can obtain comprehensive patient data through a single access point after one authorization process, eliminating the need to separately access multiple sources while maintaining confidentiality through centralized access control mechanisms
4Reliability
If patients must wait for physicians to contact them about medical results, then physician control over information release is maintained, but patient uncertainty and anxiety increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where patients receive automatic notifications when their medical results are available in the EHR system. The system continuously monitors and notifies patients of status changes, providing them with real-time information access while physicians retain control over what data is released and when, thus resolving the contradiction between control and patient accessibility
Data Source
AI summary
A method to manage exposure of confidential user information in a user data record to a third party, the method comprising providing an electronic record system managed by a server arrangement, the server arrangement being configured to interact with a user device associated with the user, implementing with the server arrangement a data privacy configurator including a GUI allowing the user at the user device to specify data access parameters, the data access parameters distinguishing between first data in the user data record that the user is willing to expose to a third party from second data in the user data record that the user is not willing to expose to the third party, in response to a request received at the server arrangement to communicate user data from the user data record to the third party, processing the user data record according to the data access parameters to allow the third party to access the first data while precluding the third party to access the second data.