Medical Provider Database Gateway for EHR Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in accessing and managing their electronic health records (EHRs) across multiple health institutions due to different EHR systems and data inconsistencies, requiring multiple logins and limited visibility of their complete medical history.
Innovation Solution
A system that enables users to search and connect to multiple EHR systems through a gateway, normalizing data formats and allowing download of health records to user devices, using medical term expressions for uniform representation and indexing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple EHR systems are used to maintain health records across different health institutions, then the completeness of medical history is improved, but data consistency and accessibility deteriorate due to different data formats and multiple login requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a gateway system that acts as an intermediary between user devices and multiple EHR systems. This gateway normalizes data from different EHR systems into a unified format, allowing users to access their complete medical history across multiple institutions through a single interface without needing to log into each system separately.
Solution Approach 2:
The gateway system provides universal access to multiple EHR systems through a single unified interface. It handles authentication, data normalization, and record retrieval across different EHR systems, enabling one system to perform multiple functions that would otherwise require separate systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple EHR systems are maintained by different organizations, then the coverage of health institutions is improved, but system complexity increases due to multiple connections and authentication mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway serves as a mediating layer between user devices and multiple EHR systems, managing authentication and data retrieval. This intermediary approach allows the system to handle multiple EHR system connections and authentication mechanisms without exposing this complexity to the end user, who interacts with a single simplified interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates normalized copies of health records from different EHR systems in a unified format. Instead of requiring users to access multiple original systems directly, the gateway retrieves and normalizes data into a consistent representation that can be accessed through a single interface.
3Loss of information
If data from multiple EHR systems is accessed, then the comprehensiveness of patient records is improved, but data inconsistencies arise due to different data formats and normalization challenges
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway system applies parameter changes by normalizing data from different EHR systems into a unified format. It transforms varying data structures, schemas, and representations from multiple sources into a consistent standardized format, ensuring data consistency while maintaining comprehensiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system achieves homogeneity by normalizing heterogeneous data from multiple EHR systems into a unified consistent format. This allows data from diverse sources to be represented uniformly, enabling consistent processing and access while preserving the comprehensiveness of the aggregated medical history.
Data Source
AI summary
Information about a medical provider's locations, brands, and gateways can be received (e.g., via an online portal). This information can be used to generate a data object that represents relationships between the locations, the brands, and the gateways. This data object can be maintained in a database base that is searchable by a user device. For example, a user of the user device may search the database to identify a medical provider where the user obtains care. Once identified, other systems can be used to connect the user device to a gateway associated with the medical provider in order to download electronic health record data associated with the user.