Unified EHR Platform for Multi-Party Healthcare Data Integrity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current healthcare information management systems in multi-party networks are flawed due to separate data storage by each entity, leading to duplicated data, complex integrations, and lack of a single version of truth, making it inefficient and costly to maintain and synchronize patient information across various healthcare providers.
Innovation Solution
A computer program and system that utilizes a shared database on a service provider's computer, enabling secure access and updates to patient data across a multi-party healthcare network, ensuring a single version of truth through encryption and permissions-based access, with support for standards like FHIR, HL7, and HIPAA, and a platform-as-a-service solution for managing electronic health records.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If each healthcare entity maintains its own separate system and database, then each entity has control over its own data and systems, but this results in data duplication, complex integrations, and multiple versions of the truth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges separate healthcare entity systems into a unified cloud-based platform where all entities share a common data infrastructure. Instead of maintaining separate databases, the system consolidates data storage and management while allowing entities to retain access control over their specific data through security permissions and authentication mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a cloud-based intermediary platform that mediates between healthcare entities and their data. This intermediary manages data storage, security, and access control, eliminating the need for direct point-to-point integrations between entities while maintaining data integrity and entity autonomy through centralized security management.
2Adaptability or versatility
If healthcare entities integrate their systems with many other entities in the network, then data can be shared across the network, but this requires n2 integrations leading to additional time and expense
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal cloud-based platform that serves all healthcare entities through a single integration point. The system provides multi-functional capabilities including data storage, security management, and access control through standardized APIs, allowing any entity to share data with any other entity without requiring individual integration for each pair.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud platform acts as a universal intermediary that handles all data sharing requests between entities. Instead of requiring n2 direct integrations, the intermediary manages all connections through a centralized architecture, reducing the integration complexity from quadratic to linear scaling.
3Reliability
If separate databases are used to maintain data across entities, then each entity can store its own data, but this results in duplicated data and the need to periodically synchronize between databases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate databases into a single centralized cloud-based database that all entities access. This eliminates data duplication by storing each data element once in a unified structure, while maintaining data availability through cloud-based access controls and authentication mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous data access and updating capabilities through the cloud platform, eliminating the need for periodic synchronization. Data is continuously available to all authorized entities in real-time, with changes immediately reflected across the network without requiring manual or automated synchronization cycles.
4Adaptability or versatility
If distributed databases are used, then data can be stored across multiple computers, but this requires all participants to use the same database software and leads to high coupling
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-based intermediary layer that abstracts the database infrastructure from healthcare entities. This intermediary handles all data storage and retrieval operations, allowing entities to access distributed data through standardized APIs without requiring knowledge of or compatibility with specific database software implementations.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud platform provides a universal data access interface that works with multiple backend database systems. The system maintains data distribution across multiple computers for reliability and performance while presenting a unified access model to all entities, eliminating software compatibility requirements through standardized communication protocols.
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AI summary
A system, computer program product and method for healthcare information management in a multi-party healthcare network. The system includes a plurality of remote computers, a central server, a network interface in communication with the central server and the plurality of remote computers over a network, and a shared database in communication with the central server. The central server is configured to receive patient data for a patient, create an electronic health record for the patient on the shared database of the service provider computer, encrypt the electronic health record, associate a plurality of security permissions with the electronic health record, provide access to the electronic health record to a plurality of remote computers via the multi-party healthcare network based on the relevant security permission for each of the respective plurality of remote computers, receive changes to the patient data for the patient from at least one of the plurality of remote computers, and update the electronic health record for the patient based on the changes to the patient data for the patient. The electronic health record includes the patient data. A single version of the truth exists for the electronic health record for all parties in the multi-party healthcare network.