Integrated Data Management for Genetic Expert Meetings

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Solution Overview

Problem

The coordination of expert meetings involving multiple medical specialists from different facilities to interpret genetic information is labor-intensive due to the need to collect and provide various types of information, such as electronic medical records and test results, which are managed in different systems.

Innovation Solution

An information management system that includes an integrated data management device and terminal devices, allowing for the acceptance, extraction, and transmission of meeting schedules to participating medical specialists, along with the association of test results and clinical information, facilitating the preparation and execution of expert meetings.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If expert meetings are held with multiple specialists from different facilities to interpret genetic information, then the accuracy and comprehensiveness of treatment policy determination is improved, but the coordination effort and labor required to schedule and provide information to all experts increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of treatment policy determinationVSAvoidcoordination effort for expert meeting
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple separate systems (electronic medical record systems, pathological image systems, gene panel test result systems) into a single integrated information management system. This allows all necessary information to be collected and distributed automatically, reducing the manual coordination effort while maintaining comprehensive expert participation for accurate treatment policy determination

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated information management system acts as an intermediary between various data sources and expert participants. It automatically collects information from different facilities, manages the expert meeting schedule, and distributes relevant information to appropriate specialists, thereby reducing direct coordination burden while ensuring accurate information delivery

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If comprehensive information from multiple systems is collected and provided to experts, then the quality of genetic information interpretation is improved, but the time and labor required to gather and distribute this information increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of information provided to expertsVSAvoidtime required to coordinate and provide information
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically collecting and organizing all necessary information (electronic medical records, pathological images, gene panel test results) before the expert meeting takes place. This pre-processing eliminates the need for manual information gathering during the meeting preparation phase, reducing time loss while ensuring complete information availability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated information management system performs self-service by automatically retrieving data from connected systems, organizing it according to meeting requirements, and distributing it to relevant experts. This automated self-service mechanism ensures comprehensive information coverage without requiring manual intervention, thereby reducing the time and labor investment needed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11881318B2Method of supporting interpretation of genetic information by medical specialist, information management system, and integrated data management device
Publication Date: 2024.01.23 SYSMEX CORP
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AI summary

A method of supporting an expert meeting of medical specialists to interpret genetic information, may include: accepting a schedule of the expert meeting; extracting the medical specialists to participate in the expert meeting, the medical specialists stored in association with the accepted schedule of the expert meeting; and transmitting the accepted schedule of the expert meeting to terminal devices of the extracted medical specialists.