Granular Data Element Ownership for Healthcare Record Privacy

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing data management systems fail to effectively correlate and manage diverse healthcare data types from wearable devices and electronic medical records while ensuring privacy and appropriate access, as they lack mechanisms for individualized data ownership and access permissions.

Innovation Solution

A data management system that attributes ownership to individual data elements within a record data object, allowing for secure access control and transfer of ownership, and generates consolidated user interfaces based on user identities and access rights, ensuring that only authorized data is accessible.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If centralized data storage is used to consolidate healthcare data from multiple sources, then data correlation and accessibility are improved, but data privacy and security are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata correlation capabilityVSAvoiddata privacy risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments data access permissions at the individual data element level rather than applying uniform access control to entire records. Each data element within a record data object can have its own ownership and access permissions, allowing the system to consolidate diverse healthcare data while maintaining granular privacy control. This enables different users to access different portions of the same record based on their authorization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements local quality by assigning differential access permissions to different data elements within the same record. The access control mechanism evaluates permissions locally at each data element level, allowing the system to provide customized access rights for specific data portions while maintaining overall data consolidation. This resolves the contradiction by enabling centralized storage with localized privacy protection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Device complexity

If uniform access control is applied to entire medical records, then data security is simplified, but individual data element privacy cannot be protected

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess control mechanismVSAvoiddata accessibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides access control into segmented permissions for individual data elements rather than applying a single uniform access rule to entire records. The system maintains a permission structure that evaluates access rights at the data element level, allowing fine-grained control over which portions of records are accessible to which users while keeping the overall access control framework manageable.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent adds a new dimension to access control by introducing data element-level permissions as an additional layer beyond traditional record-level access. This dimensional expansion allows the system to maintain simple record-level authorization while implementing complex granular control through the overlay of element-specific permissions, thereby protecting data accessibility without excessive complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Adaptability or versatility

If data ownership is transferred to enable sharing, then data collaboration is improved, but unauthorized access risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata sharing capabilityVSAvoidaccess authorization

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by establishing and evaluating access permissions before any data transfer or sharing occurs. The system requires that appropriate access rights be configured and validated for each data element prior to enabling sharing capabilities. This preliminary permission setup ensures that data collaboration can proceed while maintaining authorization integrity and preventing unauthorized access.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor and enforce access permissions during data sharing operations. The system evaluates permission configurations and provides feedback to ensure that data transfers comply with established access rights, thereby maintaining reliability and preventing unauthorized access while enabling legitimate collaboration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11593348B2Programmatically managing partial data ownership and access to record data objects stored in network accessible databases

Publication Date: 2023.02.28 OPTUM INC

AI summary

Data ownership of a single record data object comprising a plurality of individual data elements may be distributed across a plurality of users, such that each individual user is capable of separately controlling access to those data elements for which the data owner has ownership privileges. These data ownership privileges, and corresponding access rights which may be individually provided by distinct data owners, is managed by a data management computing entity such that a single composite user interface may be generated for a user viewing a particular record data object such that the viewer is provided with viewing access to only those data elements for which the viewer has access. Thus, separate user interfaces may be generated and provided for different viewers accessing the same record data object.