Graph Embedding for Healthcare Provider Matching Accuracy

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing healthcare systems lack an efficient method to predict and recommend suitable healthcare facilities or providers for specific medical procedures based on complex relationships between various healthcare entities, leading to suboptimal decision-making and resource utilization.

Innovation Solution

A graph-based framework using graph embedding and machine learning to analyze healthcare data, transforming it into vectors to capture relationships between patients, providers, and facilities, enabling probability predictions and recommendations for medical procedures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If graph-based framework with embedding is applied to capture complex relationships between healthcare entities, then measurement precision and analysis accuracy are improved, but device complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of matching patients with healthcare facilitiesVSAvoidcomplexity of graph-based framework
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Graph embedding serves as an intermediary technique that transforms complex graph data into lower-dimensional vector representations. This mediator converts the complex relationship structure into a form that machine learning models can efficiently process, resolving the contradiction by introducing a transformation layer that preserves relationship information while reducing computational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the data representation parameters by converting high-dimensional graph structures into lower-dimensional embedding vectors. This parameter change maintains the essential relationship information while reducing the dimensionality and complexity of the data, enabling more efficient processing without sacrificing measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If massive healthcare data is processed and stored to enable data-driven analysis, then productivity and decision-making quality are improved, but loss of time for data storage and organization increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveefficiency of healthcare resource allocationVSAvoidtime for data storage and organization
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and embedding healthcare data into graph representations in advance. This preliminary transformation organizes the data structure and relationships beforehand, so that when analysis is needed, the pre-organized graph embeddings can be quickly queried and processed, reducing the time required for data organization during actual decision-making processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Device complexity

If graph embedding transforms complex graph data model into lower dimensional space, then device complexity is reduced and processing efficiency is improved, but loss of information may occur during transformation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedimensionality of data representationVSAvoidgraph structure and relationship information
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

Graph embedding changes the dimensional parameters of the data representation while preserving the essential structural information through learned transformations. The embedding process optimizes the transformation to maintain relationship patterns and topological properties in the lower-dimensional space, minimizing information loss while achieving dimensionality reduction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12620485B2Encoded graphical modeling system and method for matching patients or members needing a particular medical procedure or other health intervention with healthcare facilities or providers
Publication Date: 2026.05.05 HUMANA INC
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AI summary

A system and method for using a graph-based data structure to capture complex relations between different healthcare entities, analyze and mine healthcare data. The system sets up a framework for analyzing and mining historical healthcare data to help clinical patients and practitioners to guide care and make early decisions for interventions. More particularly, the system and method use graph embedding and machine learning modeling to process healthcare data in order to match member/patients with healthcare facilities or providers for performing a particular medical procedure or other health intervention needed by the patient.