Health Data Platform Intermediary Zone Standardization
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing systems for processing and aggregating health data from multiple health systems face challenges due to differences in de-identification processes and data formats, making it difficult to join de-identified data from various systems, and there is a need for a secure and uniform platform to enhance data value for research and commercial applications while ensuring patient privacy.
Innovation Solution
A health data platform that receives patient records from multiple health systems, converts them into a uniform format, generates de-identified records, and stores them in a common data repository, using intermediary zones to ensure data isolation and security, allowing for secure aggregation and access while maintaining patient privacy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If different health systems implement different de-identification processes, then each system can maintain its own data security standards, but de-identified data from different systems cannot be easily joined or aggregated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary zone as a mediator between health systems with different de-identification processes. This intermediary zone receives data from multiple health systems, applies a standardized de-identification process, and outputs uniformly formatted de-identified data that can be easily joined and aggregated across systems while maintaining security standards.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a uniform de-identification process in the intermediary zone that transforms diverse data formats from different health systems into a homogeneous, standardized format. This ensures all de-identified records follow the same structure and security standards, enabling seamless joining and aggregation while maintaining reliability.
2Productivity
If health data from multiple systems is aggregated into a common repository, then the value for research and commercial applications is enhanced, but the risk of privacy breaches increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies de-identification processing in advance in the intermediary zone before data is aggregated into the common repository. By performing this preliminary action, the data is already protected when stored in the centralized repository, enabling high data value for research while minimizing privacy breach risks from the outset.
Solution Approach 2:
The intermediary zone acts as a security mediator that processes and protects data before it reaches the common repository. This intermediary layer ensures data is de-identified and secured prior to aggregation, allowing the repository to store valuable data from multiple systems without exposing patients to increased privacy risks.
3Ease of operation
If de-identified data is stored in a common data repository from multiple health systems, then data aggregation and access are improved, but data format uniformity becomes difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The intermediary zone serves as a format-standardization mediator that receives data in various formats from different health systems, applies uniform transformation rules, and outputs consistently formatted records. This enables easy data aggregation in the common repository while maintaining strict format uniformity through the intermediary's standardization process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enforces homogeneous data formatting through the intermediary zone's uniform processing pipeline. All de-identified records passing through this zone are transformed into a consistent structure, ensuring data format uniformity is maintained even as data from multiple diverse health systems is aggregated into the common repository.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for processing and aggregating health data are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for aggregating health data from a plurality of health systems includes receiving a set of patient records from a health system, and processing the set of patient records. The receiving and processing can be performed at an intermediary zone of a health data platform. The processing can include: (1) converting each patient record into a uniform format, and (2) generating a set of de-identified records from the set of patient records. The method can further include transmitting the set of de-identified records from the intermediary zone to a common data repository of the health data platform. The common data repository can be configured to store de-identified records from a plurality of different health systems.