Health Management Function Gating by User Suitability Assessment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing health management systems may provide inappropriate information due to authenticity issues or cognitive decline in patients, leading to incorrect treatment behaviors, especially when the patient's physical condition is not accurately considered.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system with a user information acquisition unit, user suitability determination unit, and setting unit to optimize health management functions based on user indicators such as cognitive function, body temperature, and other health metrics, ensuring appropriate function provision.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If health management functions are provided to users without assessing their suitability, then user convenience is improved, but the reliability of treatment behavior deteriorates due to inappropriate information provision

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidtreatment behavior reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs suitability determination in advance before providing health management functions. The determination unit assesses user suitability based on various criteria (cognitive function, physical condition, etc.) before the function is activated, preventing inappropriate information from being provided to unsuitable users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors user status and provides feedback to adjust function provision. When user status changes (e.g., cognitive decline or physical condition deterioration), the system detects this and adjusts whether health management functions should be provided, ensuring ongoing suitability matching.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If health management functions are provided to all users, then accessibility is improved, but the precision of information relevance deteriorates due to lack of user-specific assessment

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefunction accessibilityVSAvoidinformation relevance precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides different health management functions to different users based on their specific characteristics and suitability assessment. Instead of uniform function provision, the determination unit evaluates individual user attributes (age, cognitive function, physical condition) and selectively provides appropriate functions to each user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameters of function provision based on user status. When user status changes (e.g., from healthy to ill, or cognitive function deterioration), the system adjusts which functions are provided, modifying the service parameters dynamically to match current user needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system provides comprehensive health management functions, then functionality is improved, but the complexity of suitability determination deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoiddetermination system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The determination unit divides the suitability assessment into multiple independent evaluation items. Instead of one complex assessment, the system evaluates separate criteria (cognitive function, physical condition, disease state, etc.) independently and combines the results to determine overall suitability, making the complex determination process more manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20260106007A1Information processing system, information processing terminal, health management function providing method, and recording medium
Publication Date: 2026.04.16 OMRON HEALTHCARE CO LTD
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AI summary

An information processing system at least including an information processing terminal configured to execute an application recording medium for providing a health management function relating to management of health of a user including a user information acquisition unit configured to acquire user information including an indicator relating to health of the user; a user suitability determination unit configured to perform a determination of suitability of the user for the health management function to be provided, on a basis of an indicator included in the user information; and a setting unit configured to set a mode of providing the health management function according to a result of the determination.