Health Object Identifier Management for Secure Patient Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Patients face difficulties accessing and managing their medical records due to regulatory issues and the dispersion of records across multiple healthcare providers, with existing solutions failing to provide efficient, real-time access and control over their own health data.
Innovation Solution
A Health Object Identifier (HOI) management system that collects biometric data via sensors and converts it into a unique identifier, allowing patients to access and update their medical records on a record-by-record or field-by-field basis, using a biometric interface and conversion module to derive a HOI that points to the location of health care objects within a network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of stationary object
If medical records are stored in a clearing house or distributed across multiple healthcare providers, then record storage capacity is improved, but patient access control and data security deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments medical records into discrete, addressable units using Health Object Identifiers (HOIs) that can be individually managed and accessed. Each record or record portion receives a unique HOI, enabling granular control over what patients can access and update, rather than treating the entire medical record system as a monolithic structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary HOI management system that sits between patients, healthcare providers, and the distributed medical record storage infrastructure. This intermediary translates biometric authentication into HOIs, which then grant appropriate access rights to specific records, mediating the complex access control requirements across the distributed system.
2Measurement precision
If biometric authentication is implemented, then patient identification accuracy is improved, but real-time record assembly capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-assigning Health Object Identifiers (HOIs) to medical records and organizing them in advance within the distributed system. When biometric authentication occurs, the system already has the HOIs ready and can immediately retrieve and assemble the relevant records without delay, thus maintaining real-time capability despite the precision of biometric verification.
3Adaptability or versatility
If records are distributed across multiple healthcare providers, then system versatility is improved, but data accessibility and control deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal HOI management system that can interface with multiple different healthcare providers and distributed storage systems through standardized protocols. The HOI framework provides a common language and access mechanism that works across diverse systems, maintaining ease of operation while supporting system versatility.
Data Source
AI summary
Healthcare object management systems and methods are presented. Health Object Identifiers (HOI) representative of healthcare object (e.g., medical records, data, etc.) can be derived from biometric data associated with a patient. HOIs can resolve to a network location where the healthcare object can be accessed. Biometric data, or other types of object data, can be exchanged among computing devices and the healthcare object. On exemplary use of HOIs includes self assembling personal data records as sensor data is obtained.