Health Management Peer System via Sensor-Based Subject Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies lack an effective solution for facilitating health management by enabling precise communication and association of individuals with specific health-related issues, limiting targeted health management, research, and advertising opportunities.
Innovation Solution
The system involves electronic devices equipped with sensors that provide health-related information, allowing for the association of subjects based on health issues, and enables messaging and data sharing over a network, enabling targeted communication and management of health-related information among subjects and organizations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If electronic devices with sensors are deployed to collect health-related information from subjects, then health management capability and targeting precision are improved, but system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments health management functionality across multiple electronic devices, each equipped with specific sensors for particular health parameters. Subjects can have different devices for different health metrics (e.g., glucose monitors, blood pressure devices), allowing precise health information collection while distributing system complexity across independent, standardized device modules rather than requiring a single complex integrated system.
2Productivity
If subjects are associated and peered based on health-related information for targeted communication, then health management effectiveness and research opportunities are improved, but information management and privacy protection complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary server that manages subject associations, peering relationships, and information routing based on health-related criteria. This intermediary handles the complex tasks of matching subjects with similar health conditions, managing communication channels, and protecting privacy by controlling information access, thereby enabling efficient targeted health management without burdening individual devices with complex information management logic.
3Loss of information
If health-related information is shared across a network for research and advertising purposes, then research opportunities and targeted advertising capabilities are improved, but data security and privacy protection requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements local quality control by allowing different levels of information sharing for different subjects and different types of health information. Sensitive personal identifiers can be protected while sharing anonymized health data for research, or allowing broader sharing for less sensitive information. This enables differentiated information sharing policies that balance research capabilities with security and privacy requirements on a case-by-case basis.
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AI summary
A peer system of subjects with health-related issues is formed based on an association of subjects and a particular type of electronic device or devices which provides information related to a specific health-related issue or issues obtained from particular subjects. By means of such associations, subjects can transmit to and receive messages from other subjects associated with the same type of electronic device. One way to associate subjects with health-related issues is through an association of a subject with a type or types of sensors. For example, each monitoring device may be associated with a subject, and the type or types of sensor or sensors may be associated with the subject and/or monitoring device. Devices, systems, methods and computer program products may be provided leveraging this association for various applications, e.g., management of the health care of subjects, peering among subjects with a common heath-related issue or issues, advertising, research and other applications involving such subjects.