Horizontally Integrated Health Platform Rules Engine
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current health services programs face inefficiencies and challenges in managing changes in individual health information and providing continuous care due to disassociated systems for communication, content delivery, and administrative tasks, which can lead to errors and difficulties in tracking progress, especially with the need for secure handling of Protected Health Information (PHI).
Innovation Solution
A horizontally integrated system with a rules engine that connects health services modules for live video conferencing, scheduling, and content delivery, allowing updates in one module to propagate changes across others, ensuring seamless integration and efficient delivery of health services programs, including add-on modules for daily check-ins, medication management, and rewards, while using unique identification codes to maintain individual health benefits and track progress.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If providers use separate servers for communication, content delivery, and administrative tasks, then system functionality is achieved, but efficiency deteriorates and update errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges previously separate servers for communication, content delivery, and administrative tasks into a single integrated platform. This consolidation allows providers to perform all health services tasks within one unified system, eliminating the need to switch between multiple environments and reducing update errors while improving overall efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated platform is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously - it handles electronic communication, content delivery, scheduling, and administrative tasks all within the same system framework. This multi-functionality enables providers to efficiently manage diverse health services operations without requiring separate specialized systems.
2Reliability
If health services programs track individuals over time with change-in-life events, then continuous care is improved, but system complexity and security requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that automatically detect and respond to change-in-life events. When such events occur, the system receives feedback about the changes and adjusts its tracking and care plans accordingly, ensuring continuous and adaptive care while managing complexity through automated responses.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring tracking mechanisms and security protocols before changes occur. It prepares data structures and security frameworks in advance to handle future changes-in-life events, reducing the complexity burden at the time of actual changes while maintaining reliable continuous care tracking.
3Reliability
If the system handles Protected Health Information securely, then HIPAA compliance is achieved, but system functionality and ease of use may be restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces security intermediaries and abstraction layers that handle PHI security requirements without directly impacting user operations. These intermediaries manage authentication, authorization, and data encryption in the background, allowing users to interact with the system normally while security compliance is maintained through the intermediary security framework.
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AI summary
The present inventors have determined that health services programs may be efficiently administered by providing a plurality of health services modules that are “horizontally integrated” on a platform. A rules engine is operative to identify enumerated events such that an event in one module triggers the rules engine to propagate a related event in one or more other modules. Such health services modules may be software architectural components operable for one or more of (1) live video conferencing, (2) scheduling, and/or (3) health services program data/content. Additional health services modules (“add-on modules”) may also be provided on the platform and horizontally integrated.