Centralized Server for Allied Health Provider Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumers face challenges in engaging allied health advisors due to high costs and difficulty in finding qualified providers, along with inefficient use of computing and memory resources in the conventional process of locating and engaging these services.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system and method that provides a digital platform for consumers to locate and engage allied health service providers by receiving and storing data on consumers and providers, generating queries to identify qualified providers based on consumer requests, and providing search results to consumers, thereby reducing costs and improving resource efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If consumers use conventional methods to locate and engage allied health providers, then they can find service providers, but they spend considerable time and consume substantial data communications bandwidth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized server as an intermediary between consumers and allied health providers. The server maintains a database of provider information and processes search requests, eliminating the need for consumers to manually research multiple providers across different platforms. This intermediary system consolidates information retrieval operations and reduces overall network traffic by pre-processing and organizing data centrally.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-collecting, storing, and organizing allied health provider information in a centralized database before consumers need to search. Provider qualifications, services, and availability are pre-validated and structured in advance, so when consumers search, they receive immediately processed results without needing to perform redundant research operations.
2Loss of energy
If personal trainers provide services without gym support, then service cost to clients decreases, but trainers lack facility resources and credibility verification
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as a new intermediary that replaces the traditional gym facility's verification role. It maintains a database of provider qualifications and credentials, performing credibility verification independently without requiring physical gym affiliations. This allows trainers to operate independently while maintaining verified credibility through the digital platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the physical mechanical system of gym-based verification with a digital information system. Instead of relying on physical facility presence and manual credential checking, the system uses digital databases and automated verification processes to authenticate provider qualifications, enabling cost-effective service delivery without sacrificing reliability.
3Ease of operation
If consumers manually research provider qualifications and initiate contact, then they can engage providers, but computing and memory resources are inefficiently used
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized server intermediary handles all computationally intensive operations including database queries, result filtering, and information processing. Consumers' devices only need to send simple search requests and receive processed results, dramatically reducing the computing and memory resource usage on client devices while maintaining ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
Facilitation of engaging health advisor(s) include: receiving data of consumer(s) seeking to engage health service provider(s); storing in a database including a data structure, data relating to health service provider(s) offering consumer services (the data including a region where the health service provider offers services), and the health service provider qualification(s); receiving from a consumer a request that includes: a health-related service sought by the consumer, a location where the consumer seeks to receive services, and consumer requirement(s) relating to the service; retrieving data of the requesting consumer; generating, based upon the request and the retrieved consumer data, a query for utilizing the data structure to identify provider(s) who offer services within a region where the location resides and having minimum qualifications required to provide the service sought and satisfying additional consumer requirement(s); and providing to a consumer device, a result of the search conducted based upon the search query.