Healthcare Message Queues for Parallel Processing and Sequential Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems struggle with efficiently processing and formatting healthcare messages exchanged between entities, leading to difficulties in identifying and reconstructing relevant information, which is often error-prone and burdensome for third-party vendors.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilizes processing queues and engines to organize and process messages from healthcare entities, transforming and formatting them into a standardized format for vendor entities, allowing simultaneous processing of message portions and ensuring sequential transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If messages are processed sequentially by converting and transforming contents and formatting, then message accuracy is improved, but processing time and productivity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments messages into multiple portions and distributes them across multiple processing queues. Each queue can process different message portions simultaneously, enabling parallel processing while maintaining formatting accuracy through dedicated processing logic for each segment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing message portions before full transformation. Messages are divided and prepared in advance in separate queues, allowing concurrent processing of multiple message segments before final assembly, thus improving throughput without sacrificing accuracy.
2Productivity
If multiple processing queues are used to process messages simultaneously, then productivity is improved, but system complexity and difficulty of managing sequential transmission worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component that coordinates between multiple processing queues and the final transmission point. This intermediary manages the complexity of synchronizing multiple queues, ensuring proper sequential transmission to vendor entities while allowing concurrent processing to maintain high productivity.
3Productivity
If concurrent portions of multiple messages are processed simultaneously, then processing efficiency is improved, but ensuring correct sequential ordering for transmission becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where processed message portions are tracked and monitored. The intermediary receives feedback from multiple processing queues about completion status and uses this information to maintain correct sequential ordering before transmission, ensuring reliability despite concurrent processing.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods to organize the flow and processing of queued messages may: receive messages in a set of processing queues; select a first and second processing queue; select a first and second message in the first and second processing queue; process the concurrent portions of the first and second message simultaneously; select a third processing queue and determine a subset of messages that are its oldest messages; assign a first sequential numbering to the messages in the subset; assign a second sequential numbering to those messages in the subset having a concurrent portion that has been previously processed and a sequential portion that has not been previously processed; determine whether the oldest message in the subset was assigned the same number in the first sequential numbering and the second sequential numbering, and, if so, process the sequential portion of the oldest message.