Healthcare Workflow Management System for Automated Claim Appeals

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current healthcare workflow management systems are prone to errors, inefficiencies, and sub-optimal outcomes due to their complexity and reliance on manual or semi-automated methods, making it difficult to navigate and manage the vast amount of data associated with patients, procedures, and providers.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for managing healthcare workflows that includes obtaining and analyzing healthcare data from external sources, providing a user interface for viewing and managing the data, and performing actions based on user instructions, utilizing a server with input, analysis, and application modules, and offering a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for streamlined workflow management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If manual or semi-automated methods are used for managing healthcare workflows, then implementation complexity is reduced, but error rates increase and efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimplementation complexityVSAvoiderror rates
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service through automated workflow execution where the healthcare management system automatically performs actions based on defined workflows without requiring continuous manual intervention. The system autonomously manages claim appeals, generates documents, and coordinates communications between different healthcare entities, thereby reducing human error while maintaining manageable complexity through standardized automated processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Device complexity

If manual methods are used for healthcare workflow management, then system complexity is reduced, but productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidworkflow efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining workflows, templates, and automated responses before actual healthcare transactions occur. Workflows are configured in advance with all necessary steps, document templates are pre-created, and decision trees are pre-established, enabling rapid execution during actual claim processing without requiring complex real-time decision-making, thus improving productivity while keeping system complexity manageable

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If automated systems are used for healthcare workflow management, then productivity increases, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveworkflow efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies segmentation by dividing the complex healthcare workflow management into separate modular components: claim processing module, appeal management module, document generation module, communication coordination module, and monitoring module. Each module handles specific tasks independently, making the overall system more manageable despite automation. This modular architecture enables high productivity through automation while reducing perceived system complexity through clear functional separation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Measurement precision

If comprehensive healthcare data is collected and analyzed, then decision accuracy improves, but information processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedecision accuracyVSAvoidinformation processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and isolates specific critical data elements from the vast amount of available healthcare information. Instead of processing all available data, the system identifies and extracts only the relevant fields needed for workflow decisions such as claim status, patient demographics, treatment codes, and appeal history. This selective extraction maintains high decision accuracy for workflow management while significantly reducing information processing complexity by focusing only on essential data elements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS20230352154A1Methods and systems for managing healthcare workflows
Publication Date: 2023.11.02 BOSE NEELENDU
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AI summary

The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for managing healthcare workflows. According to one method, healthcare data associated with a healthcare service is obtained from at least one external source and analyzed. An interface is provided for viewing and managing the healthcare data and for receiving instructions from a user for performing an action. The action is then performed based on the instructions, the healthcare data, and the analysis.