ICE Medical Record Server for Emergency Data Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
In emergency medical situations, first responding units face challenges in obtaining accurate and timely medical information from patients, especially when patients are unconscious or unable to provide information, leading to inefficiencies in diagnosis and treatment, and requiring manual entry of data which is then often duplicated at second responding medical units.
Innovation Solution
A communication system comprising an ICE medical record server and network that enables the storage, retrieval, and transmission of medical records to medical units, allowing patients to enroll and manage their own records, pre-populate electronic patient medical records, and facilitate statistical analysis for health surveillance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If first responding medical units manually obtain and enter patient medical information, then they can have direct communication with the patient, but the process is time-consuming and inefficient especially when patients are unconscious or unable to provide information
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-registers patients in a database with their medical information before emergencies occur. When an emergency happens, first responding units can immediately retrieve pre-prepared medical records without needing to manually collect information from unconscious or distressed patients, thus saving critical time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a communication system with a database server as an intermediary between patients and first responding medical units. The server stores and manages patient medical records, allowing rapid retrieval through communication devices without requiring direct patient interaction, thereby resolving the contradiction between speed and ease of information acquisition.
2Productivity
If first responding medical units manually enter patient information into PCR forms, then they can maintain control over the data, but the manual entry process is labor-intensive and prone to errors
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically copies patient medical information from the pre-registered database into electronic PCR forms. This eliminates manual transcription, reducing labor intensity and minimizing errors that occur during manual data entry, while maintaining data accuracy through direct database retrieval.
Solution Approach 2:
The communication system automatically retrieves and populates medical records without requiring manual intervention from medical personnel. The system serves itself by automatically querying the database, retrieving relevant patient information, and filling out forms, thereby improving productivity and reducing human error.
3Speed
If medical information is stored in centralized databases, then rapid retrieval is possible, but security and privacy protection become more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements authentication and authorization mechanisms that provide feedback control for database access. Before retrieving medical records, the system verifies the credentials of first responding units and patients, ensuring that only authorized personnel can access sensitive information. This maintains security while enabling rapid retrieval for legitimate emergency cases.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for aggregating and providing subscriber medical record information to medical units. The system includes an ICE medical record server that stores a plurality of medical records of respective subscribers. When a subscriber is being attended by a medical unit, the medical unit using a communication device sends an identification number to the server. In response, the server sends the subscriber's medical record to the communication device. The communication device may populate a medical form with the information and display it for use in diagnosing and treating the subscriber. The medical unit may annotate the medical form to document the on-going emergency, and upload it to a professional medical record server, which may provide the information to a medical facility to which the subscriber will be transported. The ICE and/or professional medical record servers may perform statistical analyses of the information in their respective databases for the purpose of performing symptomatic surveillance and other public health analyses.