Injection Adherence Tracking with Wireless Physiological Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing medical devices for patient-administered injections lack the ability to track adherence to scheduled regimens and provide reliable, objective data to caregivers and healthcare providers, hindering effective patient management.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for managing medical device usage, including wireless communication between a medical device, a sensor, and a mobile device to capture and transmit injection activity data and physiological measurements, processed by a server for various user profiles to facilitate data exchange and analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a patient uses a manual injector device to administer injections, then the patient gains convenience and ease of operation, but the system loses the ability to track adherence and provide objective data to healthcare providers
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by automatically transmitting injection data from the device to a remote server and providing notifications to both the patient and healthcare provider. The server receives injection indicators and physiological measurements, then sends back adherence feedback and alerts, creating a closed-loop system that maintains patient convenience while enabling comprehensive tracking.
Solution Approach 2:
A remote server acts as an intermediary between the patient's manual injector device and the healthcare provider. The server receives injection data wirelessly from the device, processes adherence information, and relays it to the healthcare provider, enabling data transmission without adding complexity to the patient's direct injection action.
2Device complexity
If no tracking system is implemented, then the device remains simple and easy to use, but reliable objective information on patient adherence is not provided to physicians
Solution Approach 1:
The remote server serves as an intermediary that handles all complex data processing, storage, and communication tasks. The injection device itself remains simple for patient use, while the server manages the reliability aspects by receiving data wirelessly, validating injection indicators, processing physiological measurements, and providing authoritative adherence information to healthcare providers.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes feedback loops where the server receives injection data, processes it to determine adherence status, and provides reliable information back to healthcare providers. This feedback mechanism ensures data reliability without requiring the device itself to be complex.
3Loss of information
If injection tracking and data transmission capabilities are added to the device, then adherence monitoring is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex data processing, storage, and communication functions from the injection device itself and places them in a separate remote server. The device is left with only the essential injection function and minimal data transmission capability, while the server handles wireless communication, data validation, physiological measurement processing, and adherence calculation.
Solution Approach 2:
The remote server acts as an intermediary that absorbs all system complexity. The injection device maintains simplicity by only needing to transmit basic injection indicators wirelessly to the server, which then handles all complex operations including receiving physiological measurements from sensors, processing adherence data, and communicating with healthcare providers.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for medical device usage management are disclosed. In an example method, an indication that an injection was administered to a patient by a medical device can be received. The indication may be received wirelessly from the medical device. One or more measurements of a physiological characteristic of the patient captured by a sensor associated with the patient can also be received. The indication that the injection was administered to the patient by the injector and the one or more measurements of the physiological characteristic of the patient can then be transmitted.