Intelligent Icons Encode Patient Data for Secure Healthcare Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
The sharing of patient information among healthcare providers is hindered by security and privacy concerns due to the limitations imposed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, necessitating secure and authorized methods for notification and data exchange.
Innovation Solution
The development of intelligent icons that encode data within images using single bit changes, allowing for secure transmission and access to patient records while maintaining privacy, using a computer-implemented method that aggregates and transmits these icons to relevant devices, enabling secure and efficient communication of medical information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If patient information is shared among healthcare providers to improve diagnostic accuracy and treatment coordination, then healthcare productivity and patient care quality improve, but security and privacy requirements under HIPAA are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments patient information into multiple components distributed across different icons. Each icon contains only specific portions of the medical record (e.g., diagnosis, treatment, lab results) rather than the complete record. This segmentation allows selective sharing of information among providers based on their specific needs, improving productivity while maintaining security by not exposing all patient data to all providers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary encoding mechanism that transforms patient information into icon images with embedded data. This intermediary layer (the icon encoding system) mediates between the need for information sharing and privacy protection by embedding data within visual icons that can be transmitted securely and decoded only by authorized systems, thus enabling productivity improvement while maintaining HIPAA compliance.
2Measurement precision
If complete patient records are transmitted to all providers to ensure comprehensive information availability, then diagnostic accuracy improves, but data transmission security and privacy protection become more difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by giving each icon specific functional characteristics based on the type of information it contains. Different icons represent different medical record sections (e.g., diagnosis icons, treatment icons, lab result icons) with encoded data tailored to specific provider needs. This allows providers to receive only the locally relevant information for their specific diagnostic and treatment responsibilities, maintaining diagnostic accuracy while reducing overall privacy exposure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the complete patient record into multiple segmented icons, each containing encoded portions of the medical history. Instead of transmitting one complete record to all providers, the system segments information and distributes it across multiple icons that are then reassembled or selectively accessed by authorized providers, thereby maintaining diagnostic accuracy through comprehensive information availability while reducing privacy risks through controlled distribution.
3Speed
If notifications are broadcast rapidly to multiple providers to improve response time in emergency situations, then patient care responsiveness improves, but control over information access and security monitoring becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-encoding patient information into icons with embedded data structures that include access control metadata. Before broadcasting notifications, the system prepares icons with built-in security parameters and authorization information embedded within the encoded data. This preliminary encoding allows rapid broadcasting to multiple providers while maintaining control, as the icons themselves contain the necessary access control information that can be automatically verified without complex real-time authorization protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The icon encoding system serves as an intermediary that simplifies access control during rapid notifications. Instead of implementing complex real-time authorization checks when broadcasting to multiple providers, the system uses pre-encoded icons that act as self-contained intermediaries with embedded security information. This intermediary approach enables fast notification distribution while maintaining security control through the encoded data structures within each icon.
4Stability of the object's composition
If all provider devices receive identical copies of patient records to ensure information consistency, then data accuracy is maintained, but network bandwidth consumption and transmission time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments patient records into multiple smaller icon units distributed across the network. Instead of transmitting identical complete record copies to all providers, the system segments information into icons that can be selectively assembled by providers based on their specific needs. This segmentation reduces network bandwidth consumption compared to broadcasting complete records to everyone, while maintaining data consistency through the encoded structure that ensures all providers receive the same authoritative information segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying efficiently by creating icon representations of patient record portions rather than copying complete records. Each icon is a compressed, encoded copy of specific information segments that can be transmitted with minimal bandwidth consumption. Providers can then reconstruct or selectively access the information they need from these icon copies, maintaining data accuracy and consistency while significantly reducing network resource consumption compared to transmitting full record copies.
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AI summary
A system for signaling coordinated workers in a common goal through intelligent icons transferred across networks to computer screens. The system can comprise one or more electronic data processors. The system can also include a module configured to execute on the more or more electronic data processors, where the module can be configured to display a plurality of intelligent icons, each containing authorizing information that is retained in a file associated with a authorizing entity on a computer screen. The intelligent icons can be potentially loaned to authorized individuals on a list and used to authenticate users of the system with biometric, image, machine readable codes stored surreptitiously within the intelligent icon. Also, the intelligent icon can be used for friend-foe identification in battlefield and homeland security/border control scenarios.