Medical Consent Application Centralized Storage Interoperability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Healthcare systems face fragmentation and lack of interoperability, leading to inefficiencies in data sharing, duplicative data storage, and challenges in patient consent and privacy, particularly during patient intake and discharge processes.
Innovation Solution
A medical consent application that uses a common content storage for generating forms across different medical networks, implements a secure login protocol, and establishes secure connections with EMR databases using key values, allowing for standardized and encrypted data access and storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If forms and templates are stored duplicatively across numerous medical network servers and devices, then each network can access its own data independently, but memory and other resources of servers and devices are unnecessarily wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates form and template storage into a centralized repository that serves multiple medical networks. Instead of each network maintaining separate duplicative copies, a single master copy is stored centrally and accessed by all authorized networks through standardized interfaces, eliminating redundant storage while maintaining data accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized storage system is designed to serve multiple medical networks simultaneously through a universal access protocol. The same stored forms and templates can be accessed and utilized across different networks, making the storage infrastructure multi-functional and eliminating the need for network-specific duplicative storage.
2Adaptability or versatility
If different medical applications are used by providers across different regions, then each application can be optimized for its specific network, but interoperability between networks is lost and providers cannot interface with other medical networks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal medical application platform that can operate across multiple medical networks while maintaining network-specific configurations. The application uses a standardized interface layer that enables interoperability between networks while allowing customization for network-specific requirements, thus achieving both adaptability and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a standardized interface layer or protocol that acts as an intermediary between different medical networks and their respective applications. This intermediary enables seamless communication and data exchange between networks while allowing each network to maintain its own optimized application instance, resolving the conflict between customization and interoperability.
3Ease of operation
If consent procedures are performed manually with doctors or nurses describing procedures in person, then patient understanding can be ensured through direct communication, but the process is time-consuming and data may not be recorded in standardized formats
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of in-person consent description with an automated electronic system. The system automatically retrieves procedure information from the EMR, generates standardized consent forms, and presents them to patients through digital interfaces, eliminating the need for manual documentation while maintaining standardized formatting.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically gathering all necessary procedure information from the EMR database before the consent process begins. This pre-prepared information is then readily available for presentation to the patient, eliminating the need for manual data collection and preparation during the consent interaction.
4Object-affected harmful factors
If contextual data for executed consent or discharge documents is not stored properly, then patient privacy can be protected, but future providers cannot access necessary information to define scope of future treatment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements selective data storage where only necessary contextual information is retained in the EMR while sensitive personal identifiers are removed or encrypted. This allows future providers to access relevant clinical context for treatment planning without exposing unnecessary patient privacy, achieving both goals through differentiated data retention policies.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts and separates sensitive personal identifiers from contextual data before storage. Necessary clinical context is retained for future provider access, while personally identifiable information is extracted and handled separately through privacy-preserving mechanisms, allowing information availability without compromising privacy.
Data Source
AI summary
Implementations set forth herein relate to a medical consent application and/or system that can securely retrieve EMR data in a variety of formats and generate consent forms that can be specific to a particular medical process, thereby creating a more universal consent process across different medical provider networks. Any executed consent form can then be converted back to an original format of a source EMR database, thereby allowing medical providers and/or other affiliated entities to securely access consent data via their own EMR database. Customized explanatory content can be stored by, or otherwise accessible to, the medical consent application, thereby allowing patients to view explanatory content during consent processes. A record of what a patient viewed during a consent process can thereafter be stored in consent resource data that is generated for, and sent back to, the EMR database.