Medical Data Proposal System for Patient-Controlled Information Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Patients face challenges in identifying and managing medical information relevant for medical examinations and treatments, and there is a concern about sharing personal health data with medical institutions.

Innovation Solution

A computer-readable storage medium is provided with a program that enables a user's computer to receive disease information, access medical data stored separately from medical institutions, select relevant data to be shared with the institution based on the disease information, and propose this data to the user before sharing it with the medical institution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If medical information is provided to medical institutions directly from the medical information manager, then medical examination and treatment efficiency is improved, but patient privacy control deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemedical examination and treatment efficiencyVSAvoidpatient privacy exposure
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patient's terminal device serves as an intermediary between the medical information manager and the medical institution. The terminal receives medical information from the manager, presents it to the patient for review, and only after patient authorization does it transmit the information to the medical institution. This intermediary role enables both efficient information delivery and patient-controlled privacy protection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If all medical information is shared with medical institutions, then diagnostic accuracy is improved, but patient information control deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvediagnostic accuracyVSAvoidpatient information control
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by presenting medical information to the patient before transmission to the medical institution. The patient reviews the information, determines what should be shared, and provides authorization in advance. This preliminary patient review ensures that only appropriate information is shared while maintaining diagnostic accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Object-affected harmful factors

If medical information is stored separately from medical institutions, then patient privacy control is improved, but information accessibility deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepatient privacy protectionVSAvoidinformation accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by having the patient's terminal device receive medical information from the medical information manager, present it to the patient for review, and based on patient authorization, transmit the information to the medical institution. This feedback loop ensures that information stored separately remains accessible when needed, while maintaining patient privacy control throughout the process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250078968A1Storage medium, terminal device, and medical information proposal device
Publication Date: 2025.03.06 CANON KK
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AI summary

According to an embodiment, a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium stores a program for causing a computer of a user to receive an input of disease information from the user, access medical data about the user stored in a storage medium separated from a medical institution, pick up medical data from the medical data stored, which is to be provided to the medical institution by the user in accordance with the disease information, and propose the picked medical data to the user before the picked medical data is provided to the medical institution.