Medical Expense Database Segmentation for Non-Reimbursement Search
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional medical service systems fail to provide fair and generalized medical services due to the use of personalized medical expense information, which hinders the sharing of non-reimbursement information and affects service reliability.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that utilizes a medical expense database to separate and store reimbursement and non-reimbursement information, allowing users to input desired medical services and output a list of institutions providing those services, with considerations for user and institution locations and expense differences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If personalized medical expense information is used, then information security is improved, but the ability to provide generalized and fair medical services deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments medical expense information into two distinct categories: reimbursement information and non-reimbursement information. This segmentation allows the system to handle personalized data (reimbursement info) separately from shared data (non-reimbursement info), thereby maintaining information security while enabling generalized service provision. The segmentation is implemented through the medical expense database structure that stores these information types in separate fields.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts non-reimbursement information from the personalized medical expense receipt and makes it available as shared information. This extraction process removes the barrier that prevented fair medical services from being provided, as the extracted non-reimbursement information can now be accessed and used by multiple users without compromising the security of individual reimbursement data.
2Adaptability or versatility
If non-reimbursement information is shared, then fair medical services are improved, but information security risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments information into reimbursement and non-reimbursement categories, allowing non-reimbursement information to be shared while keeping reimbursement information private. This segmentation enables fair medical services to be provided using shared non-reimbursement data without exposing sensitive personal financial information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a medical expense database as an intermediary that manages information sharing. The database acts as a mediator between users and medical institutions, storing non-reimbursement information in a secure manner and providing it to authorized users without directly exposing the raw personalized data, thus balancing information sharing with security.
3Reliability
If medical expense information is stored as personalized data, then user privacy is improved, but the ability to search and compare medical institutions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments medical expense information into personalized reimbursement data and shared non-reimbursement data. This allows users to maintain privacy over their reimbursement information while still being able to search and compare medical institutions using the shared non-reimbursement information stored in the database.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a copy of non-reimbursement information in the medical expense database that can be searched and compared across different institutions. This copying process allows users to access aggregated information about medical institutions without accessing the original personalized reimbursement data, thus maintaining privacy while enabling easy comparison.
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Disclosed is an apparatus and method for providing medical institution information using non-reimbursement information, which is the technical concept of the present invention. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the apparatus may comprise: a medical expense database established by including medical institution information, and reimbursement information and non-reimbursement information for medical expenses for items of medical services performed by a medical institution, which are obtained by scanning a medical expense receipt that a first user received; an input unit for receiving, from a second user, items of medical services to be performed; and an output unit which searches for the inputted items of medical services in the medical expense database, and if the items correspond to the non-reimbursement information, outputs a list of medical institutions that provide medical services for the inputted items of medical services corresponding to the non-reimbursement information.