Medical Sensor Handover to Ambulance Gateway
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Solution Overview
Problem
During emergencies, patients are often moved from home to hospitals via ambulance, making it challenging to pair medical sensors with ambulances' medical gateways due to password requirements, which can cause delays and pose risks if the patient is unconscious.
Innovation Solution
The system enables a medical sensor to automatically handover medical data from a home gateway to an ambulance gateway by sending access information, allowing emergency staff to quickly access and treat patients by releasing security access and providing necessary medical data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a pairing procedure with password is used to connect medical sensor and ambulance gateway, then security access is ensured, but connection time increases and may cause delays in emergency situations
Solution Approach 1:
The medical sensor stores access information (passwords, authentication data) in advance before the emergency situation occurs. When the sensor is detected in the ambulance, this pre-stored access information is automatically used to establish connection without requiring real-time password input, thus resolving the contradiction between security and connection speed
Solution Approach 2:
The medical sensor autonomously performs the connection process to the ambulance gateway using its own stored access information, without requiring external intervention (such as patient input or manual pairing). The sensor automatically detects its location, retrieves stored credentials, and establishes connection, eliminating the time-consuming manual pairing step while maintaining security
2Reliability
If manual password input is required for pairing, then access security is maintained, but ease of operation deteriorates when patient is unconscious
Solution Approach 1:
The medical sensor autonomously handles the entire pairing process by automatically using pre-stored access information to connect with the ambulance gateway. This eliminates the need for any manual operation (such as patient pressing buttons or entering passwords), making the system easy to operate even when the patient is unconscious, while security is maintained through the use of authenticated credentials
Solution Approach 2:
Access information is prepared and stored in the medical sensor in advance, before the emergency situation arises. This preliminary preparation ensures that when the sensor needs to connect in the ambulance, the authentication data is already available, eliminating the need for manual password input during the critical emergency response period
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AI summary
An apparatus and method are provided for providing medical data based on a handover of a medical sensor. The apparatus includes a medical data client that requests and receives the medical data from the medical sensor; a security module that manages access to the medical data; a data management unit that stores the received medical data; and an event handler that receives an abnormal condition notification from the medical sensor and sends a command to release access to the medical data, based on the abnormal condition notification.