Medical Information Sharing Plugin for Secure API Communication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for sharing medical information among healthcare professionals are inefficient and time-consuming, particularly during emergencies, as they often rely on paper or electronic records that are difficult to transfer and access quickly.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that uses a software plugin to establish API communication between user devices through an online platform, facilitating the sharing of medical information by generating a communication user interface, analyzing user information and compliance guidelines, determining compliance scores, and transforming messages based on device characteristics, ensuring secure and timely communication.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If medical records are kept in paper or electronic versions by individual providers, then data storage and management are simplified for each provider, but transferring and accessing medical records between multiple providers becomes challenging and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvespeed of medical record transferVSAvoidcomplexity of information sharing system

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements an intermediary server that acts as a central hub between multiple user devices (healthcare providers, patients, pharmacies). This server receives, stores, and redistributes medical information requests and messages, eliminating the need for direct peer-to-peer connections between all providers. The intermediary architecture enables fast information transfer while keeping individual provider systems relatively simple.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the medical information sharing functionality into modular components: user devices for communication, a central server for coordination, software plugins for integration, and distributed ledgers for data integrity. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function efficiently while maintaining overall system productivity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Loss of time

If immediate communication between medical professionals is established during emergencies, then patient care response time is improved, but ensuring compliance with medical guidelines and data security becomes more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetime for communication between providersVSAvoidcompliance with medical guidelines

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates automated feedback mechanisms where the server analyzes communicated messages against stored medical compliance guidelines before allowing transmission. This real-time feedback ensures that even urgent communications during emergencies meet required standards, maintaining reliability without significantly increasing delay.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

Medical compliance guidelines, security protocols, and message formatting requirements are pre-configured and stored in the system before emergencies occur. During critical situations, the system automatically applies these pre-established rules to messages, eliminating the need for manual compliance checks and reducing time loss while ensuring reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If a centralized system for sharing medical information is implemented, then access speed and communication efficiency are improved, but the system becomes more vulnerable to security risks and data breaches

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of medical information sharingVSAvoidsecurity risks to patient data

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The central server acts as a secure intermediary that mediates all communications between users and the distributed ledger. Rather than exposing the ledger directly to all users, the server validates, encrypts, and manages access to sensitive medical information, maintaining high sharing efficiency while reducing security vulnerabilities through controlled access points.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system combines multiple security layers including distributed ledger technology for data integrity, encryption protocols for data protection, compliance guideline filtering for regulatory adherence, and automated authentication mechanisms. This composite security architecture protects patient data while enabling efficient information sharing across the network.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #40Composite materials

Data Source

PatentUS12008139B1Methods and systems of facilitating sharing of medical information associated with a patient among user devices

Publication Date: 2024.06.11 HASSAD OMAR

AI summary

Disclosed herein is a method of facilitating sharing of medical information associated with a patient among user devices. Accordingly, the method may include transmitting a software plugin to a first user device and a second user device, transmitting indicators corresponding to a plurality of users to the first user device, receiving a communication message from the first user device, retrieving a second user information associated with a second user, analyzing the second user information and a message content based on a medical compliance guideline, determining a compliance score, retrieving a second device characteristic, transforming the communication message according to the second device characteristic, generating a transformed communication message, and transmitting the transformed communication message to the second user device.