Ophthalmic Examination Support System for Cross-Institutional Data Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current ophthalmic examination systems face challenges in providing effective early detection and preventive medicine for eye diseases due to limitations in sharing electronic medical records and medical images across medical organizations, leading to inefficiencies and increased costs for patients.
Innovation Solution
An ophthalmic examination support system comprising a server and clients that store and manage medical information, utilizing an association information storage unit to link medical information items with examination conditions, allowing clients to obtain appropriate examination conditions based on patient data for optimal eye examinations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If medical organizations independently manage their own examination systems without centralized data sharing, then each organization can maintain its own examination standards and equipment, but patients must undergo repeated examinations when visiting different organizations, increasing time cost and physical burden
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges examination data from multiple medical organizations into a centralized database, allowing examination results to be shared across institutions. This enables patients to avoid repeated examinations when visiting different organizations, reducing time cost while maintaining examination reliability through standardized protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The examination support system provides universal functionality across different medical organizations by implementing standardized examination protocols and a shared data infrastructure. This multi-functional system serves multiple organizations simultaneously, enabling data sharing and reducing redundant examinations.
2Measurement precision
If advanced medical organizations provide early detection and preventive medicine services, then examination accuracy for detecting slight symptoms improves, but such services are not widely available except at university hospitals and core hospitals
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements preliminary action by establishing standardized examination protocols and data sharing infrastructure in advance, enabling advanced examination capabilities to be replicated across multiple organizations. This allows early detection and preventive medicine services to be made widely available beyond university hospitals.
Solution Approach 2:
The examination support system acts as an intermediary between advanced medical organizations and regular clinics, transferring examination standards, protocols, and data management capabilities. This mediator enables regular clinics to provide advanced examination services without developing their own infrastructure from scratch.
3Loss of information
If medical organizations do not share electronic medical records and medical images, then data security and privacy can be maintained at each organization, but patients face increased costs and burdens from undergoing similar examinations again at different organizations
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates digital copies of medical records and examination data that can be shared across organizations without transferring physical records. This copying mechanism enables efficient information sharing, reducing the need for patients to undergo repeated examinations while maintaining data security through controlled access.
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AI summary
An ophthalmic examination support system of an embodiment includes a server and clients. The server includes a medical information storage apparatus that stores medical information on each patient, and a management apparatus that manages the medical information. Each of the clients can communicate with the management apparatus. The system includes an association information storage unit and an examination condition obtaining unit. The association information storage unit stores, in advance, association information in which association between predetermined medical information items and examination conditions of an ophthalmic examination is recorded. The examination condition obtaining unit receives medical information retrieved from the medical information storage apparatus by the management apparatus based on patient information transmitted from one of the clients, and obtains an examination condition corresponding to at least part of the received medical information from the association information. The client executes control based on the examination condition obtained.