Patient Data Sharing via Consent Key and Utilization Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Healthcare facilities face challenges in efficiently managing and tracking the utilization of patient health data across different systems, including access, storage, and consent management, which can lead to inefficiencies and compliance issues.
Innovation Solution
A data propagation reporting system that annotates health data with utilization information, including access, inclusion, and contribution annotations, and a consent management system that generates and manages consent keys for secure access and modification of patient data, while also determining utilization scores for medical data processing and adjusting machine learning models based on consent changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If patient health data is shared across multiple healthcare systems, then data utilization and research value are improved, but tracking and managing data access becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary data propagation reporting system that acts as a mediator between healthcare data systems. This system receives notifications from multiple healthcare systems about patient data access, centralizes the tracking function, and generates utilization reports. By placing this intermediary layer, the patent resolves the contradiction by enabling broad data sharing while maintaining centralized, manageable tracking without requiring each individual system to implement complex tracking mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where healthcare data systems send notifications about data access events to the reporting system, which then generates utilization reports that feed back to stakeholders. This feedback loop enables transparent tracking of data usage across systems without requiring direct complex interconnections between all systems, thus maintaining versatility while managing complexity through information feedback.
2Reliability
If consent management is implemented across multiple healthcare systems, then patient privacy control is improved, but system coordination requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The data propagation reporting system serves multiple functions: it tracks data access, monitors consent compliance, generates utilization reports, and coordinates between systems. By creating a universal platform that handles multiple responsibilities, the patent improves patient privacy protection through consistent consent management across systems while reducing overall coordination complexity by consolidating these functions in a single multi-functional system.
3Loss of information
If detailed utilization tracking is implemented, then data transparency is improved, but processing overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the detailed tracking and analysis functions from the core healthcare data systems and places them in the specialized data propagation reporting system. This extraction allows healthcare systems to maintain high processing efficiency for their primary functions while the reporting system handles the detailed utilization tracking, transparency reporting, and analysis without impacting the productivity of the original systems.
4Reliability
If traditional practices are maintained for patient safety, then safety reliability is improved, but adoption of new technologies is delayed
Solution Approach 1:
The data propagation reporting system acts as an intermediary that bridges traditional healthcare systems and modern data analytics. It connects existing proven-safe healthcare data systems with new transparency and utilization tracking technologies, allowing traditional practices to continue while enabling gradual adoption of new technologies through the mediating reporting layer without disrupting established safety protocols.
Data Source
AI summary
A health data management system may obtain a consent key for accessing health information associated with a patient. The system may determine that at least some of the health information associated with the patient is stored in an external system, different from the health data system. The external system may be, for example, a second health data management system or a secure storage container associated with the patient. The health data system may send a request to access the health information associated with the patient. The access request may include a consent key associated with the patient's consent data. The consent key may be, may include, and/or may indicate the patient's consent data. The health data system may access the health information associated with the patient from the external system (e.g., upon the external system authorizing access based on the consent key).