Patient Information Exchange Groups for Cross-Specialty Care Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face difficulties in facilitating flexible cooperation among multiple health professionals with varying specialties and affiliations, particularly in home nursing scenarios, due to challenges in registering appropriate team members with the necessary expertise and knowledge.
Innovation Solution
An information exchange method and system that allows for the creation of groups based on patient identification and specialty attributes, enabling seamless communication and information sharing among health professionals, including specialized nurses, general nurses, and home-visiting nurses, regardless of their affiliations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a system manager manually registers team members in advance, then the system can manage information about patients, but it becomes difficult to flexibly add health professionals with specific specialties and expertise after the system is established
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows health professionals to autonomously register themselves and their specialty information without requiring manual registration by a system manager. Each health professional can input their own identification information, affiliation, and specialty attributes, enabling the system to adapt to new professionals dynamically.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes the framework and data structures for storing health professional information, including specialty attributes and affiliation data. This preliminary setup enables rapid and flexible registration of new professionals without requiring complex manual configuration processes.
2Reliability
If the system requires detailed information about each health professional's specialty and assigned patients during registration, then the system can provide specialized care, but the registration process becomes too complex for system managers to complete
Solution Approach 1:
Health professionals themselves input their own detailed information including specialty attributes, affiliations, and assigned patients, eliminating the burden from system managers. The professionals directly provide accurate data about their capabilities and patient assignments, ensuring reliability while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-defines the necessary data fields and validation rules for health professional information, including specialty attributes and affiliation relationships. This structured framework guides professionals through the registration process, ensuring complete and accurate information collection without overwhelming complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system stores and manages detailed information about multiple health professionals and their specialties, then the system can facilitate specialized nursing care, but the information management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments health professional information into distinct data elements including identification information, affiliation data, specialty attributes, and assigned patient information. This segmentation allows the system to manage complex information in organized, modular units that can be easily stored, retrieved, and matched.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal data structure that can accommodate various types of health professionals (nurses, doctors, therapists) from different affiliations (hospitals, nursing stations, clinics) with diverse specialties. This multi-functional framework enables the system to handle different professional types and specialty areas through a unified information management approach.
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AI summary
It is made easy for a plurality of health professionals to flexibly cooperate according to the condition of a patient. An information exchange method for exchanging information about a patient among a plurality of health professionals by an information system (1) includes: receiving a group creation request based on at least one of patient identification information for identifying the patient and specialty attribute information about a specialty, in medicine, that is necessary for providing medicine to the patient; searching for a health professional satisfying the group creation request; creating, according to a result of the searching, a group including a health professional having made the group creation request and at least one of a health professional in charge of the patient and a health professional having the specialty, in medicine, that is necessary for providing medicine to the patient; and transmitting information about the patient transmitted from a terminal (3) of one of the health professionals in the created group, the information being transmitted to a terminal (3) of another one of the health professionals in the group.