Social Networking Platform for Patient Health Data Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Patients face challenges in managing their health conditions post-discharge from hospitals due to lack of integrated communication with caregivers and inadequate support for self-care, leading to issues like medication adherence, diet modifications, symptom monitoring, and psychosocial challenges.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and system using a social networking platform to connect patients with caregivers, providing personalized computer applications to collect and analyze patient data, and generate insights for improved health management, including medication tracking, mood monitoring, and health goal achievement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If patients are discharged from hospital to home environment, then patient autonomy and comfort are improved, but access to integrated communication with caregivers and health monitoring capabilities deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepatient autonomyVSAvoidhealth monitoring capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

A mobile device application serves as an intermediary between the patient's home environment and the healthcare system, enabling continuous health monitoring and communication with caregivers without requiring hospital infrastructure. The application collects health data, transmits it to caregivers, and provides medication reminders, thus maintaining monitoring capability while allowing patient autonomy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables patients to self-monitor their health conditions using the mobile application, which automatically collects health data and manages medication reminders. Patients can independently track their health metrics and communicate with caregivers when needed, reducing dependence on continuous hospital care while maintaining health monitoring reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

If physicians reduce consult time to increase productivity, then healthcare delivery efficiency is improved, but patient ability to disclose comprehensive health information deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvephysician consult efficiencyVSAvoidpatient health information completeness

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile application collects and organizes health data before the physician consult, including medication adherence records, symptom tracking, and health metric data. This preliminary data collection enables physicians to review comprehensive patient information efficiently during brief consults, maintaining information completeness while improving consult productivity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides continuous feedback to physicians through automated transmissions of patient health data and medication adherence information. This feedback mechanism allows physicians to stay informed about patient conditions between visits, reducing the need for extended consult times while maintaining comprehensive understanding of patient health status.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If patients use traditional paper-based methods to track health metrics, then simplicity and ease of use are improved, but data integration and holistic understanding of patient experience deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata tracking simplicityVSAvoidholistic patient experience data

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile application serves multiple functions within a single platform: tracking medication adherence, monitoring health metrics, providing educational content, enabling communication with caregivers, and delivering medication reminders. This multi-functional approach maintains ease of use while comprehensively capturing holistic patient experience data that paper-based methods cannot integrate.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10791930B2Systems, devices, and methods for analyzing and enhancing patient health

Publication Date: 2020.10.06 SELF CARE CATALYSTS

AI summary

There are disclosed systems, devices, and methods for generating insights relating to patient health using a social networking platform interconnecting a patient with a plurality of care givers. The patient is provided access to a computer application configured to solicit and collect patient data from the patient, the computer application selected based on at least one characteristic of the patient. First patient data reflective of the health condition of the patient, as collected by the computer application, are received through the social networking platform. A communication from a care giver is transmitted to the patient through the social networking platform. Second patient data reflective of the health condition responsive to the transmitted communication are received through the social networking platform. The first and second patient data are analyzed to determine at least one insight relating to health of the patient; and a report is generated to present the insight.