Unified Patient State Objects for Health Data Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing healthcare system faces challenges in consolidating and accessing dispersed health data, leading to fragmentation and inaccessibility, which hinders effective patient care and research utilization.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising patient state objects that store and manage physiological, behavioral, and demographic data, with a state controller engine for updating patient information and an action controller engine for determining actions based on data, facilitating holistic patient views and actionable insights.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If health data is stored in diverse systems and formats across multiple healthcare institutions, then data comprehensiveness is improved, but data accessibility and usability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges data from multiple diverse healthcare systems into a unified patient state representation. The system consolidates physiological data, behavioral data, and demographic data from various sources (hospitals, clinics, fitness trackers, consumer diagnostic equipment) into a single integrated structure that can be accessed by any physician caring for the patient, regardless of which system originally stored the data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patient state representation is designed as a universal data structure that can accommodate multiple types of health data from different sources and formats. This universal structure enables the same data representation to serve multiple functions: clinical decision-making, research, quality improvement, and patient engagement, while being accessible across different healthcare institutions and systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If health data is dispersed among multiple physicians and institutions, then specialized care is improved, but information sharing deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patient state representation acts as an intermediary structure that enables information sharing among multiple physicians and institutions. Each physician can contribute their specialized data to the unified representation and access relevant data from other providers, facilitating coordinated care without requiring direct system-to-system connections between institutions.
3Device complexity
If health data is organized in diverse manners across different systems, then system autonomy is improved, but data integration deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments health data into distinct categories (physiological data, behavioral data, demographic data) within the unified patient state representation. This segmentation allows each type of data to be organized according to its specific characteristics while maintaining overall integration, enabling physicians to access relevant data types without requiring changes to the underlying diverse systems.
Data Source
AI summary
Using a centralized system, it is possible to allow multiple disparate health care providers to gain a complete view of data regarding a patient's health and health care. Data accessible through such a central system can also be made available for researchers after being de-identified. Data in such a central system can not only include data culled from traditional physical and electronic medical records, but can also include data from distributed diagnostic devices, such as fitness trackers and consumer diagnostic equipment. Such a central system could potentially be accessed through applications made available to patients and health care providers and, in implementations where they are present, such applications could also be used for other purposes, such as performing interactive health evaluations and making recommendations of actions to take to maintain or restore a user's health.