Portable Device Secure Health Record Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
Healthcare providers face challenges in accessing and exchanging accurate and up-to-date electronic healthcare records across multiple providers and locations, leading to inefficiencies and increased complexity in care coordination.
Innovation Solution
A portable computing device system that authenticates users and securely retrieves and delivers electronic healthcare records using Bluetooth, wireless networks, or optical exchanges, allowing for direct communication between patient and provider devices, with encryption and consent-based data sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If HIT systems are implemented to improve care coordination, then access to electronic healthcare records is improved, but system complexity and operational burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patient's portable computing device automatically retrieves and manages their own healthcare records from multiple providers without requiring manual intervention from providers or complex system configuration. The device performs self-authentication and automatic record retrieval, eliminating the need for complex provider-to-provider connectivity arrangements.
Solution Approach 2:
The portable computing device serves multiple functions: it acts as an authentication credential, a records repository, a retrieval client, and a delivery mechanism all in one device. This multi-functionality replaces the need for multiple separate HIT systems and simplifies the overall architecture.
2Loss of information
If HIT systems are implemented to enable record exchange, then information availability is improved, but time consumption and operational burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patient's portable device pre-authenticates with their healthcare providers and pre-retrieves their records before the actual healthcare encounter. When the patient arrives at the provider's office, the records are already available on their device, eliminating the time-consuming process of real-time record retrieval during the appointment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically performs record retrieval and delivery without requiring provider staff to manually request or transfer records. The patient's device autonomously manages the entire records exchange process, significantly reducing the time and effort required compared to traditional manual processes.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional HIT systems are used for record access, then provider connectivity is improved, but cost of installation and operation increases
Solution Approach 1:
Each patient's portable device independently authenticates with and retrieves records from their own providers without requiring expensive provider-side infrastructure or intermediaries. The patient's device acts as their own health information exchange, eliminating the need for costly regional or national HIE infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention extracts the health information exchange functionality from the provider's infrastructure and relocates it to the patient's portable device. This shifts the complexity and cost from the provider's expensive HIT systems to the patient's personal device, which they already possess.
Data Source
AI summary
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for accessing electronic medical records are provided in which a portable computing device uniquely associated with a user authenticates an identification of the user and automatically retrieves information corresponding to the user from electronic healthcare records systems using the identification. The retrieved information may be combined with other information and electronically delivered to a healthcare provider or patient. Delivery may be initiated by the portable computing device and directed to a computing device of a healthcare provider or patient. Exchange of records and other information between the user and the provider is effected using a first channel to provide a network address of the records and cryptographic keys necessary to extract the records, and a second path to deliver the encrypted records. The first path may be implemented using a camera or optical scanner to read an encoded optical image.