Portable Memory Device for Aggregating Indexed Electronic Patient Medical Records
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical record systems are fragmented and dispersed across different care providers, leading to incomplete patient records, which can result in costly medical errors, misdiagnoses, and unnecessary treatments due to lack of access to comprehensive patient history.
Innovation Solution
A method and system utilizing portable memory devices for storing and managing indexed electronic patient medical records, allowing patients to aggregate and securely store records from multiple care providers, with automatic document generation and delayed information transfer to a remote server for synchronization with their device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If medical records are maintained by individual care providers in separate repositories, then each provider can easily manage their own records, but comprehensive patient records become inaccessible and fragmented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a portable memory device as an intermediary that patients control to aggregate and carry their medical records across multiple care providers. This mediator enables comprehensive record access without requiring a centralized database, resolving the contradiction by allowing both easy local management and complete information availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent shifts from a centralized repository model to a distributed portable storage model, adding the dimension of patient-controlled portability. This allows records to be easily managed at the patient level while simultaneously being accessible across the entire care provider network, eliminating the fragmentation problem.
2Loss of information
If comprehensive patient records are consolidated into a single system, then complete medical history becomes accessible, but system complexity and security risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the medical record system into distributed portable memory devices held by patients rather than a single centralized database. Each device independently stores complete records, eliminating system complexity and security risks associated with centralized consolidation while maintaining full record accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The portable memory device enables patients to self-manage their own medical records, eliminating the need for complex centralized management systems. Patients control aggregation, portability, and access authorization, dramatically reducing system complexity while ensuring complete record availability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If patient records are stored in disparate formats by different providers, then each provider can use their preferred format, but record integration and accessibility become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The portable memory device serves as a universal platform that can store and transport multiple formats of medical records simultaneously. It aggregates records from different providers in their original formats while enabling integrated access, resolving the contradiction between format flexibility and record integration.
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AI summary
A method and system are provided for utilizing indexed electronic patient medical records stored on portable memory devices. Each of the portable memory devices is associated with a patient for electronically storing indexed medical records for the patient from a plurality of care providers. The indexed medical records are sortable or searchable. For each visit to a care provider by a patient, the method includes: (a) accessing the indexed medical records from a portable memory device associated with the patient; (b) automatically generating one or more documents for use during the visit from the indexed medical records; (c) providing medical services to the patient utilizing the indexed medical records and the one or more documents; (d) recording information relating to the medical services on the one or more documents, and loading the information on the portable memory device; and (e) sending delayed information relating to the medical services to a remote server for subsequent downloading by the patient or another authorized person of the delayed information from the server to the portable memory device.