Project Control Adherence Scoring System

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need for systems and methods to evaluate adherence to project control processes in data delivery projects that handle confidential healthcare information, ensuring that security protocols are followed to protect sensitive data.

Innovation Solution

A computing system identifies projects for audit, evaluates adherence to project control processes, and calculates a process adoption score based on audit results, using both manual and automated methods to track and assess compliance with project checkpoints and documentation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If control processes are implemented to protect confidential healthcare information, then security and reliability are improved, but device complexity and difficulty of detecting and measuring adherence increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity of confidential healthcare informationVSAvoidcomplexity of project control process
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically audits project documentation and evaluates adherence to control processes without requiring manual intervention. The computing system autonomously identifies projects, retrieves documentation, assesses adherence to control processes, and calculates process adoption scores, allowing the system to serve itself in monitoring compliance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback by calculating and reporting process adoption scores that indicate the degree of adherence to control processes. This feedback mechanism enables continuous monitoring and improvement of security compliance by comparing actual project processes against required control processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If manual audit methods are used to evaluate adherence, then measurement precision is improved, but productivity and use of energy decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of adherence evaluationVSAvoidefficiency of audit process
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual mechanical auditing processes with an automated computing system that electronically retrieves project documentation, assesses adherence to control processes, and calculates process adoption scores. This substitution maintains measurement precision through systematic evaluation while dramatically improving productivity by eliminating manual labor.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The computing system acts as an intermediary between project documentation and adherence evaluation. It automatically retrieves project documentation, compares it against control processes, and generates process adoption scores, serving as a mediator that bridges the gap between raw project data and meaningful compliance metrics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of information

If comprehensive project tracking is implemented, then information completeness is improved, but loss of time and device complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of project documentationVSAvoidtime required for auditing
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system requires project documentation to be prepared and stored in advance according to control process requirements. By performing preliminary actions of documenting project processes upfront, the system enables rapid automated auditing later, reducing the time required for compliance evaluation while maintaining information completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS8983855B1Systems and methods for evaluating adherence to a project control process
Publication Date: 2015.03.17 MCKESSON CORPORATION
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AI summary

Systems and methods for evaluating adherence to a project control process are provided. A project to be audited may be identified by a computing system comprising one or more computers. The project may be a data delivery project implemented to deliver confidential healthcare information. The results of an audit performed on the identified project may be determined by the computing system. The audit may evaluate adherence of the project to a project control process. Based at least in part upon the results of the audit, the computing system may calculate a process adoption score for the identified project.