Remote Patient Management System Device Enrollment and Validation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing remote patient management systems face challenges with outdated or inaccurate health measurement devices, which can compromise the effectiveness of healthcare received by patients, and replacing or recalling these devices is often difficult.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for remote patient management that involves enrolling patients, identifying necessary vitals, providing and associating them with specific health measurement devices, ensuring only compatible and up-to-date devices are used by patients, and securely transmitting measurements to a healthcare management server for monitoring.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If patients use existing health measurement devices, then patient convenience is improved, but device accuracy and reliability deteriorate due to outdated or inaccurate devices
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by enrolling patients with specific health measurement devices before they can access remote patient management services. The enrollment process pre-associates patients with validated devices, ensuring that only accurate and reliable devices are used from the outset, thereby preventing the use of outdated or inaccurate devices while maintaining patient convenience through streamlined access.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring device associations and measurements. The healthcare management server receives measurements from associated devices and can identify when devices become outdated or inaccurate, enabling the system to prompt patients to update their devices while maintaining continuous care, thus resolving the contradiction between convenience and accuracy.
2Quantity of substance
If patients use outdated health measurement devices, then device availability is improved, but healthcare effectiveness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary validation during patient enrollment, pre-associating patients only with health measurement devices that meet accuracy and reliability criteria. This preliminary action ensures that while multiple devices may be available in the market, only validated devices are associated with patients, thereby maintaining device availability while ensuring healthcare effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of device validation by implementing enrollment-based association that verifies device parameters such as model, serial number, and compatibility. This parameter change ensures that devices meeting specific reliability thresholds are selected, resolving the contradiction between broad device availability and healthcare effectiveness.
3Reliability
If the system restricts device usage to enrolled devices, then measurement reliability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The enrollment module serves multiple functions: it registers patients, validates devices, associates devices with patients, and establishes measurement protocols. By making this single module multi-functional, the system achieves high measurement reliability through comprehensive device control without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service mechanisms where the healthcare management server automatically manages device associations and validates measurements without requiring complex manual intervention. The server autonomously handles device enrollment, association, and verification, thereby maintaining high measurement reliability while minimizing the operational complexity burden on users.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the system implements device enrollment and association, then device compatibility is improved, but enrollment process complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The enrollment module is designed as a multi-functional component that handles patient registration, device validation, device-patient association, and compatibility verification in a single integrated process. This universality improves device compatibility across different types while presenting a unified, manageable enrollment process that does not linearly increase complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges multiple enrollment steps (patient registration, device validation, association) into a single streamlined process handled by the healthcare management server. By combining these functions into one cohesive enrollment flow, the system achieves broad device compatibility while keeping the enrollment process complexity manageable through automation and integration.
Data Source
AI summary
Remote patient management involves receiving an enrollment request to enroll a patient, identification of vitals of the patient to be measured based on the enrollment request, providing an equipment request indicating the vitals of the patient to be measured, receiving equipment information corresponding to one or more health measurement devices for measuring the vitals of the patient, and associating the patient with the equipment information corresponding to the one or more health measurement devices. In addition, a user device establishes communication with a health measurement device and determines whether it is associated with the patient, and if so, receives measurements from the health measurement device and provides the measurements to a healthcare management server. Otherwise, if not associated with the patient, no measurements are received from the health measurement device.