Remote Healthcare Record Exchange for Accurate Virtual Consultations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current healthcare systems face challenges such as inaccurate and outdated patient information, lack of interoperability among electronic healthcare records, and difficulties in accessing and updating patient records during remote or virtual consultations, leading to errors, inefficiencies, and increased costs.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method for providing healthcare services remotely or virtually with an electronic healthcare record and/or a communication network that facilitates communication and data exchange between patients and healthcare providers, enabling access to comprehensive healthcare records, efficient information processing, and secure data transmission across various healthcare systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If patients provide information on questionnaires or forms prior to seeing the healthcare provider, then some patient information can be collected, but the information may not be sufficient, comprehensive, or accurate, and may not be uniformly available to providers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (healthcare information exchange network) that mediates between patients and providers. This network includes standardized data formats, interoperability protocols, and centralized record storage that ensure accurate, comprehensive, and uniformly available patient information is shared across all providers, resolving the contradiction between information availability and accuracy.
2Reliability
If healthcare providers rely on information from previous providers and healthcare facilities, then diagnostic accuracy can be improved, but interoperability issues may prevent accurate and up-to-date data exchange
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal healthcare information exchange system that serves multiple functions: storing patient records, enabling data exchange between different healthcare facilities, providing standardized data formats, and ensuring secure access. This multi-functional platform resolves the interoperability barrier while maintaining reliable diagnostic accuracy through comprehensive data availability.
3Productivity
If remote or virtual provider visits are conducted without comprehensive access to patient records, then communication efficiency can be maintained, but healthcare quality and decision-making accuracy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables preliminary action by allowing providers to access comprehensive patient records, imaging, and test results before the remote consultation begins. The system pre-loads relevant information into the provider's interface, so that when the virtual visit starts, all necessary data is already available for immediate use, maintaining both communication efficiency and healthcare quality.
4Loss of information
If electronic healthcare records are stored and transmitted across multiple systems, then information accessibility improves, but data security risks and transmission errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms including real-time verification of data transmission integrity, automated validation of record completeness, and continuous security monitoring. The system provides feedback to both sending and receiving systems to confirm accurate data exchange and alert any security anomalies, thereby maintaining information accessibility while mitigating security risks and transmission errors.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus, including a computer including a database which stores a controllable healthcare record and information contained in a master records file, and a distributed ledger and Blockchain technology system. The apparatus facilitates a video call between a user device and a provider device. The computer, after processing information for updating the controllable healthcare record, processes information for identifying a plurality of electronic records for the individual and a second healthcare provider associated with each electronic record. The computer updates each of the plurality of electronic records, and generates a record update message. The computer transmits the record update message to each of a plurality of second provider devices associated with each second healthcare provider. Information regarding the update to the controllable healthcare record and the update to each of the second records is stored in the distributed ledger and Blockchain technology system.