Remote Treatment Privacy Controls for Secure Patient Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Telemedicine systems, including remote physical therapy, face challenges in protecting patient data and ensuring compliance with privacy regulations such as HIPAA, CCPA, and GDPR, as they have not been adequately addressed with integrated access controls and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs).
Innovation Solution
A system incorporating a PET engine and user access controls to manage patient data, enabling deidentification, reidentification, anonymization, and pseudonymization, with machine learning models trained to adapt to regulatory changes, and user accounts with varying permissions for secure data access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If telemedicine systems implement integrated access controls and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to protect patient data, then patient privacy and security are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) engine as an intermediary component between the telemedicine system and patient data. This PET engine implements deidentification, reidentification, anonymization, and pseudonymization functions, serving as a mediator that protects patient privacy while enabling legitimate data access. The PET engine decouples the complexity of privacy protection from the core telemedicine functionality, allowing the main system to remain relatively simple while still achieving high security standards through this specialized intermediary component.
2Reliability
If the system implements multiple user accounts with varying permissions for data access, then access control precision is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by assigning different permission levels and access rights to different user accounts based on their specific roles and needs. Instead of a uniform access control approach, the system tailors access permissions locally for each user account, allowing clinicians, administrators, and researchers to access only the data and functions appropriate to their role. This granular, localized approach to access control improves security precision while the automated permission management reduces the operational complexity of maintaining these differentiated access rights.
Data Source
AI summary
A method is disclosed. The method may include, while the patient uses the treatment apparatus, controlling, based on a treatment plan for a patient, a treatment apparatus. The method may include receiving, by a processing device, data from an electronic device, wherein the data comprises a measurement pertaining to performance of a treatment plan by a patient using a treatment apparatus, a characteristic pertaining to the patient, or both. The method may include storing, via the processing device, the data for the patient in a computer-readable medium. The method may include using a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) engine to control access to personally identifiable information (PII) associated with the patient.