Portable Secure Medium for Consolidated Medical Records
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Solution Overview
Problem
Patients' medical records are often fragmented across different doctors, leading to incomplete or inaccurate information being shared, which can result in inadequate treatment.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for managing medical information using a portable secure medium, such as a credit card-sized recordable device or web server, that digitally stores and encrypts medical records, allowing authorized personnel to access sensitive information while ensuring compliance with HIPPA regulations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If medical records are distributed across different doctors' systems, then each doctor can maintain their own records independently, but the completeness and accuracy of patient medical history deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple scattered medical records from different doctors into a single consolidated electronic medical record system. The system aggregates records from various sources while maintaining the independence of each contributing doctor's system, resolving the contradiction between individual system independence and overall record completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal medical record system that can interface with multiple different doctors' existing systems. This multi-functional platform serves as a central repository that accepts and integrates records from various sources, enabling both individual system autonomy and centralized information completeness.
2Ease of operation
If medical records are made accessible to multiple doctors, then comprehensive medical information is available, but security and privacy protection deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements different security measures for different levels of data access. Sensitive information receives enhanced security protection while less sensitive information remains more accessible. This localized quality approach allows broad accessibility while maintaining security for critical patient data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces security protocols and authentication mechanisms as intermediaries between users and medical records. These intermediary layers control and monitor access, enabling multiple doctors to access comprehensive information while maintaining security through structured authorization and encryption.
3Loss of information
If medical records are consolidated into a centralized system, then completeness of medical history improves, but system complexity and security requirements deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized medical record system into modular components that can independently function. This segmentation reduces overall system complexity by breaking down the centralized system into manageable modules while maintaining the ability to consolidate complete medical history.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer implemented method for managing a person's medical information includes receiving a first request to access a first tier of medical information of a given person. The request includes first security information associated with a portable secure medium associated with the given person. Access to the first tier information associated with the medical information of the given person is provided upon authenticating the first request. A second request to access a second tier of the medical information of the given person is received. The second request includes second security information provided to a medical professional or center by a medical record management center. Access to the second tier of information associated with the medical information of the given person is granted upon authenticating the second request.