Home Sleep Apnea Testing With Secure Medical Data Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing home sleep apnea tests, such as oximetry, are less reliable and inconvenient for patients, necessitating a more reliable and convenient solution for diagnosing sleep apnea at home.
Innovation Solution
A home sleep apnea test device with a tamper-resistant housing and secure data transfer mechanism, including a method for securely transferring medical data from a medical device to an administrator device, ensuring data storage accessibility and compliance with privacy regulations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If home sleep apnea testing is performed using oximetry, then patient convenience is improved, but test reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The testing system is divided into separate functional modules: a wearable sensor unit for continuous monitoring, a secure data transmission module for privacy-compliant transfer, and a remote analysis module for comprehensive sleep apnea assessment. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, improving both convenience and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
A secure data transmission intermediary is introduced between the wearable sensor and the remote analysis system. This intermediary ensures privacy-compliant data transfer while maintaining the simplicity of home testing, thus preserving both patient convenience and test reliability.
2Reliability
If medical data is transferred securely from the medical device, then data privacy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The complex security protocols and data encryption mechanisms are extracted from the wearable device itself and implemented in the cloud-based analysis system. This allows the wearable device to remain simple while still achieving secure data transfer and privacy protection through server-side security measures.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses disposable, single-use wearable sensors that simplify the device architecture. The security and data management complexities are shifted to the centralized system, allowing the patient-side device to remain simple and inexpensive while maintaining high security standards.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for securely transferring medical data for an off-site administered test. A method includes receiving, at a first device, a key associated with a second device from a third device, wherein the second device is a medical device having a unique identifier, wherein the second device includes at least one sensor configured to capture medical data; receiving, at the first device, a request to store the medical data captured by the at least one sensor from the second device; configuring the second device to store the medical data in at least one designated storage location, wherein each designated storage location is accessible to the second device and to the third device; and sending the designated storage location and the unique identifier to the third device.