Multi-Participant Survey Data Aggregation on Electronic Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for systems and methods to efficiently collect, manage, and transmit data from multiple participant surveys, such as clinical trials, on a single electronic device and transfer it to appropriate study data repositories.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for managing data from multiple participant surveys on an electronic device, involving data entry, identification, aggregation, and transmission to staging and study data repositories, using electronic devices like smartphones and tablets, with computer-readable instructions for data handling and communication protocols.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If data from multiple multi-participant surveys are collected and managed on a single electronic device, then data aggregation and analysis capability is improved, but device complexity and data management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments data management by creating separate data structures for individual surveys while maintaining a unified aggregation framework. Each survey's data is organized independently with unique identifiers, allowing the system to handle multiple surveys without conflating their structures, thus managing complexity while enabling aggregation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary data aggregation layer that sits between individual survey data collections and the final analysis output. This intermediary structure standardizes data from different surveys into a common format, enabling efficient aggregation while shielding the complexity of individual survey variations from the analysis process.
2Reliability
If data from multiple participants across different surveys are aggregated for analysis, then analytical comprehensiveness is improved, but data organization and tracking difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by maintaining participant-specific data attributes and survey-specific data structures within the aggregated dataset. Each participant's data retains its unique characteristics and provenance information, allowing accurate tracking and analysis while organizing the overall data structure to handle multiple sources with different qualities and formats.
3Ease of operation
If electronic devices like smartphones and tablets are used for data collection, then ease of operation and accessibility are improved, but data transmission and security management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal data transmission framework that works across multiple device types (smartphones, tablets, other electronic devices). The system uses standardized communication protocols and data formats that are device-agnostic, enabling easy data collection on various platforms while managing transmission complexity through a unified approach rather than device-specific implementations.
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AI summary
Provided herein are systems, methods, and computer readable medium for entering, identifying, and aggregating data for analysis data in an electronic device, wherein the data are from a plurality of multi-participant surveys.