Therapeutic Application Management System with Deadline Enforcement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Therapeutic applications used by patients without proper medical supervision may lead to inappropriate treatment, as they lack a mechanism to ensure timely usage and adherence to prescribed deadlines.

Innovation Solution

A therapeutic application management system that includes an acquisition unit for patient and application IDs, a registration unit for correlating these with use deadlines, a timekeeping unit for tracking usage, and a limitation unit that restricts access when deadlines expire, ensuring patients use the applications only within designated timeframes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a therapeutic application is used without a doctor's ascertaining of conditions, then the application can be freely accessed by patients, but the likelihood of inappropriate treatment increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveAccessibility of therapeutic applicationVSAvoidAppropriateness of treatment

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by requiring doctors to ascertain patient conditions and set use deadlines before the therapeutic application can be used. The management server stores this preliminary medical assessment and uses it to control application access, ensuring treatment appropriateness before patient use begins.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The management server acts as an intermediary between doctors and patients, mediating the therapeutic application usage. It receives doctor assessments, stores them with use deadlines, and controls application access based on these medical determinations, preventing direct unrestricted patient access while maintaining treatment appropriateness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Duration of action of moving object

If a therapeutic application is used beyond the prescribed deadline, then the patient may continue using the application, but the treatment reliability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveContinuity of application usageVSAvoidTreatment appropriateness

Core Design Contradiction:

Duration of action of moving objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies preliminary anti-action by pre-setting use deadlines based on doctor assessments and automatically preventing application use when these deadlines are exceeded. The management server compares current dates with stored deadlines and blocks access, counteracting potential inappropriate continued use before it can occur.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #9Preliminary anti-action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the current date against stored use deadlines and automatically adjusting application accessibility based on this comparison. When the deadline is exceeded, the system provides feedback by blocking access, ensuring treatment reliability is maintained through automated deadline enforcement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If a use deadline is set for the therapeutic application, then the treatment reliability is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveTreatment appropriatenessVSAvoidSystem structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts the complex deadline management and medical assessment functions into a separate management server, leaving the therapeutic application itself relatively simple. The management server handles the complexity of storing doctor assessments, setting deadlines, and controlling access, while the application focuses on its core therapeutic function.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The management server serves as an intermediary that absorbs the system complexity related to deadline management and medical supervision. It handles the complex tasks of storing doctor assessments, comparing dates with deadlines, and controlling application access, allowing the therapeutic application to remain relatively simple while maintaining high treatment reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20230035775A1Therapeutic application management system, therapeutic application management method, therapeutic application management program, and terminal

Publication Date: 2023.02.02 CUREAPP INC

AI summary

A therapeutic application management system includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an application ID indicating a therapeutic application which is prescribed for a patient by a medical worker, a patient ID for identifying a patient for whom the therapeutic application is to be prescribed, and use deadline information indicating a deadline to which the therapeutic application is able to be used; a registration unit configured to register the application ID for identifying the therapeutic application, the patient ID, and the use deadline information in a storage unit in correlation with each other; a timekeeping unit configured to count date and time information; and a limitation unit configured to limit use of the therapeutic application which is transmitted to a terminal of the patient when the date and time information counted by the timekeeping unit has passed beyond a date and time determined by the use deadline information.