Computing System Prioritizing Medical Therapy Access Barriers

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Solution Overview

Problem

Healthcare providers face challenges in identifying and prioritizing barriers that prevent patients from accessing medical therapies, leading to uneven adoption rates and reduced patient outcomes and reimbursement.

Innovation Solution

A computing system that receives quantitative data to facilitate decision-making by generating data on barriers to medical therapy access, including clinical evidence, reimbursement, physician economics, and treatment capacity, and outputs diagrams to prioritize these barriers for reduction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If healthcare providers attempt to offer advanced medical therapies, then patient access to innovative treatments improves, but barriers such as reimbursement, physician economics, and treatment capacity prevent uniform adoption

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadoption of medical therapyVSAvoidbarriers to patient access

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments barriers to therapy adoption into distinct categories (reimbursement, physician economics, treatment capacity, clinical evidence) and allows healthcare providers to identify and address specific barriers relevant to their context, enabling targeted intervention strategies that account for local variations in barrier prevalence and impact

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables dynamic adjustment of barrier assessment parameters by allowing healthcare providers to customize the barrier identification process to their specific setting, changing weights and priorities of different barrier categories based on local conditions, thereby adapting the general framework to specific contextual needs

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If healthcare providers invest resources to reduce barriers, then patient access to medical therapy improves, but resources are limited and must be prioritized

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefrequency of providing medical therapyVSAvoidresources to reduce barriers

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary assessment and prioritization of barriers before resource allocation, allowing healthcare providers to identify which barriers have the greatest impact on therapy adoption and should be addressed first, ensuring that limited resources are directed toward high-priority barriers that will yield the greatest improvement in patient access

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback on the relative impact of different barriers and the potential effect of reduction strategies, enabling healthcare providers to monitor progress and adjust resource allocation based on observed outcomes, thereby optimizing the use of limited resources over time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If comprehensive barrier analysis is conducted, then identification of access impediments improves, but time and resources for assessment increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveidentification of barriersVSAvoidtime for barrier assessment

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system allows healthcare providers to conduct barrier analysis at varying levels of depth, enabling them to perform a focused assessment of the most critical barriers when time is limited, or expand to a more comprehensive analysis when resources permit, thereby flexibly balancing assessment thoroughness with time constraints

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10490302B2Systems and methods for improving patient access to medical therapies

Publication Date: 2019.11.26 MEDTRONIC INC

AI summary

The system and method utilizes a computer system having processors that receive quantitative data from users and generate data to facilitate prioritization and reduction of barriers that prevent patients from receiving medical therapies from a particular healthcare provider in rank order. The processors provide an initial rank order of potential barriers based on calculated correlation coefficient, and determine a subsequent rank order of potential barriers based on the calculated correlation coefficient and other data indicative of the effect of each barrier on the patients. The system and method provides for a systematic, data-driven, and validated process to improve patient access to healthcare providers.