Unified Interface for Multi-Source Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing database management systems face challenges in efficiently accessing and presenting data from multiple sources with different proprietary user interfaces, leading to increased resource consumption and difficulty in navigating patient data, which can hinder effective healthcare decision-making.
Innovation Solution
A system that receives requests for data from user devices, selects and provides corresponding data types based on user permissions, and generates a unified user interface that includes actionable recommendations to improve patient health, using data from lifestyle and patient data sources, thereby reducing resource usage and improving user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate user interfaces are used for each data source with proprietary interfaces, then data from multiple sources can be accessed, but device complexity and resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate user interfaces into a single unified user interface that presents data from multiple different data sources. This unified interface consolidates what would otherwise require separate proprietary interfaces, reducing the number of interfaces users must navigate while maintaining the ability to access diverse data sources including lifestyle data, insurance data, and patient data.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified user interface serves multiple functions by simultaneously accessing and presenting data from various proprietary data sources through a single interface. This multi-functional approach allows the system to handle diverse data types (lifestyle, insurance, patient data) and perform multiple operations (data retrieval, permission verification, data presentation) through one universal interface rather than requiring separate specialized interfaces for each function.
2Adaptability or versatility
If separate user interfaces are used for each data source, then data access is maintained, but ease of operation deteriorates due to navigation difficulty
Solution Approach 1:
By merging multiple separate user interfaces into one unified interface, the system eliminates the need for users to navigate between multiple proprietary interfaces. The unified interface consolidates access to lifestyle data, insurance data, and patient data in a single location, making operation easier while preserving the ability to access all necessary data sources.
3Loss of information
If all data types are provided to users, then complete information is available, but resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by providing different levels of data access to different users based on their specific roles and permissions. Instead of uniformly providing all data to all users (which would waste resources), the system selectively provides only the data types that each user is authorized to access. For example, a doctor may receive different data types than an administrator or researcher, optimizing resource usage while maintaining information completeness for each user's needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts and provides only the necessary subset of data types that each user is permitted to access, rather than providing all available data. By using permissions data to filter and extract only the relevant data types for each user, the system reduces computational resource consumption while ensuring that users receive complete information within their authorization scope.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling data access. One of the methods includes receiving, from a user device associated with an account, a request for data; accessing data from one or more data sources that includes, for each of a plurality of data types, corresponding data values; selecting, from the plurality of data types and using permissions data for the account, one or more data types that the account has permission to access; and providing, to the user device and for each of the one or more data types that the account has permission to access, the corresponding data values.