Universal Personal Diagnostics Platform for Mobile Health Data Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current healthcare systems lack efficient and user-friendly methods for patients to manage and track chronic diseases, as they require frequent testing and data management, which can be cumbersome and disconnected from healthcare networks.
Innovation Solution
A mobile phone-based blood testing system with a universal connector for optical and electrochemical readers, enabling wireless data transfer and storage, allowing patients to conduct tests, view results, and share data with healthcare professionals, while also facilitating medication prescriptions and lifestyle recommendations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If patients use traditional healthcare systems for chronic disease management, then medical tests can be performed, but data management becomes cumbersome and disconnected from healthcare networks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions (analyte detection, data storage, data transmission, and healthcare network connectivity) into a single integrated mobile phone-based system. The mobile phone serves as both the testing device and the data management platform, eliminating the need for separate devices and manual data transfer processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile phone is utilized as a universal platform that can perform multiple functions: conducting analyte tests, storing test results, transmitting data to healthcare networks, and providing patient education. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for multiple separate devices and simplifies the overall healthcare management process.
2Reliability
If patients conduct frequent testing for chronic diseases, then health monitoring improves, but data transfer and storage becomes time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically stores test results in the mobile phone's memory immediately after each test, and pre-configures transmission protocols to send data to healthcare networks without requiring manual intervention. This preliminary automation of data management tasks eliminates the time-consuming manual data transfer process.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile phone-based system automatically manages its own data storage and transmission functions. The device independently stores test results, manages data security, and transmits information to healthcare networks without requiring patient intervention, thereby eliminating time-consuming manual data management operations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a mobile phone-based testing system is implemented, then patient empowerment and flexibility improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile phone serves as a universal platform that can perform multiple functions: conducting analyte tests, storing test results, transmitting data to healthcare networks, and providing patient education. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for multiple separate devices and simplifies the overall healthcare management process.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile phone acts as an intermediary device that bridges the gap between simple analyte testing and complex healthcare network integration. By using the already-familiar mobile phone as the platform, the system avoids the complexity of designing entirely new specialized devices while still achieving comprehensive healthcare management functionality.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution decentralizes pathology labs, empowers patients with flexible self-monitoring, establishes universal connectivity, and automates personal health records, enhancing healthcare management and coordination across different specialists and conditions.
Implementation Method 1
an optical and/or electrochemical reader that detect analyte concentration
Implementation Method 2
an optical and/or electrochemical reader that detect analyte concentration
Implementation Method 3
Analytes are introduced to the reader via a lateral flow device (LFD)
Data Source
AI summary
A universal personal diagnostics platform that connects to a mobile communication device such as a cellular phone or a smartphone. A universal connector attaches the universal personal diagnostics platform to a smartphone and consists of an optical and/or electrochemical reader that detects an analyte concentration in a blood sample.