Vendor Communication Quality Evaluation via Sampling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current patient care plans are not personalized to individual patients' unique lifestyles and medical conditions, leading to inadequate adherence and ineffective management of chronic illnesses.

Innovation Solution

A system that generates personalized patient care plans by integrating demographic, medical, and lifestyle data, including third-party information, to create tailored treatment and monitoring strategies, using a data processing system to analyze and adjust plans dynamically based on patient adherence and environmental factors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If vendor communications are monitored and evaluated for accuracy and quality, then communication quality improves, but system complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication accuracyVSAvoidmonitoring system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary evaluation system that acts as a mediator between vendor communications and patients. This system includes sampling mechanisms, content extraction modules, and comparison engines that automatically evaluate communications without requiring direct human intervention in every case, thereby improving reliability while managing complexity through automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback loops where communications are sampled, evaluated against expected content, and used to generate notifications for modification. This continuous feedback mechanism systematically improves communication quality over time while automating the evaluation process to manage system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If communications are evaluated in detail for content accuracy, then quality control improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent accuracyVSAvoidevaluation processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies partial action by sampling a subset of communications for evaluation rather than evaluating every single communication in full detail. This selective sampling approach maintains quality control for critical communications while reducing overall processing time and resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary actions by establishing expected content templates and evaluation criteria before communications are generated. This pre-prepared framework enables faster evaluation of actual communications against predetermined standards, reducing processing time while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10395330B2Evaluating vendor communications for accuracy and quality
Publication Date: 2019.08.27 MERATIVE US LP
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  • US10395330B2 patent drawing
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AI summary

Mechanisms are provided for monitoring quality and correctness of content in communications handled by a vendor. The mechanisms sample a set of communications handled by the vendor to generate a sample set of communications and extract content from the sample set of communications. The mechanisms compare the extracted content with expected content of communications handled by the vendor and analyze the extracted content and the expected content to thereby identify differences between the extracted content and the expected content based on results of the analysis. In addition, the mechanisms determine a level of significance of the differences and generate a notification of whether or not to modify the communications, or an operation of the vendor, based on the determined level of significance of differences.