Wearable Patient Data Sharing With Context-Aware Alert Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing patient management systems face challenges in accurately collecting and sharing health-related data, leading to inadequate diagnosis and treatment, and often overlook the sharing of health data between different clinicians.
Innovation Solution
A patient management system that utilizes a wearable device to sense conditions, store data, and communicate with other devices within a range, allowing for selective data sharing and alert control based on context and context determination using data from multiple sources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a person describes activities to a doctor, then the doctor can diagnose and treat the person, but the person may not fully or accurately describe activities which adversely affects diagnosis and treatment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of manual patient reporting with automated sensor-based detection. Wearable devices with sensors automatically detect and transmit health data (heart rate, activity levels, sleep patterns) to healthcare providers, eliminating reliance on patient memory and description accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces wearable computing devices and sensor systems as intermediaries between the patient and doctor. These devices continuously monitor health parameters and transmit data to a centralized system that shares information with healthcare providers, ensuring complete and accurate activity information is conveyed.
2Reliability
If health data is shared between different clinicians, then better patient outcomes can be achieved, but data sharing between clinicians is often overlooked which compounds negative outcomes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal health data platform that serves multiple clinicians and healthcare providers simultaneously. The system aggregates data from wearable devices and makes it accessible to all authorized clinicians involved in a patient's care, enabling comprehensive multi-disciplinary treatment coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback loops where the system continuously monitors data sharing status and ensures all relevant clinicians receive updated health information. The system tracks which clinicians have accessed which data and facilitates real-time information exchange to prevent data silos.
3Quantity of substance
If wearable devices continuously monitor health conditions, then comprehensive patient data is collected, but data management and selective sharing becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the continuous stream of health data into meaningful categories and contexts. The system processes raw sensor data to identify significant events (anomalies, trends, critical readings) and separates this processed information from raw data, making it easier to manage and share selectively with appropriate clinicians.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary processing and analysis of health data before sharing. The wearable device and associated systems pre-process continuous data streams to identify clinically relevant information, filter noise, and organize data by urgency and relevance, reducing the complexity of subsequent data management and sharing decisions.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure is directed towards a patient management system for selectively storing and/or sharing patient data. A wearable device may sense a condition associated with the wearer of the wearable device, and store values based on the condition for a period of time. The wearable device may determine that the wearable device is within range of another device, such that the wearable device can communicate with the other device, and output the values to the other device. Additionally, a computing device of the patient management system may receive, from a wearable device, first data associated with a condition of a wearer of the wearable device. The computing device may also receive second data associated with the condition from a sensing device. The computing device may determine a context of the wearer based on comparing the first and second data, and control output of an alert based on the context.