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US 2019/0103192 A1Published application
Multi agent consensus resolution & re-planning
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsOLIVER E. BENT, SALLY SIMONE FOBI NSUTEZO, ANTOINE NZEYIMANA, MEENAL PORE, KATHERINE TRYON, AISHA WALCOTT
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for collaborative decision-making in medicine. The systems can employ a distributed record-keeping and verification system to solicit suggested modifications to an initial healthcare regime from interested healthcare workers. The systems can aggregate the suggested modifications and use a consensus algorithm to determine the most appropriate modification.
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A method of optimizing a healthcare regime, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a first user device, a healthcare regime comprising a set of healthcare tokens representative of a set of proposed healthcare actions pertaining to a healthcare user, the proposed healthcare actions proposed by an authoring healthcare worker;
- obtaining, by the first user device, a digital signature of the authoring healthcare worker;
- obtaining, by the first user device, a historical block identifier from a healthcare blockchain, the healthcare blockchain representative of healthcare actions taken with respect to the healthcare user, wherein the first user device is one of a plurality of networked devices, each device in the plurality of networked devices maintaining an identical copy of the healthcare blockchain;
- calculating, by the first user device, a healthcare regime block for the healthcare regime as a function of one or more of the following parameters:
- the set of healthcare tokens, the digital signature, and the historical block identifier;
- causing the healthcare blockchain to be updated with the healthcare regime block;
- receiving, by an user device selected from the first user device and a second user device, at least one proposed modified healthcare token, the at least one proposed modified healthcare token representing at least one modified proposed healthcare action pertaining to the healthcare regime;
- obtaining, by the user device, a digital signature of an authorized healthcare worker responsible for the at least one proposed modified healthcare action;
- determining a preference factor for the at least one proposed modified healthcare action;
- calculating, by the user device, a modified healthcare regime block for the healthcare regime as a function of one or more of the following parameters:
- the at least one proposed modified healthcare token, the digital signature of the authorized healthcare worker, and the preference factor;
- causing the healthcare blockchain to be updated with the modified healthcare regime block;
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- automatically generating a message comprising a healthcare action based on the healthcare blockchain, and transmitting the message via a distributed network to a user account associated with the authoring healthcare worker, wherein the message alters a user interface to display the healthcare action.
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A method for maintaining healthcare records, the method comprising:
- maintaining a secure chain of healthcare blocks at a given computing node, wherein the given computing node is part of a set of computing nodes in a distributed network of computing nodes wherein each of the set of computing nodes maintains the secure chain of healthcare blocks, wherein the secure chain of healthcare blocks maintained at each computing node comprises one or more healthcare blocks that respectively represent one or more healthcare actions associated with a healthcare user, and wherein at least one of the healthcare blocks in the secure chain of healthcare blocks represents at least one healthcare action generated by an authoring healthcare worker associated with the healthcare user;
- adding at least one healthcare block to the secure chain of healthcare blocks maintained at the given computing node in response to receiving a proposed modified healthcare action;
- determining a preference factor for the proposed modified healthcare action;
- transmitting a message comprising the preference factor and the proposed modified healthcare action to a user account associated with the authoring healthcare worker;
- wherein the maintaining, adding, and determining steps are implemented via at least one processor operatively coupled to a memory associated with the given computing node.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.