Systems and methods for biometrically retrieving medical information

• US 10,204,704 B1
• Filed: 05/22/2015
• Issued: 02/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brooke Erin Wurst
• Original Assignee: Brooke Erin Wurst
• Inventors: Wurst, Brooke Erin
• Primary Examiner(s): Kanaan, Maroun P
• Application Number:
  US14/720,454
• Time in Patent Office: 1,362 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

In part, the disclosure relates to an apparatus, system, and method for responding to emergency needs of a user with one or more responses including contacting an emergency contact for a user in response to a biometric identifier. Other responses can include retrieving stored medical information for use by a first responder, insurance provider, medical or healthcare professional, or other user or entity. Emergency data retrieval software can be activated on a per user based upon a biometric scan of the user to trigger one or more data transmission or retrieval events such as medical file retrieval and emergency contacts being automatically called or messaged.

Claims

1. A method of securely retrieving remotely stored data for an individual requiring medical attention comprising:

enrolling a subscriber in an emergency data retrieval and communication system;

storing medical information for the subscriber in a data storage device at one or more remote locations;

storing a biometric identifier for the subscriber at one or more remote locations;

storing (i) the biometric identifier and the medical information or (ii) a first software application in a persistent electronic memory device of a first mobile device,

wherein (i) the biometric identifier and the medical information or (ii) the first software application are only accessed upon occurrence of a network outage that interferes with retrieval of the medical information;

correlating the biometric identifier and the medical information on a per subscriber basis;

retrieving the medical information using the first mobile device in response to input a scan of the subscriber using the first software application running on the first mobile device; and

displaying the retrieved medical information on the first mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of contacting emergency contact of subscriber when subscriber is scanned by emergency response personnel to verify identity of subscriber using the biometric identifier of the subscriber.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the biometric identifier is a string of a plurality of characters.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising generating the biometric identifier, wherein the step of generating the biometric identifier comprises adding a client code to the string to generate an aggregate code and then hashing the aggregate code to generate the biometric identifier.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the aggregate code further comprises a unique user identifier (UUID), the UUID added to the client code and the string.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of accessing a central prescription database;

identifying active prescriptions; and

including the active prescription in the medical information.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the first software application is stored in a SIM card of the first mobile device.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the first software application controls one or more network protocols installed on the first mobile device, wherein the network protocols support direct communication between the first mobile device and a second mobile device during a telecommunication network service provider outage.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating one or more alerts based upon frequency of the subscriber'"'"'s prescriptions being written or category of prescriptions, wherein the category is selected from the group consisting of pain medication, antidepressants, stimulants, and schedule II medications.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the medical information is selected from the group consisting of allergies, active medications, prior medications, vital or acute medical history, name, age, gender, blood type and date of birth.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising downloading, prior to the occurrence of the network outage, a secure file containing one or more profiles of subscribers to a local device on a predetermined schedule to generate a local truncated set of medical records based on subscriber location.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of accessing a third party source of data;

retrieving updated information from the third party source of data and updating the medical information using the updated information.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising detecting the network outage, accessing the first software application upon occurrence of a network outage, wherein detecting the network outage renders the first software application accessible.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the interconnected network of mobile devices is interconnected using an Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD) protocol and a USSD gateway.

15. A computer system for securely retrieving remotely stored data for an individual having a medical emergency, the computer system comprising:

an electronic memory device; and

an electronic processor in communication with the memory device, wherein the memory device comprises instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to;

store a first software application in a persistent electronic memory device of a plurality of mobile devices,

initiate, in response to detecting a network outage, communication with the plurality of mobile devices to establish an interconnected network of mobile devices to exchange medical information for an enrolled subscriber using the first software application;

store medical information for the enrolled subscriber to emergency response service in a data storage device at one or more remote locations or on one or more mobile devices of the plurality of mobile devices;

store a biometric identifier for the subscriber to emergency response service at one or more locations or on one or more mobile devices of the plurality of mobile devices;

correlate the biometric identifier and medical information on a per subscriber basis; and

transmit or access the medical information in response to receiving an aggregate identifier generated in response to a scan of the enrolled subscriber using a mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices.

16. The system of claim 15 further comprising instructions to cause the processor to access a third party source of data;

retrieve updated information from the third party source of data and update the medical information using the updated information.

17. The system of claim 15 further comprising instructions to cause the processor to generate the biometric identifier, wherein the step of generating the biometric identifier comprises adding a client code to a template to generate an aggregate code and then hashing the aggregate code to generate the biometric identifier.

18. The system of claim 15 further comprising instructions to cause the processor to run one or more application servers, the one or more application servers running an emergency data retrieval software application.

19. The system of claim 15 further comprising a first database to store session information comprising one or more aggregate identifiers.

20. The system of claim 15 further comprising a second database to store one or more subscriber records, the subscriber records comprising a set of sensitive medical information.