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Linkage of social network and healthcare data

  • US 10,380,547 B2
  • Filed: 05/01/2015
  • Issued: 08/13/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • receiving individually identifiable social network data associated with a first user and a second user, the individually identifiable social network data associated with the second user including a social network link with the first user;

    receiving individually identifiable healthcare transaction data associated with the first user identifying a physician of the first user;

    de-identifying or encrypting the individually identifiable social network data associated with the first user to form de-identified social network data associated with the first user by using a hash function or encryption algorithm to generate a first key and replacing data identifying the first user with the first key;

    de-identifying or encrypting the individually identifiable healthcare transaction data associated with the first user to form de-identified healthcare transaction data associated with the first user by using the hash function or encryption algorithm to generate a second key and replacing data identifying the first user with the second key;

    identifying de-identified social network data associated with the first user and de-identified healthcare transaction data associated with the first user by making a determination that the first key is identical or similar to the second key;

    linking the de-identified social network data associated with the first user and the de-identified healthcare transaction data associated with the first user;

    de-identifying or encrypting the individually identifiable social network data associated with the second user to form de-identified social network data associated with the second user; and

    outputting the physician of the first user to the second user in response to a determination that the de-identified social network data associated with the second user includes a social network link with the first user and the de-identified healthcare transaction data associated with the first user identifies the physician of the first user.

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