Client-centric e-health system and method with applications to long-term health and community care consumers, insurers, and regulators

• US 20040083395A1
• Filed: 05/08/2003
• Published: 04/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Elain Blechman
• Original Assignee: Elain Blechman
• Inventors: Blechman, Elain
• Application Number:
  US10/431,845
• Publication Number:
  US 20040083395A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• 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: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

A web-based method and system for controlling access to a client-centric relational computer database containing records of named client accounts comprising the steps of: establishing an identity for each client account user to access the relational database via the Internet represented by an assigned ID and password under the control of the client; establishing authorization records for each authorized user of an identified client which defines the access and data function privileges for such authorized user in one or more named client accounts with such records being under the control of the client or its designated agent; authenticating an authorized user when accessing the relational database via the Internet by the assigned ID and password; and opening a limited account user interface in response to when said relational database is accessed by an authorized user such that access is limited only to data function privileges and operations defined in the authorization records.

Claims

1. A web-based method to control access to a client-centric relational database in a computer via the Internet with the relational database containing records of named client accounts with the records stored in a multiple of different data categories each representative of a different type of information and including data functions representative of different transactional operations comprising the steps of:

establishing an identity for a client authorized user to access the relational database via the Internet represented by an assigned ID and password under the control of the client or designated agent thereof;

establishing authorization records for each of the identified client authorized users which define the access and data function privileges for such authorized user in one or more named client accounts under the control of the client or designated agent thereof;

authenticating an authorized user when accessing the relational database via the Internet by the assigned ID and password; and

opening an account user interface in response to when said relational database is accessed by an authorized user with said account user interface being limited to the access and data function privileges defined in the authorization records for each such authorized user permitting the authorized user access to information in each of the named client accounts authorized by the client or the designated agent thereof and to perform the authorized data function operations in accordance with the privileges granted to such authorized user.

2. A client-centric Internet information eSystem in which clients control user access to their client account records stored in a relational database on a computer accessible through the Internet with all database records in the relational database corresponding to a multiple number of different data categories of subjects and data functions for covering, at least, the entire spectrum of heathcare and community care informational records of each named client account and identified by a client account ID comprising:

relational database tables in said relational database to permit searching, aggregation, and statistical operations across client accounts by authorized account users of the system having such privileges;

an Internet Website that authorized account users can use to access said relational database from any Web-browser equipped device with a modem with said Website adapted to authenticate the logon ID and password for each client authorized user entering the eSystem;

means to encrypt communication between user'"'"'s device modem and eSystem;

authorization records stored in the relational database defining the access and data function privileges of each authorized user in one or more of the named client accounts so as to access data categories and data functions within any or all of those account records;

means for opening an account user interface in response to when said relational database is accessed through the Internet by an authorized user with said account user interface limiting access only to accounts and data function defined in the authorization records for each such authorized user permiting the user to exercise access privileges with respect to data categories within the account and data functions for each data category and

display means for displaying the accessed information.