Web-hosted healthcare medical information management system
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1. A system for managing a person'"'"'s healthcare information, comprising:
- a database system for healthcare information relating to a plurality of patients, database entries of said healthcare information for each patient identified only by an identifier code and not identified by name or other biographical information, said database system having an interface to a wide-area computer network;
a plurality of patient tokens, each token associable with an individual patient and portable by said individual patient and having memory in which are storable biographical information identifying said individual patient and an identifier code corresponding to said identifier code in said database system relating to a corresponding entry for said individual patient in said database system; and
a plurality of base units remotely located from said database system, each base unit associable with a healthcare provider, said base unit having a wide-area network interface through which information can be communicated with said database system, having a token interface circuit with which any one of said tokens can communicate when placed in proximity with a portion of said token interface circuit, and having a biometric processor with a sensor, said base unit permitting said biographical information identifying a patient to be read from said memory of a token only if said biometric processor verifies said patient'"'"'s identity by determining said patient has a biometric predetermined to be uniquely identifiable with said patient and not identifiable with any other patients, said base unit permitting healthcare information entries for said patient to be read from said database system via a wide-area network only if said biometric processor verifies said patient'"'"'s identity by determining said patient has a biometric predetermined to be uniquely identifiable with said patient and not identifiable with any other patients.
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Abstract
Base units operated by various types of healthcare professionals access a remote database of patient medical information secured against unauthorized access by electronic patient tokens and patient biometrics. The tokens themselves may store information as well, such as patient biographical information and emergency medical information. To safeguard patient privacy, the remote database does not store patient biographical information or other personal information identifying the patients.
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40 Claims
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1. A system for managing a person'"'"'s healthcare information, comprising:
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a database system for healthcare information relating to a plurality of patients, database entries of said healthcare information for each patient identified only by an identifier code and not identified by name or other biographical information, said database system having an interface to a wide-area computer network;
a plurality of patient tokens, each token associable with an individual patient and portable by said individual patient and having memory in which are storable biographical information identifying said individual patient and an identifier code corresponding to said identifier code in said database system relating to a corresponding entry for said individual patient in said database system; and
a plurality of base units remotely located from said database system, each base unit associable with a healthcare provider, said base unit having a wide-area network interface through which information can be communicated with said database system, having a token interface circuit with which any one of said tokens can communicate when placed in proximity with a portion of said token interface circuit, and having a biometric processor with a sensor, said base unit permitting said biographical information identifying a patient to be read from said memory of a token only if said biometric processor verifies said patient'"'"'s identity by determining said patient has a biometric predetermined to be uniquely identifiable with said patient and not identifiable with any other patients, said base unit permitting healthcare information entries for said patient to be read from said database system via a wide-area network only if said biometric processor verifies said patient'"'"'s identity by determining said patient has a biometric predetermined to be uniquely identifiable with said patient and not identifiable with any other patients. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17)
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18. A system for managing healthcare patient information storable in a database system and accessible using tokens associated with patients, comprising:
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a base unit remotely located from said database system, said base unit having a wide-area network interface through which information can be bi-directionally communicated with said database system, having a token interface circuit with which a token can communicate when placed in proximity with a portion of said token interface circuit, having a computer interface through which information can be communicated between said base unit and a computer operated by a healthcare professional, and having a biometric processor with a sensor, said base unit permitting information to be bi-directionally communicated with said database system via a wide-area network only if said biometric processor verifies said patient'"'"'s identity by determining said patient has a biometric predetermined to be uniquely identifiable with said patient and not identifiable with any other patients; and
a computer program product for said computer operated by said healthcare professional, said computer program product comprising a data storage medium on which is recorded in computer-readable format a means for causing information read from said database to be displayed on said computer. - View Dependent Claims (20, 24, 26)
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27. A method for managing healthcare patient information, comprising:
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enrolling a patient by capturing a biometric uniquely identifiable with said patient and not identifiable with any other patients, storing healthcare information in a database system, and issuing said patient a token having a memory in which is stored biographical information identifying said patient and an identifier code, database entries for said patient identified only by an identifier code corresponding to said identifier code stored in said memory and not identified by patient name or other biographical information;
interfacing said token issued to said patient with a base unit issued to a healthcare professional;
said base unit obtaining a biometric measurement from said patient;
said base unit verifying said patient'"'"'s identity by determining whether said measurement has said biometric uniquely identifiable with said patient; and
permitting healthcare information entries to be read from said database system only if said patient'"'"'s identity is verified; and
permitting said biographical information to be read from said memory of said token only if said patient'"'"'s identity is verified. - View Dependent Claims (28, 31, 38, 39)
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