Data sharing infrastructure
First Claim
1. A data sharing infrastructure comprising:
- a core residing at a first site having at least one portal server;
at least one integration server; and
at least one backend server, said backend server comprising at least one data base;
wherein said integration server routes data to and from said backend server and said portal server, and wherein said portal server provides data to at least one user; and
at least one satellite server, wherein said satellite server resides at a second site, wherein said satellite server communicates with said core, conducts patient matching and routes data.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to systems and methods for constructing a regional medical data exchange infrastructure that can provide the aggregation and presentation of personal health data that previously exists in different health care organizations in a segmented fashion. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for establishing a regional medical data exchange infrastructure, identifying patients across multiple different organizations, creating patient medical data pointers and routing tables, and generating comprehensive medical data sets for an enrolled population. One feature of this present invention permits the regional medical data exchange infrastructure to be built without any protected health information (PHI) being stored in any centralized databases. Another feature of the present invention permits the continuous operation of the regional medical data exchange infrastructure even when the centralized facility experiences downtime. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention permit both local and global logging and tracking of data flows and user activities to satisfy HIPAA compliances. Alternative embodiments of the present invention permit the preservation of the data ownership for the participating organizations.
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20 Claims
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1. A data sharing infrastructure comprising:
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a core residing at a first site having at least one portal server;
at least one integration server; and
at least one backend server, said backend server comprising at least one data base;
wherein said integration server routes data to and from said backend server and said portal server, and wherein said portal server provides data to at least one user; and
at least one satellite server, wherein said satellite server resides at a second site, wherein said satellite server communicates with said core, conducts patient matching and routes data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of regional medical data exchange comprising:
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identifying at least one patient across multiple sites, said multiple sites comprising a user site and at least one source site, said identifying at least one patient comprising;
generating a global identification number specific to said at least one patient;
distributing said global identification number into at least one master person index; and
cross identifying said at least one patient using demographic data to yield at least one identification location;
creating a patient linkage pointer to said identification location;
generating an inventory of existing medical data for said at least one patient; and
storing said inventory in at least one database, wherein said at least one database resides in either said backend sever or said satellite server. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for acquiring patient information comprising:
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submitting demographic data and medical data pointers specific to a patient, from a first site to a satellite server, wherein said satellite server resides at a second site;
forwarding data related to said patient from said satellite server a core, wherein said core resides at said first site, and wherein said data is encrypted and de-identified;
distributing demographic data to additional site(s), said additional sites comprising legacy demographic data;
determining whether a match exists between distributed demographic data received by additional site(s) and legacy demographic data;
if said match exists, determining whether data related to the said match exists within said additional site(s);
if data exist, forwarding said medical data pointers said first site;
if said match and/or said data do not exist, creating new global medical data pointers and registering said global medical data pointers into said satellite server. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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