System and method for restoring health data in a database

• US 20060195340A1
• Filed: 12/15/2005
• Published: 08/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Critical Connection Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Critical Connection Incorporated
• Inventors: Hawkins, Robert, Campbell, Wayne, Smitherman, Marlene, Krueger, Robert
• Application Number:
  US11/300,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20060195340A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2094 Redundant storage or storage space G06F11/2056 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2097 maintaining the standby controller/processing unit updated initialisation or re-synchronisation thereof G06F11/1658 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

A system and method for restoring health data stored in a database includes storing the healthcare data in a database located in a central server connected to a community of independent sources of the healthcare data for a first plurality of patients; replicating at least a portion of the database in at least a two servers networked to the central server, the at least two servers networked as a function of coverage of at least one electrical power grid providing service to the central server such that the at least two servers receive service from at least one electrical power grid outside of the coverage of the at least one electrical power grid providing service to the central server; replicating the at least a portion of the database in a second central server connected to a second community of independent sources of healthcare data for one or more patients, the second central server including a second database of healthcare data for a second plurality of patients; and enabling access by a client machine to the replicated portion of the database via a unique identifier, the client machine accessing one or more patient records via the unique identifier, the patient records including healthcare data from one or more independent sources of the healthcare data.

Claims

1. A method for restoring healthcare data stored in a database, the method comprising:

storing the healthcare data in a database located in a central server connected to a community of independent sources of the healthcare data for a first plurality of patients;

replicating at least a portion of the database in at least a two servers networked to the central server, the at least two servers networked as a function of coverage of at least one electrical power grid providing service to the central server such that the at least two servers receive service from at least one electrical power grid outside of the coverage of the at least one electrical power grid providing service to the central server;

replicating the at least a portion of the database in a second central server connected to a second community of independent sources of healthcare data for one or more patients, the second central server including a second database of healthcare data for a second plurality of patients; and

enabling access by a client machine to the replicated portion of the database via a unique identifier, the client machine accessing one or more patient records via the unique identifier, the patient records including healthcare data from one or more independent sources of the healthcare data.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the second central server is networked to at least two servers in the second community of independent sources of healthcare data, one or more of the two servers in the second community of independent sources of healthcare data being independent of a replicated database of the central server.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the central server is one of a plurality of regional servers connecting a plurality of communities, the replicated portion of the database of the central server being in at least one of the plurality of regional servers located outside the service area of the at least one electrical power grid providing service to the central server.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein one or more of the plurality of regional servers is configured to hold replicated data from at least one of the plurality of regional servers.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the replicated portion of the central server is retrievable from a client machine via the unique identifier, the unique identifier enabling the client machine to download a reduced database of healthcare data, the reduced database of healthcare data including one or more of allergy data, laboratory reports, medications, current condition data and current healthcare issue data.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the replicated portion of the central server is available from a client machine connected through a dial-up connection, the replicated portion available via a dial-up connection being a compressed version of the healthcare data.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the replicating at least a portion of the database is performed via a batch file operation performed on a scheduled basis.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the replicating at least a portion of the database is performed on a transactional basis, the healthcare data being replicated according to a secure sockets layer (SSL) protocol to encrypt the healthcare data.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the replicating at least a portion of the database includes distributing the database to provide that the at least two servers are configured to store alternate portions of the database of healthcare data.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the alternate portions of the database are stored by alternating which of the at least two servers receive predetermined portions of the database.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the central server is

connected via a network connection to a plurality of servers within a region defining a community of independent healthcare data participants, each of the plurality of servers receiving a replicated version of the database of healthcare data stored on the central server, each of the plurality of servers configured to enable access of one or more of the independent healthcare data participants to the healthcare data stored on the central server.

12. A computer program product comprising:

a signal bearing medium bearing;

one or more instructions for storing the healthcare data in a database located in a central server connected to a community of independent sources of the healthcare data for a first plurality of patients;

one or more instructions for replicating at least a portion of the database in at least a two servers networked to the central server, the at least two servers networked as a function of coverage of at least one electrical power grid providing service to the central server such that the at least two servers receive service from at least one electrical power grid outside of the coverage of the at least one electrical power grid providing service to the central server; and

one or more instructions for replicating the at least a portion of the database in a second central server connected to a second community of independent sources of healthcare data for one or more patients, the second central server including a second database of healthcare data for a second plurality of patients; and

one or more instructions for enabling access by a client machine to the replicated portion of the database via a unique identifier, the client machine accessing one or more patient records via the unique identifier, the patient records including healthcare data from one or more independent sources of the healthcare data.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 wherein the signal bearing medium comprises:

a recordable medium.

14. The computer program product of claim 12 wherein the signal bearing medium comprises:

a transmission medium.

15. A computer system connected via a network connection to a community of independent sources of a plurality of health data records, the computer system comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor; and

a data store coupled to the processor, the data store configured to organize in a database the plurality of health data records from the community of independent sources, the plurality of health data records for one or more patients; and

a transceiver coupled to the processor, the transceiver configured to transmit a replica of at least a portion of the database to at least two servers networked to the computer system, the at least two servers determined as a function of coverage of at least one electrical power grid providing service to the computer system to prevent an outage from the at least one electrical power grid from interrupting access to the database.