RECORD SHARING PRIVACY SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20070294114A1
• Filed: 06/20/2007
• Published: 12/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HealthUnity Corp. (ZeOmega Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: HealthUnity Corp. (ZeOmega Incorporated)
• Inventors: Urali, Prem, Sukumar, Goutham
• Application Number:
  US11/766,079
• Publication Number:
  US 20070294114A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A record sharing privacy system and method are provided herein.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of secure medical record sharing, the method comprising:

obtaining a patient record;

obtaining an indication that said patient record may be shared;

determining an outbound patient sharing permission for said patient record;

determining an outbound practice sharing permission for a first practice having said patient record; and

if both said outbound patient sharing permission and said outbound practice sharing permission permit sharing, attempting to share said patient record with a second practice.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining if said second practice will permit sharing of said patient record.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining if said second practice will permit sharing of said patient record comprises determining an inbound practice permission.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein determining if said second practice will permit sharing of said patient record comprises determining an inbound patient permission.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising blocking attempting to share said patient record with a second practice if said second practice will not permit the sharing of said patient record.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein if a patient associated with said patient record is a VIP, then determining an outbound patient sharing permission for said patient record comprises determining an outbound VIP patient sharing permission for said patient record.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising determining if said second practice will permit sharing of said patient record of said VIP patient.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining if said second practice belongs to a White List.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining if said second practice belongs to a Black List.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining if said second practice belongs to a White List.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining an outbound record sharing permission for said patient record.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein said record sharing permission comprises information selected from at least on of:

document type, document sensitivity, sharing destination, and sharing source.

13. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for performing the method of claim 1.

14. A computing apparatus comprising a processor and a memory having computer executable instructions for performing the method of claim 1 when executed by said processor.

15. A computer system for secure medical record sharing, the system comprising:

means for obtaining a patient record;

means for obtaining a indication that said patient record may be shared;

means for determining an outbound patient sharing permission for said patient record;

means for determining an outbound practice sharing permission for a first practice having said patient record; and

means for if both said outbound patient sharing permission and said outbound practice sharing permission permit sharing, attempting to share said patient record with a second practice.