HEALTH INTEGRATION PLATFORM API

• US 20080104615A1
• Filed: 05/08/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Varadan, Vijay, Nolan, Sean Patrick, Apacible, Johnson T., Jones, Jeffrey Dick
• Granted Patent: US 8,533,746 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/328
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

An application program interface (API) is provided for requesting, storing, and otherwise accessing data within a health integration network. The API facilitates secure and seamless access to the centrally-stored data by offering authentication/authorization, as well as the ability to receive requests in an extensible language format, such as XML, and returns resulting data in XML format. The data can also have transformation, style and/or schema information associated with it which can be returned in the resulting XML and/or applied to the data beforehand by the API. The API can be utilized in many environment architectures including XML over HTTP and a software development kit (SDK).

Claims

1. An application program interface (API), comprising:

a receiver component that receives requests for health-related data from a plurality of disparate devices or applications;

an interpreter component that processes the requests, and gathers a subset of the requested health-related data from a health integration network, wherein the health integration network comprises a plurality of disparate data stores that respectively store health-related data; and

a transformation component that utilizes a schema to select a portion of the gathered health-related data for return to the devices or applications.

3. The interface of claim 1, the transformation component retrieves style information from the health integration network for a data type of the selected portion of health-related data and applies the style information to the selected portion of health-related data upon return to the devices or applications.

4. The interface of claim 1, further comprising an authorization component that determines whether an application requesting data has sufficient credentials for a type of data access specified in the request.

5. The interface of claim 4, the authorization component determines whether a user operating the application has sufficient credentials for a type of data access specified in the request.

6. The interface of claim 1, further comprising an update component that sends data to a connected application upon at least one of occurrence of an event or a threshold exceeded.

7. The interface of claim 1, the request is received in extensible markup language (XML) format over an HTTP connection.

8. The interface of claim 7, the request received in XML format specifies at least one routine call and at least one parameter for the routine call.

9. The interface of claim 1, at least one of the plurality of data stores is highly distributed and at least one of the plurality of data stores holds location information for a record in the highly distributed data store.

10. The interface of claim 1, further comprising a routine packaging component that determines a common set of routines and exposes the common set of routines for use by an application.

2. The interface of claim 2, at least a portion of the schema is specified in the requests for health-related data.

11. A method for interacting with personal health-related data, comprising:

receiving a request corresponding to a portion of a health-related data record from a first application or device;

requesting data from a health integration network based on the request; and

applying a schema to the data to prepare a result comprising selected parts of the data.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising sending the result to the first application or device.

13. The method of claim 11, the selected parts are specified in the request for a portion of a health-related data record.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving a disparate request for the portion of a health-related data record from a second device or application, the second device or application operates on a different architecture than the first device or application.

15. The method of claim 11, the request is to store the portion of health-related data in the health integration network.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising sending an event to a second device or application based at least in part on the request.

17. The method of claim 11, the request is comprised in an extensible markup language (XML) document.

18. The method of claim 17, the XML document further comprises at least one parameter required by a requested routine.

19. The method of claim 11, the first device or application is a personal health device.

20. A system for accessing health-related data, comprising:

means for receiving and responding to requests from a plurality of devices and applications for personal health-related data;

means for obtaining a subset of stored data relating to the requests; and

means for applying at least one schema to the subset of stored data to return only a requested selection of the portion of stored data.