Disaggregation/reassembly method system for information rights management of secure documents

• US 20080222040A1
• Filed: 02/15/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David Halsted, Mark J. Halsted, Michael Bodner
• Original Assignee: David Halsted, Mark J. Halsted, Michael Bodner
• Inventors: Halsted, Mark J., Halsted, David, Bodner, Michael
• Application Number:
  US12/070,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20080222040A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/51
• 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

Abstract

The present invention pertains to a computerized system and method that provides for the secure storage and retrieval of electronic digital healthcare information; and, more particularly, to such a computerized system and method that provides for multiple access levels of such secure information; provides for secure access to portions of secure information dependent upon access privileges of the authorized user; provides virtually limitless data expansion capabilities; and provides for rapid access to such secure information by authorized users.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of distributing secure healthcare patient information, comprising the steps of:

providing a plurality of information servers, the information servers respectively storing one or more of a plurality of encrypted data fragments, the plurality of encrypted fragments comprising patient information fragments and one or more build information fragments that provide instructions for decrypting the patient information fragments and combining the decrypted patient information fragments into assembled healthcare patient information;

requesting, by a user, healthcare patient information;

authenticating the user to determine an authorization level of the user;

transmitting one or more build information fragments and one or more patient information fragments to a document assembler based, at least in part, on the authorization level of the user;

assembling, by the document assembler, the one or more patient information fragments based upon the instructions from the one or more build information fragments to produce assembled healthcare patient information; and

outputting the assembled healthcare patient information to an output device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information servers also store a plurality of healthcare form templates;

and

wherein the assembled healthcare patient information includes, at least in part, a combination of one or more patient information fragments and one or more healthcare form template.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the output device is at least one of a display device, a computing device, a portable electronic device, a printing device, and a software application.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

prior to the transmitting step, replicating one or more of the encrypted data fragments and storing the one or more replicated encrypted data fragments in one or more of the plurality of information servers.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising the step of:

prior to the assembling step, comparing at least one data fragment to at least one replicated encrypted data fragment to confirm the integrity of the at least one encrypted data fragment.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting step further includes the step of recording, in a database, details of the transmission of the one or more build information fragments and the one or more patient information fragments to the document assembler.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting, authenticating, transmitting and assembling steps are implemented as web services on the Internet, and the web services are implemented in at least one of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), PHP, JavaScript and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of information servers include one or more devices taken from a group consisting of:

an electronic storage device, an internal hard drive, an external hard drive, an external flash drive, a network server device, an Internet server device, a web server, and a file server.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the assembled healthcare patient information is not capable of being stored in an electronic format by the output device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of encrypted data fragments include a combination of patient information fragments and build information fragments.

11. A computer-implemented system for distributing secure healthcare patient information comprising:

a computing device adapted to output healthcare patient information upon request by a user;

an identity server adapted to confirm the user'"'"'s identity and to determine an authorization level of the user;

a plurality of information servers, the information servers respectively storing one or more of a plurality of encrypted data fragments, the plurality of encrypted fragments comprising patient information fragments and one or more build information fragments that provide instructions for decrypting the patient information fragments and combining the decrypted patient information fragments into assembled healthcare patient information;

a file server adapted to collect one or more of the plurality of encrypted data fragments from the plurality of information servers, and decrypting the encrypted data fragments based, at least in part, on the instructions for decrypting the patient information fragments; and

a document server adapted to receive user requests for healthcare patient information, communicate with the identity server to determine the user'"'"'s authorization level, communicate with the file server to retrieve the collected encrypted data fragments, and assemble healthcare patient information based, at least in part, on the instructions from the one or more build information fragments to produce assembled healthcare patient information;

whereby, upon request from the user, the document server transmits the assembled healthcare patient information to the computing device for output.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the information servers also store a plurality of healthcare form templates;

and

wherein the assembled healthcare patient information includes, at least in part, a combination of one or more patient information fragments and one or more healthcare form template.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the computing device is at least one of a display device, a portable electronic device, a printing device, and a software application.

14. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

one or more redundancy servers adapted to replicate one or more of the encrypted data fragments and storing the one or more replicated encrypted data fragments in one or more of the plurality of information servers;

wherein at least one encrypted data fragment is compared to at least one replicated encrypted data fragment to confirm the integrity of the at least one encrypted data fragment.

15. The system of claim 11, further comprising an event database that records at least all user requests, user access attempts, healthcare patient information assembled and assembled healthcare patient information outputted.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the plurality of information servers include one or more devices taken from a group consisting of:

an electronic storage device, an internal hard drive, an external hard drive, an external flash drive, a network server device, an Internet server device, a web server, and a file server.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the encrypted data fragments include at least one of a patient name, a patient identification number, a patient date of birth, a patient telephone number, a patient address, one or more patient conditions, one or more patient symptoms, a physician name, a physician referral, physician notes, one or more diagnosis, one or more suggested treatments, one or more prescribed treatments, one or more treatments previously attempted, one or more outcomes of previously attempted treatments, one or more suggested medications, one or more medications previously prescribed and one or more outcomes of previously prescribed medications.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of encrypted fragments include a combination of patient information fragments and build information fragments.

19. A system for distributing secure healthcare patient information comprising:

a computer-implemented authentication component adapted to authenticate a user'"'"'s request for healthcare patient information;

a computer-implemented data fragment component adapted to store a plurality of encrypted patient information fragments and transmit the encrypted patient information fragments in response to an authenticated user request;

a computer-implemented locks component adapted to allow or disallow access to the encrypted patient information fragments based, at least in part, on output from the authentication component;

a computer-implemented build information component adapted to store one or more build information fragments that provide instructions for decrypting the encrypted patient information fragments and combining the decrypted patient information fragments into a healthcare patient information document;

a computer-implemented composition component adapted to compose the healthcare patient information document based, at least in part, on the instructions from the build information component; and

an output component for receiving and outputting the healthcare patient information document.

20. A computer-implemented method of distributing secure healthcare patient information, comprising the steps of:

providing a plurality of information servers, the information servers respectively storing one or more of a plurality of encrypted data fragments, the plurality of encrypted fragments comprising patient information fragments and one or more build information fragments that provide instructions for decrypting the patient information fragments and combining the decrypted patient information fragments into assembled healthcare patient information;

replicating one or more of the encrypted data fragments and storing the one or more replicated encrypted data fragments in one or more of the plurality of information servers;

comparing at least one data fragment to at least one replicated encrypted data fragment to confirm the integrity of the at least one encrypted data fragment.

requesting, by a user, healthcare patient information;

authenticating the user to determine an authorization level of the user;

transmitting one or more build information fragments and one or more patient information fragments to a document assembler based, at least in part, on the authorization level of the user;

assembling, by the document assembler, the one or more patient information fragments based upon the instructions from the one or more build information fragments to produce assembled healthcare patient information; and

outputting the assembled healthcare patient information to an output device;

wherein the information servers also store a plurality of healthcare form templates; and

wherein the assembled healthcare patient information includes, at least in part, a combination of one or more patient information fragments and one or more healthcare form template.