USER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO A HEALTH-RECORD

• US 20090320092A1
• Filed: 06/24/2008
• Published: 12/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Stokes, Michael, Apacible, Johnson, Gordon, Michael Patrick
• Application Number:
  US12/145,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20090320092A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/46 Real-time negotiation between users and providers or operators

Abstract

A server system for regulating access to a health record of an individual includes a communications subsystem, a logic subsystem operatively coupled to the communications subsystem and configured to execute instructions, memory operatively coupled to the logic subsystem and holding user-interface instructions that, when executed by the logic subsystem, send information via the communications subsystem for presenting a user interface. In this embodiment, the user interface includes a list of one or more items in the health record to which an application has requested access, and for each of the one or more items, a configuration-indicating element distinguishing whether the application is configured to service the individual if access to that item is denied. The user interface further includes for each of the one or more items, one or more presettable selection elements enabling a marshal of the health record to authorize or withhold access to that item.

Claims

1. A method for mediating, via a user interface, a request for access to a health record of an individual, the method comprising:

listing one or more items in the health record, to which items an application has requested access;

distinguishing, for each of the one or more items, whether the application is configured to service the individual if access to that item is denied; and

presenting one or more presettable selection elements for each of the one or more items, the one or more presettable selection elements enabling a marshal of the health record to authorize or withhold access to that item.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the health record is one of a plurality of health records in custody of the marshal that include an item to which access is requested via the request.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling the marshal, in a first presentation of the user interface, to select the health record from among two or more health records within which the application has requested access.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising enabling the marshal to authorize or withhold access to each of the one or more items in a second presentation of the user interface, subsequent to the first presentation.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more presettable selection elements allow the marshal to authorize unequal access to corresponding items in health record.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more items include an opt-out item, and the user interface includes a presettable selection element preset to authorize access to the opt-out item when a selection-confirming element is triggered, and wherein an input received via the presettable selection element causes access to the opt-out item to be withheld when the selection-confirming element is triggered.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more items include an opt-in item, and the user interface includes a presettable selection element preset to withhold access to the opt-in item when a selection-confirming element is triggered, and wherein an input received via the presettable selection element causes access to the opt-in item to be authorized when the selection-confirming element is triggered.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising allowing the marshal to access the user interface on redirection by the application.

9. A server system for regulating access to a health record of an individual, the server system comprising:

a communications subsystem;

a logic subsystem operatively coupled to the communications subsystem and configured to execute instructions;

memory operatively coupled to the logic subsystem and holding user-interface instructions that, when executed by the logic subsystem, send information via the communications subsystem for presenting a user interface, the user interface including;

a list of one or more items in the health record to which an application has requested access;

for each of the one or more items, a configuration-indicating element distinguishing whether the application is configured to service the individual if access to that item is denied; and

for each of the one or more items, one or more presettable selection elements enabling a marshal of the health record to authorize or withhold access to that item.

10. The server system of claim 9, wherein each of the one or more items is represented in a table, coordinate to a level-indicating element identifying a requested level of access to that item.

11. The server system of claim 10, wherein the table includes a row corresponding to each of the one or more items in the health record, and each row includes at least one of the one or more presettable selection elements configured to enable the marshal to modify an authorized level of access to that item.

12. The server system of claim 9, wherein each of the one or more items is represented in a table, coordinate to the configuration-indicating element indicating whether the application is configured to service the individual when access to that item is denied.

13. The server system of claim 9, wherein each of the one or more items is represented in a table, coordinate to a reason-indicating element configured to present an item-specific explanation indicating why access to that item is requested, wherein a provider of the application is contractually enjoined from using access to the item for reasons other than those recited in the item-specific explanation.

14. The server system of claim 9, wherein the user interface further includes a policy-reciting element configured to display a policy governing a use or dissemination of any of the one or more items.

15. The server system of claim 14, wherein the policy-reciting element is presented to the marshal spatially or temporally before the one or more presettable selection elements.

16. The server system of claim 14, wherein the policy-reciting element appears in response to a user actuating the reason-indicating element.

17. The server system of claim 9, wherein the user interface further includes an approval-reciting element configured to display a third-party statement of approval of the application or of a provider of the application.

18. The server system of claim 9, wherein the user interface is configured to identify one or more items in the health record to which access is required in order for the application to provide a specified service to the individual.

19. The server system of claim 9, wherein the user interface is accessed by the marshal via a network address.

20. A server system for regulating access to a health record of an individual, the server system comprising:

a communications subsystem;

a logic subsystem operatively coupled to the communications subsystem and configured to execute instructions;

memory operatively coupled to the logic subsystem and holding user-interface instructions that, when executed by the logic subsystem, send information via the communications subsystem for presenting a user interface, the user interface including;

a first presentation enabling a marshal of the health record to select the health record from among two or more health records to which an application has requested access;

a second presentation appearing subsequent to the first presentation, listing one or more items in the health record, to which items the application has requested access, and including for each of the one or more items;

a configuration-indicating element distinguishing whether the application is configured to service the individual if access to that item is denied, a level-indicating element identifying a requested level of access to that item, a reason-indicating element configured to display an item-specific text string indicating why the requested level of access to that item is requested, and one or more presettable selection elements enabling a marshal of the health record to authorize or withhold access to that item.