AUDITING DATABASE ACCESS IN A DISTRIBUTED MEDICAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

• US 20130091106A1
• Filed: 11/29/2012
• Published: 04/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: STEVENS, RICHARD J., DUBBELS, JOEL C., GLOWACKI, JANICE R.
• Granted Patent: US 9,817,850 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/694
• 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 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for auditing database access in a distributed medical computing environment including receiving from a user a query of one or more databases within the distributed medical administration computing environment; determining by an audit manager in dependence upon audit policies for the medical computing environment whether any of the results of the query require auditing access; and if any of the results of the query require auditing access, creating an audit record and storing the audit record in an audit database.

Claims

1. A method of auditing database access in a distributed medical computing environment, the method comprising:

receiving from a user a query of one or more databases within the distributed medical computing environment;

determining by an audit manager in dependence upon audit policies for the medical computing environment whether any of the results of the query require auditing access; and

if any of the results of the query require auditing access, creating an audit record and storing the audit record in an audit database.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein determining by an audit manager in dependence upon audit policies for the medical computing environment whether any of the results of the query require auditing access further comprises:

returning to an audit manager the results of the query; and

determining by the audit manager in dependence upon audit policies for the medical computing environment whether any of the results of the query require auditing access.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein determining by an audit manager in dependence upon audit policies for the medical computing environment whether any of the results of the query require auditing access further comprises determining from the query itself whether results would require auditing access.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising withholding at least a portion of the results of the query if any of the results of the query require auditing access.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing a notification of the query if any of the results of the query require auditing access.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the distributed medical computing environment including a medical digital image communications protocol adapter, a medical image metadata database, a medical image repository, and a medical image transaction workflow dispatcher, and wherein receiving from a user a query of one or more databases within the distributed medical administration computing environment further comprises receiving, in the medical digital image communications protocol adapter, a query transmitted according to one of a plurality of a medical image communications protocol supported by medical digital image communications protocol adapter and used by a user;

and

creating an audit record and storing the audit record in an audit database further comprises selecting by the workflow dispatcher audit workflows and executing the audit workflows.

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