SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAGGING AND SECURELY ARCHIVING PATIENT RADIOLOGICAL INFORMATION

• US 20130325805A1
• Filed: 06/02/2012
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dmitriy Tochilnik
• Original Assignee: Dmitriy Tochilnik
• Inventors: Tochilnik, Dmitriy
• Application Number:
  US13/487,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20130325805A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/638
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6254 by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification

Abstract

A system and method for tagging and securely archiving patient radiological data includes computing a unique token from at least one of a plurality of data set attribute values, creating a de-identified version of the data set, writing the unique token to the de-identified version of the data set, and transmitting the de-identified version of the data set to an archive for storage. The de-identified version of the data set may be retrieved from the archive by querying and retrieving the de-identified version of the data set having the unique token written thereto.

Claims

1. A system for tagging and securely archiving patient radiological information comprising:

a processor, the processor capable of computing a unique token from at least one of a plurality of data set attribute values, creating a de-identified version of the data set, writing the unique token to the de-identified version of the data set, and transmitting the de-identified version of the data set to an archive for storage.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the unique token is computed using a hash algorithm.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the processor is further capable of storing the hash algorithm and the at least one of the plurality of data set attribute values used to compute the unique token.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further capable of storing the unique token and the at least one of the plurality of data set attribute values from which it was computed.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further capable of storing a key for decrypting the de-identified version of the data set.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the de-identified version of the data set may be retrieved from the archive by querying and retrieving the de-identified version of the data set having the unique token written thereto.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one of a plurality of data set attribute values comprises a Study Instance UID value.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one of a plurality of data set attribute values comprises a Patient ID value.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one of a plurality of data set attribute values comprises a combination of the Patient ID, the Accession Number and the Study Instance UID values

10. A computer-implemented method for tagging and securely archiving patient radiological information comprising the steps of:

computing a unique token from at least one of a plurality of data set attribute values;

creating a de-identified version of the data set;

writing the unique token to the de-identified version of the data set; and

transmitting the de-identified version of the data set to an archive for storage.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the unique token is computed using a hash algorithm.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising storing the hash algorithm and the at least one of a plurality of data set attribute values used to compute the unique token.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising storing the unique token and the at least one of the plurality of data set attribute values from which it was computed.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising storing a key for decrypting the de-identified version of the data set.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the de-identified version of the data set may be retrieved from the archive by querying and retrieving the de-identified version of the data set having the unique token written thereto.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the at least one of a plurality of data set attribute values comprises a Study Instance UID value.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the at least one of a plurality of data set attribute values comprises a Patient ID value.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the at least one of a plurality of data set attribute values comprises a combination of the Patient ID, the Accession Number and the Study Instance UID values