System and Method for Analyzing De-Identified Health Care Data
First Claim
1. A system for analyzing de-personalized health care data, comprising:
- (a) a plurality of health care databases, the plurality of health care databases each including at least one record, each record including a depersonalized yet unique patient identifier associated with a patient, whereby the de-personalized patient identifier is common for a specific patient across the plurality of health care databases;
(b) a processor coupled to the plurality of health care databases, wherein the processor performs the steps of;
(i) receiving records from the plurality of health care databases;
(ii) querying the records received from the plurality of health care databases, based upon selected person-level criteria; and
(iii) generating at least one report based upon the results of the querying step.
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Abstract
A system and method for creating a unique alias associated with an individual identified in a health care database such that health care data, and particularly pharmaceutical-related data, can be efficiently gathered and analyzed. The system has a first store for storing at least one record where each record includes a plurality of identification fields which when concatenated uniquely identify an individual, and at least one health care field corresponding to health care data associated with the individual. The system also has a second data store, and a processor. The processor selects a record of the first data store, then selects a subset of the plurality of identification fields within the selected record, and concatenates the selected subset of identification fields. Then the processor stores the concatenated identification fields in a record in the second store with at least one health care field from the selected record of the first data store.
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1 Claim
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1. A system for analyzing de-personalized health care data, comprising:
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(a) a plurality of health care databases, the plurality of health care databases each including at least one record, each record including a depersonalized yet unique patient identifier associated with a patient, whereby the de-personalized patient identifier is common for a specific patient across the plurality of health care databases; (b) a processor coupled to the plurality of health care databases, wherein the processor performs the steps of; (i) receiving records from the plurality of health care databases; (ii) querying the records received from the plurality of health care databases, based upon selected person-level criteria; and (iii) generating at least one report based upon the results of the querying step.
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