Encryption and Distribution of Health-related Data

• US 20160359819A1
• Filed: 02/12/2015
• Published: 12/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Staggs PLLC
• Original Assignee: vitaTrackr, Inc
• Inventors: Hezmall, Howard Patterson, Baum, Brian, Calem, Mark
• Application Number:
  US14/620,331
• Publication Number:
  US 20160359819A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/602 Providing cryptographic facilities or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6263 during internet communication, e.g. revealing personal data from cookies
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2220/10 Usage protection of distributed data files
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0435 wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply symmetric encryption, i.e. same key used for encryption and decryption cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for symmetric key encryption H04L9/06

Abstract

System and methods to reversibly encrypt source identification data from health-related information are described allowing the distribution of health-related information to multiple subscribers while remaining under the control of patient consent directives.

Claims

1. A networked health-related information distribution system comprising:

a marketplace engine, wherein the marketplace engine is configured to;

remove source identification data from health-related information;

associate the source identification data to a feature identification request;

identify feature data in the health-related information;

associate the feature data to the feature identification request;

a high-reliance platform configured to;

accept, via a secure communications channel, the source identification data from the marketplace engine;

encrypt and store the source identification data;

provide, via the secure communications channel, a feature identification storage identifier to the marketplace engine.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the high-reliance platform further comprises a cryptography module configured to:

receive, over a secure communications data path, source identification data from the high-reliance platform;

encrypt source identification data using cryptographic keys that remain inside the cryptography module;

return, over a secure communications data path, encrypted source identification data to the high-reliance platform.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein cryptography module encrypts source identification using Advanced Encryption Standard symmetric-key algorithm.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the high-reliance platform is further configured to send audit information over a secure communications channel to the high-reliance platform.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the high-reliance platform further comprises circuitry capable of detecting tampering and wherein the circuitry disables the high-reliance platform in the event tampering is detected.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein source identification data is retrieved by the marketplace engine using the one or more of the data destination identifiers.

7. A method of distributing health-related information on a network comprising:

removing, by a marketplace engine, source identification data from health-related information;

removing, by a marketplace engine, source identification data from health-related information;

identifying, by a marketplace engine, feature data from health-related information;

sending, by the marketplace engine via a secure communications channel, the source identification data to a high-reliance platform;

encrypting, by a cryptography module, the source identification data;

providing, by the high-reliance platform via the secure communications channel, a feature identification storage identifier to the marketplace engine.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the encrypting by the cryptography module further comprises:

receiving source identification data over a secure communications data path from the high-reliance platform; and

returning encrypted source identification data over a secure communications data path to the high-reliance platform.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the cryptography module uses an Advanced Encryption Standard symmetric-key algorithm.

10. The method of claim 7, comprising sending, by the high-reliance platform, audit information over a secure communications channel to the marketplace engine.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

detecting, by high-reliance platform circuitry, tampering of the high-reliance platform circuitry; and

redirecting, by the high-reliance platform, requests from the marketplace engine after tampering is detected.