Standing order database search system and method for internet and internet application
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1. A medical data base supervisory control system comprising:
- (a) at least one data base including medical data individually relating to each of a plurality of patients,(b) means including interconnected computers for requesting and accessing said medical data,(c) means for identifying medical data for each of said patients with conditions required for accessing said medical data, and(d) data processing means responsive to a request for patient medical data for comparing said request with said conditions required for access to said data and, when said request fails to comply with said conditions, for denying access to said data.
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Abstract
An internet and/or intranet based database search system and method for conducting searches of highly confidential records such as individual patient medical records and to automate the process of securing required approvals to make such records available to a properly authorized and authenticated requesting party. The system'"'"'s central premise is that the patient has a fundamental right to the confidentiality of their personal medical records and should control that right through specific, informed consent each time that a party requests to receive them. It reinforces the widely held conception of privacy in general as well as of the sanctity of the doctor/patient relationship by granting the doctor the right, subject to the patient'"'"'s express permission, to initiate a search request. At the same time, it provides an expedited and cost-efficient means for transfer of such records as demanded by many healthcare reform proposals and gives the repositories where these records are held the right to stipulate the specific terms and conditions that must be fulfilled before they will release documents entrusted to their care, thereby substantially reducing the risk of litigation alleging breaches of patient confidentiality. And it carries out all of these legitimate interests in a way that is fast, simple to use and easy to audit. The system optionally includes a billing mechanism to pay for any added cost associated with providing this additional protection; and in its preferred embodiment, is applicable to both digital as well as non-digital records.
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81 Claims
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1. A medical data base supervisory control system comprising:
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(a) at least one data base including medical data individually relating to each of a plurality of patients, (b) means including interconnected computers for requesting and accessing said medical data, (c) means for identifying medical data for each of said patients with conditions required for accessing said medical data, and (d) data processing means responsive to a request for patient medical data for comparing said request with said conditions required for access to said data and, when said request fails to comply with said conditions, for denying access to said data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A method of controlling access to medical data in a medical data base comprising:
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(a) maintaining at least one data base including medical data individually relating to each of a plurality of patients, (b) identifying medical data for each of said patients with indicia indicative of conditions required for access to said medical data, (c) selectively introducing requests for access to said data through an interconnected computer input terminal, (d) comparing said requests with said conditions; and
, when said requests fail to comply with said conditions, automatically denying access to said data. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81)
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