Method and system for identification of a patient

• US 7,941,324 B1
• Filed: 04/26/2007
• Issued: 05/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intuit, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intuit, Inc.
• Inventors: Sholtis, Steven A.
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Connor; Gerald J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Altschul; Amber
• Application Number:
  US11/796,703
• Time in Patent Office: 1,475 Days
• Field of Search: 705 2- 3
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance

Abstract

A method for obtaining healthcare that includes submitting biometric identification data to a Personal Health History (PHH) account that includes a PHH for a patient, permitting a healthcare provider to obtain the biometric identification data, wherein the healthcare provider accesses the PHH account with the biometric identification data to obtain the PHH, and receiving a treatment for a health condition of the patient, wherein the treatment is administered by the healthcare provider accessing the PHH.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining healthcare comprising:

obtaining, by a healthcare provider, biometric identification data from a non-communicative patient;

generating, by the healthcare provider using a computer processor, an identification request comprising the biometric identification data;

sending, via a computer network, the identification request to a Personal Health History (PHH) framework comprising a PHH account for the non-communicative patient, wherein the PHH framework selects the PHH account identified by the biometric identification data from a plurality of PHH accounts, and wherein the PHH account for the non-communicative patient comprises a common identifier;

receiving, by the healthcare provider, the common identifier associated with the PHH account from the PHH framework;

identifying the non-communicative patient by the healthcare provider using the common identifier; and

administering a treatment for a health condition of the non-communicative patient by the healthcare provider.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

submitting, by the healthcare provider, healthcare data for the non-communicative patient to the PHH account.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the healthcare data comprises data associated with at least one selected from a group consisting of a medication, a diagnosis, the treatment, and a medical note.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

updating, by the healthcare provider, the PHH for the non-communicative patient based on the treatment received.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the biometric identification data is data derived from a group consisting of a scan of a print and a retinal scan.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the biometric identification data is data defining a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-communicative patient is in an emergency room.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the PHH framework verifies that the healthcare provider has permission to access the PHH account, wherein the healthcare provider is one of the plurality of healthcare providers.

9. A method for patient identification comprising:

receiving, via a computer network by a Personal Health History (PHH) framework executing on a computer processor, an identification request from a healthcare provider, wherein the identification request comprises biometric identification data for a non-communicative patient;

selecting, by the PHH framework, a PHH account identified by the biometric identification data from a plurality of PHH accounts, wherein the PHH account for the non-communicative patient comprises a common identifier;

obtaining, by the PHH framework, the common identifier from the PHH account; and

sending via the computer network by the PHH framework the common identifier to the healthcare provider, wherein the non-communicative patient receives treatment for a medical condition by the healthcare provider using the common identifier.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving, by the PHH framework, healthcare data for the non-communicative patient; and

populating the PHH account of the non-communicative patient according to the received healthcare data, wherein the healthcare data is sent with the common identifier.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the healthcare data comprises data associated with at least one selected from a group consisting of a medication, a diagnosis, the treatment, and a medical note.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the biometric identification data is derived from at least one selected from a group consisting of a scan of a print, a retinal scan, and a DNA sequence.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the non-communicative patient is located in an emergency room.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

creating an access account allowing each of a plurality of healthcare providers access to a PHH framework; and

granting the plurality of healthcare providers access to the PHH account using the access account, wherein the healthcare provider is one of the plurality of healthcare providers.

15. A system for patient identification comprising:

a PHH framework, executing on a computer processor, comprising;

a plurality of PHH accounts, wherein each of the PHH accounts comprises a common identifier for a corresponding patient of a plurality of patients; and

a PHH interface configured to;

receive, via a computer network, an identification request from a healthcare provider, wherein the identification request comprises first biometric identification data for a non-communicative patient of the plurality of patients, wherein the first biometric identification data is obtained by the healthcare provider using a biometric scanner;

access a first PHH account of the plurality of PHH accounts identified by the first biometric identification data received from the healthcare provider;

obtain the common identifier for the non-communicative patient from the first PHH account; and

send, via the computer network, the common identifier to the healthcare provider, wherein the non-communicative patient receives treatment for a medical condition by the healthcare provider using the common identifier.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the PHH interface is further configured to:

receive second biometric identification data from a biometric scanner used by a communicative patient of the plurality of patients; and

populate, with healthcare data and the second biometric identification data of the communicative patient, the PHH account of the plurality of PHH accounts.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the healthcare data comprises data associated with at least one selected from a group consisting of a medication, a diagnosis, the treatment, and a medical note.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the first biometric identification data is derived from one selected from a group consisting of a scan of a print, a retinal scan, and a DNA sequence.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the non-communicative patient is located in an emergency room.

20. A computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code embodied therein for causing a computer system to:

receive, via a computer network by a Personal Health History (PHH) framework, an identification request from a healthcare provider, wherein the identification request comprises biometric identification data for a non-communicative patient;

select, by the PHH framework, a PHH account identified by the biometric identification data from a plurality of PHH accounts, wherein the PHH account for the non-communicative patient comprises a common identifier;

obtain, by the PHH framework, the common identifier from the PHH account; and

send, via the computer network by the PHH framework, the common identifier to the healthcare provider, wherein the non-communicative patient receives treatment for a medical condition by the healthcare provider using the common identifier.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 20, wherein the computer readable program code further causes the computer to:

receive, by the PHH framework, healthcare data for the non-communicative patient; and

populate the PHH account of the non-communicative patient according to the received healthcare data, wherein the healthcare data is sent with the common identifier.

22. The computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the healthcare data comprises data associated with at least one selected from a group consisting of a medication, a diagnosis, a treatment, and a medical note.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 20, wherein the biometric identification data is derived from one selected from a group consisting of a scan of a print, a retinal scan, and a DNA sequence.

24. The computer readable medium of claim 20, wherein the non-communicative patient is located in an emergency room.

25. A computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code embodied therein for causing a computer system to:

obtain biometric identification data from a non-communicative patient;

generate an identification request comprising the biometric identification data;

send, via a computer network, the identification request to a Personal Health History (PHH) framework comprising a PHH account for non-communicative patient, wherein the PHH framework selects the PHH account identified by the biometric identification data from a plurality of PHH accounts comprising the PHH framework, and wherein the PHH account for the non-communicative patient comprises a common identifier;

receive the common identifier associated with the PHH account the PHH framework; and

identify the non-communicative patient using the common identifier, wherein the non-communicative patient receives a treatment for a health condition administered by a healthcare provider using the common identifier.

26. The computer readable medium of claim 25, wherein the computer readable program code further causes the computer to:

submit healthcare data for the non-communicative patient to the PHH account.

27. The computer readable medium of claim 26, wherein the healthcare data comprises data associated with at least one selected from a group consisting of a medication, a diagnosis, the treatment, and a medical note.

28. The computer readable medium of claim 25, wherein the computer readable program code further causes the computer to:

update the PHH for the non-communicative patient based on the treatment received.

29. The computer readable medium of claim 25, wherein the biometric identification data is data derived from a group consisting of a scan of a print and a retinal scan.

30. The computer readable medium of claim 25, wherein the biometric identification data is data defining a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence.

31. The computer readable medium of claim 25, wherein the non-communicative patient is in an emergency room.

32. The computer readable medium of claim 25, wherein the PHH framework verifies that the healthcare provider has permission to access the PHH account, wherein the healthcare provider is one of the plurality of healthcare providers.