System and method for database integrity checking

• US 8,315,989 B2
• Filed: 11/09/2011
• Issued: 11/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Gejdos, Igor, Yarian, Lawrence G. II, Bernard, Keith E., Young, Morris J., Baker, Christopher R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hicks, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/293,063
• Publication Number:
  US 20120066185A1
• Time in Patent Office: 377 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/687
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

A method is disclosed for checking the integrity of a database through a test of database integrity information provided in the database and integrity information provided external to the database. The integrity information may be provided in a configuration file.

Claims

1. A method of checking the integrity of a database containing both physiological information and database integrity information, the database being accessible by a healthcare management software system, the method including the steps of:

providing a computer readable medium including installation software which installs a version of a healthcare management software system,

the installation software being able to install a first version of the healthcare management software system including a healthcare management software, a first database having physiological information and being accessible by the healthcare management software and a first database integrity information including at least one value utilized by the healthcare management software in determining information relating to physiological information to present with an output device, and a first file stored separate from the first database containing a first integrity information including at least one value utilized by the healthcare management software in determining information relating to the physiological information to present with the output device,

the installation software also being able to install a second version of the healthcare management software system including a healthcare management software, a second database having a second database integrity information, and a second file containing a second integrity information;

receiving a request to perform the first installation;

installing the first version of the healthcare management software system; and

determining an integrity of the first database through a comparison of the at least one value of the first database integrity information with the at least one value of the first integrity information;

wherein the step of determining is performed prior to the healthcare management software reading the physiological information in the first database.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one value of the first integrity information is a conversion quantity for the physiological information contained in the first database.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one value of the first integrity information includes data used by the healthcare management software in determining information to present with the output device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one value of the first integrity information includes data not used by the healthcare management software in determining information to present with the output device, the data not used including at least one of a medical device key and a user identification code.

5. The method of claim 1 further including the step of installing the second version of the healthcare management software system, wherein the healthcare management software installed with the first version of the healthcare management software system is the same as the healthcare management software installed with the second version of the healthcare management software system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first integrity information is included in a configuration file.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the configuration file is an encrypted configuration file.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the healthcare management software installed with the first version of the healthcare management software system at the step of installing is diabetes care software installed in a memory of a computing device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the healthcare management software communicates with a blood glucose meter and receives the physiological information included in the first database from the blood glucose meter.

10. The method of claim 1 further including the step of displaying the physiological information on a display following the step of determining.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first database integrity information matches the first integrity information and the second database integrity information matches the second integrity information.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer-executable instructions, the computer executable instructions including an installation software which installs a version of a healthcare management software system,

the installation software being able to install a first version of the healthcare management software system including a healthcare management software, a first database having physiological information and being accessible by the healthcare management software and a first database integrity information including at least one value utilized by the healthcare management software in determining information relating to the physiological information to present with an output device, and a first file stored separate from the first database containing a first integrity information including at least one value utilized by the healthcare management software in determining information relating to the physiological information to present with the output device,

the installation software also being able to install a second version of the healthcare management software system including a healthcare management software, a second database having a second database integrity information, and a second file containing a second integrity information;

wherein the healthcare management software installed with the first version of the healthcare management software system includes a plurality of computer-executable instructions capable of determining an integrity of the first database through a comparison of the at least one value of the first database integrity information with the at least one value of the first integrity information.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the first integrity information matches the first database integrity information and the second integrity information matches the second database integrity information.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the at least one value of the first integrity information is a conversion quantity for the physiological information contained in the first database.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the at least one value of the first integrity information includes data used by healthcare management software system in determining information to present with the output device.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the healthcare management software installed with the first version of the healthcare management software system is able to receive the physiological information from a blood glucose meter.

17. A system for verifying the integrity of a database comprising patient data, the system including:

a computing device having a processor and a display;

a computer readable memory accessible by the processor of the computing device, the memory including an installation software program comprising a plurality of instructions executable by the processor, the plurality of instructions when interpreted by the processor cause the processor to perform the steps of;

installing a first configuration of a healthcare management software system in the memory of the computing device, the first configuration including healthcare management software, a first database comprising physiological information accessible by the healthcare management software and a first database integrity information including at least one value utilized by the healthcare management software in determining information relating to the physiological information to display with the display, and a first file stored separate from the first database comprising first integrity information including at least one value utilized by the healthcare management software in determining information relating to the physiological information to display with the display, and

installing a second configuration of the healthcare software system in a computer readable memory, the second configuration including healthcare management software, a second database comprising second database integrity information, and a second file comprising second integrity information,

wherein the healthcare management software of the first configuration determines an integrity of the first database through a comparison of the at least one value of the first database integrity information with the at least one value of the first integrity information of the first file and the healthcare management software of the second configuration determines an integrity of the second database through a comparison of the second database integrity information with the second integrity information of the second file.