Health integration platform API

• US 8,533,746 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2007
• Issued: 09/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Nolan, Sean Patrick, Jones, Jeffrey Dick, Apacible, Johnson T., Varadan, Vijay
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Qing
• Application Number:
  US11/745,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20080104615A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,317 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 719/328
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

An application program interface (API) is provided for requesting, storing, and otherwise accessing data within a health integration network. The API facilitates secure and seamless access to the centrally-stored data by offering authentication/authorization, as well as the ability to receive requests in an extensible language format, such as XML, and returns resulting data in XML format. The data can also have transformation, style and/or schema information associated with it which can be returned in the resulting XML and/or applied to the data beforehand by the API. The API can be utilized in many environment architectures including XML over HTTP and a software development kit (SDK).

Claims

1. A computer-implemented system, comprising:

an application program interface (API), comprising;

a receiver component configured to receive requests for health-related data from at least one of a plurality of disparate devices including one of a medical health device and a personal fitness tracking device;

an interpreter component configured to process the requests, and gather at least a subset of requested health-related data from a health integration network, wherein the health integration network comprises a plurality of disparate data stores that respectively store health-related data;

a transformation component configured to utilize a schema to select a portion of gathered health-related data to return to at least one of the plurality of disparate devices ; and

an authorization component configured to determine whether a user operating the at least one of the plurality of disparate devices has sufficient credentials for a type of data access specified in the requests;

an artificial intelligence component configured to create a routine to access and provide the data and related data in response to a single call, the data being stored in a first location and the related data being stored in a second location that is different from the first location;

a processor; and

a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to implement at least one of the receiver component, the interpreter component, the transformation component or the authorization component,

wherein the medical health device includes one of a blood pressure monitor, a weight scale, a blood sugar level monitor, an intravenous device, a pacemaker, a stethoscope, and an x-ray, and the personal fitness tracking device includes one of a combination heart rate monitor watch, a pedometer, a bicycle speedometer, bicycle odometer, or a stop watch.

2. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the schema is specified in the requests for health-related data.

3. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the transformation component is further configured to:

retrieve style information from the health integration network for a data type of a selected portion of gathered health-related data; and

apply the style information to the selected portion of the gathered health-related data upon return to the plurality of disparate devices.

4. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the authorization component is further configured to determine whether the at least one of the plurality of disparate devices requesting the data has sufficient credentials for the type of data access specified in the requests.

5. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the API further comprises an update component configured to send the data to a connected application in response to at least one of an occurrence of an event or a threshold being exceeded.

6. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein a request is received in extensible markup language (XML) format over a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) connection.

7. The computer-implemented system of claim 6, wherein the request received in XML format specifies at least one routine call and at least one parameter for the at least one routine call.

8. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of data stores are distributed and at least one of the plurality of data stores stores location information for a record in the plurality of data stores.

9. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the API further comprises a routine packaging component configured to determine a common set of routines and expose the common set of routines for use by an application.

10. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of disparate data stores comprises:

a directory database configured to obtain information indicative of a location of a patient health reading;

a dictionary database configured to obtain style and type information for types associated with the patient health reading; and

a record database configured to obtain the patient health reading.

11. The computer-implemented system of claim 10, wherein the patient health reading is at least one of a blood pressure reading, blood sugar level reading or heart rate.

12. A computer-implemented method of interacting with personal health-related data, the computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a request corresponding to a portion of a health-related data record from a first device including one of a medical health device and a personal fitness tracking device and specifying an authentication token for a user operating the first device and from which the request is received;

requesting data from a health integration network based, at least, on the request;

applying a schema to the data to prepare a result comprising selected parts of the data; and

creating a routine to access and provide the data and related data in response to a single call, the data being stored in a first location and the related data being stored in a second location that is different from the first location,

wherein the medical health device includes one of a blood pressure monitor, a weight scale, a blood sugar level monitor, an intravenous device, a pacemaker, a stethoscope, and an x-ray, and the personal fitness tracking device includes one of a combination heart rate monitor watch, a pedometer, a bicycle speedometer, bicycle odometer, or a stop watch.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising sending the result to the first device.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising receiving information indicative of a time-to-live for the result, wherein the result expires and is not sent to the first device if the time-to-live is exceeded.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the selected parts are specified in the request for the portion of the health-related data record.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising receiving a disparate request for the portion of the health-related data record from a second device, wherein the second device operates on a different architecture than the first device.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the request is to store the portion of the health-related data in the health integration network.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, further comprising sending an event to a second device based, at least, in part, on the request.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the request is included in an extensible markup language (XML) document.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 19, wherein the XML document further comprises at least one parameter required by a requested routine.

21. One or more computer storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause operations to be performed comprising:

receiving and responding to requests for personal health-related data from at least one of a plurality of devices including one of a medical health device and a personal fitness tracking device, wherein the requests specify a signature to be employed for authentication;

obtaining a subset of stored data relating to the requests; and

applying at least one schema to the subset of the stored data to return a requested selection of the subset of the stored data,

wherein the medical health device includes one of a blood pressure monitor, a weight scale, a blood sugar level monitor, an intravenous device, a pacemaker, a stethoscope, and an x-ray, and the personal fitness tracking device includes one of a combination heart rate monitor watch, a pedometer, a bicycle speedometer, bicycle odometer, or a stop watch.