RFID reporting personal health card and related systems

• US 8,800,877 B2
• Filed: 11/28/2011
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orangehook, Inc.
• Original Assignee: LifeNexus, Inc. (Orangehook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Maus, Christopher T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Michael G
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHEDEKEL, TABITHA F
• Application Number:
  US13/305,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20120161934A1
• Time in Patent Office: 988 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/487, 235/492, 235/493, 340/572.1
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0719 at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising an arrangement for application selection, e.g. an acceleration sensor or a set of radio buttons application selection on smart cards using pure software control, see G07F7/10

Abstract

A personal health card that includes a smartcard with an RFID device that automatically reports certain RFID response information when illuminated by an interrogation signal from an RFID reader, such as an authorized first responder interrogation device issued to police, fire, lifeguard, or EMT personnel. A characteristic of the response from a selected card may change in response to the strength of the signal received from the card to help the operator locate and recover a desired card. For example, the volume of an audible “ping” at the interrogator may become louder or more frequent as the interrogation response from the card becomes stronger to provide a “homing device” for physically locating a particular card. This feature is very helpful when emergency responses are attempting to locate personal health cards at the scene of an accident or other incident.

Claims

1. A personal health card, comprising

a portable substrate comprising:

a physical communication interface,

a wireless communication circuit;

a mobile telephone circuit;

a memory comprising a first and second sector wherein;

the first sector stores first sector information comprising an image of the user,

the second sector stores second sector information comprising medical information associated with the user comprising a data key for the instrument holder that can be used to access the instrument holder secure medical records stored within a secure medical records maintenance server, and

the first sector is segregated from the second sector;

a processor configured to;

provide the first sector information but not the second sector information through the wireless communication circuit in response to a first type of interrogation having a first type of authority from a wireless reader,

provide the second sector information through the physical communication interface in response to interrogation having a second type of authority from a card reader, and

deactivate the personal health card in response to receiving a signal through the mobile telephone circuit.

2. The personal health card of claim 1 wherein:

the memory further stores medical insurance information associated with the user.

3. The personal health card of claim 1, wherein the first sector information further comprises a name, address, phone number, age, or language spoken by the instrument holder.

4. The personal health card of claim 1, wherein:

the wireless reader comprises a first responder interrogator assigned to emergency response personnel; and

the card reader comprises an interrogator carried onboard an emergency transport vehicle.

5. The personal health card of claim 1, wherein the second sector information comprises medical records for the instrument holder.

6. The personal health card of claim 2 wherein the medical insurance information associated with the user comprises medical insurance identification, coverage, qualification, adjudication, and fulfillment information.

7. The personal health card of claim 1 wherein the memory further stores financial account information configuring the health information instrument to function as a financial payment instrument.

8. The personal health card of claim 1 wherein the wireless communication circuit is further configured to receive information from a medical device and the electronic memory is configured to store the received information.

9. The personal health card of claim 1 further comprising a GPS circuit.

10. The personal health card of claim 1 further configured to be accessed remotely.