Security facility for maintaining health care data pools

• US 9,202,084 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2013
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Newsilike Media Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Newsilike Media Group, Inc.
• Inventors: Moore, James F.
• Primary Examiner(s): SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J
• Application Number:
  US13/933,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20130291060A1
• Time in Patent Office: 882 Days
• Field of Search: 726/1, 726/28, 726/30, 726/2, 726/27, 713/166, 705/51
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/83 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/602 Providing cryptographic facilities or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6254 by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2107 File encryption
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers'"'"' practices, healthcare providers'"'"' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.

Claims

1. A method, using at least one computer with a resident computer readable medium having stored thereon non-transitory instructions which, when executed by a processor of the computer, causes the processor to perform the steps of:

using a syndication facility by the at least one computer to subscribe to a plurality of syndicated data feeds containing a plurality of items relating to medicine, wherein the syndication facility is deployed as a service within a services oriented architecture that is associated with a healthcare institution;

aggregating a new healthcare data feed by the at least one computer, wherein the elements included within the new healthcare data feed are derived at least in part from the plurality of syndicated data feeds;

associating with the at least one computer a HIPAA security rule with at least one element included within the new healthcare data feed, wherein the HIPAA security rule is at least one of an administrative or technical safeguard;

republishing with the at least one computer the new healthcare data feed within the services oriented architecture; and

syndicating information from the new healthcare data feed, in conformance with the HIPAA security rule, to an electronic medical record that is related to a patient who is associated with the healthcare institution, wherein the syndicated information is syndicated based at least in part on a structured hierarchy relating to domains of the healthcare institution, a medical condition of the patient, and on a clinical practice guideline of a medical specialty organization.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining a plurality of authorized users for at least one of the elements included within the new healthcare data feed, wherein authorization is based at least in part on the HIPAA security rule.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

accessing the at least one of the elements included within the new healthcare data feed by using a credential that identifies an authorized user.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the authorized user is a unique user.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the unique user is a patient.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the authorized user corresponds to a role.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the role is a treating physician.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the role is a physician.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein the role is a primary care physician.

10. The method of claim 6 wherein the role is a hospital administrator.

11. The method of claim 6 wherein the role is a physician assistant.

12. The method of claim 6 further comprising providing a role management interface for assigning one or more roles to users of a new healthcare data feed.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising removing personal identification data from one of the plurality of items to provide anonymized data.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein securing the at least one of the plurality of items includes:

removing personal identification data from the item to provide an anonymous item;

storing a relationship between the personal identification data and the anonymous item as personalization data; and

securing the personalization data to limit access to the new healthcare data feed.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising publishing the anonymous item without access restrictions.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing a user interface for structured searching of data within the new healthcare data feed.

17. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing a user interface for defining a view of data within a new healthcare data feed data pool, the view being periodically updated as items are added to the plurality of syndicated data feeds.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising defining the view in OPML.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the plurality of syndicated data feeds is an RSS feed.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the RSS feed includes an enclosure containing one or more of a medical video, a medical image, and medical monitoring data.