SECURITY FACILITY FOR MAINTAINING HEALTH CARE DATA POOLS

• US 20070106754A1
• Filed: 12/22/2006
• Published: 05/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Newsilike Media Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Newsilike Media Group, Inc.
• Inventors: Moore, James
• Application Number:
  US11/615,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20070106754A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• 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 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• 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

1-150. -150. (canceled)

151. A method, comprising:

subscribing to a plurality of syndicated data feeds containing a plurality of items relating to medicine;

determining an authorized user for at least one of the plurality of items;

securing the at least one of the plurality of items to limit access to the authorized user; and

storing the plurality of items in a publicly accessible data pool.

152. The method of claim 151 further comprising determining a plurality of authorized users for at least one of the plurality of items.

153. The method of claim 151 further comprising:

accessing the at least one of the plurality of items with a credential that identifies the authorized user; and

receiving the at least one of the plurality of items.

154. The method of claim 151 further comprising removing personal identification data from one of the plurality of items to provide anonymized data.

155. The method of claim 151 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 authorized user.

156. The method of claim 155 further comprising publishing the anonymous item without access restrictions.

157. The method of claim 151 wherein the authorized user is a unique user.

158. The method of claim 157 wherein the unique user is a patient.

159. The method of claim 151 wherein the authorized user corresponds to a role.

160. The method of claim 159 wherein the role is a treating physician.

161. The method of claim 159 wherein the role is a physician.

162. The method of claim 159 wherein the role is a primary care physician.

163. The method of claim 159 wherein the role is a hospital administrator.

164. The method of claim 159 wherein the role is a physician assistant.

165. The method of claim 159 further comprising providing a role management interface for assigning one or more roles to users of the data pool.

166. The method of claim 151 further comprising providing a user interface for structured searching of data within the data pool.

167. The method of claim 151 further comprising providing a user interface for defining a view of data within the data pool, the view being periodically updated as items are added to the plurality of syndicated data feeds.

168. The method of claim 167 further comprising defining the view in OPML.

169. The method of claim 151 wherein at least one of the plurality of syndicated data feeds is an RSS feed.

170. The method of claim 169 wherein the RSS feed includes an enclosure containing one or more of a medical video, a medical image, and medical monitoring data.