COMMUNITY BASED MANAGED HEALTH KIOSK AND RESEARCH DATABASE SYSTEM

• US 20090240702A1
• Filed: 03/19/2009
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Computerized Screening Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Computerized Screening Incorporated
• Inventors: Bluth, Charles P.
• Application Number:
  US12/407,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20090240702A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0013 Medical image data A61B1/00011, A61B6/56, A61B8/56 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/022 by applying pressure to close blood vessels, e.g. against the skin; Ophthalmodynamometers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1172 using fingerprinting
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/145 Measuring characteristics of blood in vivo, e.g. gas concentration, pH value; Measuring characteristics of body fluids or tissues, e.g. interstitial fluid, cerebral tissuemeasuring of blood pressure or blood flow A61B5/02; non-radiation detecting or locating of foreign bodies in blood A61B5/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14546 for measuring analytes not otherwise provided for, e.g. ions, cytochromes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6888 Cabins
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/702 Posture restraints
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

The present invention is directed to community based health managed health kiosk and research database systems, and more particularly to facilitating large-scale health screening of individuals and aggregation of the resulting data for medical research purposes. The disclosed research database can be combined with community based managed health kiosk systems to allow medical researchers to access searchable, sortable, and non-personally identifiable health information obtained from on-going health screening of kiosk users distributed throughout the world.

Claims

1. A research database system for a managed health system, comprising:

a plurality of kiosk systems, each kiosk system among the plurality of kiosk systems including two or more input devices receiving one or more pieces of health information from each user among a plurality of users and one or more corresponding pieces of personal identification information from each user, and a network connection transmitting the one or more pieces of health information and the one or more corresponding pieces of personal identification information; and

a storage system securely receiving the one or more pieces of health information and the one or more corresponding pieces of personal identification information from the network connection of each kiosk system, storing the one or more pieces of health information and the one or more corresponding pieces of personal identification information in a personal health record corresponding to each user, storing the one or more pieces of health information in an aggregated database without the one or more corresponding pieces of personal identification information, and making available the aggregated database to a researcher.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more pieces of health information and the one or more corresponding pieces of personal identification information are encrypted utilizing an encryption process prior to being transmitted by the network connection of each kiosk system.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the storage system includes one or more hubs, with the network connection of each kiosk system connected to the one or more hubs and a copy of the personal health record and a copy of the aggregated database stored at each hub of the one or more hubs.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising an aggregated health information database website communicatively coupled to the storage system and making the aggregated database available to the researcher.

5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein each user is assigned a corresponding identification number by the storage system, wherein the one or more pieces of health information associated with each user is associated with the corresponding identification number, and wherein the aggregated database includes the corresponding identification number in association with the one or more corresponding pieces of personal identification information for each user.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the storage system disassociates the one or more pieces of health information from the one or more corresponding pieces of personal identification information when storing the one or more pieces of health information in the aggregated database.

7. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the storage system sorts the one or more pieces of health information by a disease.

8. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the storage system sorts the one or more pieces of health information by a treatment.

9. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the storage system sorts the one or more pieces of health information by a geographic region where one or more of the plurality of kiosk systems are physically located.

10. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the storage system sorts the one or more pieces of health information by a user demographic.

11. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the storage system sorts the one or more pieces of health information by a user classification.

12. A research database system for a managed health system, comprising:

a plurality of kiosk systems, each kiosk system among the plurality of kiosk systems including a first health information input device receiving a first piece of health information from each user among a plurality of users, a second health information input device receiving a second piece of health information from each user among the plurality of users, a personal identification input device receiving personally identifying information from each user among the plurality of users, and a network connection transmitting the first piece of health information, the second piece of health information, and the personally identifying information; and

a storage system securely receiving the first piece of health information, the second piece of health information, and the personally identifying information from the network connection of each kiosk system, storing the first piece of health information, the second piece of health information, and the personally identifying information for each user in a personal health record corresponding to each user, and storing the first piece of health information and the second piece of health information for each user in an aggregated database.

13. The system as recited in claim 12, further comprising a network communicatively coupling the storage system to the network connection of each kiosk system and to a researcher, and wherein the storage system provides the aggregated database over the network for review by the researcher.

14. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the storage system extracts one or more pieces of demographical information from the personally identifying information and associates the one or more pieces of demographical information with the first piece of health information and the second piece of health information.

15. The system as recited in claim 14, wherein the storage system sorts the first piece of health information and the second piece of health information by the one or more pieces of demographical information.

16. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the first piece of health information, the second piece of health information, and the personally identifying information are encrypted utilizing an encryption process prior to being transmitted by the network connection.

17. The system as recited in claim 16, wherein the encryption process uses a secure socket layer format.

18. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the storage system includes one or more hubs, with the network connection of each kiosk system connected to the one or more hubs and a copy of the personal health record and a copy of the aggregated database stored at each hub of the one or more hubs.

19. The system as recited in claim 12, further comprising an aggregated health information database website communicatively coupled to the storage system and making the aggregated database available to a researcher.

20. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the first piece of health information and the second piece of health information in the aggregated database corresponding to a user cannot be linked to the user.