Christopher R Kennedy

US Patent:

20090240681, Sep 24, 2009

Filed:

Mar 20, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/052222

Inventors:

Nadeem Saddiqi - Knoxville TN, US
Christopher J. Kennedy - Maryville TN, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 5, 707E17014

Abstract:

A medical records network is configured for communicating a plurality of electronic medical records over authenticated peer-to-peer connections among a plurality of client computer systems. The medical records network includes a first client computer system running a first agent application for generating an authentication request and a record request query to request access to one or more medical records stored on one or more other client computer systems. A proxy computer system receives and processes the authentication request and determines whether the first client computer system should be granted access to the medical records network. If the first client computer system is authenticated, the proxy computer system processes the record request query and forwards a proxy query to those client computer systems in a specific geographic region. The client computer systems receiving the record request query respond indicating whether they have access to the requested record(s). If so, the proxy computer system facilitates an encrypted peer-to-peer communication channel between the first client computer system and the client computer system(s) responding affirmatively in order to communicate the record(s) to the first client computer system.