Lawrence E Garber

US Patent:

20050246205, Nov 3, 2005

Filed:

Apr 29, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/117499

Inventors:

Hao Wang - Cambridge MA, US
Lawrence Garber - Westborough MA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705003000

Abstract:

The present invention relates to systems and methods for constructing a regional medical data exchange infrastructure that can provide the aggregation and presentation of personal health data that previously exists in different health care organizations in a segmented fashion. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for establishing a regional medical data exchange infrastructure, identifying patients across multiple different organizations, creating patient medical data pointers and routing tables, and generating comprehensive medical data sets for an enrolled population. One feature of this present invention permits the regional medical data exchange infrastructure to be built without any protected health information (PHI) being stored in any centralized databases. Another feature of the present invention permits the continuous operation of the regional medical data exchange infrastructure even when the centralized facility experiences downtime. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention permit both local and global logging and tracking of data flows and user activities to satisfy HIPAA compliances. Alternative embodiments of the present invention permit the preservation of the data ownership for the participating organizations.