Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-source longitudinal patient-level data encryption process
- Patent Title (中): 多源纵向患者级数据加密过程
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Application No.: US11122589Application Date: 2005-05-05
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Publication No.: US08275850B2Publication Date: 2012-09-25
- Inventor: Mark E. Kohan , Clinton J. Wolfe
- Applicant: Mark E. Kohan , Clinton J. Wolfe
- Applicant Address: US PA Plymouth Meeting
- Assignee: IMS Software Services Ltd.
- Current Assignee: IMS Software Services Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Plymouth Meeting
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F15/167
- IPC: G06F15/167

Abstract:
Systems and processes for assembling de-identified patient healthcare data records in a longitudinal database are provided. The systems and processes may be implemented over multiple data suppliers and common database facilities while ensuring patient privacy. At the data supplier locations, patient-identifying attributes in the data records are placed in standard format and then doubly encrypted using a pair of encryption keys before transmission to a common database facility. The pair of encryption keys includes a key specific to the data supplier and a key specific to the common database facility. At the common database facility, the encryption specific to the data supplier is removed, so that multi-sourced data records have only the common database encryption. Without direct access to patient identifying-information, the encrypted data records are assigned dummy labels or tags by which the data records can be longitudinally linked in the database. The tags are assigned based on statistical matching of the values of a select set of encrypted data attributes with a reference database of tags and associated encrypted data attribute values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20050268094A1 Multi-source longitudinal patient-level data encryption process Public/Granted day:2005-12-01
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