Information management apparatus and method for medical care data, and non-transitory computer readable medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016267227-A1
Application number	US-201615064614-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 9, 2016
Priority date	Mar 10, 2015
Publication date	Sep 15, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An information sharing apparatus (management apparatus) for medical care data of a patient body includes a data uploader for classifying the medical care data into confidential data for a primary use in medical care of the patient body, and published data published for a secondary use different from the primary use, to store the confidential data and the published data in a storage medium. A problem event detector monitors the confidential data being added or updated, to check occurrence of a problem event of clinical exacerbation of the patient body. An activation processor checks occurrence of a flag signal for activating relocation of the confidential data to the published data upon the occurrence of the problem event. A relocation unit filters the confidential data at least partially to produce published data upon occurrence of the flag signal after the occurrence of the problem event.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An information management apparatus for medical care data of a patient body, comprising:
a data uploader for classifying said medical care data into confidential data for a primary use in medical care of said patient body, and published data published for a secondary use different from said primary use, to store said confidential data and said published data in a storage medium; a problem event detector for monitoring said confidential data being added or updated, to check occurrence of a problem event of clinical exacerbation of said patient body; and a relocation unit for, assuming that said problem event has occurred, performing preparatory processing in order to relocate said confidential data at least partially to said published data.

2 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 1 , further comprising a data output unit for outputting said published data stored in said storage medium.

3 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein said preparatory processing is transmission of request message information to said patient body for requesting patient consent to publishing said confidential data at least partially.

4 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 3 , wherein said relocation unit performs relocation of said confidential data at least partially to said published data upon receiving said patient consent from said patient body after said request message information.

5 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 4 , wherein assuming that said patient consent is not received even upon lapse of a predetermined time after transmitting said request message information, it is judged in said preparatory processing that presumed patient consent is received, so that said relocation is performed.

6 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein said problem event is constituted by at least one of occurrence of adverse effect of a drug, occurrence of exacerbation in a diagnostic test value, and medical diagnosis of detecting progress of a disease period of said patient body.

7 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 6 , wherein said problem event is occurrence of adverse effect with said drug;
further comprising: a data searcher for searching and detecting a typically grouped patient body to whom said drug has been commonly administered among patient bodies different from patient bodies of detection of said occurrence of said adverse effect; a statistical processor for producing statistical data from said confidential data of said typically grouped patient body after detection, said statistical data being in a form with which said patient body is unidentifiable; said relocation unit starts said preparatory processing of said confidential data of said patient bodies of said detection of said occurrence of said adverse effect, and relocates said statistic data to said published data.

8 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 1 , further comprising a status updater for setting a content item included in said confidential data for relocation to said published data for each type of said problem event.

9 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 8 , wherein said content item is settable respectively for said patient body.

10 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein said problem event detector further checks occurrence of a specific event predetermined clinically in said medical care of said patient body;
said relocation unit performs said preparatory processing in case it is judged that said specific event has occurred.

11 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 1 , further comprising an anonymizer for anonymizing said confidential data to be relocated to said published data.

12 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 11 , wherein said anonymizer performs anonymization of which a level is changeable according to at least one of a type of said problem event and a type of said confidential data to be relocated.

13 . An information management apparatus as defined in claim 1 , wherein said storage medium includes:
a first storage area for storing said confidential data; and a second storage area, separate from said first storage area physically, for storing said published data.

14 . An information management method for medical care data of a patient body, comprising steps of:
classifying said medical care data into confidential data for a primary use in medical care of said patient body, and published data published for a secondary use different from said primary use, to store said confidential data and said published data in a storage medium; monitoring said confidential data being added or updated, to check occurrence of a problem event of clinical exacerbation of said patient body; and assuming that said problem event has occurred, performing preparatory processing in order to relocate said confidential data at least partially to said published data.

15 . A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing a computer-executable program enabling execution of computer instructions to perform operations for information management for medical care data of a patient body, said operations comprising:
classifying said medical care data into confidential data for a primary use in medical care of said patient body, and published data published for a secondary use different from said primary use, to store said confidential data and said published data in a storage medium; monitoring said confidential data being added or updated, to check occurrence of a problem event of clinical exacerbation of said patient body; and assuming that said problem event has occurred, performing preparatory processing in order to relocate said confidential data at least partially to said published data.

Assignees

• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Takeyama Shinichi

Classifications

• G16H10/60

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title

• G06F21/6245 Primary

  Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes · CPC title

• G06F19/322 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G16Z99/00

  Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass · CPC title