Patient care record management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024061951-A1
Application number	US-202217891307-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 19, 2022
Priority date	Aug 19, 2022
Publication date	Feb 22, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method and a system for managing healthcare records of a user are provided. The method includes storing an electronic medical record related to the user in form of a non-fungible token (NFT) written to a blockchain, associating a smart contract to the NFT in the blockchain, authorizing a request to access the electronic medical record related to the user based on the defined ownership of the electronic medical record stored in the blockchain, identifying one or more NFTs from the blockchain comprising one or more electronic medical records related to the user based on processing of the identifier information in associated one or more smart contracts therewith, in response to the request, and sending the one or more electronic medical records corresponding to the identified one or more NFTs to a requestor associated with the request.

First claim

1 . A method for managing healthcare records of a user, the method comprising:
storing an electronic medical record related to the user in form of a non-fungible token (NFT) written to a blockchain, the NFT defining an ownership of the electronic medical record stored therein; associating a smart contract to the NFT in the blockchain, the smart contract comprising identifier information related to the electronic medical record stored in the associated NFT; authorizing a request access to the electronic medical record related to the user based on the defined ownership of the electronic medical record stored in the blockchain; identifying one or more NFTs from the blockchain comprising one or more electronic medical records of the user based on processing of the identifier information in associated one or more smart contracts therewith, in response to the authorized request; and sending the one or more electronic medical records corresponding to the identified one or more NFTs to a requestor associated with the authorized request.

2 . The method according to claim 1 further comprising implementing an artificial intelligence module to process the identifier information in the associated one or more smart contracts for identifying the one or more NFTs from the blockchain.

3 . The method according to claim 1 further comprising providing access to a digital wallet to the user to store a private key for establishing the ownership of the electronic medical record related thereto.

4 . The method according to claim 1 further comprising storing health data generated by a wearable sensor worn by the user as the electronic medical record in the form of the NFT written to the blockchain.

5 . The method according to claim 1 further comprising authorizing a healthcare support provider to change a fulfilment state of the smart contract based on a confirmation by the user.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the identifier information comprises at least one of: a diagnosis by a doctor, a purpose of visit by the user, prescribed medication by the doctor, prescribed medical tests by the doctor, types of medical tests performed on the user, details about patient feedback, details about insurance claims, a secured link, a unique ID of user's medical history recorded by the healthcare provider.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic medical record comprises at least one of: medical scans, medical test reports, manual inputs by one or more healthcare providers.

8 . A system for managing healthcare records of a user, the system comprising:
one or more computing devices associated with individual ones a plurality of health care providers, individual ones of the one or more computing devices being configured to access a blockchain for storing electronic medical records therein; wherein the one or more computing devices are configured to:
store an electronic medical record related to the user in form of a non-fungible token (NFT) written to the blockchain, the NFT defining an ownership of the electronic medical record stored therein;
associate a smart contract to the NFT in the blockchain, the smart contract comprising identifier information related to the electronic medical record stored in the associated NFT;
authorize one or more of the healthcare providers of the plurality of health care providers to request access to electronic medical records related to the user based on the defined ownership of the electronic medical records stored in the blockchain;
identify one or more NFTs from the blockchain comprising the electronic medical records related to the user based on processing of the identifier information in associated one or more smart contracts therewith, in response to a received request from an authorized healthcare provider; and
send the electronic medical records corresponding to the identified one or more NFTs to the one of the authorized healthcare providers.

9 . The system according to claim 8 further comprising an artificial intelligence module configured to process the identifier information in the associated one or more smart contracts for identifying the one or more NFTs from the blockchain.

10 . The system according to claim 8 further comprising a digital wallet for the user to store a private key for establishing the ownership of the electronic medical record related thereto.

11 . The system according to claim 8 , wherein the one or more computing devices are further configured to store health data generated by a wearable sensor worn by the user as the electronic medical record in the form of the NFT written to the blockchain.

12 . The system according to claim 8 , wherein the one or more computing devices are further configured to authorize a healthcare support provider to change a fulfilment state of the smart contract based on a confirmation by the user.

13 . The system according to claim 8 , wherein the identifier information comprises at least one of: a diagnosis by a doctor, a purpose of visit by the user, prescribed medication by the doctor, prescribed medical tests by the doctor, types of medical tests performed on the user, details about patient feedback, details about insurance claims.

14 . The system according to claim 8 , wherein the electronic medical record comprises at least one of: medical scans, medical test reports, manual inputs by one or more healthcare providers.

15 . A computer program product comprising non-transient computer readable medium containing program instructions for causing one or more computing devices to perform a method, the method comprising:
storing an electronic medical record related to the user in form of a non-fungible token (NFT) written to a blockchain, the NFT defining an ownership of the electronic medical record stored therein; associating a smart contract to the NFT in the blockchain, the smart contract comprising identifier information related to the electronic medical record stored in the associated NFT; authorizing a request to access the electronic medical record based on the defined ownership of the electronic medical record stored in the blockchain; identifying one or more NFTs from the blockchain comprising one or more electronic medical records related to the user based on processing of the identifier information in associated one or more smart contracts therewith, in response to the authorized request; and sending the one or more electronic medical records corresponding to the identified one or more NFTs to a requestor associated with the authorized requestor.

Assignees

• Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co Ltd

Inventors

• Innanje Arun
• Sharma Abhishek
• Planche Benjamin
• Zheng Meng
• Sun Shanhui
• Wu Ziyan
• Chen Terrence

Classifications

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• G06F21/64

  Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures · CPC title

• H04L67/1097 Primary

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• G06F21/6245 Primary

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

• H04L9/50

  using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees · CPC title