Distributed healthcare database system and method

Inventors

Rock, Eric

Assignees

Vivify Health Inc

Abstract

A system and method distributing healthcare database access is disclosed. The system and method interpose a data mapping server (DMS) between a data request user server (DRS) and data service user server (DSS) to manage data transfers between the DSS and the DRS such that disparate database characteristics of the DRS/DSS are accommodated in real-time and permit asynchronous healthcare activity to be triggered. The DMS operates with a data access matrix (DAM) having each referenced DRS/DSS intersection pair associated with read/write control processes (RWP) that include read data (RDD) and write data (WRD) processes to permit data access across the disparate DRS/DSS database boundaries. The DAM may have multiple dimensions to accommodate asynchronously activated process threads within an overall patient healthcare plan (PHP) that operate to trigger healthcare provider alarms and other activity associated with the transfer/update of data between the DSS and the DRS.

Core Innovation

The invention relates to a distributed healthcare database system for administering and maintaining healthcare data among distributed systems. An information interchange hub is connected to a network and receives healthcare data from a mobile device while also communicating with a requesting healthcare information system and a sending healthcare information system.

The information interchange hub contains a data access matrix that associates individual data items contained on the requesting healthcare system with the sending healthcare information system and maintains an access control list containing access permissions between the requesting healthcare system, the sending healthcare system, and the mobile device. The data access matrix scans for alternate data transfers related to healthcare information systems other than the requesting healthcare information system and sending healthcare information system, and triggers data mapping processes associated with the alternate data transfers.

A specified data mapping process is configured to activate a data transfer mode limited by the access control list, where the data transfer mode converts the data from the sending healthcare system data format to the format required by the requesting healthcare system. The first healthcare activity process contained in the data access matrix is configured to trigger an alert in the healthcare information system to activate healthcare personnel if strictures of the first healthcare activity process require direct healthcare provider intervention based on the data transfer.

A second data mapping process is activated by data transfer from the mobile device to activate a second data transfer mode that forms a second data bridge between the mobile device and the associated requesting and sending healthcare systems, and the second healthcare activity process is activated by a data transfer from the mobile device while the mobile device is processing data from the connected medical instrumentation device.

Claims Coverage

The partial content includes three independent claims (system, method, and tangible non-transitory computer usable medium). Across these independent claims, the core inventive features are organized around the information interchange hub, the data access matrix and access control list, activation of data mapping processes to form data bridges, mode-limited conversion of data formats, healthcare activity process-driven alerts, mobile-device-originated second mapping/bridge behavior, and scanning for alternate data transfers.

Across the independent claims, the coverage centers on an information interchange hub that uses a data access matrix and access control list to activate data mapping processes that form data bridges and enable permission-limited, mode-based conversion between requesting and sending healthcare systems. The data access matrix also drives healthcare activity processes that trigger alerts for healthcare personnel when direct healthcare provider intervention is required, includes a second mapping path for mobile-device-originated data from specified instrumentation devices, and scans for alternate data transfers to trigger associated mapping processes.

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