Patent ID: 11915800
Assignee: CLINERION LTD
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A patient recruitment method, with
at least one patient recruitment server, which is arranged outside intranets of healthcare information systems of healthcare institutions, with the healthcare information systems comprising patient data records or patient-related data;
and more than one patient data processor, each of which is
arranged in an intranet of an IT department of a different healthcare institution,
located in a place different from the location of the patient recruitment server,
only connected via the Internet with the patient recruitment server,
only communicating in an encoded manner with the patient recruitment server, and
comprising at least one patient data processing server with at least one database for storing pseudonymized patient data records,

the patient recruitment method comprising the steps of:
each of the patient data processors receiving and processing the patient data records from the healthcare information system of the healthcare institution where the respective patient data processor is located, wherein each of the patient data processors processes the patient data records only inside the intranet of the healthcare institution where the respective patient data processor is located;
pseudonymization routines of the respective patient data processors pseudonymizing the patient data records received from the healthcare information system of the healthcare institution where the respective patient data processor is located at, and thereby creating the pseudonymized patient data records,
pseudonym administration servers of the respective patient data processors storing a pseudonym information, which bijectively identifies a patient data record without allowing conclusions to a patient's identity, storing the corresponding patient identification information, and dispatching the pseudonymized patient data records within the patient data processor to be received by the at least one patient data processing server of the respective patient data processor,
the at least one database of the respective patient data processing server storing the received pseudonymized patient data records,
at least one search routine of the at least one patient recruitment server dispatching at least a recruitment information comprising recruitment characteristics to individual search routines of several patient data processors of the patient recruitment system,
the individual search routines of the patient data processors searching the databases for storing pseudonymized patient data records of the patient data processing servers of each of the respective patient data processors from different healthcare institutions on the basis of the recruitment information received from the patient recruitment server, wherein the patient data records that are searched by the individual search routines of the patient data processors are implemented as the pseudonymized patient data records, which are stored in the databases for storing pseudonymized patient data records of the patient data processing servers of each of the respective patient data processors of the different healthcare institutions,
the individual search routines of the patient data processors generating generates search results for each of the healthcare institutions individually, and
the individual search routines of the patient data processors dispatching the search results to the patient recruitment server, wherein the dispatched search results comprise at least a number of found patient data records but comprise no information suitable for directly identifying a patient whom one of the found patient data records is allocated to
at least one user interface routine of the patient recruitment server outputting the received search results of the individual search routines of the patient recruitment server to a recruitment center.