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

Claim 0:
1. A patient recruitment system comprising:
A) at least one patient recruitment server,
a) being arranged outside intranets of healthcare information systems of healthcare institutions with the healthcare information systems comprising patient data or patient-related data;
b) comprising at least one search routine configured to
dispatch at least a recruitment information comprising recruitment characteristics
and to generate search results;

c) comprising at least one user interface routine which is configured to output the search results of the search routine of the patient recruitment server to a recruitment center;

B) more than one patient data processors, each of which
d) being arranged in an intranet of an IT department of a different healthcare institution and located in a place different from the location of the patient recruitment server;
e) being only connected via the Internet with the patient recruitment server;
f) only communicating in an encoded manner with the patient recruitment server;
g) being configured to receive and process patient data records from the healthcare information system of the healthcare institution where the respective patient data processor is located;
h) being configured to process the patient data records inside the intranet of the healthcare institution where the respective patient data processor is located;
i) comprising a pseudonymization routine, being configured to
pseudonymize 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 create the pseudonymized patient data records;

j) comprising at least one patient data processing server, which comprises
one or more databases exclusively for storing pseudonymized patient data records,

k) comprising at least one pseudonym administration server, being configured to
store a pseudonym information, which bijectively identifies a patient data record without allowing conclusions to a patient's identity,
store the corresponding patient identification information, and
dispatch 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, and

l) comprising an individual search routine, being configured to
receive the recruitment information comprising the recruitment characteristics from the search routine of the patient recruitment server, and
search the databases of the patient data processing server of the respective healthcare institution 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 different databases of the patient data processing servers of each of the respective patient data processors of the different healthcare institutions,
wherein each of the individual search routines of the patient data processors are configured to generate search results for each of the healthcare institutions individually,
wherein each of the individual search routines of the patient data processors are configured to dispatch the search results to the patient recruitment server, and
wherein the output 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.