Patent ID: 11923053
Assignee: THERAP SERVICES, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 19:
20. An improved computer system providing HIPAA-compliant access of a user to electronic personal health information of an individual under care, the improvement comprising a HIPAA-compliant computer security system for recording visual personal health information in an electronic format relating to at least two individuals, at least one of whom is an individual under care, from a video camera, preventing unauthorized access of a user to said information, formatting the information, and populating data fields of an information request with the information, comprising:
a computer system having a memory and a processor;
a video camera for recording personal health information including physical attributes of the individuals;
a transmission link for sending at least a portion of said recorded video information to said computer system;
a computer program stored in said memory and adapted to run on said processor, configured to:
store records of physical attributes of the individual under care and the one or more individuals other than the individual under care;
store at least a portion of said transmitted information;
store at least one authorization profile associated with the user, wherein the user is associated with one or more roles and one or more caseloads and the caseloads include access privilege information for the individual under care, wherein said user access privilege information included in said user's caseload includes the identities of individuals under care to which the user has access;
determine whether the user is permitted to view said information pertaining to a caseload of the individual under care wherein the determination is based on said authorization profile and the one or more caseloads and the one or more roles associated with the user, and said computer program is further configured to, as part of said determination:
compare the stored records, of physical attributes of the individual under care and the one or more individuals other than the individual under care, to the stored video information,
identify a portion of said stored video information pertaining to the one or more individuals other than the individual under care by matching at least one of a face, eye color, and/or hair color in the stored records of physical attributes of an individual other than the individual under care with the face, eye color, and/or hair color of an individual other than the individual under care in the stored video information,
identify a portion of said stored video information pertaining to the individual under care by matching at least one of a face, eye color, and/or hair color in the stored records of physical attributes of the individual under care with the face, eye color, and/or hair color of the individual under care in the stored video information; and
compare the identity of the individual under care to the user's authorization profile information, including comparing the identity of the individual under care to the user's caseload, and granting access to the user to said portion of said stored video information pertaining to the individual under care if the identity of the individual under care is stored in the user's caseload; and

blur said portion of said stored video information pertaining to the one or more individuals other than the individual under care, wherein the entire image of the one or more individuals other than the individual under care is blurred, and wherein said blurring is done prior to any human viewing said stored video information;
transmit said portion of said stored video information pertaining to the individual under care, and said blurred portion of said stored video information pertaining to the one or more individuals other than the individual under care, to said caseload of said individual under care for HIPAA-compliant viewing by said user authorized to view said portion of said stored video information pertaining said the individual under care;
receive an information request in electronic form having data fields;
wherein said stored video information includes data corresponding to said data fields;
format said video information data, based on said information request; and
populate said data fields of said information request using said formatted video information data.