Patent ID: 9747419
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G16H

Claim:
1. A method comprising the steps of: accessing health-related data, wherein said health-related data include individual health records or epidemiologic data; accessing an ISO 8583 payment card network database of payment card transaction records corresponding to respective purchases made using at least one payment card, wherein said ISO 8583 payment card network database of payment card transaction records does not include any personally identifiable information; inferring geographic locations of at least a portion of said payment card transaction records; geographically linking at least a portion of said health-related data to said portion of said payment card transaction records to obtain linked data by using structured query language (SQL) on said health-related data and said database of payment card transaction records, based on said inferred geographic locations; carrying out statistical analysis on said linked data; and making anonymized aggregated results of said statistical analysis available to at least one appropriate party in a privacy-compliant manner; wherein said step of carrying out said statistical analysis on said linked data comprises a supervised learning approach that comprises applying stratified sampling combined with logistic regression, and negative binomial regression; wherein, in said step of making said results of said statistical analysis available to said at least one appropriate party, said results comprise an epidemiological predictor; wherein said epidemiological predictor comprises at least one of a correlation and a prediction regarding visiting a certain geographic location and incidence of a certain disease.