Patent ID: 7937423
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: G06Q,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A clinical research management system, comprising: a database of biometric sample information, at least some of the pieces of sample information having been received from a test-subject in a first clinical research effort, and each piece of sample information having a related pointer to a location of clinical research information obtained during the first clinical research effort; a check-in facility at a clinical research facility that is conducting a second clinical research effort, the check-in facility having a biometric reader; a communication channel; a microprocessor, programmed to: (a) receive from the communication channel, information corresponding to a biometric specimen received at the check-in facility, (b) compare the biometric specimen to the biometric sample information (c) determine whether the specimen matches at least one piece of the sample information in the database to identify a matching piece of sample information, (d) identify the pointer in the database that is related to the matching piece of sample information, (e) use the identified pointer to obtain the corresponding clinical research information that was obtained during the first clinical research effort, (f) provide the obtained corresponding clinical research information to the clinical research facility conducting the second clinical research effort.