Patent ID: 8108311
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: G06Q,G16H,H04L

Abstract:
1. A local electronic medical record system, said system comprising: a local personal health record (PHR) client, the PHR client to download encrypted patient documents from a remote PHR server and parse the downloaded encrypted patient documents to form a local PHR database, the local PHR client to provide local electronic medical record service using the remote PHR server and the local PHR database for access by a clinician, the local PHR database to include encrypted patient documents for a plurality of patients associated with the clinician; and an interface to receive user input including an encryption key to decrypt the downloaded encrypted patient documents and display patient medical information to the user based on the downloaded decrypted patient documents, the PHR client to encrypt data from the local PHR database before uploading the data to the remote PHR server, wherein the remote PHR server cannot decrypt the encrypted patient documents and is to receive only encrypted data, the local PHR client to facilitate both secure patient access to the remote PHR server for the patient's PHR information and secure clinician access to the remote PHR server for the patient's electronic medical record information, wherein the patient's PHR information is to be controlled by the patient and made accessible to the clinician with the patient's electronic medical record information via the remote PHR server.