Patent ID: 8019620

Claim:
Computer-storage media having a system embodied thereon that, when executed, performs a method for managing a release of clinically related information, the system comprising: an input interface that receives a request from a requesting party for the release of the clinically related information associated with a patient and validates a standing of the requesting party; and privacy management logic, wherein upon communicating with the input interface, the privacy management logic: after the input interface receives the request, annotates a receipt status of the request in an access history database to create a privacy disclosure history for the patient, the privacy disclosure history being stored for a specified history-interval and being accessible through a privacy management user interface; determines a privacy status of the patient; validates the request based on the standing of the requesting party and a patient-specified time-interval and, if the request cannot be validated based on the standing of the requesting party and the patient specified time-interval, annotates a denial status of the request in the access history database; generates a response to the request based on the privacy status of the patient; extracts data from an electronic medical record associated with the patient, wherein the privacy status of the patient includes at least one recorded patient consent for the release of the clinically related information within the electronic medical record associated with the patient to the requesting party within the patient-specified time-interval, and wherein the at least one recorded patient consent permits release of only a portion of the clinically related information within the electronic medical record associated with the patient, the portion being less than a whole of the clinically related information within the electronic medical record associated with the patient and being-specified within the at least one recorded patient consent; and after extracting data from the electronic medical record associated with the patient, annotates a completion status of the request in the access history database.