Patent ID: 8510387

Claim:
A system, comprising: one or more storage devices having one or more clinical databases adapted to store a plurality of heterogeneous clinical documents for a plurality of patients, with at least one patient having multiple heterogeneous clinical documents; and a clinical client device coupled to the one or more storage devices, including a client side of a secure messaging service and a clinical document attachment service, wherein the client side of the secure messaging service is adapted to facilitate a clinical service provider in creatin and secure providing one or more electronic clinical messages to one or more recipients via a server side of the secure messaging service, and the clinical document attachment service is adapted to enable and facilitate selective attachment of heterogeneous clinical documents to the one or more electronic clinical messages, wherein the clinical document attachment service includes an identifier generation service for embedding an identifier of a patient in each of the plurality of heterogeneous clinical documents, and wherein the clinical document attachment service is adapted to determine whether a clinical document has an embedded patient identifier, and invoke the identifier generation service to embed a patient identifier when determining a clinical document does not have an embedded patient identifier, the same identifier embedded in each of a plurality of documents associated with an individual patient; and wherein the server side of the secure messaging service is adapted to secure an electronic clinical message with a split key having a first and a second key portion, and provide a notification to the recipient with one of the key portions for use to retrieve the electronic clinical message.