Patent ID: 8715180

Claim:
A system for managing medical data on a wide area communication network, the system comprising: a communication module configured to receive medical data from a plurality of subject support devices, wherein each subject support device in the plurality of subject support devices is associated with a subject from a plurality of subjects; a parsing module configured to store received medical data in a data storage system having a first storage area and a second storage area separate from the first storage area, including storing the medical data having individual identifiers that identify any subject in the first storage area and storing the medical data that is free of individual identifiers in the second storage area; and a database module configured to provide controlled access to stored medical data in the first storage area for the authorized users, but not for the other users, wherein the authorized users include a plurality of healthcare entities each of whom provide healthcare related services to one or more but not all of the subjects in the plurality of subjects, and wherein each authorized healthcare entity in the plurality of healthcare entities has access to the medical data stored in the first storage area associated with the one or more subjects serviced by the authorized healthcare entity but not to data stored in the first storage area associated with one or more subjects who are not serviced by the authorized healthcare entity, and the database module further configured to provide controlled access to stored medical data in the second storage area for the authorized users and the other users, wherein each authorized healthcare entity has access to the medical data stored in the second storage area associated with the plurality of subjects including subjects serviced by other healthcare entities, wherein the communication module and the parsing module are executed in a single server associated with the system.