Patent ID: 7801747

Claim:
A computer-implemented process for obtaining an informed consent from a human subject for an action, the process comprising: receiving, utilizing a first computer process, data representative of at least one of demographic, medical, genetic, and biological information of the human subject; storing the received data representative of at least one of demographic, medical, genetic, and biological information of the human subject into a data memory; upon contacting the human subject, receiving a first grant of consent, wherein the first grant of consent is a grant of informed consent to be associated with the stored data representative of at least one of demographic, medical, genetic, and biological information of the human subject, utilizing a second computer process, wherein the grant of informed consent indicates at least one select type of activities and uses to which the human subject agrees or consents; receiving a second grant of consent, wherein the second grant of consent is consent to re-contact the human subject to be associated with the stored data representative of at least one of demographic, medical, genetic, and biological information of the human subject; receiving a request to perform an action on the data representative of at least one of demographic, medical, genetic, and biological information of the human subject; in response to the request, determining the first grant of informed consent is insufficient for the action, utilizing a third computer process; and upon determining that the first grant of informed consent is insufficient for the action, re-contacting the human subject to request the human subject to change the first grant of informed consent, wherein the first, second and third computer processes are performed on one or more computing devices.