Patent ID: 7905417

Claim:
A system for consolidating and blinding electronic medical records, comprising: a plurality of confidential electronic medical records including patient identification data and medical data stored in two or more electronic medical record databases provided by two or more medical record database providers; one or more consolidators having access to each of the plurality of confidential electronic medical records via the two or more medical record database providers; software executing on a first transaction processor for receiving a data request from a requester; software executing on said transaction processor for determining a consolidator having access to electronic medical records containing the requested data; software executing on one or more second transaction processors for blinding electronic medical records containing the requested data and transferring blinded medical data omitting patient identification data to the consolidator; software executing on a transaction processor for confirming requester payment for the requested data; and software executing on a transaction processor for transferring blinded medical data from the consolidator to the requester.