Patent ID: 7949546

Claim:
A system for providing family health history data comprising: a processor for executing at least part of a process for providing family health history data, the process for providing family health history data comprising: aggregating health data associated with two or more family members of a given family from a plurality of different sources at different remote locations, at least a portion of the health data being obtained by the process for providing family health history electronically from a remote website of one of either a healthcare provider or a health insurance provider, at least a portion of the health data being obtained from individual ones of the family members, a guardian of one or more of the family members if such a guardian is assigned, a private and/or government agency having jurisdiction over one or more of the family members if such a jurisdiction exists over a family member, wherein different portions of the obtained data are weighted by relationship weighting factors based on the relationship of any given family member with any other given family member, the relationship weighting factors being greater for closer genetic links; providing each of the two or more family members, or their authorized agents if such authorized agents exist, the capability to place restrictions on the access to at least part of the health data associated with the respective family members; and providing or denying a party access to portions of the health data associated with the family in accordance with the access restrictions placed on the portions of the health data by individual ones of the family members associated with each portion.