Abstract: Technologies are disclosed herein to secure flexible access to the healthcare information resources (HIR) contained within electronic health records (EHR) systems. By managing access permissions with certified self-sovereign identities and distributed ledger techniques, HIR may be secured. Patients and other users may be registered to access a distributed ledger, such as a healthcare blockchain, employed to set, host and adjudicate permissions to access HIR. Authorized owners and/or patients with rights to their own HIR may be able to grant fine-grained and conditional access permissions to third-parties. Information transfers and transactions occurring according to these permissions may be logged within smart contracts incorporated in the healthcare blockchain.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 26, 2020
Date of Patent:
May 23, 2023
Assignee:
Health Blockchain Convergence, Inc.
Inventors:
Douglas A. Bulleit, Bharat Chand Aluri, Fred Thomas Danner, III, Charles Clifton Miller, III, Mark Lloyd Braunstein