Multi-source longitudinal patient-level data encryption process
CA 2564344 C · Owner: Wolfe, Clinton J. · Inventors: Wolfe, Clinton J.; Kohan, Mark E.
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A process for assembling a longitudinally-linked database from individual patient healthcare transaction data records. The process comprises the steps of, at a data supplier location, acquiring data records having patientidentifying, attributes and non-identifying attributes; encrypting the patient-identifying attributes in the data records using a first encryption key specific to a central facility (LDF); encrypting the patient-identifying attributes in the data records encrypted with a second encryption key specific to the data supplier location; at the LDF, receiving the data records that have been encrypted; partially decrypting the received data records so that the …
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- Filed May 5, 2005 and granted April 12, 2016. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 5, 2025.
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