METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RULE-BASED ANONYMIZED DISPLAY AND DATA EXPORT

摘要

The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for implementing a rule derived basis to display anonymized image sets. In various embodiments of the invention, users with the appropriate permission can launch a function inside a system in order to anonymize and export the currently loaded study or studies, or one or more studies identified by a search criteria. The data from the studies that were identified is then anonymized on the system using predefined rules. In an embodiment of the present invention, the data from selected studies is anonymized on a server, and only then transmitted to another network device thus minimizing the risk that protected health information can be inadvertently disclosed. In an alternative embodiment of the present invention, the data from selected studies is anonymized on a server, and only the anonymized data is stored to the hard disk or other media of a user viewing the study.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing a server computer having a plurality of medical diagnostic reports stored thereon, where one or more medical diagnostic reports can be accessed based on one or both a user ID and a patient ID; the server: i) receiving the user ID and the patient ID; ii) displaying a listing of the one or more medical diagnostic reports selected from the plurality of medical diagnostic reports accessible by the user ID and corresponding to the patient ID; iii) receiving a selection comprising one or more reports selected from the one or more medical diagnostic reports displayed; iv) executing a server program which:
1) applies one or more of one or more Study Selection Rules based on the user ID and the patient ID to the selection to retrieve one or more phis of metadata containing protected health information in the selection;2) adds an institution aware ID to the one or more phis of metadata to generate one or more combined values;3) concatenates the one or more combined values to generate one or more concatenated value using a separator character, where the separator character is not included in the one or more phis of metadata; and4) computes one or more secure values from the one or more concatenated values using a secure hash function selected from the group consisting of MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, Skein, and BLAKE; and vii) displaying to a remote computer the selection, where the one or more secure values are substituted for the one or more phis of metadata.