Clinical Collaboration Using An Online Networking System

摘要

Methods are provided for sharing patient information by way of an online collaboration system. A requesting clinician, through an online networking system, identifies one or more clinicians with whom the requesting clinician wishes to collaborate by sending at least one patient-focused clinical data element. For the clinicians who have been identified as not being authorized to access patient-identifying data, the at least one patient-focused clinical data element is de-identified such that it no longer includes any patient-identifying data. The de-identified patient-focused clinical data element is then communicated to the clinicians not allowed access to the patient-identifying information.

主权项

1. A method in a computer system having a processor and a memory for providing an online medical collaboration, the method comprising:
publishing a collaboration request from a requesting clinician-through an online networking system for medical clinicians that can be viewed by one or more receiving clinicians, wherein the collaboration request includes at least one patient-focused clinical data element that includes patient-identifying data associated with a patient; based on identifying information of the patient associated with the at least one patient-focused clinical data element and the identification of each of the one or more receiving clinicians, automatically determining, by a determining component with access to a data store and using a rules-based authentication subsystem, whether the each of the one or more receiving clinicians is allowed access to the at least one patient-focused clinical data element; identifying, by the determining component, a first subset of the one or more receiving clinicians, wherein the first subset of the one or more receiving clinicians is not authorized to view the at least one patient-focused clinical data element, and wherein the first subset of the receiving clinicians do not have a medical relationship with the patient; de-identifying, by a de-identifying component, the at least one patient-focused clinical data element such that it does not include any of the patient-identifying data associated with the patient; and communicating the collaboration request with the at least one de-identified patient-focused clinical data element to the first subset of the one or more receiving clinicians.