Methods and systems for automated assignment of protection to physical documents that are digitized

摘要

Content analysis is performed on documents that have been scanned or converted into a digital format. Based on the content analysis of a document, a security policy is selected and assigned or attached to the document. The security policy prevents the document from being improperly accessed. In a specific implementation, the documents include patient medical records.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
storing at a central server a plurality of scanned documents, and a plurality of security policies, each security policy having a corresponding policy definition; analyzing a scanned document to identify a visual feature in the scanned document, wherein the analyzing comprises parsing optical character recognition (OCR) data extracted from the scanned document to identify a form field and an handwritten entry of a name of a person for the form field in the scanned document, wherein the visual feature comprises the form field and the handwritten entry for the form field; selecting, based on the identified visual feature, a security policy of the plurality of security policies; assigning the selected security policy to the scanned document; detecting an attempt to access the scanned document having the assigned security policy; determining whether a user attempting to access the scanned document has a name that matches the name of the person; evaluating at the central server the policy definition corresponding to the assigned security policy to determine whether the access is granted or denied; and determining that access should be granted when the user has a name that matches the name of the person and that access should be denied when the user has a name that does not match the name of the person.