Patient community system with anonymized electronic medical data

A computerized system allowing intercommunication of patients with respect to the treatment of their diseases comprising:

• an electronic medical record database providing electronic medical records of a set of patients as developed by healthcare professionals, each electronic medical record including patient identification and patient health data, the patient health data in electronic medical records being updated by the healthcare providers in the course of treatment of a patient informing diagnoses and recommendations;
• an anonymous electronic medical record database including anonymous patient records, where each anonymous patient record includes a copy of the patient health data from a copied electronic medical record of the electronic medical record database, an anonymous patient key that is linked to the patient identification of the copied electronic medical record of the electronic medical record database and an anonymous physician key linked to a physician identified in the copied electronic medical record of the electronic medical record database;
• a set of terminal devices accessible to the patients allowing for the electronic exchange of information through a display and data input device;
• a server system communicating between the anonymous electronic medical record database and the terminal devices and executing the stored program contained in computer readable memory to:
• (1) receive a connection request from a given patient to the server system through a terminal device including the anonymous patient key and a PIN provided to a patient identified by the patient identification of the copied electronic medical record of the electronic medical record database;
• (2) receive instructions from the given patient to generate a patient site, the created patient site incorporating medical records from the anonymous medical record database associated with the anonymous patient key;
• (3) identify one or more patient medical conditions based on the anonymous medical records;
• (4) identify to the given patient a cluster of other patient sites for other patients having medical conditions matched to the identified patient medical conditions listed in the anonymous patient record linked to the anonymous patient key;
• (5) receive a selection of at least one identified cluster;
• (6) receive a request to publish the patient site to the at least one identified cluster;
• (7) update the cluster to include the patient site such that response to subsequent cluster requests will include the generated patient site;
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• (8) receive cluster functionality instructions based on the identification of the patient site as being in the patient cluster.