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US 11,694,160 B2Granted
Linkage of relationship and transaction data
AssigneeHealthVerity, Inc.
InventorAndrew Kress
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Abstract
A system and method for providing an individual with information on the actual healthcare utilization of other members of that individual's social network, the method including de-identifying or encrypting individually identifiable social network data associated with a first user, de-identifying or encrypting individually identifiable healthcare transaction data associated with the first user, and linking the de-identified social network data and the de-identified healthcare transaction data.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving individually identifiable relationship data associated with a first user and a second user, the individually identifiable relationship data associated with the second user including a link or association with the first user;
- receiving individually identifiable transaction data associated with the first user;
- de-identifying or encrypting the individually identifiable relationship data associated with the first user to form de-identified relationship data associated with the first user by using a hash function or encryption algorithm to generate a first key and replacing data identifying the first user with the first key;
- de-identifying or encrypting the individually identifiable transaction data associated with the first user to form de-identified transaction data associated with the first user by using the hash function or encryption algorithm to generate a second key and replacing data identifying the first user with the second key;
- identifying de-identified relationship and transaction data associated with the first user by making a determination that the first key is identical or similar to the second key;
- and
- outputting the de-identified transaction data associated with the first user to the second user in response to a determination that the de-identified relationship data associated with the second user includes a link or association with the first user.
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A system, comprising:
- a relationship database for storing:
- individually identifiable relationship data associated with a first user;
- and
- individually identifiable relationship data associated with a second user that includes a link or association with the first user;
- a transaction database for storing individually identifiable transaction data associated with the first user;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- de-identify or encrypt the individually identifiable relationship data associated with the first user to form de-identified relationship data associated with the first user by using a hash function or encryption algorithm to generate a first key and replacing the data identifying the first user with the first key;
- de-identify or encrypt the individually identifiable transaction data associated with the first user to form de-identified transaction data associated with the first user by using the hash function or encryption algorithm to generate a second key and replacing the data identifying the first user with the second key;
- identify de-identified relationship and transaction data associated with the first user by making a determination that the first key is identical or similar to the second key;
- and
- output the de-identified transaction data associated with the first user to the second user in response to a determination that de-identified relationship data associated with the second user includes a link or association with the first user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.