System and Method of Securing Private Health Information
OwnerTodd Michael Kennedy, Aaron Michael Lewisinventors
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Abstract
A system and method for the secure processing of private health information. Fully homomorphically encrypted private health information, along with a request to process that information, is transmitted to a third party who performs operations on the encrypted private health information in accordance with the request, yielding an encrypted result. The encrypted result may be decrypted only by the party in possession of the corresponding private key. The invention enables encrypted private health information to be processed by third parties while preventing them from decrypting it.
Claims29
A method of securing private health information, said method comprising the steps of:
- receiving fully homomorphically encrypted private health information;
- receiving a request to process said fully homomorphically encrypted private health information;
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- processing said fully homomorphically encrypted private health information in accordance with said request, yielding a fully homomorphically encrypted result.
A method of securing private health information, said method comprising the steps of:
- collecting said private health information;
- transmitting said private health information to a third party;
- transmitting a request to process said private health information to said third party;
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- receiving a result from said third party after at least said private health information has been encrypted using a fully homomorphic encryption scheme and processed according to said request.
A system for securing private health information, comprising:
- a computer configured to receive fully homomorphically encrypted private health information, and to receive a request to process said fully homomorphically encrypted private health information;
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- a processing module for processing said fully homomorphically encrypted private health information in accordance with said request, yielding a fully homomorphically encrypted result.
A system for securing private health information, said system comprising:
- a computer configured to collect said private health information;
- a computer configured to transmit said private health information to a third party, and to transmit a request to process said private health information to said third party;
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- a computer configured to receive a result from said third party after at least said private health information has been encrypted using a fully homomorphic encryption scheme and processed according to said request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.