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US 2016/0259957 A1Published application
System And Method For Monitoring And Protecting Healthcare Data
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsKurt Knodt, Tomohito Shimizu
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Abstract
An approach is provided for monitoring and protecting healthcare data. Documents that contain protected information are branded with a code. The code contains a human-readable component for easy identification and a computer-readable component for easy tracking. A tracking server may be configured to store information associated with the codes and update the information when the codes are scanned.
Claims20
An imaging device comprising:
- one or more processors and one or more memories communicatively coupled to the one or more processors;
- a Protected Health Information (PHI) code detection component configured to detect a computer-readable portion of PHI codes on one or more documents;
- wherein the PHI codes comprise a computer-readable portion and a human-readable portion;
- wherein the human-readable portion visually indicates to a user whether a printed document contains or is designed to contain PHI;
- and
- a communication component configured to send a message to a PHI tracking server that indicates that the one or more events have occurred with respect to a document containing a PHI code.
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One or more computer-readable media storing instruction which, when processed by one or more processors cause:
- a code detector on an imaging device to detect a computer-readable portion of one or more Protected Health Information (PHI) codes;
- wherein the PHI codes comprise a computer-readable portion and a human-readable portion;
- wherein the human-readable portion visually indicates to a user whether a printed document contains or is designed to contain PHI;
- and
- a communicator on the imaging device to send a message to a PHI tracking server that indicates that the one or more events have occurred with respect to a document containing a PHI code.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- detecting a computer-readable portion of one or more Protected Health Information (PHI) codes;
- wherein the PHI codes comprise a computer-readable portion and a human-readable portion;
- wherein the human-readable portion visually indicates to a user whether a printed document contains or is designed to contain PHI;
- and
- determining that one or more events have occurred with respect to a document containing a PHI code;
- and
- sending a message to a PHI tracking server that indicates that the one or more events have occurred.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.