Privacy-compliant analysis of health by transaction data
AssigneeMastercard International Incorporated
InventorsTong Zhang, Qian Wang
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Abstract
Health-related data is accessed; as is a database of payment card transaction data. At least a portion of the health-related data is linked to at least a portion of the payment card transaction data to obtain linked data. Statistical analysis is carried out on the linked data, and the results of the statistical analysis are made available to at least one appropriate party. Privacy is protected, for example, via an opt-in approach or through data aggregation.
Claims9
A method comprising the steps of:
- accessing health-related data;
- accessing an ISO 8583 payment card network database of payment card transaction records corresponding to respective purchases made using at least one payment card, wherein said ISO 8583 payment card network database of payment card transaction records does not include any personally identifiable information;
- inferring geographic locations of at least a portion of said payment card transaction records;
- geographically linking at least a portion of said health-related data to said portion of said payment card transaction records to obtain linked data by querying said health-related data and said database of payment card transaction records, based on said inferred geographic locations;
- carrying out statistical analysis on said linked data;
- and
- making anonymized aggregated results of said statistical analysis available to at least one appropriate party in a privacy-compliant manner.
An apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- at least one processor operatively coupled to said memory;
- and
- a persistent storage device operatively coupled to said memory and storing in a non-transitory medium instructions which when loaded into said memory cause said at least one processor to be operative to:
- access health-related data;
- access an ISO 8583 payment card network database of payment card transaction records corresponding to respective purchases made using at least one payment card, wherein said ISO 8583 payment card network database of payment card transaction records does not include any personally identifiable information;
- infer geographic locations of at least a portion of said payment card transaction records;
- geographically link at least a portion of said health-related data to at least a portion of said payment card transaction records to obtain linked data by querying said health-related data and said database of payment card transaction records, based on said inferred geographic locations;
- carry out statistical analysis on said linked data;
- make anonymized aggregated results of said statistical analysis available to at least one appropriate party in a privacy-compliant manner.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions which when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform the method of:
- accessing health-related data;
- accessing an ISO 8583 payment card network database of payment card transaction records corresponding to respective purchases made using at least one payment card, wherein said ISO 8583 payment card network database of payment card transaction records does not include any personally identifiable information;
- inferring geographic locations of at least a portion of said payment card transaction records;
- geographically linking at least a portion of said health-related data to said portion of said payment card transaction records to obtain linked data by using structured query language (SQL) on said health-related data and said database of payment card transaction records, based on said inferred geographic locations;
- carrying out statistical analysis on said linked data;
- and
- making anonymized aggregated results of said statistical analysis available to at least one appropriate party in a privacy-compliant manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.