# US 2021/0280306 A1 · Methods for managing health care information > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0280306 A1 - Document ID: US20210280306A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/196,319 - Filed: 2021-03-09 - Published: 2021-09-09 - Earliest claimed: 2020-03-09 - Assignees: Scriptlock - Applicants: ScriptLock - Inventors: Brandon Fairless; Christopher Cutter; Zachary Linquist; Daniel Capri; Jon Bishop - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210280306A1 ## CPC - G16H 40/20: for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms - G06F 9/547: {Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services} - G06F 16/2379: {Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing} - G06F 16/27: Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor - G06F 21/6245: {Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes} - G06F 21/64: Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures - G16H 10/60: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records - G16H 15/00: ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof - H04L 9/3239: {involving non-keyed hash functions, e.g. modification detection codes [MDCs], MD5, SHA or RIPEMD} - H04L 9/3263: {involving certificates, e.g. public key certificate [PKC] or attribute certificate [AC]; Public key infrastructure [PKI] arrangements (network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using certificates in a packet data network H04L63/0823)} - H04L 67/104: Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks - H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks - H04L 67/141: Setup of application sessions (admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70) - H04L 9/50: {using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees} - G16H: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract A computer-implemented method utilizing blockchain technology for managing healthcare records is provided. The computer-implemented method comprises providing a computer network with one or more computing devices that are interconnected through the computer network. The computer-implemented method comprises submitting a proposal from a first computing device of the one or more computing devices to a plurality of endorsing peers for approval. The computer-implemented method comprises approving the proposal by the plurality of endorsing peers with the at least one computing device and replying to the proposal with a response comprising a peer approved transaction. The computer-implemented method comprises creating a private peer-to-peer communication channel between the first computing device and a second computing device. The computer-implemented method comprises creating a block of transactions and adding the block of transactions to a ledger. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A computer-implemented method utilizing blockchain technology for managing healthcare records, the computer-implemented method comprising: providing a computer network with one or more computing devices that are interconnected through the computer network; submitting a proposal related to a healthcare record from a first computing device of the one or more computing devices to a plurality of endorsing peers for approval, each of the endorsing peers comprising at least one computing device; approving the proposal by the plurality of endorsing peers with the at least one computing device and replying to the proposal with a response comprising a peer approved transaction; creating a private peer-to-peer communication channel between the first computing device and a second computing device and transmitting data related to the healthcare record from the first computing device to the second computing device through the private peer-to-peer communication channel; and creating a block of transactions based on the data transmitted from the first computing device to the second computing device and adding the block of transactions to a ledger. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein creating the private peer-to-peer communication channel between the first computing device and the second computing device comprises storing the data in a private state database on peers of authorized organizations and the data is accessible in the private state database from a chaincode. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the creating the block of transactions comprises creating a hash value of the data and writing the hash value on a ledger of each of the peers of authorized organizations, wherein the ledger stores entries of the healthcare records that are invoked by the one or more computing devices. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the ledger comprises a first smart contract that is assigned to a first peer on the first computing device and a second smart contract that is assigned to a second peer on the second computing device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the private peer-to-peer communication channel is created after one or more of the first smart contract or the second smart contract are approved by the plurality of endorsing peers. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the creating the private peer-to-peer communication channel comprises using a communication channel to exchange information to allow a connection over a secured API to be formed to exchange the data. ### Claim 7 A computing system utilizing blockchain technology for managing healthcare records, the computing system comprising: one or more processors; and one or more computing devices comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, are configured to perform operations comprising: providing a computer network with the one or more computing devices that are interconnected through the computer network; submitting a proposal related to a healthcare record from a first computing device of the one or more computing devices to a plurality of endorsing peers for approval, each of the endorsing peers comprising at least one computing device; approving the proposal by the plurality of endorsing peers with the at least one computing device and replying to the proposal with a response comprising a peer approved transaction; creating a private peer-to-peer communication channel between the first computing device and a second computing device and transmitting data related to the healthcare record from the first computing device to the second computing device through the private peer-to-peer communication channel; and creating a block of transactions based on the data transmitted from the first computing device to the second computing device and adding the block of transactions to a ledger. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The computing system of claim 7, wherein creating the private peer-to-peer communication channel between the first computing device and the second computing device comprises storing the data in a private state database on peers of authorized organizations and the data is accessible in the private state database from a chaincode. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The computing system of claim 8, wherein the creating the block of transactions comprises creating a hash value of the data and writing the hash value on a ledger of each of the peers of authorized organizations, wherein the ledger stores entries of the healthcare records that are invoked by the one or more computing devices. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The computing system of claim 9, wherein the ledger comprises a first smart contract that is assigned to a first peer on the first computing device and a second smart contract that is assigned to a second peer on the second computing device. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The computing system of claim 10, wherein the private peer-to-peer communication channel is created after one or more of the first smart contract or the second smart contract are approved by the plurality of endorsing peers. ### Claim 12 (depends on 7) The computing system of claim 7, wherein the first computing device comprises a display that is configured to display information related to the healthcare record. ### Claim 13 (depends on 7) The computing system of claim 7, wherein the creating the private peer-to-peer communication channel comprises using a communication channel to exchange information to allow a connection over a secured API to be formed to exchange the data.