Method for Securely Storing and Retrieving Medical Data

• Main Authors: Kelm, Michael, Jay, Anthony, Nottebrock, Daniel, Sujith, Manuel, Tov, Amatzia, Prasad, Srikrishna, Rosenbaum, Ute, Rajamani, Srividya Tirunellai, Amit, Matityahu
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.03.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A gateway and a method are provided for securely storing (and/or securely retrieving) medical data the method for storing comprising at least steps of:obtaining, in a secure environment, medical data which include patient property data as well as patient identifier data wherein the patient identifier data indicate at least one patient to which the patient property data correspond;generating, in the secure environment de identified medical data by replacing the patient identifier data in the medical data with non-patient-identifying coded identifiers;generating, in the secure environment, a re-identifying database indicating correspondences between the non-patient-identifying coded identifiers and the patient identifier data;generating n encrypted re-identifying database by applying, in the secure environment, at least one symmetric and/or asymmetric encryption method to the re-identifying database;storing the encrypted re-identifying database and the de-identified medical data on a cloud storage outside of the secure environment.