# US20130204641A1: Social Authentication For Accessing Health Records

- Kind: Published application
- Family: Digital Blockchain Authentication (https://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/patents/digital-blockchain-authentication)
- USPTO status: Abandoned  --  Failure to Respond to an Office Action (as of 2017-05-16; record read 2026-09-27)
- Application: 13756433
- Filed: 2013-01-31
- Published: 2013-08-08
- Inventor: Shahid N. Shah
- Rights holder: Intellectual Frontiers LLC
- Classifications (CPC): G16H 10/60
- Continued in part by US20170149560A1

## Not offered

The family is abandoned; it is shown as prior art and reference.

## Abstract

A system for facilitating access to a Social Heath Record Database (SHRDB) through a social networking platform over a communications network. The system includes an information management platform including one or more database server and one or more social network server configured to implement information storage and retrieval functions within the SHRDB. The system further includes the SHRDB communicatively coupled to the information management platform. The system further includes a social networking engine communicatively coupled to the SHRDB through the social network server to allow interfacing of the SHRDB with the social networking service/platform. The system further includes a programmatic web interface configured as a single sign-on scheme to allow access of one or more repositories of the SHRDB.

## Independent claims

1. A system for facilitating access to a Social Heath Record Database (SHRDB) through a social networking service or platform over a communications network, said system comprising: an information management platform including one or more database server and one or more social network server configured to implement information storage and retrieval functions within said SHRDB; said SHRDB communicatively coupled to said information management platform, wherein said SHRDB is coupled to: a processing component for executing instructions to process medical records over said communications network; one or more of a Social Health Record (SHR) repository, Health Information Exchange (HIE) repository, and a Virtual Medical Records (VMR) repository to store said medical records; a social networking engine communicatively coupled to said SHRDB through said social network server to allow interfacing of said SHRDB with said social networking service; a programmatic web interface configured as a single sign-on scheme to allow access of said one or more of said SHR repository, HIE repository, and said VMR repository of said SHRDB from one or more distinct social networking platforms using a credential associated with any of said one or more of said distinct social networking platforms, wherein said one or more of said SHR repository, HIE repository, and said VMR repository are each provided with a distinct application configured to be initiated upon access of said respective of said SHR repository, HIE repository, and a VMR repository allowing retrieval of medical records associated with said SHR repository, HIE repository, and said VMR repository.

12. A method for accessing a Social Health Record Data Bank (SHRDB) using a social networking platform, said method comprising: receiving a request from a user for accessing said SHRDB through a social networking platform; authenticating a single sign-on credential of said user associated with said social networking platform; retrieving medical records from said SHRDB as requested by said user, wherein retrieving of said medical records include at least one of sharing of said medical records either partially or fully to said user and allowing viewing of said medical records at least partially by said user.

15. A program storage device readable by computer, and comprising a program of instructions executable by said computer to perform a method for accessing a social health record data bank (SHRDB) by a user, said method comprising: receiving a request from a user for accessing said SHRDB through a social networking platform; authenticating a single sign-on credential of said user associated with said social networking platform; retrieving medical records from said SHRDB as requested by said user, wherein retrieving of said medical records include at least one of sharing of said medical records either partially or fully to said user and allowing viewing of said medical records at least partially by said user.

Source: https://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/patents/digital-blockchain-authentication/us20130204641a1