Providing secure and seamless authentication and workflow for medical records and affiliated systems
View Patent ↗Methods and systems are provided that are related to electronic health records (EHRs). A first EHR system can receive a request to report information to a second EHR system. Responsive to the request, the first EHR system can generate an EHR report that includes one or more EHR identifiers. The one or more EHR identifiers can include an EHR-user identifier, an EHR-patient identifier, and a behavior identifier. The first EHR system can send the EHR report to the second EHR system. The second EHR system can: access information based on the EHR-user identifier and/or the EHR-patient identifier, generate an output based on the accessed information, and provide the output.
1 . A method, comprising:
receiving, from a user at a first electronic health records (EHR) system resident on a first computing device, a request to report information about a patient to a second EHR system resident on the first computing device or a second computing device, wherein the first and second EHR systems have previously established one or more matching pseudonyms, wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms are different from a first user name used by the user to login to the first EHR system, wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms are associated with a previously established context for the user and the patient;
responsive to the request, generating an EHR report using the first EHR system, wherein the EHR report comprises at least the one or more previously established matching pseudonyms; and
sending the EHR report from the first EHR system to the second EHR system, wherein the EHR report is sent via memory transfer if the second EHR system is resident on the first computing device or via a network if the second EHR system is resident on the second computing device, wherein the EHR report automatically authenticates the user to access patient information of the patient at the second EHR system based on the previously established context for the user and the patient using the one or more previously established matching pseudonyms without requiring user intervention by the user to login to the second EHR system.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms comprise at least a matching user pseudonym.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms comprise at least a matching patient pseudonym.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms comprise at least a matching patient visit pseudonym identifying a medical session with the patient.
5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the EHR report comprises a single line that consists of the one or more matching pseudonyms, a timestamp, and a hash value for the pseudonyms and the timestamp.
6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms correspond to one or more of an EHR-user identifier, an EHR-patient identifier, or a behavior identifier.
7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms comprise one or more context-related pseudonyms for specialized functions of the second EHR system.
8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms correspond to a behavior identifier, and wherein the second EHR system provides an output based on the behavior identifier.
9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the patient is a new patient of the second EHR system, and wherein the EHR report authorizes the user to add the new patient to the second EHR system and access patient information of the new patient using the one or more matching pseudonyms without requiring user intervention by the user to login to the second EHR system.
10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the second EHR system comprises a patient discharge EHR system, and wherein the second EHR system generates one or more discharge instructions for the patient.
11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the second EHR system comprises a radiological EHR system, and wherein the second EHR system displays radiological information for the patient.
12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first EHR system is configured to authenticate users before using the first EHR system, and wherein the second EHR system is configured to authenticate users before using the second EHR system.
13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the EHR report comprises a hash value, and wherein the second EHR system authenticates the user based on the hash value in the EHR report.
14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the EHR report comprises a timestamp, and wherein the second EHR system authenticates the user based on the hash value in the EHR report only within a predetermined amount of time of the timestamp.
15 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the EHR report comprises a timestamp, and wherein the second EHR system calculates the hash value using a hash function operating on hashing data, wherein the hashing data includes the one or more matching pseudonyms and the timestamp.
16 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the EHR report comprises a computing-device identifier identifying a computing device, and wherein the second EHR system authenticates the user based on the one or more matching pseudonyms only when the EHR report is sent from the computing device identified by the computing-device identifier.
17 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms correspond to a behavior identifier indicating to update a patient record for the patient at the second EHR system.
18 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms correspond to a behavior identifier indicating to delete a patient record for the patient at the second EHR system.
19 . A first computing device, comprising:
one or more processors; and
non-transient computer readable memory, configured to store executable instructions that, upon execution by the one or more processors, cause the first computing device to perform functions comprising:
receiving, from a user at first electronic health records (EHR) system resident on the first computing device, a request to report information about a patient to a second EHR system resident on the first computing device or a second computing device, wherein the first and second EHR systems have previously established one or more matching pseudonyms, wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms are different from a first user name used by the user to login to the first EHR system, wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms are associated with a previously established context for the user and the patient;
responsive to the request, generating an EHR report using the first EHR system, wherein the EHR report comprises at least the one or more previously established matching pseudonyms; and
sending the EHR report from the first EHR system to the second EHR system, wherein the EHR report is sent via memory transfer if the second EHR system is resident on the first computing device or via a network if the second EHR system is resident on the second computing device, wherein the EHR report automatically authenticates the user to access patient information of the patient at the second EHR system based on the previously established context for the user and the patient using the one or more previously established matching pseudonyms without requiring user intervention by the user to login to the second EHR system.
20 . A non-transient computer readable memory of a first first computing device, the memory configured to store executable instructions that, upon execution by one or more processors of the first computing device, cause the first computing device to perform functions comprising:
receiving, from a user at a first EHR system resident on the first computing device, a request to report information about a patient to a second EHR system resident on the first computing device or a second computing device, wherein the first and second EHR systems have previously established one or more matching pseudonyms, wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms are different from a first user name used by the user to login to the first EHR system, wherein the one or more matching pseudonyms are associated with a previously established context for the user and the patient;
responsive to the request, generating an EHR report using the first EHR system, wherein the EHR report comprises at least the one or more previously established matching pseudonyms; and
sending the EHR report from the first EHR system to the second EHR system, wherein the EHR report is sent via memory transfer if the second EHR system is resident on the first computing device or via a network if the second EHR system is resident on the second computing device, wherein the EHR report automatically authenticates the user to access patient information of the patient at the second EHR system based on the previously established context for the user and the patient using the one or more previously established matching pseudonyms without requiring user intervention by the user to login to the second EHR system.