PERSONALLY CONTROLLED STORAGE AND TESTING OF PERSONAL GENOMIC INFORMATION

摘要

An electronic medical record system, method, and service is disclosed for storing patients genomic and medical information on portable storage devices to be used for private disease diagnosis and for patient-controlled participation in research queries. Using a computer with network access, patients conduct private disease diagnosis and disease forecasting by downloading genetic queries and running the queries against private genomic data stored on the portable storage device. To conduct patient-controlled research, patients are provided the capability of joining a peer-to-peer network and choice in deciding whether to participate in queries submitted by researchers over the network to patient network members. When patient network members decide to participate in a submitted query, they download the query, run the query against their private data, and anonymously submit the results back to the network.