PERSONAL CONTROL OF HEALTHCARE INFORMATION AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES

摘要

The invention, in one embodiment, is directed to a healthcare information system including: a client interface unit for creating one or more healthcare information documents, a repository in communication with the client interface unit for storing one or more healthcare information documents received from the client interface unit, a registry in communication with the repository for maintaining an index table of one or more healthcare information documents stored in the repository and for maintaining control information associated with each document for controlling the distribution of each documents from the repository, and a patient interface unit in communication with the registry for enabling a patient to configure at least a portion of the control information within the registry associated with one or more healthcare information documents.