US 12,250,329 B2
Systems and methods for using blockchain to secure data acquired in surgical and other medical procedures
Mike Horia Mihail Teodorescu, Cambridge, MA (US); Atif Mohammad Rakin, Storrs, CT (US); and Gelu Comanescu, Washington, DC (US)
Assigned to SurgiBox Inc., Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed by SURGIBOX INC., Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed on Aug. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/894,115.
Prior Publication US 2024/0073042 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 9/00 (2022.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 50/70 (2018.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 9/50 (2022.05) [G06F 21/64 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 50/70 (2018.01); H04L 9/3239 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A data-management-system for managing data acquired during medical procedures, the data-management-system comprising:
a centralized-database, including one or more memory devices, comprising one or more procedure-records; wherein each of the procedure-records comprises data acquired by a data-acquisition-system during a medical procedure performed on a specific patient;
a user-access-module configured to enable users to access data in the centralized-database; and
a search-module configured to enable users to perform searches on data in the centralized-database;
wherein the centralized-database is connected with a plurality of data-acquisition-systems and wherein each data-acquisition-system, of the plurality of data-acquisition-systems, comprises:
one or more sensors attached to a patient and monitoring one or more physiological parameters of the patient;
an operator-input-module configured to receive information from an operator regarding the medical procedure to be performed and the patient;
a data-acquisition-module configured to receive data from the sensors and to form a procedure-data-structure comprising the data from the sensors;
a de-identification-module configured to form a de-identified-procedure-data-structure;
a record-generating-module configured to receive the de-identified-procedure-data-structures and to form, for each of the de-identified-procedure-data-structures, a corresponding procedure-record comprising the de-identified-procedure-data-structure;
a display module configured to display at least one of the one or more physiological parameters of the patient; and
a blockchain system, including one or more hardware processors, configured to store datasets comprised by the procedure-record or to store hashes of datasets comprised by the procedure-record.