US 12,266,430 B2
System, method, and apparatus for universally accessible personal records
Robert Gergely, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed by Robert Gergely, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/107,389.
Application 17/107,389 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/812,158, filed on Nov. 14, 2017, abandoned.
Prior Publication US 2021/0098096 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 21/36 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC G16H 10/60 (2018.01) [G06F 16/1837 (2019.01); G06F 21/36 (2013.01); G06F 21/6227 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); G06K 7/1417 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for storing, receiving, and authenticating, universally accessible records, comprising:
a decentralized electronic database distributed across a plurality of nodes, each of the plurality of nodes operative to securely verify, store, update, link, encrypt, and transmit a user's personal records, which comprise a plurality of the user's medical history, charts, laboratory or imaging tests, healthcare provider notes and diagnosis, patient notes, educational records, financial records, ancestral data, journal entries, and letters as a combination of private and publicly created bibliographic records and longitudinal medical records, in a personal record chain, wherein the user's personal records comprise one or more immutable hashes, one or more items of user-specific data, and at least one element of storage information;
at least one electronic computing device of the user associated with a universal ID unique to the user, corresponding to the user's personal records, and assigned to the user at birth, immutably spanning the entire life of the user, wherein the universal ID is additionally printed on a card comprising a quick response (QR) code, and the universal ID is a key operative to decrypt the user's personal records;
at least one other electronic device, operative to
scan the QR code;
access at least some of the user's personal records;
generate and transmit an update to the accessed user's personal records while avoiding overriding, deleting, or permanently altering earlier versions of the accessed user's personal records, wherein the update is a new hash successively chained to the one or more hashes in the user's personal records to update the user's personal record chain distributed across each of the plurality of nodes; and
translate the decrypted user's personal records into a language specified at a time of the access;
wherein the update is supplied by the user and is further verified by a third party designated according to a type of personal information defining the update; and
wherein verification of the update is immutably recorded in the personal record chain, in support of personal record accuracy and continuity of care, and
wherein, the user's personal records remain under the ownership, control, and possession of the user associated with the universal ID.