Biometric medical antifraud and consent system

Abstract

A specialized apparatus for recording medical transactions designed to protect patient privacy when necessary to record private biometric individual data. The mechanisms and proprietary methods scramble the biometric data within the recording device, unrecoverable when leaving recording device with high assurance, yet an audit copy can forward to outside permanent storage and systems.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented recording method within a dedicated device for recording a medical transaction declaration record in real-time where a patient's private information is encoded and encrypted to prevent forgery tampering, the dedicated device including at least two biometric readers, a camera, a display screen, and an encryption module for encoding and encrypting record data in accordance with a private encryption key unique to the recording of the medical transaction declaration record, the method comprising: receiving an input of an agreement document and providing a visual display of the agreement document on the display screen; prompting for an affirmative or negative response from the patient through the display screen; activating the camera to capture a photograph of the patient; activating the biometric readers to record biometric fingerprint signatures of the patient and a witness; time-stamping and encoding the biometric fingerprint signatures into a machine-readable confirmation data set, and electronically determining that the biometric fingerprint signatures are recorded within 1000 ms (1 second); merging the biometric fingerprint signatures from the patient and the witness to generate a signed agreement document; and outputting the signed agreement document to computing main board, certified with the biometric fingerprint signatures of the patient and the witness.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) FIG. 1Physical characteristics of preferred embodiment.

(2) FIG. 2Hardware mechanisms in recording apparatus.

(3) FIG. 3Alternate embodiment functionality that records a real-time transaction for audit purpose.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION

(4) Present invention is one highly-specific, specialized apparatus designed to protect patient privacy while recording some highly private and personal data about an individual. This is a challenging solution considering the high-level government and insurance industry goals, in a systematic way, demand collecting biometric information (i.e. fingerprints, photographs, other data based upon personal characteristics of an individual).

(5) Present invention acknowledges necessity of positive identification readers which can improve safety and help audit the financial fraud abuses in a complex, multi-billion dollar industry.

(6) Preceding technologies cited in the marketplace are fingerprint reader devices, biometric lock devices, access-authorization-auditing electronic system access controls, and numerous healthcare data processing systems and databases. Listing below includes general state of the prior art related to this subject: IBM thinkpad laptop integrated fingerprint readers.

(7) Fingerprint reader hardware in law enforcement and customs identification, various.

(8) Biometric door locks, various.

(9) Systematic face scan, various.

(10) Financial industry transaction systems, various.

(11) NSA Type I, Type II hardware encryption, various.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

(12) FIG. 1

(13) (1) Sealed enclosure with filtered vents

(14) (2) Exhaust vent screen

(15) (3) Intake vent filter, necessary to remove particulate matter and improve reliability of device in imperfect and hot field conditions.

(16) (4) Instructions display screen, 44 or various, displays written instructions provided to the patient.

(17) (5) Metal heat-sink casing for camera heat.

(18) (6) Camera module, normal visible light; and second Camera module, thermal, infrared or non-visible-light spectrum.

(19) (7) Fingerprint bar reader, with multiple-finger scanning.

(20) (8) Thumbprint reader, single-finger scanning.

(21) FIG. 2

(22) This diagram indicates the relationship and order of hardware mechanisms in the recorder device. The data flow begins at the top with an acquisition hardware, where raw biometric data is input. This unprotected data is encoded by hardware before delivery to temporary storage on an encryption chip mechanism. Device utilizes a private encryption key which is known only to the device. The hardware encryption mechanism is marked Privacy Chip to illustrate this final step.

(23) FIG. 3

(24) Alternate embodiment: This example chart demonstrates how a private biometric signature can be used to confirm a real-time medical transaction. For medical fraud prevention, these steps demonstrate how a patient can review a document and then certify with a witness, using a real-time apparatus, with hardware encryption.