Apple patents method for devices to fetch health records via gateway
Apple describes a system where a server creates a specific data map, or schema, that tells a user's device how to connect to a hospital or clinic's health record server. The device uses this map to send a request and pull the correct electronic health record through a central gateway.
In the filing’s own words
A schema is generated to establish a connection between user devices and one or more patient record servers. Generating a schema can include receiving configuration information associated with a patient record gateway, wherein the patient record gateway is associated with one or more patient record servers configured for storing electronic health records for a plurality of patients. Generating a schema can include defining, based at least in part on the configuration information, a schema configured to enable user devices to retrieve, via the patient record gateway, electronic health records from the one or more patient record servers. A schema can be requested by a user device. The schema can be sent to a user device to establish a connection with the one or more patient record servers.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, by a user device from a server, a schema for connecting to a patient record gateway, wherein the patient record gateway is associated with one or more patient record servers configured for storing electronic health records for a plurality of patients, wherein the server defined the schema based at least in part on configuration information received by the server from the patient record gateway, wherein the schema is configured to enable user devices to retrieve, via the patient record gateway, electronic health records from the one or more patient record servers; transmitting, by the user device, a health record request to the patient record gateway based at least in part on the schema, wherein the health record request is associated with an electronic health record; and receiving, by the user device from the one or more patient record servers, the electronic health record.
Facts
- Company
- Apple (Apple Inc.)
- Official title
- Gateway conformance validation
- Patent number
- US12744109B2
- Application number
- 18544193
- Filed
- Dec 18, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 10
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G16H 10/60 Physics & computingG06F 11/3006 Physics & computingG06F 11/3409 Physics & computingMore from Apple in Health & body
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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