Secure Method for Health Record Transmission to Emergency Service Personnel

Abstract

An indication that an occupant has entered a vehicle is detected on a computing device. The occupant is identified based on the indication that the occupant has entered the vehicle. A health record that is associated with the occupant is accessed by the computing device. The computing device enables the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a secure digital storage container. The health record associated with the occupant is provided to a second computing device registered to a first responder from the secure digital storage container based on detecting an indication that the vehicle has had a collision.

1 . A computer implemented method comprising:
 detecting, by a computing device, an indication that an occupant has entered a vehicle;   identifying the occupant based on the indication that the occupant has entered the vehicle;   accessing a health record associated with the occupant;   enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a secure digital storage container; and   based on detecting an indication that the occupant has exited the vehicle, changing the state of the health record in the secure digital storage container such that it cannot be accessed.   
     
     
         2 . The computer implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein the computing device includes a wireless mobile computing device. 
     
     
         3 . The computer implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein the computing device includes a vehicle computer. 
     
     
         4 . The computer implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a secure digital storage container comprises enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a secure digital storage container on the computing device. 
     
     
         5 . The computer implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a secure digital storage container comprises enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a cloud-based secure digital storage container. 
     
     
         6 . The computer implemented method of  claim 1 ,
 wherein detecting an indication that an occupant has entered a vehicle comprises performing near field communication with a mobile computing device, and   wherein identifying the occupant based on the indication that the occupant has entered the vehicle comprises receiving identification information from the mobile computing device.   
     
     
         7 . The computer implemented method of  claim 6 , wherein based on detecting an indication that the occupant has exited the vehicle, changing the state of the health record in the secure digital storage container such that it cannot be accessed comprises based on detecting an indication that a distance between the computing device and the mobile computing device has exceeded a threshold value, changing the state of the health record in the secure digital storage container such that it cannot be accessed. 
     
     
         8 . The computer implemented method of  claim 6 , wherein based on detecting an indication that the occupant has exited the vehicle, changing the state of the health record in the secure digital storage container such that it cannot be accessed comprises based on detecting an indication that the computing device has lost near field communications with the mobile computing device, changing the state of the health record in the secure digital storage container such that it cannot be accessed. 
     
     
         9 . The computer implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from the secure digital storage container comprises enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant and a photograph of the occupant to be available from the secure digital storage container. 
     
     
         10 . A computer implemented method comprising:
 detecting, by a computing device, an indication that an occupant has entered a vehicle;   identifying the occupant based on the indication that the occupant has entered the vehicle;   accessing a health record associated with the occupant;   enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a secure digital storage container; and   based on detecting an indication that the vehicle has had a collision, providing the health record associated with the occupant to a second computing device registered to a first responder from the secure digital storage container.   
     
     
         11 . The computer implemented method of  claim 10 , wherein based on detecting an indication that the vehicle has had the collision, providing the health record associated with the occupant to the first responder from the secure digital storage container comprises based on detecting an indication that an airbag in the vehicle has deployed, providing the health record associated with the occupant accessible to the first responder from the secure digital storage container. 
     
     
         12 . The computer implemented method of  claim 10 , wherein based on detecting an indication that the vehicle has had the collision, providing the health record associated with the occupant to the first responder from the secure digital storage container comprises based on detecting an indication that the vehicle has had the collision, providing the health record associated with the occupant to a second computing device from the secure digital storage container, the second computing device being identified as licensed to the first responder. 
     
     
         13 . The computer implemented method of  claim 10  wherein based on detecting an indication that the vehicle has had the collision, providing the health record associated with the occupant from the secure digital storage container to a first responder comprises based on detecting an indication that the vehicle has had the collision:
 making the health record associated with the occupant accessible by the second computing device registered to the first responder from the secure digital storage container; 
 providing the health record associated with the occupant to the second computing device registered to the first responder from the secure digital storage container; and 
 changing the state of the health record associated with the occupant in the secure digital storage container such that the health record associated with the occupant can no longer be accessed. 
 
     
     
         14 . The computer implemented method of  claim 13 , wherein changing the state of the health record associated with the occupant in the secure digital storage container such that the health record associated with the occupant can no longer be accessed comprises changing the state of the health record associated with the occupant in the secure digital storage container such that the health record associated with the occupant can no longer be accessed after a predetermined period of time from detecting the indication that the vehicle has had the collision. 
     
     
         15 . The computer implemented method of  claim 10 , wherein based on detecting an indication that the vehicle has had the collision, providing the health record associated with the occupant to the first responder from the secure digital storage container includes:
 receiving data indicating at least one of the occupant's vital signs; and   providing the data indicating at least one of the occupant's vital signs to the first responder.   
     
     
         16 . The computer implemented method of  claim 10 , wherein the computing device includes a vehicle computer. 
     
     
         17 . The computer implemented method of  claim 10 , wherein enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a secure digital storage container comprises enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a secure digital storage container on the computing device. 
     
     
         18 . The computer implemented method of  claim 10 , wherein enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a secure digital storage container comprises enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a cloud-based secure digital storage container. 
     
     
         19 . The computer implemented method of  claim 10 ,
 wherein detecting an indication that an occupant has entered a vehicle comprises performing near field communication with a mobile computing device, and   wherein identifying the occupant based on the indication that the occupant has entered the vehicle comprises receiving identification information from the mobile computing device.   
     
     
         20 . A system comprising:
 one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising::
 detecting, by a computing device, an indication that an occupant has entered a vehicle; 
 identifying the occupant based on the indication that the occupant has entered the vehicle; 
 accessing a health record associated with the occupant; 
 enabling the accessed health record associated with the occupant to be available from a secure digital storage container; and 
 based on detecting an indication that the vehicle has had a collision, providing the health record associated with the occupant to a second computing device registered to a first responder from the secure digital storage container.