US Patent Issued to IQVIA on June 3 for "System and method for creation of persistent patient identification" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,482, issued on June 3, was assigned to IQVIA Inc. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"System and method for creation of persistent patient identification" was invented by Christopher Blum (Wynnewood, Pa.), Geoff Wall (Newtown, Pa.) and John Giannouris (Flemington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating source-specific, persistent patient identifiers for healthcare service providers. One method includes accessing a record of healthcare data, wherein the record includes patient identifying information (PII) associated with one or more persons to w...