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Abstract

The present information management system for personal health digitizers. This system provides a centralized database that collects and stores monitoring data from a large number of individuals who are termed 'consumers' herein. The information management system for personal health digitizers includes processing elements that can be used to perform statistical analysis of the collected data on a per consumer, population segment, or query specific basis. The analysis function is made available to various classes of 'users' which classes can include consumers, medical practitioners, health care providers, institutions, and the like. The database is architected in a hierarchical manner to enable the users to access only the relevant, prepartitioned segment of the collected data that this particular class of user is authorized to analyze. Thus, the privacy of the consumer data is maintained by prohibiting access to this individuals data except to users who are specifically authorized by the consumer. In addition, the granularity of the data made available to the various classes of users is selected to prevent the users from deriving information about the consumer population that they are not entitled to receive.

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