A System for Selective Disclosure of Information about a Patient with Intractable Disease

To receive effective treatment during emergency response due to seizures or unforeseen accidents, a patient with intractable diseases must disclose information about their disease to an emergency physician. If the patient loses consciousness while traveling, the patient should disclose this information to a companion in advance. However, disclosing this information to a companion is undesirable because the information is confidential. Thus, we propose a system that discloses specific information on intractable diseases only when an emergency physician has verified they possess a medical license. Otherwise, the proposed system only discloses appropriate first aid information. We implemented a prototype of the proposed under the assumption that a physician has a digital medical license based on verifiable credentials (i.e., a standard for digital credentials). With this system, the patient does not disclose confidential information to the patient’s companion but does disclose necessary information to the emergency physician.