Health-Data Interoperability Patents: Leaders, Trends & White Space 2026
- Concentrated at the top. The five leading assignees hold 610 of 1,680 records in scope — 36.3% of the field — with a long tail of single- and few-filing entrants behind them.
- Filing kept climbing through 2024. Filings rose from 92 in 2021 to 118 in 2024, a 28% increase over that three-year span, before the two most recent years understate activity due to publication lag.
- Healthcare informatics dominates the claim map. G16H appears on 67.5% of all 1,680 records, more than any other IPC subclass, with G06F digital-data-processing claims layered on top of most of them.
Filing growth compares 2021 (92 records) with 2024 (118) — a three-year span. 2024 is the most recent year we treat as complete: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so 2025 onwards are still filling in and any growth rate that ends there would understate the field. Top-5 share is the combined record count of the five largest assignees divided by all 1,680 records in scope (CR5), not by the ranked leaders only.
What the health-data interoperability patent record actually shows
Health-data interoperability patents cover the exchange, normalisation and clinical use of patient data across systems that were not built to talk to each other — records access, clinical decision support, care-workflow alerts and the data pipes underneath them. The dataset behind this page spans 1,680 published records filed or published between 2015 and the 2026 cut-off, drawn from a search string tuned to catch health information exchange, clinical data interoperability and the clinical-workflow language that surrounds it.
Filing offices skew heavily toward the United States, with meaningful volume also routed through the WIPO PCT system and the European Patent Office — a pattern consistent with a field where the core inventive work happens in US health IT vendors and hospital-system suppliers before selective international filing.
Filing trend and technology composition
Two views of the same 1,680-record dataset: filing activity by year, and the IPC subclasses that carry the claim density. Both use the full record count as the denominator, so class shares add up to more than 100% because a single record can carry several classes.
Filings climbed to a 2023 peak, then the recency tail sets in
Filings moved from 127 in 2017 to a peak of 150 in 2023, with 2021-to-2024 activity up 28% (92 to 118). The 2025 and 2026 figures — down to 20 in the most recent year — are not a real slowdown; publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so the newest two years are still filling in.
G16H and G06F carry most of the claim weight
G16H healthcare informatics sits on 67.5% of all 1,680 records, and G06F electric digital data processing on 46.0% — together they frame most of the field. G06Q business/admin processing (27.0%) and H04L digital transmission (11.4%) show up as secondary layers, while A61B, G06N and H04W each sit under 10%, marking the field's less-claimed edges.
Shares are the percentage of the 1,680 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
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Try EurekaA representative claim: cognitive integration with clinical decision support
Methods and System for Real Time, Cognitive Integration with Clinical Decision Support Systems featuring Interoperable Data Exchange on Cloud-Based and Blockchain Networks
An informatics platform comprising method, system, and computer program is provided for interacting with clinical decision support systems such as the IBM Watson for Oncology, for the purpose of utilizing cognitive processing, machine learning and natural language processing to facilitate the manual to semi-automatic to automatic acquisition of a patient's electronic medical record data points, into a CDS system for populating the attributes questionnaire, for generating a patient diagnostic report of treatment recommendations. The platform supports deployment on several informatics architectures including client-server, cloud-based and blockchain.Filed by Patient Oncology Portal, Inc., published 2019-10-03. Abstract text is truncated in the source record.
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US20210090694A1 | Data based cancer research and treatment systems and methods | 715 |
| 2 | US20170161439A1 | Records access and management | 569 |
| 3 | US20130095459A1 | Health monitoring system | 537 |
| 4 | US20080046292A1 | Platform for interoperable healthcare data exchange | 456 |
| 5 | US20140244309A1 | Systems and methods for assembling electronic medical records | 389 |
| 6 | US9928379B1 | Methods using mediation software for rapid health care support over a secured wireless network; methods of co… | 368 |
| 7 | US20170068785A1 | Secure real-time health record exchange | 359 |
| 8 | US20160103963A1 | Method and system for smart healthcare management | 330 |
| 9 | US10628553B1 | Health information transformation system | 323 |
| 10 | US20170091397A1 | Device-driven non-intermediated blockchain system over a social integrity network | 303 |
Citation counts are a signal of influence inside this corpus, not of current commercial importance — older records accumulate citations simply by being available longer.
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Beyond raw filing counts, three signals help separate durable claim territory from noise: which records get cited most, who co-files together, and how concentrated the leaderboard is.
Older platform patents still anchor the citation graph
The most-cited record in the set, on cancer research and treatment data systems, carries 715 citations, with health-monitoring and records-access filings from the 2008-2017 window close behind. High citation counts here reflect age and availability inside the corpus more than current relevance.
Co-assignee activity is thin and inventor-driven
The dataset surfaces 10 co-assignee pairs, with the strongest links repeating the same individual inventor across three separate pairings at 16-17 shared filings each. This points to inventor-team continuity inside one organisation rather than cross-company joint filing.
A leader well ahead of a long tail
The leading assignee holds 308 records on its own, with the fifth-ranked firm at 54 and the tenth at 19 — a steep drop-off that marks a genuine leader-plus-tail structure rather than an evenly split field.
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| Assignee | Co-assignee | Shared families |
|---|---|---|
| DASTMALCHI SHAHRAM SHAWN | SETHUMADHAVAN VISHNUVYAS | 17 |
| DASTMALCHI SHAHRAM SHAWN | ROGERS ROBERT DERWARD | 17 |
| DASTMALCHI SHAHRAM SHAWN | CHAUDHRI IMRAN N | 16 |
| DASTMALCHI SHAHRAM SHAWN | CAMPANA MARY ELLEN | 9 |
| DASTMALCHI SHAHRAM SHAWN | ANSARI SHAMSHAD ALAM | 9 |
| APIXIO INC | SETHUMADHAVAN VISHNUVYAS | 4 |
| APIXIO INC | ROGERS ROBERT DERWARD | 4 |
| APIXIO INC | KALNINE NIKOLAI N | 4 |
Several previously active assignees show flat or negative year-over-year filing in the most recent tracked year, though the newest year is still incomplete due to publication lag — treat single-year drops as provisional, not as exits.
Who holds the ground, and where the openings sit
The assignee ranking covers 100 companies across the 1,680 records in scope — the full set the data endpoint returns, not a curated top list. Five names hold more than a third of the field between them; most of the rest hold only a handful of records each.
One assignee sits well clear of the field
The top-ranked assignee alone accounts for 308 of the 1,680 records in scope, more than five times the tenth-place count of 19. That gap suggests a sustained, multi-year filing programme rather than a single burst of activity.
A defined second tier, then a steep drop
Filing counts fall from 308 at the top to 54 at fifth place and 19 at tenth — a shape that rewards new entrants who target sub-branches the leader has not fully claimed rather than the core informatics classes it already occupies.
Several tracked leaders show no recent-year filings
Multiple assignees that built meaningful portfolios in this space show zero or sharply negative filings in the latest tracked year. Given the 18-month publication lag, this is as likely to reflect pending applications not yet published as a genuine pullback.
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Cerner Innovation, Inc. | 2 | -93% |
| General Electric Company | 0 | — |
| CALMWAVE INC | 0 | -100% |
| APIXIO INC | 0 | — |
| AirStrip IP Holdings LLC | 0 | — |
| International Business Machines Corporation | 0 | — |
| ZOLL Medical Corporation | 0 | -100% |
| TERARECON INC | 0 | — |
Where to take this next
The dataset points to specific follow-up work depending on whether the goal is freedom-to-operate, portfolio strategy or identifying a filing gap.
Check claim scope against the leader's portfolio
With one assignee holding 308 of 1,680 records, any new filing in core clinical-decision-support or records-access territory should be checked against that portfolio's claim language first.
Explore assignee claims in EurekaTest the under-claimed IPC branches
G06N, G16Z, A61B and H04W each sit under 10% of records despite sitting adjacent to the dominant G16H and G06F classes — a plausible place to look for open claim space.
Run a white-space search in EurekaRe-check momentum once 2025-26 publications land
Because publication lags filing by about 18 months, the apparent flattening after 2024 is incomplete data, not a trend — revisit assignee momentum once the current filing year finishes publishing.
Track filing trends in EurekaFrequently asked questions
One assignee leads the ranked field with 308 of the 1,680 records in scope, well ahead of the fifth-place holder at 54 and the tenth-place holder at 19. The top five assignees combined hold 610 records, or 36.3% of all records in scope, which marks a genuine leader-plus-tail structure rather than an evenly distributed field. Anyone assessing freedom to operate in this space should start by mapping that leader's claim scope before looking at the rest of the ranking.
Filings rose from 92 in 2021 to 118 in 2024, a 28% increase over that span, with a peak of 150 filings in 2023. The apparent drop after 2024, down to 20 in the most recent tracked year, is a data artefact rather than a real decline: publication typically lags filing by roughly 18 months, so the newest one to two years are still incomplete. The trend through the last complete year points to sustained, not slowing, activity.
The dominant classes are G16H (healthcare informatics), present on 67.5% of the 1,680 records in scope, and G06F (electric digital data processing) at 46.0%. G06Q business and administrative data processing appears on 27.0% of records, reflecting the workflow and billing side of interoperability, while H04L digital transmission, A61B diagnosis and surgery, G06N AI-based computing and H04W wireless networks each cover under 12% of records. Because a single record can carry several classes, these shares add up to more than 100%.
The thinnest coverage relative to the core informatics classes sits in G06N (AI-model-based decision support, 7.4% of records), G16Z (specific-application computing, 6.6%) and H04W (wireless clinical-data transport, 3.8%). These sit adjacent to the heavily claimed G16H and G06F territory but are not yet saturated, making them a reasonable starting point for a narrower, defensible claim rather than competing directly in the crowded core classes.
The ranked leaderboard covers 100 assignees across the 1,680 records in scope, and the top ten of those hold 771 records combined, 45.9% of the total. That leaves a long tail of assignees each holding only a handful of records, which is typical of a field with a few sustained corporate filing programmes surrounded by opportunistic or one-off filers. New entrants are more likely to find open ground outside the top ten's core claim territory than within it.
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