US 2002/0161605 A1Published application

Medical practitioner credentialing system

AssigneeVeritas Medical Services, Inc.

InventorsIris Newman, Thomas McSweeney Jr.

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Abstract

A system and method for selectively generating provider application forms required to be submitted to health care provider organizations by physicians and related health care professionals. Physician credentialing profiles containing physician credentialing information are stored into a system database together with a plurality of different provider application formats associated with particular application forms which are completed selected data extracted from the common information contained in the stored physician credentialing profiles. The method automatically inputs a subset of physician credentialing information required by a particular selected provider application format into the provider application form associated with that format and generates the particular provider application form.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A method for selectively generating a provider application form from a plurality of selectable different provider application formats comprising the steps of:

(a) storing a plurality of physician credentialing profile information in a database, said profiles comprising physician credentialing information and comprising a common data base source for said information for said plurality of selectable provider application formats;
(b) storing a plurality of said different provider application formats in a database, said different provider application formats requiring data, said required data being a subset of said information stored in the physician credentialing profiles;
(c) selecting a desired provider application format and automatically inputting the subset of physician credentialing information required by said selected provider application format into a provider application form associated with said selected format;
and
(d) selectively generating the particular provider application form in said selected format, wherein the form includes information inputted from the subset of the stored physician credentialing information.

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A physician credentialing system comprising:

(a) means for storing a plurality of physician credentialing profiles in a database, the profiles comprising physician credentialing information;
(b) means for storing a plurality of different provider application formats in a database, the provider application formats requiring data, the required data being a subset of the information stored physician credentialing profiles;
(c) means for selecting a desired provider application format from said plurality of stored formats and for automatically inputting the subset of physician credentialing information required by said particular selected provider application format into a provider application form associated with said selected format;
and
(d) means for generating the selected particular provider application form, wherein the form includes information inputted from the subset of the stored physician credentialing information.

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Facts

Application: 09/502,815Filed 11 Feb 2000
Priority: 17 Oct 1997
Published: 31 Oct 2002
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Classification5 codes

G06Q 10/10
Administration; Management: office automation; Time management
G06Q 40/08
Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes: insurance
G16H 40/20
ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities; ICT specially adapted for the management or…:…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

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Application08/953,440Continuation · filed 17 Oct 1997
Application09/502,815Continuation · filed 11 Feb 2000
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