Healthcare management system using patient profile data

A system for providing medical profiles to a patient, said system comprising:

• means for obtaining data necessary to process payment to medical providers for a particular patient;
• means for abstracting certain data from said obtained payment data;
• means for creating a medical profile for a patient based upon said abstracted certain data;
• and
• means based on a triggering event for sending at least said created medical profile to at least one of said patient's medical providers.

A system for providing medical profiles to a patient, said system comprising:

• means for obtaining data necessary to process payment to a medical provider for a particular patient;
• means for abstracting certain data from said obtained data;
• means for creating a medical profile on a patient based upon said abstracted certain data;
• and
• means based on a triggering event and on said created medical profile for sending an alert that a certain medical condition is outside a defined limit.

A medical alerting system comprising:

• a database for storing medical data on a patient-by-patient basis, said medical data pertaining to provider diagnosis, provider visits, patient prescriptions and patient lab results;
• a rules engine for reviewing data stored in said database, on a patient-by-patient basis;
• and
• a notification system for sending medical alerts under control of said rules engine when data pertaining to a particular patient falls within a rule defined for said particular patient.

A method for providing medical alerting, said method comprising:

• storing medical data on a patient-by-patient basis, said medical data pertaining to at least one of provider diagnosis, provider visits, patient prescriptions, patient lab results;
• receiving from patients data pertaining to medical conditions pertaining to said patients;
• reviewing stored data on a patient-by-patient basis, said review matching data received from a patient against stored data pertaining to said patient;
• and
• said review results in information falling within at least one defined rule.