Method and system for referring healthcare professionals in compliance with various transaction constraints

A system for operation in association with a healthcare provider system for providing public access to a predetermined class of healthcare providers using a plurality of electronic communications systems and in compliance with a predetermined set of regulatory criteria governing the provision of healthcare, comprising:

• an electronic healthcare provider database of regulatory requirements associated with public access to a predetermined class of healthcare providers;
• an electronic database of healthcare providers, said electronic database of healthcare providers being capable of population by said predetermined class of healthcare providers;
• at least one of a plurality of electronic communications systems for providing to said predetermined class of healthcare providers an entry access interface to said electronic database of healthcare providers, said entry access interface corresponding to said predetermined set of regulatory criteria;
• at least one of a plurality of electronic communications systems for providing public entry access to said electronic healthcare provider database for a consumer to access selected ones of said predetermined class of healthcare providers;
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• a regulatory criteria compliance mechanism for assuring electronically that said consumer access to said predetermined class of healthcare provides satisfies said predetermined set of regulatory criteria governing the provision of healthcare.

A computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for providing public access to a predetermined class of healthcare providers using a plurality of electronic communications systems and in compliance with a predetermined set of regulatory criteria governing the provision of healthcare, the computer usable medium comprising:

• computer readable program code means for establishing an electronic healthcare provider database of regulatory requirements associated with public access to a predetermined class of healthcare providers;
• computer readable program code means for establishing an electronic database of healthcare providers, said electronic database of healthcare providers being capable of population by said predetermined class of healthcare providers;
• computer readable program code means for providing to said predetermined class of healthcare providers an entry access interface through at least one of a plurality of electronic communications systems to said electronic database of healthcare providers, said entry access interface corresponding to said predetermined set of regulatory criteria;
• computer readable program code means for providing public entry access to said electronic healthcare provider database through at least one of a plurality of electronic communications systems for a consumer to access selected ones of said predetermined class of healthcare providers;
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• computer readable program code means for assuring electronically that said consumer access to said predetermined class of healthcare provides satisfies said predetermined set of regulatory criteria governing the provision of healthcare.