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AssigneeMDRxDirect Inc.
InventorsJoseph Grace, William Grace
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for providing health care information to health care providers and for obtaining information pertaining to the practice of a health care provider by providing incentives for provision of such information.
Claims11
A method for obtaining information related to the practice of a health care provider, said method comprising the steps of:
- confirming that said health care provider is an authentic health care provider;
- submitting to said authentic health care provider at least one query related to the practice of said health care provider;
- presenting said authentic health care provider with an incentive for answering at least one query related to the practice of said health care provider, said incentive comprising a donation to a charitable organization;
- causing said charitable organization to receive said donation upon answers by said health care provider of said at least one query.
A computer system for providing incentive to a health care provider to provide information pertaining to the health care provider's practice:
- a authentication module operatively configured to authenticate that a health care provider entering the computer system is an authorized user;
- a query module operatively configured to proffer at least one practice-related question tailored to the professional profile of said authorized use;
- an incentive module operatively configured to proffer an authenticated provider an opportunity to provide assistance to one ore more charitable organization(s) by providing responses to said at least one practice-related question as generated by said query module;
- an incentive calculation module operatively configured to determine the charitable organization incentive earned by said health care provider by responses provided to at least one practice-related question.
A computer program for providing aid to charitable organizations, said program providing for:
- authentication of a user of said computer program as a permitted user of said computer program;
- provision of at least one question to said authenticated user related to the health care practice of said authenticated user;
- provision of an incentive to said authenticated user for answering said at least one or more question related to the health care practice of said authenticated user, said incentive comprising a donation to a charitable organization;
- transmission of said incentive to said charitable organization upon the authenticated user answering said at least one or more question.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.