Online Health Care Marketplace
AssigneeOnedoc Limited
InventorSami S. Dahr
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Abstract
A health care marketplace is established that defines a set of medical service packages. Each medical service package includes information about one or more medical services, as well as pricing information about the medical services. Providers that offer one or more of the medical service packages are also established within the health care marketplace. The consumer inputs medical or personal information, which is used to recommend one or more of the medical service packages and providers to the consumer. Finally, a purchase of one of the recommended medical service packages from one of the recommended providers is facilitated.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for providing a health care marketplace, the method comprising:
- defining a plurality of medical service packages offered in the health care marketplace, each medical service package comprising information about one or more medical services included in the medical service package;
- establishing a plurality of providers within the health care marketplace, each provider offering one or more of the plurality of medical service packages at specified prices;
- receiving information associated with a consumer;
- presenting, by a computer processor, descriptions of one or more of the plurality of medical service packages and a list of one or more of the plurality of providers that offer the described one or more medical service packages to the consumer, based on the received information;
- and
- facilitating a purchase on behalf of the consumer of a presented medical service package at a specified price from one of the providers in the list.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for providing a health care marketplace, the instructions when executed by a processor causing the processor to:
- define a plurality of medical service packages offered in the health care marketplace, each medical service package comprising information about one or more medical services included in the medical service package;
- establish a plurality of providers within the health care marketplace, each provider offering one or more of the plurality of medical service packages at specified prices;
- receive information associated with a consumer;
- present, by a computer processor, descriptions of one or more of the plurality of medical service packages and a list of one or more of the plurality of providers that offer the described one or more medical service packages to the consumer, based on the received information;
- and
- facilitate a purchase on behalf of the consumer of a presented medical service package at a specified price from one of the providers in the list.
A computer system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
- define a plurality of medical service packages offered in a health care marketplace, each medical service package comprising information about one or more medical services included in the medical service package;
- establish a plurality of providers within the health care marketplace, each provider offering one or more of the plurality of medical service packages at specified prices;
- receive information associated with a consumer;
- present, by a computer processor, descriptions of one or more of the plurality of medical service packages and a list of one or more of the plurality of providers that offer the described one or more medical service packages to the consumer, based on the received information;
- and
- facilitate a purchase on behalf of the consumer of a presented medical service package at a specified price from one of the providers in the list.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.