Patient health management portal

A secure Internet-based method for managing healthcare comprising:

• providing payer/provider access to a plurality of patient accounts;
• providing electronic forms and surveys to be completed by a patient at various stages of treatment;
• informing the patient of a medical condition, treatment options, risks and benefits and electronically capturing and storing a signature of the patient indicating the patient's consent;
• assisting the patient with a treatment decision by obtaining ratings of importance of benefits, risks and concerns associated with each treatment option and calculating a score for each treatment option;
• generating patient, medical condition and custom aggregate reports;
• providing means for a patient to download his/her health care records;
• providing means for a patient to manage and track drug prescriptions;
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• providing means for a patient to manage and track healthcare-related expenses.