Aggregating and communicating medical records
OwnerEdward Worthington, IIinventor
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Abstract
The aspects disclosed herein provide various systems for aggregating and communicating health care records, and combinations thereof. The aspects disclosed herein included methods and techniques for receiving health care information, organizing the health care information, and communicating the health care information to relevant stakeholders. Thus, employing the aspects disclosed herein, health care is efficiently and optimally provided to the various parties associated with the responsibility of health care provision.
Claims10
A method for aggregating health care records, comprising:
- receiving a health care record from a health care provider;
- determining whether a patient associated with the health care record exists;
- in response to the patient's health care record not existing, creating a record associated with the patient;
- in response to the patient's health care record existing, updating a count associated with a service identified in the received health care record.
A method for communicating health care records, comprising:
- receiving an instigation request for a patient from a subscriber;
- determining whether the patient corresponds to an existing patient in a maintained record of patients;
- in response to the patient corresponding to at least one of the existing patients, retrieving a set of records associated with the patient and at least one service associated with the patient;
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- communicating the set of the records to the subscriber.
The method according to 6, wherein the retrieving further comprises a second authentication process, to determine whether the subscriber is authorized to receive records of the service associated with the patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.