User controlled event record system

A user controlled mobile device creating a personal audit trail for use by a health care recipient which operates independent of health care facility hardware and for use in countering phantom billing fraud in connection with receiving health care services comprising:

• one or more components capturing and outputting biometric data and one or more components capturing and outputting location data wherein the one or more components capturing and outputting biometric data are selected from the group consisting of fingerprint readers, image analyzers, voice processors, facial recognition scanners, iris scanners, or retinal scanners;
• a processor configured to receive the biometric data and the location data and determine a confidence score;
• a data storage device in the mobile device holding an event record created without explicit user intervention indicating whether the particular user was at the particular location, the event record comprising the confidence score, a timestamp corresponding to events at or near a time of the timestamp including a time of capture of the biometric data and the location data, the biometric data and the location data, whereby the stored event record serves as the personal audit trail evidencing whereabouts of the particular user at a time indicated by the timestamp and further evidencing an existence or an absence of phantom billing;
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• a permissions manager in the user controlled mobile device configured to receive the third party requests for event records and evaluate the third party requests against access requirements specified by the particular user.

A mobile device for use by and controlled by a health care recipient in countering phantom billing fraud in connection with receiving telemedicine services, the device comprising:

• one or more components capturing and outputting biometric data identifying the health care recipient, wherein the one or more components capturing and outputting biometric data are selected from the group consisting of fingerprint readers, image analyzers, voice processors, facial recognition scanners, iris scanners, or retinal scanners;
• one or more components in the mobile device capturing and outputting virtual location data identifying a communication channel used by the health care recipient to receive the telemedicine services;
• an event record creator to create an event record in the mobile device compiling without explicit user intervention the virtual location data, the biometric data, and a timestamp corresponding to a time of capture of the virtual location data and the biometric data occurring or detected at or near the time of the timestamp,;
• a permissions engine having an interface for receiving permissions indications from and under control by the health care recipient that grant access permissions and define access conditions to specific event records to third party services specified by the particular user;
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• a data storage device in the mobile device storing the event record and, whereby the stored event record evidences that the health care recipient received the telemedicine services at a particular time indicated by the timestamp and are accessible when user-specified access permissions and access conditions are satisfied.