Inter-facility exchange of medical information using dedicated patient communication channels

A method for exchanging medical information between healthcare entities, comprising:

• establishing a dedicated communication channel associated with a given patient over which three or more healthcare entities that provide services to the given patient exchange medical information associated with the given patient;
• initiating, by a client computing device at a first one of the three or more healthcare entities, a first request to share medical information associated with the given patient with a client computing device at a second one of the three or more healthcare entities;
• sharing, in response to detecting the first request, a first portion of an aggregate healthcare record associated with the given patient with a client computing device at the second healthcare entity, wherein the first portion of the aggregate healthcare record shared is dependent on medical information sharing rules defining:
• shared information in the aggregate healthcare record that is automatically synchronized between the three or more healthcare entities when added or modified by a client computing device at one of the three or more healthcare entities;
• linked information in the aggregate healthcare record that is not synchronized between the three or more healthcare entities but is visible to users at the three or more healthcare entities regardless of the one of the three or more healthcare entities at which it was added or modified in the aggregate healthcare record;
• and
• entity-specific information that is neither synchronized between the three or more healthcare entities nor visible to users at a healthcare entity other than a healthcare entity that owns the entity-specific information;
• initiating, by a client computing device at the first healthcare entity, a second request to share medical information associated with the given patient with a client computing device at a third one of the three or more healthcare entities;
• and
• sharing, in response to detecting the second request, a second portion of the aggregate healthcare record associated with the given patient with a client computing device at the third healthcare entity, wherein the second portion of the aggregate healthcare record shared is dependent on the medical information sharing rules.

Non-transitory computer readable memory media storing instructions executable by one or more processors for:

• establishing a dedicated communication channel associated with a given patient over which three or more healthcare entities that provide services to the given patient exchange medical information associated with the given patient;
• initiating, by a client computing device at a first one of the three or more healthcare entities, a first request to share medical information associated with the given patient with a client computing device at a second one of the three or more healthcare entities;
• sharing, in response to detecting the first request, a first portion of an aggregate healthcare record associated with the given patient with a client computing device at the second healthcare entity, wherein the first portion of the aggregate healthcare record shared is dependent on medical information sharing rules defining:
• shared information in the aggregate healthcare record that is automatically synchronized between the three or more healthcare entities when added or modified by a client computing device at one of the three or more healthcare entities;
• linked information in the aggregate healthcare record that is not synchronized between the three or more healthcare entities but is visible to users at the three or more healthcare entities regardless of the one of the three or more healthcare entities at which it was added or modified in the aggregate healthcare record;
• and
• entity-specific information that is neither synchronized between the three or more healthcare entities nor visible to users at a healthcare entity other than a healthcare entity that owns the entity-specific information;
• initiating, by the client computing device at the first healthcare entity, a second request to share medical information associated with the given patient with a client computing device at a third one of the three or more healthcare entities;
• and
• sharing, in response to detecting the second request, a second portion of the aggregate healthcare record associated with the given patient with a client computing device at the third healthcare entity, wherein the second portion of the aggregate healthcare record shared is dependent on the medical information sharing rules.