Patient-centric health record system and related methods

A system for performing a health-related determination about a user by processing a health record of the user with a computer-based health-determination agent, wherein the health record is released to the computer-based health-determination agent under control of the user, the system comprising:

• a. a server arrangement implementing an Electronic Health Records (EHR) system for managing medical information of multiple users, each user being represented in the EHR system by a respective user identity, the EHR system being configured for:
• i. receiving at an input medical information sent over a data network, wherein the medical information is associated with a particular user having a user identity on the EHR system,
• ii. exchanging data with a portable computing entity over the data network, the portable computing entity being associated with the particular user,
• iii. in response to reception of the medical information about the particular user:
• a. storing the medical information in a health record associated with the user identity of the particular user, in a machine-readable storage medium of the EHR system,
• b. transmitting over the data network to the portable computing entity a notice functional element in relation to the health record,
• b. first program code on a machine-readable storage medium executable by at least one processor to implement the computer-based health-determination agent, wherein the health-determination agent is configured to implement logic rules to process the health record to perform the health-related determination,
• c. second program code on a machine-readable storage executable by a processor of the portable computing entity to implement a user application, configured for implementing a user interface and further configured for:
• i. implement the notice functional element, including:
• 1. a message data component, conveying a message to the particular user viewable on a display of the portable computing entity indicating that new medical information is available for the particular user at the EHR system,
• 2. an action item responsive to a first user input at the user interface to generate and send request data to the EHR system indicative of a request of the particular user to download the health record containing the new medical information,
• ii. receiving a second user input at the user interface indicative of a request of the particular user to transfer the health record to the computer-based health-determination agent,
• iii. initiating in response to the second user input a machine-to-machine health record transmission session for transmitting the health record to the computer-based health determination agent, to enable the computer-based health-determination agent to perform the health-related determination.

A method for performing a health-related determination about a user by processing a health record of the user with a computer-based health-determination agent, wherein the health record is released to the computer-based health-determination agent under control of the user, the method comprising:

• a. providing a server arrangement implementing an Electronic Health Records (EHR) system for managing medical information of multiple users, each user being represented in the EHR system by a respective user identity, the method including:
• i. receiving at an input of the EHR system medical information sent over a data network, wherein the medical information is associated with a particular user having a user identity on the EHR system,
• ii. in response to reception of the medical information about the particular user at the input of the server arrangement:
• a. storing the medical information in a health record associated with the user identity of the particular user, in a machine-readable storage medium of the server arrangement,
• b. transmitting to the portable computing entity associated with the user over the data network a notice functional element in relation to the health record,
• b. providing first program code executable by at least one processor to implement the computer-based health-determination agent, wherein the computer-based health-determination agent is configured to implement logic rules when processing the health record to perform the health-related determination,
• c. providing second program code executable by a processor of the portable computing entity to implement a user application, the user application being configured for:
• i. implement the notice functional element, which includes:
• 1. a message data component, conveying a message to the particular user viewable on a display of the portable computing entity indicating that new medical information is available for the particular user at the EHR system, wherein the message is configured such that it conveys no medical information specific to the particular user,
• 2. an action item responsive to a first user input at a user interface implemented by the user application to generate and send request data to the EHR system indicative of a request of the particular user to download the health record containing the new medical information to the portable device,
• 3. receive in response to the request data from the EHR system the health record,
• 4. configured to receive a second user input at a user interface indicative of a user request to transfer the health record to the computer-based health-determination agent,
• 5. initiating in response to the second user input a machine-to-machine health record transmission session for transmitting the health record to the computer-based health determination agent,
• d. receiving the health-record by the computer-based health-determination agent during the health-record transmission session,
• e. processing the health-record with the computer-based health-determination agent to generate the health-related determination.