Healthcare information network
AssigneeZansor Systems, LLC
InventorsAlbert G. Lintel, III, Joseph A. Vescio, Joseph L. Helmick
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Abstract
A healthcare information network provides a global database at a central information system which is synchronized with local databases at respective healthcare provider offices. The local database are used by the healthcare providers for confirming patient and healthcare information. As patient and health plan information is added, updated or deleted from any of the local databases, files are generated to update the global database. The proposed changes to the global database are verified and the global database is modified. Modification of the global database is memorialized in a repository which is then used to produce SQL commands to update each of the local databases so that they are synchronized with the global database.
Claims7
A healthcare information system, comprising:
- a plurality of provider office systems, each provider office system comprising circuitry for generating referral requests with reference to a database associating insurance healthplans with doctors;
- referral authorization circuitry for:
- receiving said referral requests,
- generating electronic authorization requests to an associated insurance company responsive to ones of said referral requests,
- receiving an electronic authorizations/denial for each electronic authorization request;
- forwarding denied authorization requests to a third party human researcher for further research;
- and
- updating said database responsive to said research.
A method of providing referral information, comprising the steps of:
- providing a database associating insurance healthplans with doctors;
- electronically receiving said referral requests generated by reference to said database from a plurality of provider office systems;
- generating electronic authorization requests to an associated insurance company responsive to ones of said referral requests;
- receiving an electronic authorization or denial in response to each electronic authorization request;
- forwarding denied requests to a third party human researcher for further research;
- and
- updating said database responsive to said research.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.