Method and process for obtaining consent to access and populate a personal health record
AssigneeIntermedhx, LLC
InventorBruce Howard Kusens
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Abstract
An electronic method and system for obtaining consent to access and populate a personal health record is disclosed. The system and method allows healthcare providers to obtain consent and automatically create and/or populate a personal health record chosen by a patient. The system and method also allows for information from billing records concerning the patient or the patient's visit to be extracted to create a billing file which can be electronically sent for importing into the patient's personal health record.
Claims15
A method for determining whether a patient has a personal health record and obtaining consent to populate the personal health record, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) electronically communicating with a patient to determine whether the patient has an existing electronically stored personal health record maintained by a specific electronic personal health record service provider;
- (b) electronically receiving information from the patient that either:
- identifies the specific electronic personal health record service provider that the patient already has for digitally storing the patient's existing electronic personal health record;
- or indicates that the patient does not have an existing specific electronic personal health record service provider to digitally store the patient's electronic personal health record;
- wherein, in response to receiving information that the patient does not have an existing specific electronic personal health record service provider, electronically receiving information from the patient as to which specific electronic personal health record service provider he or she would like to use to create a new electronic personal health record by selecting one from a list of available specific electronic personal health record service providers provided to the patient;
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- (c) receiving information from the patient as to whether the patient consents to updating his or her existing or new electronic personal health record identified or created in step (b);
- wherein electronic communication with the patient is achieved through a remote internet portal, a remote kiosk or an electronic device at a healthcare provider's location.
A method for determining whether a patient has an electronic personal health record and for updating the patient's electronic personal health record with information from a billing file for the patient and digitally storing the billing information on the electronic personal health record, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) electronically communicating with a patient to determine whether the patient has an existing electronically stored personal health record maintained by a specific electronic personal health record service provider;
- (b) electronically receiving information from the patient that either:
- identifies the specific electronic personal health record service provider that the patient already has for digitally storing the patient's existing electronic personal health record:
- or
- indicates that the patient does not have an existing specific electronic personal health record service provider to digitally store the patient's electronic personal health record:
- wherein, in response to receiving information that the patient does not have an existing specific electronic personal health record service provider, electronically receiving information from the patient as to which specific electronic personal health record service provider he or she would like to use to create a new electronic personal health record by selecting one from a list of available specific electronic personal health record service providers provided to the patient;
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- (c) receiving information from the patient as to whether the patient consents to updating his or her existing or new electronic personal health record identified or created in step (b);
- wherein electronic communication with the patient is achieved through a remote internet portal, a remote kiosk or an electronic device at a healthcare provider's office;
- (d) reviewing by a computer system an electronically stored decision file for the patient which contains decisions made by the patient in connection with his or her electronic personal health record to determine whether the patient has consented to updating his Or her personal electronic health record with information concerning a patient's current visit and with billing information for the visit;
- (e) creating an electronically stored billing file from billing records for the patient;
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- (f) electronically forwarding the billing file to the patient's electronic personal health record to update the electronic personal health record to include and electronically store information from the billing file.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.