Visual physician office systems and methods
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsDavid L. Wellons, Diane Brown Turcan
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Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for enabling a virtual physician office (VPO) that uses a network-based physician practice application and leverages the assets of a shared, communications network of legacy systems. A data connection is established with a rule-based application dataserver of a telecommunications network facility to control access, sharing, notification, security, and/or management of electronic healthcare communications. Typically, the rule-based application dataserver is associated with a central office (“CO”), a mobile telephone switching center (“MTSO”), or a combination CO/MTSO.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- establishing a first data connection between a server and a physician office legacy system;
- establishing a second data connection between the server and another physician office legacy system;
- receiving an electronic healthcare communication over the first data connection that is associated with a sender's communications address and with a recipient's communications address, the electronic healthcare communication comprising an attachment that has been formatted according to the physician office legacy system;
- comparing the recipient's communications address to a list of addresses;
- when the recipient's communications address matches an entry in the list of addresses, then reformatting the electronic healthcare communication from a format compatible with the physician office legacy system to another format that is compatible with the another physician office legacy system;
- and
- sending a reformatted electronic healthcare communication over the second data connection to the another physician office legacy system.
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing code that when executed causes the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- establishing a first data connection between a server and a physician office legacy system;
- establishing a second data connection between the server and another physician office legacy system;
- receiving an electronic communication over the first data connection that is associated with a sender's communications address and with a recipient's communications address, the electronic communication comprising an attachment that has been formatted according to the physician office legacy system;
- comparing the recipient's communications address to a list of addresses;
- categorizing the sender's communications address to a software agent;
- determining a match between the recipient's communications address and an entry in the list of addresses;
- reformatting the electronic communication from a format compatible with the physician office legacy system to another format that is compatible with the another physician office legacy system;
- and
- sending a reformatted electronic communication to the another physician office legacy system at the recipient's communications address.
A non-transitory computer program product storing processor-executable instructions for performing a method of formatting healthcare information, the method comprising:
- establishing a first data connection between a server and a physician office legacy system;
- establishing a second data connection between the server and another physician office legacy system;
- receiving an electronic communication associated with a sender's communications address and with a recipient's communications address, the electronic communication comprising an attachment that has been formatted according to the physician office legacy system;
- comparing the recipient's communications address to a list of addresses;
- categorizing the sender's communications address to a software agent;
- automatically opening the software agent;
- when the recipient's communications address matches an entry in the list of addresses, then reformatting the electronic communication from a format compatible with the physician office legacy system to another format that is compatible with the another physician office legacy system;
- and
- sending a reformatted electronic communication to the another physician office legacy system at the recipient's communications address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.