Systems and methods for delivering on-call data for health care locations and physicians

A method of identifying a health care facility that is able to render emergency medical care by a medical specialist physician, comprising:

• sending a query over an electronic network to a server computer, said query including a health service category and a location of a patient in need of emergency medical care by a non-emergency medicine medical specialist physician;
• and
• receiving over the network an identification and location of a health care facility having a medical specialist physician health care provider who is currently on-call and currently available to physically treat the patient and accept the patient for possible transfer to the health care facility, the health care provider having expertise in said health service category;
• wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

A method of providing health care facility information, comprising:

• receiving a query comprising a health service category and a location of a patient in need of emergency medical care, the medical care needed from a non-emergency medicine medical specialist physician;
• and
• searching a machine-readable database comprising on-call schedule information for a plurality of health care providers, and locations of health care facilities with which the health care providers are affiliated;
• wherein searching the database comprises finding at least one health care facility having a health care provider who is currently on-call and currently available to physically treat the patient and accept the patient for possible transfer to the health care facility, the health care provider having expertise in said health service category, said health care facility being within a certain distance of the patient location;
• wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

A method of finding a higher level of medical treatment for a patient at a first health care location for potential transfer of the patient to a second health care location, the method comprising:

• performing a medical screening examination of a patient;
• determining, based on the examination, that the patient is in need of additional emergency medical care and is non-dischargeable until such emergency medical care is received and that the additional emergency medical care is not available at the first health care location;
• sending a query over an electronic network to a server computer system, the query including a medical specialty and the first health care location;
• and
• receiving over the network a second health care location within a certain distance of the first health care location, wherein a physician of the medical specialty is currently available to physically treat the patient at the second health care location or will be available to physically treat the patient at the second health care location within six hours and provide the additional emergency medical care not available at the first health care location;
• wherein the sending and receiving steps are performed by one or more computing devices.