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US 8,943,093 B2Granted
One-stop shopping system and method
OwnerRegina E. Herzlingerinventor
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Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for one-stop shopping for health-care services and related needs. The one-stop shopping system and method provide objective information for the system enrollee to assess and decide on health-care insurance and services. The system and method provide this objective information in a way that is easily accessible by system enrollees in an economical and rapid manner.
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A single-integrated computer-based system for system enrollees (system users) to obtain request-based information for taking remedial-based actions, including remedial health-based actions, comprising:
- a central computer system for facilitating system operations between system users and third-party sites and system databases, with the third-party sites including at least one or more of streaming data, enrollee health care data, enrollee health savings account data, and/or economic data, and the central computer system causing storing of information from third-party sites and from system users in system databases, and further with system operations including communications that include,
- (A) bidirectional communications between the central computer system and system users for the central computer system receiving system user requests and the central computer system transmitting responses to the system user requests to system users,
- (B) bidirectional communications between the central computer system and system databases for storing information from third-party sites and system users, and retrieving information from the system databases based on system user requests, and
- (C) bidirectional communications between the central computer system and third-party sites for receiving information from such third-party sites;
- system databases electronically connected to the central computer for storing information from system users and information retrieved from third-party sites;
- one or more enrollee computer units electronically connected to the central computer for controlling the central computer for at least inputting information to the central computer for storing in the system databases, inputting requests for retrieving information stored in the system databases, and providing information from third-party sites;
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- a communications network for electronically connecting to the one or more enrollee computer units, the central computer, and the system databases, and connecting the central computer to third-party sites.
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A computer-implemented method for system enrollees (system users) to obtain request-based information for taking remedial-based actions, including remedial health-based actions, comprising:
- each system user accessing a central computer system with at least one enrollee computer unit that is electronically connected to the central computer system for controlling the central computing system and inputting information to and retrieving information from the central computer system, with controlling the central computer system including at least inputting requests for retrieving information stored in the system databases, inputting information for storage in the system databases and inputting requests for retrieving information from third party sites;
- the system user effecting communications between system users and third-party sites by controlling the central computer system with the at least one enrollee computer unit, with the communications including the central computer receiving requests from system users, retrieving information from third-party sites based on the requests received from system users, with the third-party sites including at least one or more of streaming data, enrollee healthcare data, enrollee health savings account data, and/or economic data;
- the system user effecting communications between system users and system databases by controlling the central computer system with the at least one enrollee computer unit using the enrollee computer unit for accessing system databases electronically connected to the central computer for storing information from system users and information retrieved from third-party sites;
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- the system user receiving at the at least one enrollee computer unit remedial information from the central computer system based on requests associated with the system user's healthcare and medical needs.
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