Method and system for providing pre and post operative support and care
First Claim
1. A system for providing support and care to persons considering or undergoing a medical procedure, comprising means for receiving, processing and providing information regarding said persons to and from said persons and said medical practitioners, means for providing information and positive reinforcement to said persons regarding said medical procedure being considered or undergone, means for scheduling and coordinating medical consultations and said medical procedure between said persons and said medical practitioners, and means for receiving, processing and delivering care orders and medicaments from said medical practitioners to said persons.
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Abstract
A system for delivering pre and post operative support and care to patients undertaking elective medical procedures and processing information regarding the patient and sales of products and services made to such patient, comprising means for receiving, processing and delivering personal, medical and credit information pertaining to patients, to and from patients and medical practitioners, means for providing information regarding what can be expected through the process of undergoing a medical procedure and for providing positive reinforcement to patients regarding their decision to undergo a medical procedure, means for scheduling and coordinating pre and post-operative medical appointments and procedures between patients and medical practitioners, means for receiving, processing and delivering pre and post procedure care orders and medicament prescriptions from medical practitioners to patients and means for monitoring patient adherence to medical practitioners'"'"' care orders and medicament prescriptions.
A method for delivering pre and post operative support and care to persons considering or undergoing medical procedures is also disclosed and claimed.
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44 Claims
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1. A system for providing support and care to persons considering or undergoing a medical procedure, comprising
means for receiving, processing and providing information regarding said persons to and from said persons and said medical practitioners, means for providing information and positive reinforcement to said persons regarding said medical procedure being considered or undergone, means for scheduling and coordinating medical consultations and said medical procedure between said persons and said medical practitioners, and means for receiving, processing and delivering care orders and medicaments from said medical practitioners to said persons.
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19. A system for providing pre and post procedure support and care to persons considering or undergoing medical procedures, comprising
a system representative terminal having a central processing unit, a main processing unit communicating with said central processing unit of said system representative terminal, a communications server interconnected to said main processing unit, a modem interconnected to said communications server, a medical practitioner terminal having a central processing unit, and a modem interconnected to said medical practitioner terminal'"'"'s central processing unit and communicating with said modem interconnected to said system representative terminal'"'"'s central processing unit to allow for information transfer between said medical practitioner terminal and said system representative terminal.
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23. A method for providing pre and post procedure support and care to persons considering or undergoing medical procedures, comprising the steps of
receiving, processing and providing information regarding said persons to and from said persons and medical practitioners, providing information and positive reinforcement to said persons regarding the procedure being considered or undergone, scheduling and coordinating medical appointments and procedures between said persons prospects and medical practitioners, receiving, processing and delivering care orders and medicaments from medical practitioners to said persons and monitoring said persons'"'"' adherence to medical practitioners'"'"' care orders, appointment and procedure schedules and medicament prescriptions.
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28. A method of improving patient outcomes and patient satisfaction with regard to medical procedures undergone, comprising the steps of
educating said patient regarding said medical procedure before it is undergone, managing said patient'"'"'s expectations regarding realistic results and outcomes of said medical procedure, providing pre and post procedure medicaments, and monitoring said patients'"'"' adherence to medical practitioners'"'"' orders and self-care regimens.
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33. A method for delivering pre and post procedure support and care to patients undergoing medical procedures comprising the steps of
obtaining patient medical, demographic, psychological and financial/credit information prior to the patient'"'"'s undergoing said medical procedure, assessing said information to determine patient needs for information, support and financing for said medical procedure, providing information regarding the procedure to be undergone, providing pre and post medical procedure medicaments and self-care orders, providing positive reinforcement to said patient regarding said medical procedure, and coordinating scheduling of medical consultations and said medical procedure between medical practitioners and said patient.
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35. A method of increasing revenues generated by medical practitioners in providing elective or aesthetic medical products and services to patients comprising the steps of
obtaining medical, demographic, psychological/psychiatric and financial/credit information regarding a patient prior in anticipation of providing elective or aesthetic medical products and services, developing a profile regarding said patient prospect identifying said patient'"'"'s present and future needs for elective or aesthetic medical products and services and said patient'"'"'s ability to pay for said elective or aesthetic medical products and services, and providing elective or aesthetic medical products and services to said patient based on said patient'"'"'s needs and ability to pay for said elective or aesthetic medical products and services.
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37. A system for improving medical procedure outcomes, comprising
means for receiving, processing and delivering care orders and medicament prescriptions from medical practitioners to patients, means for receiving, processing and delivering medical status information from patients to medical practitioners, and means for scheduling and coordinating post-operative medical appointments between patients and medical practitioners and monitoring patient adherence to medical practitioners'"'"' care orders and medicament prescriptions.
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38. A system for delivering pre and post operative support and care to patients and processing and managing information regarding patients and sales of products and services made to patients, comprising
means for receiving and processing personal, medical and financial/credit data pertaining to said patient, means for electronically transmitting said patient'"'"'s personal and medical data to and from medical practitioners, and for electronically transmitting said patient financial/credit data to a third party lender for medical procedure financing application processing, means for scheduling and coordinating medical consultation appointments and medical procedures between said patients and said medical practitioners, and for coordinating said medical practitioners'"'"' receipt of payment for said medical consultations and medical procedures through said third party lender upon patient credit and financing approval, means for receiving, processing and delivering pre and post medical procedure patient prescriptions for medicaments, procedure information and patient care orders from said medical practitioners to said patients, and means for processing data regarding sales of medicaments and completion of medical procedure financing transactions attributable to each said medical practitioner, and calculation of payments due to each said medical practitioner based on said sales and financings.
- 39. A method for improving medical procedure outcomes and satisfaction of persons undergoing said medical procedures comprising the step of providing information via a searchable database accessible through an Internet website without obligation or requiring persons requesting said information to disclose their identities or other personal information.
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