Intelligent health care knowledge exchange platform
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1. A method of providing a health care knowledge marketplace, comprising:
- (a) accessing a communications facility for supporting communications among a plurality of geographically distributed parties;
(b) providing a data storage facility for storing data that is associated with the knowledge of a health care knowledge provider; and
(c) providing an interaction process, for supporting an interaction among a provider of health care knowledge and a seeker of health care knowledge, wherein the interaction process comprises a facility for representing the knowledge set of a health care knowledge provider as a commodity according to a predefined health care terminology set.
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Abstract
A marketplace for knowledge-based health care services is provided in which various entities interact according to a hierarchy of business rules. A service provider can affiliate with an enterprise or sub-enterprise via an office, which serves as a unique virtual view of the health care professional'"'"'s intellectual capital. The system uses predefined terminology sets to facilitate efficient matching of service requests to service providers and to facilitate efficient knowledge exchange.
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28 Claims
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1. A method of providing a health care knowledge marketplace, comprising:
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(a) accessing a communications facility for supporting communications among a plurality of geographically distributed parties;
(b) providing a data storage facility for storing data that is associated with the knowledge of a health care knowledge provider; and
(c) providing an interaction process, for supporting an interaction among a provider of health care knowledge and a seeker of health care knowledge, wherein the interaction process comprises a facility for representing the knowledge set of a health care knowledge provider as a commodity according to a predefined health care terminology set. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A system for providing a marketplace for knowledge, comprising:
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(a) a communications facility for supporting communications among a plurality of geographically distributed parties;
(b) a data storage facility for storing data that is associated with the knowledge of a knowledge provider; and
(c) an interaction module for supporting an interaction among a provider of knowledge and a seeker of knowledge, wherein the interaction process comprises a facility for representing the knowledge set of a knowledge provider as a commodity according to a predefined health care terminology set. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of facilitating a marketplace for health care knowledge, comprising:
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(a) providing a set of market rules for allowing entities to interact in the marketplace;
(b) providing a builder application for allowing a health care enterprise to define a set of enterprise rules for interacting with the enterprise, the enterprise rules consistent with the market rules; and
(c) providing a profiling module for allowing a health care service provider to register with a health care enterprise, the profiling module facilitating creation of a representation of the service provider'"'"'s health care knowledge consistent with the enterprise rules and the market rules. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system for facilitating a marketplace for health care knowledge, comprising:
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(a) a rule engine for serving a set of market rules for allowing entities to interact in the marketplace;
(b) a builder application for allowing a health care enterprise to define a set of enterprise rules for interacting with the enterprise, the enterprise rules consistent with the market rules; and
(c) a profiling module for allowing a health care service provider to register with a health care enterprise, the profiling module facilitating creation of a representation of the service provider'"'"'s health care knowledge consistent with the enterprise rules and the market rules. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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