Compensated electronic consults

• US 20060116909A1
• Filed: 01/18/2006
• Published: 06/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Joseph P. Grace, William R. Grace Jr
• Original Assignee: Joseph P. Grace, William R. Grace Jr
• Inventors: Grace, William R. Jr., Grace, Joseph P.
• Application Number:
  US11/333,881
• Publication Number:
  US 20060116909A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/00 ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing health care information to health care providers and for obtaining information pertaining to the practice of a health care provider by providing incentives for provision of such information.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining information related to the practice of a health care provider, said method comprising the steps of:

confirming that said health care provider is an authentic health care provider;

submitting to said authentic health care provider at least one query related to the practice of said health care provider;

presenting said authentic health care provider with an incentive for answering at least one query related to the practice of said health care provider, said incentive comprising a donation to a charitable organization;

causing said charitable organization to receive said donation upon answers by said health care provider of said at least one query.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the donation is selected from the group consisting of at least one of:

a monetary donation, a tangible or intangible good donation, a point donation redeemable by said charitable organization at defined point level for particular goods, and a discount.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the health care provider is selected from the group consisting of a least one of:

a physician, a nurse, a pharmacist, a medical technologist, a physical therapist, and a clinician.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said donation to said charitable organization is made at a time after the answers to said at least one query is received by the system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said donation to said charitable organization is made in real time with receipt of said answers to said at least one query by system.

6. A computer system for providing incentive to a health care provider to provide information pertaining to the health care provider'"'"'s practice:

a authentication module operatively configured to authenticate that a health care provider entering the computer system is an authorized user;

a query module operatively configured to proffer at least one practice-related question tailored to the professional profile of said authorized use;

an incentive module operatively configured to proffer an authenticated provider an opportunity to provide assistance to one ore more charitable organization(s) by providing responses to said at least one practice-related question as generated by said query module;

an incentive calculation module operatively configured to determine the charitable organization incentive earned by said health care provider by responses provided to at least one practice-related question.

7. A computer program for providing aid to charitable organizations, said program providing for:

authentication of a user of said computer program as a permitted user of said computer program;

provision of at least one question to said authenticated user related to the health care practice of said authenticated user;

provision of an incentive to said authenticated user for answering said at least one or more question related to the health care practice of said authenticated user, said incentive comprising a donation to a charitable organization;

transmission of said incentive to said charitable organization upon the authenticated user answering said at least one or more question.

8. The software program of claim 7, wherein said incentive is selected from the group consisting of at least one of:

a monetary donation, a tangible or intangible good donation, a point donation redeemable by said charitable organization at defined point level for particular goods, and a discount.

9. The software program of claim 7 wherein the authenticated user is selected from the group consisting of a least one of:

a physician, a nurse, a pharmacist, a medical technologist, a physical therapist, and a clinician.

10. The software program of claim 7, wherein said incentive is transmitted to said charitable organization at a time after an answer to said at least one query is made.

11. The software program of claim 7, wherein said incentive is transmitted to said charitable organization in real time upon receipt of the answers to said at least one query.