Method and system for patient transfers and referrals

• US 20070136091A1
• Filed: 12/13/2005
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ryan Mctaggart
• Original Assignee: Ryan Mctaggart
• Inventors: McTaggart, Ryan
• Application Number:
  US11/302,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20070136091A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Techniques for patient transfers and referrals are disclosed, including generating a request for the referral and the transfer, the request including information identifying one or more specialists and one or more medical transportation service providers, sending the request for the referral and the transfer to the one or more specialists and the one or more medical transportation service providers via a network, receiving a response from the one or more specialists and the one or more medical transportation service providers identified in the request, the response being used to select the one or more specialists and the one or more medical transportation service providers for awarding of the referral and the transfer, and notifying a selected specialist and a selected medical transportation service to receive the referral and the transfer, the selected specialist and the selected medical transportation service being determined based on information included in the response.

Claims

1. A method for managing a referral and a transfer, the method comprising:

generating a request for the referral and the transfer, the request including information identifying one or more specialists and one or more medical transportation service providers;

sending the request to the one or more specialists and the one or more medical transportation service providers via a network;

receiving a response from the one or more specialists and the one or more medical transportation service providers identified in the request, the response being used to select the one or more specialists and the one or more medical transportation service providers for awarding of the referral and the transfer; and

notifying a selected specialist and a selected medical transportation service to receive the referral and the transfer, the selected specialist and the selected medical transportation service being determined based on information included in the response.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request comprises an urgency rating.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the request comprises:

determining a contact method configured in a profile; and

sending the notification via the configured contact method.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the response includes a denial of the request.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating with the identified specialist via a chat room.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the response includes an acceptance of the request and acceptance conditions, and the selection decision is based on the acceptance conditions.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the selection decision is based on a fastest time to transfer.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the selection decision is based on a facility outcome rating.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking an acceptance ratio for each of the one or more specialists.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking a selection ratio for each of the one or more specialists.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking an average response time for each of the one or more specialists.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the request for the referral and the transfer is generated from a first organization and the response is generated from a second organization.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking an acceptance ratio for each of the one or more medical transportation service providers.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking a selected ratio for each of the one or more medical transportation service providers.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking an average response time for each of the one or more medical transportation service providers.

16. A computer system for managing referral and transfer requests, the system comprising:

membership module configured to electronically store member properties and services, wherein the membership includes a plurality of referring providers, a plurality of specialists, and a plurality of medical transportation service providers;

request module configured to originate a referral request;

notification module configured to notify members of referrals; and

response module configured to manage responses to the referral request.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising a chat module configured to provide substantially instant messaging communication.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the notification module is configured to notify members of a referral via email.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the notification module is configured to notify members of a referral via pager.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the notification module is configured to notify members of a referral via voicemail.

21. The system of claim 16, wherein the response module is configured to authenticate a response to accept the request.

22. The system of claim 16 wherein the response module is configured to compare a first response to accept the request to a second response to accept the request.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the response module is configured to select one of the responses to accept the request based on a set of acceptance conditions included in the first and second responses.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the selection is based on earliest admittance.

25. The system of claim 23, where in the selection is based an outcome rating of a facility.

26. The system of claim 16, wherein the request originates at a first organization and the response to the request originates at a second organization.

27. The system of claim 16, wherein the response module is configured to track a ratio of responses to accept for each member.

28. The system of claim 16, wherein the response module is configured to track an average time to response for each member.

29. The system of claim 16, wherein the response module is configured to track a ratio of selection to acceptance responses.

30. A computer program product embodied on computer readable medium, the computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to execute a method for managing a referral and a transfer, the method comprising:

generating a request for the referral and the transfer, the request including information identifying one or more specialists and one or more medical transportation service providers;

sending the request to the one or more specialists and the one or more medical transportation service providers via a network;

receiving a response from the one or more specialists and the one or more medical transportation service providers identified in the request, the response being used to select the one or more specialists and the one or more medical transportation service providers for awarding of the referral; and

notifying a selected specialist and a selected medical transportation service to receive the referral, the selected specialist and the selected medical transportation service being determined based on information included in the response.