Integrated emergency medical transportion database and virtual private network system
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1. A secure integrated emergency medical transportation database system, comprising:
- a medical emergency database comprising at least clinical encounter information, patient demographic data and transport information as electronic protected health information;
a billing module configured to access the medical emergency database and generate a bill for each medical emergency requiring transport; and
a secure communications application configured to allow secure access to the medical emergency database and/or billing module by a plurality of authorized users via a public network, wherein the secure access comprises technical security measures to protect against unauthorized access to the electronic protected health information during transmission over the public network so that data indicative of a medical emergency is securely stored in the medical emergency database from a location in the field that is remote from a health service facility.
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Abstract
A system and method for providing secure data communications and user access authorization for an integrated emergency medical transportation database. The secure communications and user authorization is provided by a Virtual Private Network (“VPN”), allowing confidential patient medical records to be transmitted via a public network such as the Internet without compromising the confidentiality of the data.
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1. A secure integrated emergency medical transportation database system, comprising:
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a medical emergency database comprising at least clinical encounter information, patient demographic data and transport information as electronic protected health information;
a billing module configured to access the medical emergency database and generate a bill for each medical emergency requiring transport; and
a secure communications application configured to allow secure access to the medical emergency database and/or billing module by a plurality of authorized users via a public network, wherein the secure access comprises technical security measures to protect against unauthorized access to the electronic protected health information during transmission over the public network so that data indicative of a medical emergency is securely stored in the medical emergency database from a location in the field that is remote from a health service facility. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 36)
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4. A method of providing access to a secure integrated emergency medical transportation database system, comprising:
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collecting at least clinical encounter information, patient demographic data and transport information as electronic protected health information for each of a plurality of medical emergency incidents requiring transport into a medical emergency database;
accessing the medical emergency database;
generating a bill for each medical emergency incident accessed; and
securing access to the medical emergency database and/or billing information by a plurality of authorized users via a public network, wherein securing access comprises using technical security measures to protect against unauthorized access to electronic protected health information during transmission over the public network so that data indicative of a medical emergency is securely stored in the medical emergency database from a location in the field that is remote from a health service facility. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 33, 34, 35, 37)
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