System for Communication of Health Care Data

• US 20080103820A1
• Filed: 10/26/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Healthtrio LLC (Spok Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Malik Hasan
• Inventors: Peterson, John, Korpman, Ralph, Hasan, Malik, Wallen, J., Post, Cindy
• Granted Patent: US 7,693,730 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and is configured to extract the health care data from, the first computer system. The rules engine normalizes the extracted health care data to a predefined format.

Claims

1. A system of health care management of medical testing administration between an insurer, a medical laboratory and at least one health care participant, the system comprising:

a participant computer at which a medical test request is made pursuant to a first predefined format;

a processing system in communication with the participant'"'"'s computer, and through which the medical request is transferred;

a rules engine that is part of the processing system configured to approve the medical test request according to predetermined criteria; and

a laboratory computer operatively in communication with the processing system to receive the medical test request if approved;

wherein results of a medical test are transmitted from the laboratory computer to the processing system where the results are transmitted to an insurer computer and to the participant'"'"'s computer.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing system converts the results of the medical test to a second predefined format readable by a database stored on the insurer computer.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one health care participant is chosen from a group comprising from a health care provider, an employer, and a patient.