METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE MEDICAL RECORDS WITH EMERGENCY PASSWORD FEATURE

• US 20090055222A1
• Filed: 09/04/2008
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MyMedicalRecords Incorporated
• Original Assignee: MyMedicalRecords Incorporated
• Inventors: LORSCH, ROBERT H.
• Application Number:
  US12/204,474
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055222A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/30 Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• 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 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A method for maintaining personal health records of a user in manner that allows the personal health records to be accessed in an emergency while still allowing the user to control privacy is provided. The method includes providing a web site allowing the user to store a plurality of personal health records associated with the user and accessible through use of a password associated with the user, receiving instructions from the user to allow them to select a subset of the plurality of personal health records, the subset of the plurality of personal health records accessible through use of an emergency password, and making available the subset of the plurality of personal health records on the web site through use of the emergency password. An image of the user and the subset of health records may be displayed upon emergency login.

Claims

1. A method for maintaining personal health records of a user in manner that allows the personal health records to be accessed in an emergency while still allowing the user to control privacy, comprising:

providing a web site allowing the user to store a plurality of personal health records associated with the user and accessible through use of a password associated with the user;

receiving instructions from the user specifying a subset of the plurality of personal health records, the subset of the plurality of personal health records accessible through use of an emergency password;

making available the subset of the plurality of personal health records on the web site through use of the emergency password.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the web site provides for organizing the plurality of personal health records into folders.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing a wallet card comprising emergency information associated with the user including the emergency password and a web site identifier associated with the web site.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving the emergency password and a user identifier associated with the user.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising collecting contact information associated with an individual or organization accessing the subset of the plurality of personal health records through use of the emergency password.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising displaying critical health information associated with the user.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the critical health information comprises prescription medications.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the critical health information comprises blood type.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein the critical health information comprises emergency contact information.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the emergency password provides access for reading but not modifying, adding, deleting, or re-organizing personal health records.

11. The method of claim 4 further comprising displaying an image of the user.

12. A system for maintaining personal health records of a user in manner that allows the personal health records to be accessed in an emergency while still allowing the user to control privacy, comprising:

an electronic system allowing the user to store a plurality of personal health records associated with the user and accessible through use of a password associated with the user;

wherein the electronic system provides for receiving instructions from the user to allow the user to select a subset of the plurality of personal health records, the subset of the plurality of personal health records accessible through use of an emergency password;

wherein the electronic system makes available the subset of the plurality of personal health upon receipt of the emergency password.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the electronic system comprises a web site hosted on at least one computer.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the web site provides for organizing the plurality of personal health records into folders.

15. The system of claim 14 further comprising a wallet card comprising emergency information associated with the user including the emergency password and a web site identifier associated with the web site.

16. A method for providing a user with the ability to access and collect personal health records associated with the user, comprising:

assigning a phone number to the user for fax and voice communications from a health care provider;

associating access information with the user for the user to use to access a web site;

providing the user with a document to provide to the health care provider exercising legal rights of the user for access to the health records, the document requesting the health care provider to send the health records to the phone number;

receiving a fax communication comprising a personal health record associated with the user for which the user has requested and given permission to the health care provider to send;

converting the fax communications into an image file format;

storing the health record encoded in the image file format;

providing the user with access to the web site using the access information and providing on the web site an interface to the health records of the user for the user to access the health record;

providing the user with a means to specify a subset of the personal health records to make accessible using emergency access information.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising providing the user with a document containing emergency access information.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the document containing emergency access information is a wallet card.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein the emergency access information includes an image of the user.

20. The method of claim 16 further comprising providing the user with a means to provide an image of the user to make accessible with the subset of personal health records which are accessible using emergency access information.

21. A method for maintaining personal health records of a user in a manner that allows the personal health records to be accessed in an emergency while still allowing the user to control privacy, the method comprising:

providing a web site adapted to receive health records directly from the user or a health care provider for the user, the web site allowing the user to store the personal health records associated with the user and accessible through use of a password associated with the user;

receiving instructions from the user specifying a subset of the plurality of personal health records, the subset of the plurality of personal health records accessible through use of an emergency password;

making available the subset of the plurality of personal health records on the web site through use of the emergency password.

22. The method of claim 21 wherein the health records include electronic health records received from the health care provider.

23. The method of claim 21 wherein the health records include faxed documents received from a health care provider.

24. The method of claim 21 further comprising receiving the emergency password and a user identifier associated with the user from an emergency care provider.

25. The method of claim 24 further comprising displaying an image of the user to the emergency care provider.