Continuity of Medical Care

• US 20110184763A1
• Filed: 03/21/2011
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Well Corporation (Amwell Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: American Well Corporation (Amwell Incorporated)
• Inventors: SCHOENBERG, Roy
• Granted Patent: US 8,639,532 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• 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 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

A consumer is provided with continuity of medical care by being prompted to transfer data to a recipient, upon completion of the consumer'"'"'s interaction with a brokerage system. The data obtained during the interactions is transferred to one or more recipients selected by the consumer.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprises:

receiving, from one or more computers, medical data collected during an on-line, real-time consultation between a medical service provider and a consumer of medical services;

generating, at least partly based on the collected medical data, summarized medical data related to the consumer'"'"'s consultation with the medical service provider;

generating by the one or more computers a graphical user interface that when rendered on a display device, depicts a message prompting the consumer to input into the graphical user interface information indicative of one or more recipients of the summarized medical data;

receiving by the one or more computers information input into the graphical user interface that specifies the one or more recipients of the summarized medical data; and

transferring, by one more computers over a network, the summarized medical data to the one or more recipients.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the summarized medical data is transferred after the on-line, real-time consultation.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the summarized medical data is transferred during the on-line, real-time consultation.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the graphical user interface when rendered on the display device, further depicts a visual representation of one or more channels to transfer the summarized medical data;

and

upon receipt of a selection of one of the channels,

transferring the summarized medical data to at least one of the one or more recipients using the selected channel.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the graphical user interface is capable of being accessed by the consumer of services during the consumer'"'"'s consultation.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving from a computer used by the consumer a selection of one or more of (i) at least a portion of collected medical data, and (ii) at least a portion of the summarized medical data

wherein transferring the summarized medical data comprises transferring the data selected by the consumer of services.

10. The method of claim 5 wherein the channel sends the data to a device capable of faxing the data to the recipient.

11. The method of claim 5 wherein the channel initiates a physical delivery of the data to the recipient.

45. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the summarized medical data is first medical data, and wherein the method further comprises:

retrieving, from a data repository, second medical data associated with the consumer; and

transferring to the one or more recipients the second medical data.

4. (canceled)

8-9. -9. (canceled)

12-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing a computer to perform operations comprising:

receiving medical data collected during an on-line, real-time consultation between a medical service provider and a consumer of medical services;

generating, at least partly based on the collected medical data, summarized medical data related to the consumer'"'"'s consultation with the medical service provider;

generating a graphical user interface that when rendered on a display device, depicts a message prompting the consumer to input into the graphical user interface information indicative of one or more recipients of the summarized medical data;

receiving by the one or more computers information input into the graphical user interface that specifies the one or more recipients of the summarized medical data and

transferring, over a network, the summarized medical data to the one or more recipients.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the summarized medical data is transferred after the on-line, real-time consultation.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the summarized medical data is transferred during the on-line, real-time consultation.

19. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the graphical user interface when rendered on the display device, further depicts a visual representation of one or more channels to transfer the summarized medical data;

and

upon selection of one of the channels,

the operations further comprising transferring the summarized medical data to at least one of the one or more recipients using the selected channel.

20. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein the graphical user interface is capable of being accessed by the consumer of services during the consumer'"'"'s consultation.

21. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving from a computer used by the consumer a selection of one or more of (i) at least a portion of collected medical data, and (ii) at least a portion of the summarized medical data

wherein transferring the summarized medical data comprises transferring the data selected by the consumer of services.

24. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein the channel sends the data to a device capable of faxing the data to the recipient.

25. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein the channel initiates a physical delivery of the data to the recipient.

18. (canceled)

22-23. -23. (canceled)

26-28. -28. (canceled)

29. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving medical data collected during an on-line, real-time consultation between a medical service provider and a consumer of medical services;

generating, at least partly based on the collected medical data, summarized medical data related to the consumer'"'"'s consultation with the medical service provider;

generating a graphical user interface that when rendered on a display device, depicts a message prompting the consumer to input into the graphical user interface information indicative of one or more recipients of the summarized medical data;

receiving by the one or more computers information input into the graphical user interface that specifies the one or more recipients of the summarized medical data; and

transferring, over a network, the summarized medical data to the one or more recipients.

30. The apparatus of claim 29 wherein the summarized medical data is transferred after the on-line, real-time consultation.

31. The apparatus of claim 29 wherein the summarized medical data is transferred during the on-line, real-time consultation.

32-42. -42. (canceled)

43. A computer-implemented method comprising:

establishing, by a computer system over a computer network, a real-time communication channel between a computer system used by a consumer of services and a computer system used by a provider of services to initiate a live interaction between the consumer of services and the provider of services through the respective computer systems;

collecting, during the live interaction with the provider, medical information pertaining to the consumer of services;

receiving, from the computer system of the provider, information indicative of one or more conditions of the consumer;

sending, by the computer system that established the communication channel, a prompt to the consumer'"'"'s system to transfer to a recipient the collected medical information and the received information indicative of the one or more conditions; and

transferring, by the computer system that established the communication channel and over the computer network, the collected medical information and the information indicative of the one or more conditions to the recipient selected by the consumer.

44. A computer-implemented method comprising:

establishing, by a computer system over a computer network, a real-time communication channel between a computer system used by a consumer of services and a computer system used by a provider of services to initiate a live interaction between the consumer of services and the provider of services through the respective computer systems;

collecting, during the live interaction with the provider, medical information pertaining to the consumer of services;

generating, by the computer system that established the communication channel, at least partly based on the collected medical information, continuity-of-medical care information; and

transferring, to one or more recipients specified by the consumer, the continuity-of-medical care information.