Non-Emergency Transportation Dispatching, Routing, Compliance and Auditing Software and Technology

• US 20130185109A1
• Filed: 01/14/2013
• Published: 07/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Abedelhalim Lawabni, Nohad Loabneh, Shuhab Ahmed
• Original Assignee: Abedelhalim Lawabni, Nohad Loabneh, Shuhab Ahmed
• Inventors: Loabneh, Nohad, Lawabni, Abedelhalim, Ahmed, Shuhab
• Application Number:
  US13/741,371
• Publication Number:
  US 20130185109A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/018 Certifying business or products
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented system and method of managing non-emergency transportation to achieve a balance between cost control, high performance and high quality of service. Further goals include minimizing fraud, waste and abuse of non-emergency transportation systems.

Claims

1. A method of managing non-emergency medical transportation in a computing system comprising at least one server to host the transportation management system and at least one computing device communicably coupled to the at least one server through a communication network, the method comprising:

assigning a driver a unique account identifier;

transmitting the location of the driver to a central server;

validating the credentials of the driver;

assigning the driver to a patient transport job with a pick-up location and a drop-off location;

picking up a rider by the driver;

capturing unique identifiers of the rider, including at least a photograph and a signature;

validating pick-up of the rider by reference to geo-location and time-stamp transmitted by the driver to the central server;

monitoring the location of the driver and the length of time between the pick-up and drop-off location; and

validating drop-off of the rider by reference to geo-location, time-stamp and signature by a person associated with the drop-off location and transmitted by the driver to the central server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one computing device is one of a mobile device and a computer communicably coupled with the at least one server for data communication.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication network utilizes 128 bit RSA encrypted transfers over the communication network.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising recording and storing the time-stamp and geo-location data for records and billing purposes.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising recording and storing the location of driver information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the computing device calculates mileage information from the location of driver data as well as patient pick-up and drop-off data.