SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A VIRTUAL EDUCATION HOSPITAL
First Claim
1. A virtual education hospital system to facilitate collaboration between medical and healthcare professionals via a communication network while protecting a patient'"'"'s identity, the system comprising:
- a processing device that is structured and arranged to provide an electronic discussion among a plurality of medical and healthcare professionals via the communication network;
a digital hospital database containing data that are provided to the plurality of medical and healthcare professionals while participating in the electronic medical discussion;
a depersonalization system for removing personally identifiable information from the data provided to the plurality of medical and healthcare professionals to prevent identification of the patient; and
a medical tagging device for classifying data according to selected medical terms contained in the data.
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Abstract
A system for and method of facilitating collaboration among medical and healthcare professionals that includes presenting a request for initiating an electronic discussion via a communication network, enabling medical or healthcare professionals to participate in the discussion and to view medical record data germane to the discussion, depersonalizing the medical record data made available to the medical and healthcare professionals to remove any patient-identifying data, and categorizing and tagging discrete medical terms contained in the medical record data to enable association of the electronic medical discussion with an area of expertise of the medical or healthcare professionals.
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1. A virtual education hospital system to facilitate collaboration between medical and healthcare professionals via a communication network while protecting a patient'"'"'s identity, the system comprising:
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a processing device that is structured and arranged to provide an electronic discussion among a plurality of medical and healthcare professionals via the communication network; a digital hospital database containing data that are provided to the plurality of medical and healthcare professionals while participating in the electronic medical discussion; a depersonalization system for removing personally identifiable information from the data provided to the plurality of medical and healthcare professionals to prevent identification of the patient; and a medical tagging device for classifying data according to selected medical terms contained in the data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of facilitating collaboration among medical and healthcare professionals via a communication network while protecting a patient'"'"'s identity using a system that includes a processing device that is structured and arranged to provide an electronic discussion among a plurality of medical and healthcare professionals via the communication network;
- a digital hospital database containing data that are provided to the plurality of medical and healthcare professionals while participating in the electronic medical discussion;
a depersonalization system for removing personally identifiable information from the data provided to the plurality of medical and healthcare professionals to prevent identification of the patient; and
a medical tagging device for classifying data according to selected medical terms contained in the data, the method comprising;presenting a request for initiating an electronic discussion via the communication network; enabling a plurality of medical or healthcare professionals to participate in the discussion and to view medical record data germane to the discussion; depersonalizing the medical record data made available to the medical and healthcare professionals to remove any patient-identifying data; and categorizing and tagging discrete medical terms contained in the medical record data to enable association of the electronic medical discussion with an area of expertise of the medical or healthcare professionals. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
- a digital hospital database containing data that are provided to the plurality of medical and healthcare professionals while participating in the electronic medical discussion;
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