SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PATIENT REFERRALS
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1. A system for managing medical patient referrals, comprising:
- a referring computerized interface device configured to receive entered patient medical data associated with a patient who has been seen by a referring care provider;
a referred-to computerized interface device configured to engage in electronic communications with said referring computerized interface device, said referred-to computerized interface device associated with a referred-to care provider who the patient has been referred to see by the referring care provider, for a particular medical need;
a first set of medical care data about said patient stored in a first electronic medical record by said referring computerized interface device and forwarded electronically to said referred-to computerized interface device; and
a second set of medical care data about said patient generated as a result of said referred-to care provider seeing said patient, stored in a second electronic medical record by said referred-to computerized interface device and forwarded electronically to said referring computerized interface device.
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Abstract
The present invention is an apparatus for communicating a patient referral from a first patient care provider to a second patient care provider. Such an apparatus is also configured to communicate patient heath record data from first care provider'"'"'s electronic health records system to a second care provider'"'"'s electronic health records system in response to an electronic request from the second care provider.
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1. A system for managing medical patient referrals, comprising:
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a referring computerized interface device configured to receive entered patient medical data associated with a patient who has been seen by a referring care provider; a referred-to computerized interface device configured to engage in electronic communications with said referring computerized interface device, said referred-to computerized interface device associated with a referred-to care provider who the patient has been referred to see by the referring care provider, for a particular medical need; a first set of medical care data about said patient stored in a first electronic medical record by said referring computerized interface device and forwarded electronically to said referred-to computerized interface device; and a second set of medical care data about said patient generated as a result of said referred-to care provider seeing said patient, stored in a second electronic medical record by said referred-to computerized interface device and forwarded electronically to said referring computerized interface device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of managing a referral of a patient from a referring care provider where the patient is associated with patient data electronically stored within a referring electronic records system, wherein a plurality of computerized interface device programmed with software which configures the processors of each interface device to implement the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving at a first computerized interface device, a unique identifier associated with the patient; transmitting by the first computerized interface device, an electronic query comprising the unique identifier to a second computerized interface device; retrieving by the second computerized device, patient data from a first electronic medical record in communication with the second computerized device that is identified by the unique identifier, the retrieved patient data in a first format which is used by the first electronic medical record; converting, by the second computerized device, the patient data in a first format into a second format, where said format is common to the plurality of computerized interface devices; transmitting from the second computerize device to the first computerized device, the patient data in a second format; receiving by the first computerized device, the patient data in the second format format from the second computerized interface device; converting the patient data into a third format where the third format is used by a referred-to electronic medical records system; and transmitting the patient data in the third format to the referred-to electronic records system for storage. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computerized interface device comprising:
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a processor; memory; interface circuitry; software which configures the processor to transmit a notification of a patient referral to another computerized interface device in response to a user input; and software which configures the processor to automatically retrieve patient information from an electronic medical records system in electronic communication with the computerized interface device, convert the retrieved patient information from a first storage format native to the electronic medical records system into a second storage format which is a predetermined record structure, and transmit the retrieved and converted patient information to at least a second computerized interface device in response to the receipt of a notification of a patient referral from the second computerized interface device. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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