MEDICAL VISUAL REFERRAL TOOL AND REMOTE PORTAL

• US 20170061077A1
• Filed: 08/26/2016
• Published: 03/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2015
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Lightbeam Health Solutions LLC
• Original Assignee: Lightbeam Health Solutions LLC
• Inventors: CLINE, Patrick, NARY, Robert, HOXTER, Michael, SHULTZ, Jerry
• Application Number:
  US15/248,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20170061077A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A method and system being used to provide patient/provider information for use by a medical visual referral tool, the method being carried out by one or more servers, wherein the one or more servers comprises at least one database stored on a computer-readable memory, wherein each of the servers comprises a plurality of electronic computing machines, wherein the electronic computing machines each comprise a processor and a computer-readable memory, and wherein the method comprises: obtaining data from data sources, standardizing the data, storing the data in one or more of the databases, receiving a client request from a client computing machine, processing the client request, and sending a response to the client computing machine, wherein the response provides the patient/provider information usable for the medical visual referral tool, and wherein at least some of the patient/provider information is to be displayed on an electronic geographical map at the client machine.

Claims

1. A method of providing patient/provider information to be used for a medical visual referral tool, the method being carried out by one or more servers, wherein the one or more servers comprises at least one database stored on a computer-readable memory, wherein each of the servers comprises a plurality of electronic computing machines, wherein the electronic computing machines each comprise a processor and a computer-readable memory, and wherein the method comprises:

(a) obtaining electronically encoded data from one or more data sources, wherein the electronically encoded data comprises information pertaining to a patient and/or a medical provider;

(b) preparing the data for standardized entry into one or more of the databases using the processor of at least one of the electronic computing machines;

(c) storing the standardized data into the one or more databases;

(d) receiving a client request for access to the medical visual referral tool from an electronic client computing machine via an inter-connected electronic data network;

(e) resolving the client request to a user;

(f) processing the client request by querying the at least one database for patient/provider information pertaining to the user, to a patient of the user, to a provider of the user, or to a potential provider of the user, using a visual selection referral application installed on one or more of the electronic computing machines; and

(g) sending a response to the electronic client computing machine over the inter-connected electronic data network, wherein the response provides the patient/provider information usable for the medical visual referral tool, and wherein at least some of the patient/provider information is to be visually represented at the client machine and displayed on an electronic geographical map.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining step further comprises locating the one or more data sources.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein one or more uniform resource locators (URLs) are used to locate the one or more data sources.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining step further comprises, subsequently after locating the one or more data sources, downloading the data from the one or more data sources.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein a download request is sent to the one or more located data sources and, in response to the download request, downloading the data from the one or more data sources.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the preparing step further comprises analyzing the obtained electronically encoded data to determine one or more performance metrics of one or more providers.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the patient/provider information comprises a quality score associated with a provider and a geographic location, wherein the quality score is reflected on the electronic geographic map at the geographic location.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the data sources comprise non-volatile computer-readable memory medium which may be locally connected to the one or more servers.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the data sources is co-located at the same geographic location as at least one of the servers.

10. A medical visual referral system, comprising:

at least one database stored on a computer-readable memory; and

one or more servers, wherein the one or more servers each comprise;

a plurality of electronic computing machines, wherein the electronic computing machines each comprise;

a processor; and

a computer-readable memory accessible by the processor;

wherein the electronic computing machines are configured to;

(a) obtain electronically encoded data from one or more data sources, wherein the electronically encoded data comprises information pertaining to a patient and/or a medical provider;

(b) prepare the data for standardized entry into one or more of the databases using the processor of at least one of the electronic computing machines;

(c) store the standardized data into the one or more databases;

(d) receive a client request for access to the medical visual referral tool from an electronic client computing machine via an inter-connected electronic data network;

(e) resolve the client request to a user;

(f) process the client request by querying the at least one database for patient/provider information pertaining to the user, to a patient of the user, to a provider of the user, or to a potential provider of the user, using a visual selection referral application installed on one or more of the electronic computing machines; and

(g) send a response to the electronic client computing machine over the inter-connected electronic data network, wherein the response provides the patient/provider information usable for the medical visual referral tool, and wherein at least some of the patient/provider information is to be visually represented at the client machine and displayed on an electronic geographical map.

11. The medical visual referral system of claim 10, wherein the at least one database is stored on the computer-readable memory of one or more of the electronic computing machines.

12. The medical visual referral system of claim 10, wherein at least some of the servers are co-located at the same geographic location.

13. The medical visual referral system of claim 10, wherein at least one of the servers are co-located at the same geographic location as the at least one database.

14. A method of providing patient/provider information to be used for a medical visual referral tool, the method being carried out by a medical visual referral system, the medical visual referral system comprising:

at least one database stored on a computer-readable memory; and

one or more servers, wherein each of the servers comprises a plurality of electronic computing machines, wherein the electronic computing machines each comprise a processor and a computer-readable memory that is accessible by the processor;

wherein the method comprises;

(a) obtaining electronically encoded data from one or more data sources via an inter-connected data network, wherein the electronically encoded data comprises information pertaining to a patient and/or a medical provider;

(b) standardizing the obtained electronically encoded data using the processor of at least one of the electronic computing machines;

(c) storing the standardized data into one or more of the databases;

(d) receiving a client request from the medical visual referral tool via an inter-connected electronic data network, wherein the medical visual referral tool is being carried out on an electronic client computing machine;

(e) resolving the client request to a user of the medical visual referral tool;

(f) retrieving patient/provider information pertaining to the user, to a patient of the user, to a provider of the user, or to a potential provider of the user, from any one or more of the databases using a visual selection referral application installed on one or more of the electronic computing machines; and

(g) sending a response to the electronic client computing machine over the inter-connected electronic data network, wherein the response provides the patient/provider information usable for the medical visual referral tool, and wherein at least some of the patient/provider information is displayed on an electronic geographical map at the electronic client computing machine.