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Medical consultation management system

  • US 6,256,613 B1
  • Filed: 03/14/1997
  • Issued: 07/03/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system that supports consultation of a specialist by a treating physician, the system comprising, in combination,a client computer including:

  • means for accepting data from the treating physician including at least one question to be answered by the specialist, and means responsive to said data for generating a structured request for consultation, and a supervisory host computer including;

    means for receiving said request for consultation from said client computer, means for visually displaying at least a portion of said request for consultation for preliminary review by a supervisory staff member, means for accepting a designation of the specialist from said supervisory staff member, means for retrieving and assembling selected information related to said request for consultation from a database of medical information, means for transmitting at least a portion of said request for consultation and said selected information to said designated specialist for review, means for receiving a responsive comment from said designated specialist, means for transmitting said responsive comment to said client computer, means for storing said request for consultation and said responsive comment as a structured case history item in said database of medical information, and means for storing information relating to each such case study item as a recorded learning event associated with said requesting primary care treating physician.

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