Patient-controlled automated medical record, diagnosis, and treatment system and method
First Claim
1. An automated, patient-controlled, medical and biographical records system comprising:
- a. a central computer connected to a global computer network;
b. a centralized medical and biographical records database maintained at the central computer, said database including medical and biographical records for a plurality of individual patients, access to each of said medical and biographical records in the database being controlled by a corresponding individual patient of said plurality of patients, said central computer having a security program limiting access to the records to the patients and to health care professionals selectively authorized by the patients;
c. one or more patient computers situated remotely from the central computer and connected to the global network, said patient computers each executing a software program interface for patients to input medical history and biographical information into the patient medical and biographical records database and to authorize health care professionals to access at least a portion of the records of the authorizing patients; and
d. one or more health care computers situated remotely from the central computer and connected to the global network, said health care computers each having a software program interface for the authorized health care professionals to access the medical history and biographical information from the patient medical and biographical records database and to input additional patient medical history and biographical information into the patient medical and biographical records database.
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Abstract
A system and process for providing a computerized medical and biographical records database and diagnostic information. A medical records database and diagnostic program is stored on a central computer that is accessible to individuals using remotely situated computers connected to a computer network. Individual patient medical and biographical records are owned by individual patients who can enter information in their record as well as grant or deny authorization to others, such as health care professionals, insurance providers and other entities, to review part or all of their record. The diagnostic program provides a series of diagnostic questions to an individual who must respond either “yes” or “no” to each question. Each potential response is weighted relative to its importance to a particular disease diagnosis. Relative weights for all responses to diagnostic questions are summed to identify potential diagnoses to connected to the answered questions. The diagnostic program provides the individual with a list of potential diagnoses as well as permitting the individual to save the information to his or her individual medical and biographical record. The information maintained in the above system and process is utilized for health care financing and insurance.
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87 Claims
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1. An automated, patient-controlled, medical and biographical records system comprising:
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a. a central computer connected to a global computer network; b. a centralized medical and biographical records database maintained at the central computer, said database including medical and biographical records for a plurality of individual patients, access to each of said medical and biographical records in the database being controlled by a corresponding individual patient of said plurality of patients, said central computer having a security program limiting access to the records to the patients and to health care professionals selectively authorized by the patients; c. one or more patient computers situated remotely from the central computer and connected to the global network, said patient computers each executing a software program interface for patients to input medical history and biographical information into the patient medical and biographical records database and to authorize health care professionals to access at least a portion of the records of the authorizing patients; and d. one or more health care computers situated remotely from the central computer and connected to the global network, said health care computers each having a software program interface for the authorized health care professionals to access the medical history and biographical information from the patient medical and biographical records database and to input additional patient medical history and biographical information into the patient medical and biographical records database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for entering and retrieving patient medical and biographical record information comprising the steps of:
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a. maintaining medical, biographical, and security information for a plurality of individual patient records in a medical and biographical records database on a centralized computer; b. inputting patient medical and biographical information in the medical and biographical records database through a computer remotely situated from the centralized computer; c. inputting patient medical and biographical records security information in the medical and biographical records database through the computer remotely situated from the centralized computer; d. executing a security program on the centralized computer limiting access to the medical and biographical records database to the individual patients inputting medical and biographical information into their own records and to health care professionals selectively authorized by the patients to input additional medical and biographical information to the patients'"'"'records; and e. executing a security program on the centralized computer limiting access to the medical and biographical records database to the individual patients retrieving medical and biographical information from their own records and to the health care professionals selectively authorized by the patients. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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58. An automated medical diagnosis method comprising the following steps:
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a. creating a plurality of diagnostic questions relating to medical signs and symptoms requiring either a “
yes”
or a “
no”
response from a patient;b. storing said diagnostic questions on a central computer connected to a global computer network; c. differentially weighting the diagnostic questions and responses according to their relative importance in determining a medical diagnosis; d. providing a software program interface accessible by computers situated remotely from the central computer, said interface interactively displaying to patients a series of the diagnostic questions stored on the central computer; e. retrieving via said interface patient responses to the diagnostic questions and correlating the patient responses to a list of potential diagnoses as a function of the input responses to the medical diagnostic questions and the relative weight of the medical diagnostic questions; and f. storing the list of potential medical diagnoses via said interface to a medical and biographical records database via the computer network-said computer network including a security program limiting access to the medical and biographical records database to the individual patient to whom the diagnosis relates and to health care professionals selectively authorized by the patient to access the records. - View Dependent Claims (59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79)
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80. A health care finance and insurance method comprising:
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a. maintaining medical, biographical, diagnostic, and treatment records for a plurality of individual patients in a medical and biographical records database on a centralized computer; b. restricting via a security program on the centralized computer access to each of said medical, biographical, diagnostic and treatment records in the database to the patients to whom the records relate and to individuals and institutions selectively authorized by the patients; c. maintaining insurance services wherein the services are selected from the group consisting of terms of insurance contracts, explanation of benefits and services, pre-approval of patient services, pre-approval of treatment, approval of treatment, verification of eligibility for medical treatment, verification of treatment, and automated payment of medical treatment; d. comparing via the centralized computer the patient diagnosis and prescribed services or treatment records with approved therapeutic treatment for the identified diagnosis; and e. approving or disapproving payment for the prescribed services or treatment via the centralized computer. - View Dependent Claims (81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87)
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