Continuity of medical care
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1. A computer-implemented method comprises:
- accessing a data repository that stores availability information of medical service providers for participating in a consultation;
determining, by one or more computers, which of the medical service providers are available;
identifying, by the one or more computers, an available medical service provider with whom a consumer should consult;
activating a real-time communication channel for an on-line, real-time consultation, with the real-time communication channel being between a device associated with the consumer and a device associated with the identified medical service provider;
receiving, by the one or more computers, medical data collected during the on-line, real-time consultation between the medical service provider and the consumer;
generating, at least partly based on the collected medical data, summarized medical data related to the consumer'"'"'s consultation with the medical service provider;
receiving by the one or more computers information that specifies one or more recipients of the summarized medical data; and
transferring, by the one more computers over a network, the summarized medical data to at least one device associated with the one or more recipients.
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Abstract
A consumer is provided with continuity of medical care by being prompted to transfer data to a recipient, upon completion of the consumer'"'"'s interaction with a brokerage system. The data obtained during the interactions is transferred to one or more recipients selected by the consumer.
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21 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method comprises:
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accessing a data repository that stores availability information of medical service providers for participating in a consultation; determining, by one or more computers, which of the medical service providers are available; identifying, by the one or more computers, an available medical service provider with whom a consumer should consult; activating a real-time communication channel for an on-line, real-time consultation, with the real-time communication channel being between a device associated with the consumer and a device associated with the identified medical service provider; receiving, by the one or more computers, medical data collected during the on-line, real-time consultation between the medical service provider and the consumer; generating, at least partly based on the collected medical data, summarized medical data related to the consumer'"'"'s consultation with the medical service provider; receiving by the one or more computers information that specifies one or more recipients of the summarized medical data; and transferring, by the one more computers over a network, the summarized medical data to at least one device associated with the one or more recipients. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A non-transitory computer program product residing on a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing a computer to perform operations comprising:
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accessing a data repository that stores availability information of medical service providers for participating in a consultation; determining which of the medical service providers are available; identifying an available medical service provider with whom a consumer should consult; activating a real-time communication channel for an on-line, real-time consultation, with the real-time communication channel being between a device associated with the consumer and a device associated with the identified medical service provider; receiving medical data collected during the on-line, real-time consultation between the medical service provider and the consumer; generating, at least partly based on the collected medical data, summarized medical data related to the consumer'"'"'s consultation with the medical service provider; receiving information that specifies one or more recipients of the summarized medical data; and transferring, over a network, the summarized medical data to at least one device associated with the one or more recipients. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An apparatus comprising:
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a processor; and a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing the processor to perform operations comprising; accessing a data repository that stores availability information of medical service providers for participating in a consultation; determining which of the medical service providers are available; identifying an available medical service provider with whom a consumer should consult; activating a real-time communication channel for an on-line, real-time consultation, with the real-time communication channel being between a device associated with the consumer and a device associated with the identified medical service provider; receiving medical data collected during the on-line, real-time consultation between the medical service provider and the consumer; generating, at least partly based on the collected medical data, summarized medical data related to the consumer'"'"'s consultation with the medical service provider; receiving information that specifies one or more recipients of the summarized medical data; and transferring, over a network, the summarized medical data to at least one device associated with the one or more recipients. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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accessing a data repository that stores availability information of medical service providers for participating in a consultation; determining, by one or more computers, which of the medical service providers are available; identifying, by the one or more computers, an available medical service provider with whom a consumer should consult; establishing, by the one or more computers over a computer network, a real-time communication channel between a computer used by the consumer and a computer used by the identified medical service provider to initiate a live interaction between the consumer of services and the medical service provider of services through the respective computers; collecting, during the live interaction with the provider, medical information pertaining to the consumer of services; receiving, from the computer of the provider, information indicative of one or more conditions of the consumer; sending, by the one or more computers that established the communication channel, a prompt to the consumer'"'"'s computer to transfer to a recipient the collected medical information and the received information indicative of the one or more conditions; and transferring, by the one or more computers that established the communication channel and over the computer network, the collected medical information and the information indicative of the one or more conditions to a computer of the recipient selected by the consumer.
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