SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DENTAL CASE MANAGEMENT

• US 20090063196A1
• Filed: 08/27/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DDS Ventures Incorporated
• Original Assignee: DDS Ventures Incorporated
• Inventors: Frederickson, Kelly
• Application Number:
  US12/199,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20090063196A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

A system and method of case management is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of managing dental cases is disclosed, the method comprising storing in a data storage, user information indicative of a plurality of users, storing in the data storage, patient information indicative of a plurality of dental patients to which access is granted to at least one of the users, storing in the data storage, case information indicative of a plurality of dental cases, each dental case relating to a single dental patient and to which access is granted to selected ones of the users, identifying a computer as being associated with a particular user, and, in response to a request from a computer identified as being associated with a particular user, transmitting information in the data storage to the computer to which access is granted to the particular user.

Claims

1. A method of managing dental cases comprising:

storing in a data storage, user information indicative of a plurality of users;

storing in the data storage, patient information indicative of a plurality of dental patients to which access is granted to at least one of the users;

storing in the data storage, case information indicative of a plurality of dental cases, each dental case relating to a single dental patient and to which access is granted to selected ones of the users;

identifying a computer as being associated with a particular user; and

in response to a request from the computer identified as being associated with a particular user, transmitting information in the data storage to the computer to which access is granted to the particular user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitted information refers to a single patient.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the transmitted information is indicative of a single case.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing in the database, message information, indicative of a plurality of messages, each message created by a single user and to which access is granted to at least two users.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

granting access to selected user information to a plurality of users.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of information in the database occurs at a pre-determined time after the request from a computer identified as being associated with a particular user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein access is granted to the patient information to the plurality of users.

8. A dental case management system comprising:

a database of information comprising;

user information indicative of a plurality of users;

dental patient information indicative of a plurality of dental patients, to which access is granted to at least one of the users; and

case information indicative of a plurality of dental cases, each dental case relating to a single patient and to which access is granted to selected ones of the users; and

software executed by a processor for;

identifying a computer as being associated with a particular user; and

providing access to database information to which access is granted to the particular user.

9. The dental case management system of claim 8, further comprising:

a plurality of case folders comprising, for each case folder, a collection of links to information in the database related to a single case.

10. The dental case management system of claim 9, further comprising:

a plurality of patient folders, comprising;

for each patient folder, a collection of links to information in the database relating to a single patient; and

for each patient folder, a collection of links to all case folders related to that patient.

11. A program storage device storing instructions that when executed perform a method of managing cases, the method comprising:

storing user information indicative of a plurality of users;

storing patient information indicative of a plurality of patients;

storing case information indicative of a plurality of cases, each case relating to a single patient and selected ones of the users;

storing permissions information indicative of a plurality of permissions, each permission being associated with a selected one of the users and at least a portion of the patient information or case information;

identifying a computer as being associated with a particular user; and

in response to a request from a computer identified as being associated with a particular user, transmitting particular information in the database for which a permission is stored associated with the particular user and the particular information.

12. A case management system comprising:

means for storing user information indicative of a plurality of users;

means for storing patient information indicative of a plurality of patients to which access is granted to a selected one of the users;

means for storing case information indicative of a plurality of cases, each case relating to a single patient and to which access is granted to selected ones of the users;

means for indentifying a computer as being associated with a particular user; and

means for, in response to a request from the computer identified as being associated with a particular user, transmitting information to which access is granted to the particular user.