Patent ID: 9269116
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: A61B,G16H,H04N,Y02A

Claim Text:
1. A method for delivering medical examination, diagnosis, and treatment services to a patient over a network, the method comprising: providing a call center having any of a plurality of health care practitioner terminals in audiovisual communication over the network with any of a plurality of patient terminals, the call center including one or more routers; receiving a call at the call center initiated by a person at one of the patient terminals; and routing the call to an appropriate and available health care practitioner at one of the health care practitioner terminals using the one or more routers in order to establish a connection between one of the patient terminals and one of the health care practitioner terminals to enable a two-way audiovisual communication between the available health care practitioner and the person and visually observe the patient during the call, wherein the person is the patient, a family member of the patient, a second health care practitioner, or a combination thereof, wherein the connection permits the available health care practitioner to make an assessment of the patient over the network during the call and to conduct an examination of the patient over the network during the call.