Patent ID: 9406097
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G06Q,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A method for updating a patient-controlled and patient-centered electronic personal medical record database comprising: providing a database of medical records for one or more patients including a patient identifier, a patient profile indicating the type of medical records desired by the patient, and information relating to the healthcare of the one or more patients; using a computer and computer software to request and receive the patient's explanation-of-benefits information from a third party payer using the computer software to identify and interpret the received explanation-of-benefits information to produce an interpretation; using the interpretation to selectively generate a trigger for requesting medical records from a healthcare entity, the trigger being generated if a medical record is suggested to exist by the interpretation step and if the patient profile in the database indicates that the medical record is the type of medical record desired by the patient; requesting the identified medical record when the trigger is generated; receiving the identified medical record; and updating the database using at least a portion of the received medical record.