Patent ID: 9740823
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G07C,G16H,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, through the Internet and at a location identification server system that is programmed to identify when geographic locations of particular mobile devices match separately-identified geographic locations, electronic information that identifies locations for care to be provided to healthcare patients who are approved for care by a healthcare provider, and allocated amounts of care that correspond to anticipated durations of stay for one or more visits to the healthcare patients, wherein the healthcare patients have been previously enrolled with a system that coordinates providing of healthcare; receiving, by the location identification server system, location data generated by an electronic location identification service in response to receiving data generated by global positioning system (GPS) units of mobile devices that identify locations of particular healthcare providers when each instance of the location data is generated by respective ones of the GPS systems; comparing, with the location identification server system, digital data for the locations of the healthcare providers identified by the received location data obtained from GPS units, to the locations for care to be provided that were received by the location identification server system, so as to determine whether a location of a particular healthcare provider matches a particular location for care to be provided; and providing, by the location identification server system to a server system that coordinates providing of healthcare, electronic data that indicates an amount of care that corresponds to an actual duration of stay by the particular healthcare provider at the particular location for care to be provided, as a result of determining that the particular location for care to be provided matches the location of the particular healthcare provider responsive to the allocated amount of care, the electronic data being provided in response to receiving the electronic information that identifies the locations for care to be provided, wherein: the location data is received by the location identification server system (a) monitoring a schedule and location of the healthcare provider so that the monitoring transfers location information at an initial frequency when the schedule and location of the healthcare provider indicates that the healthcare provider is not actively with the patient, and (b) responsive to determining that the healthcare provider is actively with the patient, modifying the frequency with which the location data is obtained.