Patent ID: 7475020
Filing Date: 2009-01-06
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a personal/individual health record of a patient enrolled in a health plan of a payor using a personal health record system server, said method comprising the steps of: (a) enrolling a patient in a health care plan of a payor, wherein the patient undergoes encounters with a plurality of health care providers regarding a health related issue of the patient, wherein the health care providers request payment for at least a portion of the cost for the encounters from the payor, wherein the health care providers submit health related information of the patient to the payor to support the cost of the encounters with the patient; (b) initially establishing a communication link between a personal health record (“PHR”) system server and the payor; (c) receiving by the PHR system server a payor data element indicative of a health related parameter for the patient from the payor via the communication link, wherein said payor data element includes payor claims data; (d) extracting at the PHR system server encounter data comprising at least one of outpatient encounter history, hospital outpatient encounter history, and hospital admissions data exclusively from said payor data element; (e) creating at the PHR system server a personal/individual health record of said patient by storing one or more entries into said personal/individual health record based on said encounter data that was extracted from said payor data element; (f) organizing at the PHR system server one or more entries in said personal/individual health record based on universal health care codes; wherein any communication between the PHR system server and the health care providers occurs subsequent to steps (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e); and wherein any communication between the PHR system server and the patient occurs subsequent to steps (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e).