Patent ID: 8117045
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a consumer with a service to access and collect health records associated with the consumer, comprising: providing a phone number to the consumer through a web site, the phone number individually associated with the consumer for fax and voice communications from a healthcare provider; associating access information with the consumer for the consumer to use to access an account of the consumer on the web site hosted on a web server using a web-enabled device; providing the consumer with a document to provide to the healthcare provider exercising legal rights of the consumer for access to the health records, the document requesting the healthcare provider to send the health records to the phone number; receiving a private fax communication at a fax server, the private fax communication comprising a health record associated with the consumer for which the consumer has requested and given permission to the healthcare provider to send, the health record is from the set consisting of a patient chart, a birth certificate, a vaccination record, a medical history, a lab report, a test result, a prescription, an x-ray result or image, a scan, and an EKG result or image; converting the private fax communication into an image file format by the fax server; storing the health record encoded in the image file format such that the health record is accessible through the web site; providing the consumer with secure access to the web site using the access information and providing on the web site an interface to the health records of the consumer for the consumer to access the health record; providing a means of receiving a voice communications message from the healthcare provider to the consumer and maintaining the voice communications message as private; alerting the consumer of the voice communications message from the healthcare provider and providing the consumer with access information to access the voice communications message; wherein the web site interface further provides for organizing and annotating the health records by the consumer into separate file folders with functionality for the consumer to name the file folders and add file folders; and wherein the legal rights being legal rights associated with HIPAA.