Patent ID: 7668736
Filing Date: 2010-02-23
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A secure integrated emergency medical transportation database system for use in a computing environment having a processor and a data storage, the system comprising: a medical emergency database stored in the data storage and accessible by the processor, wherein the database comprises at least clinical encounter information, patient demographic data and transport information comprising at least vehicle path tracking information, as electronic protected health information for a plurality of medical emergency incidents requiring transport and a plurality of patients; a billing module being executable by the processor and configured to access the medical emergency database and generate a bill for each medical emergency requiring transport wherein the bill includes at least portions of each of the patient demographic data, the clinical information, and the transport information; and a secure communications application being executable by the processor and configured to allow a plurality of authorized users to connect to the system via a public network and further configured to allow secure access to the medical emergency database and/or billing module by the plurality of authorized users via the public network, wherein the secure access comprises technical security measures to protect against unauthorized access to the electronic protected health information during transmission over the public network, for secure storage of data indicative of a medical emergency in the medical emergency database, from a location in the field that is remote from a health service facility.