Patent ID: 8306830
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. An interactive computer-implemented method for generating storing and retrieving a customized document for authorizing medical care instructions pertaining to the level of care to be provided at a future time to an individual by medical professionals, the level of care being selected, created and customized by the individual based upon the specific medical requirements and desires of the individual stored in the memory of a computer system when executed by a processor of the computer system, said method comprising the steps of: providing from the memory of the computer system health and medical information and health and medical education in non-professional terminology to the individual, said health and medical education and information comprising respective medical care for a particular set of medical circumstances, legal terms and medical procedures; selecting from the memory of the computer system requirements for addressing pre-selected medical emergencies and medical situations, said health and medical information and education informing and educating the individual in non-medical and/or non-legal terminology for facilitating the ability of the individual to understand the health and medical information and education and for facilitating the ability of the individual to select the proper level of medical care that is desired by the individual depending on a particular one of selected medical emergencies or medical situations, and the health and medical education and information educating the individual regarding various potential outcomes of a particular medical care decision; inputting and electronically capturing and processing personal information into the computer system, the personal information comprising specific particular medical care desired of the individual depending on the particular medical emergency or situation circumstances stored in the memory of the computer, and inputting personal information into the computer system based on the health and medical education and information; providing customized individualized data in response to a request therefor for obtaining particular relevant required personal information of the individual based on medical and personal information processed by and stored in the memory of the computer system; recording decisions of the individual by the processor of the computer system, the decisions comprising particular electronic instructions for the specific particular medical care for rendering medical care decisions on a selected level of medical care in accordance with said particular electronic instructions based on the personal information of the individual stored in the memory of the computer system; placing, by the processor of the computer system, the particular medical care decisions of the individual into compliance with relevant state and Federal laws electronically stored in the memory of the computer system, and processing relevant state or Federal laws relative to the medical care decisions of the individual and electronically harmonizing the medical care decisions of the individual with the relevant state or federal laws stored in the memory of the computer system to ensure the medical care decisions comply with the relevant state or Federal laws; electronically integrating by the processor of the computer system all related data and information inputted into the computer system for creating medical care instructions for the individual for the particular medical emergency or situation in electronic format; creating medical care instructions by the processor of the computer system in response to the inputted data and information of the individual from the step of processing the inputted data and information of the personal information of the individual to create medical instructions and transmitting the inputted data and information into the computer system; providing the processed generated medical care instructions to the individual to enable the individual to immediately review the created medical care instructions and to revise the created medical care instructions according to the changing age, condition, morals and beliefs of the individual; storing, retrieving and processing the generated medical care instructions by the processor of the computer system for readily available accessibility of the medical care instructions by medical personnel in real-time; and updating, maintaining and processing the medical care instructions by the processor of the computer system periodically to generate a reminder signal for reminding the individual to update and maintain the level of medical care decisions according to a pre-set schedule, and for automatically updating the level of medical care decisions according to any changes in the relevant state and Federal laws.