Patent ID: 6658431
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
A method comprising:storing content in a computer database, the content having a plurality of components; associating each of at least some of the content components with at least one of a plurality of ICD or CPT codes in a manner so that each of the plurality of ICD or CPT codes employed has at least one of the content components associated therewith; providing a retrieval system accessible by a user using the Internet, the retrieval system being adapted to retrieve the content components associated with any one of the ICD or CPT codes upon receiving a signal sent by the user, the signal corresponding to said any one of the ICD or CPT codes, the retrieval system comprising a host computer system, the signal sent by the user comprising a signal sent by a client computer system communicating with the host computer system; sending to the user the content components associated with said any one of the ICD or CPT codes upon receiving the signal; the host computer system being adapted to retrieve descriptive healthcare information about a plurality of ailments and being adapted to send to the client computer system the descriptive information of any one of the plurality of ailments upon receiving from the client computer system a search query concerning said any one of the plurality of ailments; associating the descriptive information of each of the plurality of ailments with a plurality of ICD or CPT codes; sending the descriptive information of said any one of the plurality of ailments to the client computer system via the Internet, the sending of the descriptive information being initiated by the host computer system receiving from the client computer system the search query concerning said any one of the plurality of ailments.