Patent ID: 8352287
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a user with a service to access and collect personal health records associated with the user in a private manner through use of a user account, the method comprising: assigning through a web site associated with a web server, a destination address associated with the user account of the user for receiving private fax communications from at least one health care provider; associating access information with the user account of the user for the user to use to access the web site hosted on the web server using a web-enabled device; providing authorization to the health care provider to send personal health records to the destination address associated with the user account; receiving a private fax communication from one of the at least one health care providers at the web site, the private fax communication comprising a personal health record associated with the user for which the user has requested and given permission to the health care provider to send to the destination address; storing the personal health record such that the personal health record is accessible through the web site, wherein the personal 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; associating the personal health record with a user account of the user on the web site; alerting the user of the private fax communication from the health care provider; providing the user with access to the user account on the web site through use of the access information; providing on the web site an interface to organize the personal health record; receiving on the web site a voice communications message from one of the at least one health care providers directed to the user and maintaining the voice communications message as private; alerting the user of the voice communications message from the health care provider; and providing the user with access to the voice communications message using the access information.