Patent ID: 8489423
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer system for transmitting healthcare data from a provider, the computer system comprising: a server in communication with a healthcare provider computer system and one or more healthcare payor computer systems; wherein the server is configured to receive uploaded healthcare data of a first patient from the healthcare provider computer system; wherein communication between the server and the healthcare provider computer system is over the Internet; wherein the healthcare data configured to be received by the server is configured to be converted into a normalized format by a normalization system, wherein the normalized format is of a type that displays healthcare data from one or more sources such that any healthcare data having the same meaning will be expressed in the same format despite any prior formatting; wherein the normalization system includes: a rules engine that is configured to predetermine how each of the healthcare data is to appear in its respective field, and configured to remodel any of the healthcare data not expressed as predetermined by the normalized format into the normalized format to become normalized data such that all normalized data that expresses information having the same meaning is expressed in the same format; wherein the one or more payor computer systems are configured to receive healthcare data from a plurality of patients through the server; and wherein the server is configured to transfer the healthcare data of the first patient between the provider computer system and one of the one or more healthcare payor computers.