Patent ID: 7684998
Filing Date: 2010-03-23
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method to provide emergency health care to patients with insurance comprising the steps of a. establishing a special care unit comprising at least one examination room, at least one interface on at least one computer, and at least one work area, and forming a team within the special care unit, in a hospital having an emergency department for use by a plurality of qualified patients or a plurality of family members of a qualified patients and wherein the team has a doctor and at least one member of the group comprising at least one nurse, at least one clerk or combinations thereof; and wherein the special care unit provides to qualified patients or to the family members of the qualified patients services including: providing scheduling services at least for an actual time for an examination, providing an examination, providing at least one test with results enabling the doctor to provide an evaluation, providing treatment based on the evaluation; and providing dispositioning of the qualified patient or the family member of the qualified patients, b. verifying a person's insurance through a association, and for a fee providing an indicator to the person to identify the person as a qualified patient or as a family member of the qualified patients; wherein the indicator provided by the association is for enabling the qualified patient or the family member of the qualified patients to have emergency healthcare within thirty minutes of the actual time registering the indicator with the special care unit; wherein the indicator is selected form the group comprising a uniform, an association identification badge, an association trademark, a sticker with a unique identification mark, a corporation issued smart card, or combinations thereof; and wherein the interface enables the qualified patient or the family member of the qualified patients to request the actual time to be seen by the special care unit and the interface includes computer instructions executable on a computer for scheduling the qualified patient or the family member of the qualified patients for the actual time to be seen by the team and wherein the computer instructions are in a data storage on the computer, and further wherein the computer instructions in the data storage enable production of reports for patient charts and enable communication with medical databases for downloading patient histories; c. confirming by a computer by the team to the qualified patient or to the family member of the qualified patients the actual time to be seen by the team; by providing a confirmation that is a verbal confirmation, an email confirmation, a confirmation by pager, a or combinations thereof; d. receiving the qualified patient or the family member of the qualified patients with the indicator in the special care unit near the actual time, wherein the qualified patient or the family member of the qualified patients with the indicator is seen by the team; e. examining the qualified patient or the family member of the qualified patients by the team; f. making an evaluation to either keep the qualified patient or the family member of the qualified patients in the special care unit or to transfer the qualified patient or the family member of the qualified patients to a higher level of care area in the emergency department; g. in the special care unit, if no transfer to the higher level of care area is made, then the qualified patient or the family member of the qualified patients is treated by the team based on the evaluation; and h. dispositioning the qualified patient or the family member of the qualified patients by the team.