Patent ID: 9152764
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: G16H,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPPA)-compliant messaging, the method comprising: authenticating a user at a server, based on at least first credentials received from a first device; receiving a request for a consultation at the server, the request received from the first device; causing availability information for a plurality of healthcare providers to be rendered on the first device; receiving an indication, from the first device, that the user selected a first healthcare provider of the plurality of healthcare providers based on at least the availability information; securely receiving a selection of diagnostic information from the first device, the diagnostic information comprising at least one of patient data, medical data, or a medical image; determining a user setting associated with the first healthcare provider, the user setting identifying a specialty of the first healthcare provider and an information field to be included in a message to the first healthcare provider, wherein the information field is configured to be populated by the server with a portion of the diagnostic information; identifying a subset of the diagnostic information based on at least the user setting; retrieving the diagnostic information subset; causing the first healthcare provider to be notified of the request for consultation; authenticating the first healthcare provider at the server, based on at least second credentials received from a second device; generating the message, wherein the message comprises the diagnostic information subset and the populated information field; causing the message to be rendered on the second mobile device; causing a pre-defined diagnosis option to be rendered on the second device, the pre-defined diagnosis option based on at least a portion of the diagnostic information subset, wherein the first healthcare provider can provide consultation by selected the pre-defined diagnosis option; determining that the pre-defined diagnosis option was selected at the second device; transmitting, to the first device, a second message notification; and causing a diagnosis to be rendered on the first device, wherein the diagnosis is based on the selected pre-defined diagnosis option.