Patent ID: 8121870
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for verifying and approving a government required release form, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving an electronic copy of an executed government required release form from a patient; determining by a computer system an identity of the patient associated with the executed government required release form based on a unique identifier associated with the executed government required release form; correlating by the computer system the identity of the patient obtained from the unique identifier with at least one medical file associated with the identity of the patient; verifying by the computer system using an optical character recognition module a signature on the executed government required release form with one or more prior signatures stored in a database; and transmitting electronically by the computer system an approval communication based on said verifying to a remote server at a source facility to allow a transfer of the at least one medical file from the source facility to a destination facility, and to allow modification of the at least one medical file by removing a first patient identifier and replacing the first patient identifier with a second patient identifier, wherein the source facility uses the first patient identifier for identifying the patient and the destination facility uses the second patient identifier for identifying the patient; and wherein the computer system comprises at least a computer processor and an electronic storage device.