Patent ID: 8428964
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for using a computerized system for matching healthcare consumers to healthcare producers comprising the steps of: providing a producer interface to the system for each of a plurality of healthcare producers to interact with the system over the Internet; providing a consumer interface to the system for each of a plurality of healthcare consumers to interact with the system over the internet, wherein said consumer interface presents a standardized quality assessment of each one of the producers; accepting, via the producer interface, one or more available products and/or available services listings from each of a plurality of healthcare producers; accepting, via the consumer interface, a request from one consumer who is one of said plurality of consumers regarding a desired healthcare product or service; searching, using the system, the plurality of products and/or services listed by the plurality of producers for a subset of said products and/or services that are a close match to the requested desired healthcare product or service; providing a list of one or more items of said subset of products and/or services for display to the one consumer; offering said items on said list of items for purchase by the one consumer; for any one or more items of said offered items accepted for purchase by the one consumer, performing the steps of: using said quality information provided by the one consumer for calculating an updated standardized quality assessment for the producer(s) of the one or more purchased items.