Patent ID: 7668732
Filing Date: 2010-02-23
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for improving personalized care within an urgent care unit, a hospital emergency department facility or combinations thereof, by creating a high-level of quality service comprising: a. creating a special care unit in an urgent care unit, a hospital emergency department facility, or combinations thereof, wherein the special care unit comprises at least one examination room, at least one computer, and at least one work area, and wherein the special care unit further provides services comprising providing a welcome area, providing refreshments, providing a waiting area, providing computer access, providing internet access, providing child watching services, providing scheduling services for providing an actual time for an examination, providing the examination, providing an evaluation, providing treatment, providing dispositioning of a qualified patient to a higher level of care area in the urgent care unit or the hospital emergency department facility, and combinations thereof; b. providing services with a team comprising at least a doctor, nurse and a clerk and wherein the team provides care and treatment in the special care unit and wherein the team is trained in the following arts: c. enabling an association to issue an indicator for use with the urgent care unit or the hospital emergency department facility, the special care unit, and the association, enabling the member to become a qualified; wherein the association comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of a union, government agency, emergency medical service group, police group, fire fighter group, employee group, human resource department of a corporation, teacher association, a retired person association, and combinations thereof; wherein the indicator allows the team to accept the qualified patient for treatment; wherein the indicator is selected from the group consisting of a uniform, association identification badge, association trademark, sticker with an unique identification mark, corporation issued smart card, and combinations thereof; d. requesting an actual time to be seen by the team using an interface established by the special care unit for the qualified patient; e. sending a confirmation of the actual time to the qualified patient to be seen by the team, and wherein the confirmation comprises a verbal confirmation, email confirmation, confirmation by pager, confirmation by written letter, and combinations thereof; and producing reports for patient charts, and for communicating with medical databases for downloading patient histories by means of software on the computer; f. performing an examination by the team on the qualified patient, wherein the examination occurs within thirty minutes of the actual time; g. generating the evaluation of the examination to determine whether the qualified patient stays in the special care unit or is transferred to the higher level of care area in the urgent care unit or the hospital emergency department facility by the team and wherein the evaluation is completed by the team; moving the patient to the higher level of care area in the urgent care unit or the hospital emergency department facility; and h. providing a treatment of the qualified patient by the team based on the evaluation, and wherein the qualified patient is dispositioned by the team after the treatment.