Patent ID: 7555720

Claim:
A method for providing a user interface far use by a portable processing device for accessing and navigating patient record information, comprising the activities of: receiving user identification information for use in authorizing user operation of said portable processing device; initiating display of an image including a plurality of links to a corresponding plurality of individual patients; acquiring data representing a patient record content index, said content index representative acquired data being dynamically derived, by processing information comprising an existing particular patient record, in response to a user command from said portable processing device to access said particular patient record; initiating display of a patient record content index including a plurality of links to a corresponding plurality of items of patient record information image using said acquired data in response to user selection of a link to one of said plurality of individual patients; initiating display of an image including a plurality of links to a corresponding plurality of lists of patients, and wherein said step of initiating display of an image including a plurality of links to a corresponding plurality of individual patients is performed in response to user selection one of said plurality of links to a corresponding plurality of lists of patients; and initiating display of an image including information comprising a portion of a patient record in response to user selection of a link to one of said plurality of items of patient record information.