Patent ID: 8725536

Claim:
A method of obtaining consent from a patient for a healthcare provider to access an electronic medical record of the patient stored at a database system, the method comprising: prompting, by the healthcare provider, a patient to provide the healthcare provider a validation answer corresponding to a validation question; receiving, by the healthcare provider, the validation answer from the patient; submitting, via a computing device including a display configured to display a graphical user interface of a first, provider interface, the validation answer and a patient identifier identifying the patient to the database system; receiving, by the healthcare provider via the first, provider interface, a validation code from the database system upon submission of the validation answer and the patient identifier to the database system; providing the validation code to the patient; and accessing the electronic medical record of the patient stored at the database system with permission from the database system only after the validation code and the validation answer have been submitted to the database system by the patient via a second, patient interface that is different from the first, provider interface.