Patent ID: 8719052

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of providing healthcare professional information to potential patients, said method comprising: (a) receiving, at one or more server computers operated by a service provider who provides a service for connecting healthcare professionals with the potential patients, a request for a results list of healthcare professional information, wherein the one or more server computers comprise at least one computer processor and memory; (b) in response to the request for the results list of healthcare professional information, creating, by at least one of the one or more server computers, the results list of healthcare professional information using the healthcare professional information for one or more healthcare professionals, and wherein the healthcare professional information comprises: (i) healthcare professional-provided information received from the one or more healthcare professionals, wherein the healthcare professional-provided information comprises three or more from the group consisting of: specialty information, medical philosophy, gender, age, years in profession, years in practice, awards, honors, professional appointments, professional memberships, publications, languages, and hobbies; (ii) patient-provided information comprising patient ratings from one or more patients of the one or more healthcare professionals; (iii) third party-verified information verified by an independent third-party, the third-party information comprises three or more from the group consisting of: board certification, licensure, disciplinary action information, medical school, medical internship, medical residency, and medical fellowship information; and (iv) a comparison rating for the one or more healthcare professionals; and (c) providing access to the results list over a computer network.