Patent ID: 8630874

Claim:
A preventative care recommendation engine to provide a preventative care recommendation corresponding to a patient, the preventative care engine comprising: one or more network interfaces accessible by one or more of a healthcare provider and/or a patient; one or more processors, coupled to the one or more network interfaces, to execute instructions to: access a set of confidential health information for an identified patient, wherein the set of confidential health information for the identified patient: is derived from a first data source; and includes one or more of: an indication of a health condition of the identified patient; an indication of a healthcare service provided to the identified patient; and/or an indication of a time when the health care service was provided to the identified patient; access a second data source that includes a set of criteria specified by a third party indicating eligibility of a preventative care service for payment by the third party; and send a recommendation corresponding to the identified patient, wherein the recommendation is a function of: the set of confidential health information for the identified patient; the indication of the healthcare service provided to the identified patient; the indication of the time when the health care service was provided to the identified patient; and the set of criteria specified by the third party indicating eligibility of the preventative care service for payment by the third party; wherein the indication of time is used in determining applicability of the preventive care service at least partially based on whether an amount of time since the healthcare service was provided to the identified patient meets a time-based threshold; and wherein the recommendation comprises an indication of a workflow corresponding to a decision tree for the healthcare provider and/or the identified patient, wherein the workflow: distinguishes one or more potential preventive care services that are applicable to the identified patient contingent on medical judgment and/or additional information that is needed; and identifies one or more steps to take in determining whether the one or more potential preventive care services ultimately apply to the identified patient based at least in part on the medical judgment and/or the additional information; and one or more storage media coupled to the one or more processors to retain the instructions.