Patent ID: 8510129

Claim:
A method for creating a longitudinal medical record as a digital record comprising: receiving information regarding a health event of a patient into a mobile computing device at a location proximate to where the health event occurred and the location is remote from a medical facility, and adding the received information into the longitudinal medical record stored on the mobile computing device, wherein the receiving step includes receiving a selection from the user into the mobile computing device of the patient from a list of individuals displayed by the mobile computing device, displaying an interface on the mobile computing device for receiving information about the health event from a user, receiving the information about the health event though the interface from the user, providing a narrative to the user where the narrative is created by said mobile computing device based on the information about the health event, and compiling the digital record with the mobile computing device for the health event including the provided narrative as the longitudinal medical record; transferring the information regarding the health event and the patient to the medical facility in a digital format as the longitudinal medical record for the patient from the mobile computing device to a database at the medical facility; and accumulating additional information into the database at the medical facility regarding the patient during a period of treatment at the medical facility and adding the accumulated additional information with a second mobile computing device to the longitudinal medical record transferred to the medical facility and stored in the database at the medical facility regarding the patient.