Patent ID: 8386278

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of electronically transferring medical files from a source medical facility to a destination medical facility, the method comprising: receiving by a computer system over a computer network an authorization message from a user access point system, the authorization message configured to permit electronic transmission of a first electronic medical file from a source computing system of the source medical facility to a destination computing system of the destination medical facility; obtaining access by the computer system to the first electronic medical file stored in the source computing system, the first electronic medical file including a first patient identifier; modifying or causing modification of by the computer system the first electronic medical file by removing the first patient identifier and replacing the first patient identifier in the first electronic medical file with a second patient identifier or otherwise associating the first electronic medical file with the second patient identifier, wherein the source computing system uses the first patient identifier for identifying a patient, and the destination computing system uses the second patient identifier for identifying the patient; and transmitting electronically or causing the electronic transmission of the first electronic medical file from a data store to a computing device of the destination computing system over the computer network, wherein the computer system comprises a computer processor and an electronic storage medium.