Patent ID: 7730078

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing a database, the database comprising health related information associated with a plurality of different individuals; presenting a set-up display that enables a system administrator to define a plurality of levels of access to data in the database including a first read-only access level for each of the plurality of different individuals and their respective relatives and a second read and write access level for a respective physician of each of the plurality of individuals, said second access level providing access to information of the first access level for each of the plurality of individuals treated by the respective physician plus any determinations made and treatment options selected by the physician for the individual; providing a plurality of computer generated graphical displays that display the data of each of the plurality of individuals where each of the plurality of displays contains the data of only one individual, where each of the plurality of displays is associated with at least one of the plurality of levels of access and where at least one of the plurality of displays is a biometric graphic display associated with the individual; providing an access capability to a plurality of displaced users of the data in the database; receiving an access request from a user including an identifier of an individual of the plurality of individuals; evaluating the received access request and, determining if the user qualifies for access to the health information of the individual on at least one access level; and responsive to the determining, retrieving and forwarding to the user a graphics screen of the plurality of graphics screens including data from the database associated with the at least one access level and the individual.