Patent ID: 8688474

Claim:
A computer system allowing patient-sourced data to be added to a clinical medical record system comprising: a computer-implemented clinical medical record database created by and accessible to healthcare providers and holding clinical information generated by the healthcare providers during the provision of healthcare, wherein the healthcare providers have write access to a clinical medical record and a patient described in the clinical medical record does not have write access to the clinical medical record; a computer-implemented personal health record database holding patient-sourced medical data entered by the patient; and a computer-implemented Web portal configured to control access to both of the clinical medical record database and the personal health record database and operating in one of: (1) a first mode in which the patient is provided with access to the patient-sourced medical data in the personal health record database but not data of the clinical medical record when the patient provides basic identification information including a user name and password that are not linked to the clinical medical record; and (2) a second mode in which the patient is provided with access to the patient-sourced medical database and read-only access to the data of the clinical medical record based on a prior determination that the user is a patient of the healthcare provider and creation of a computer-implemented link between the user name and password and the clinical medical record.