Patent ID: 8428966

Claim:
A system for gathering quality data for a plurality of healthcare providers over an extended computer network, the system comprising: a plurality of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems that are built on the same architecture and configured to capture patient data for a plurality of patients at the plurality of healthcare providers' sites during a plurality of encounters with each of the plurality of patients, said plurality of EHR systems being configured to capture and transmit the patient data in a common data format that specifies information to be collected and a format for the information to be collected; and an enhanced services server built on the same architecture as the plurality of EHR systems and that is in electronic data communication with the plurality of EHR systems via a network connection and configured to transmit and receive the patient data in the common data format, the enhanced services server including: form retrieval functionality configured to retrieve electronic quality of care forms in the common data format from one or more form managers via the network connection, each of the electronic quality of care forms having a plurality of fields to be completed with quality of care data obtained from the patient data captured by the plurality of EHR systems, and the one or more form managers being one or more organizations responsible for maintaining forms used by healthcare providers to qualify for at least one of certifications, accreditations, and monetary incentives; and form filler functionality configured to fill in the plurality of fields in each of the electronic quality of care forms using the quality of care data in the common data format, each of the quality of care forms being completed for a single healthcare provider from among the plurality of healthcare providers and for a single patient from among the plurality of patients, and the patient data filled in the plurality of fields being from a plurality of encounters with that single patient, wherein each of the electronic quality of care forms is automatically transmitted to one or more form receivers via the network connection after its plurality of fields are filled in, the one or more form receivers being one or more organizations that process quality of care data to qualify healthcare providers for at least one of certifications, accreditations, and monetary incentives.