Patent ID: 8468033

Claim:
A method for exchanging healthcare information via a healthcare exchange system, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by a healthcare exchange system in communication with a plurality of health care entities via one or more networks a first request, from a first application executing on a client computing device of a first healthcare entity, for medical information of a patient of a plurality patients; (b) identifying, by the healthcare exchange system, that a second healthcare entity has a medical record of a plurality of medical records of the patient, the medical record stored by the second healthcare entity in a second format identified by a second profile of the second healthcare entity, the second profile identifying the second format used by a second application executing on a device of the second healthcare entity; (c) transmitting, by the healthcare exchange system via the one or more networks, a second request to the second application of the second healthcare entity to authorize release of the medical record to an entity identifier corresponding to the first healthcare entity; (d) receiving, by the healthcare exchange system via the one or more networks, the medical record of the patient in the second format used by the second application responsive to release of the medical record by the second healthcare entity to the entity identifier corresponding to the first healthcare entity; (e) automatically transforming, by the healthcare exchange system, the medical record to a first format identified by a first application profile of the first application of the first healthcare entity and using one or more rules of a message profile for the medical record, the first profile identifying the first format used by the first application, the message profile identifying the one or more rules comprising instructions on transforming data of the medical record into the first format of the first application; and (f) transmitting, by the healthcare exchange system via the one or more networks, the medical record in the first format to the client computing device of the first healthcare entity responsive to the first request.