Patent ID: 7937275

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of identifying one or more clinical study candidates, the method comprises: receiving consolidated health care information for a consumer of medical services that has an established real-time communication channel between the consumer of medical services and a provider of medical services; retrieving by one or more computers attributes defining a suitable candidate for a clinical study; causing the one or more computers to compare the attributes defining the suitable candidate for the clinical study to the consolidated health information for the consumer; determining by the one or more computers that the consumer's consolidated health information includes at least one of the attributes defining the suitable candidate for the clinical study; identifying the consumer as eligible to participate in the clinical study; retrieving by the one or more computers one or more qualifications defining a suitable provider of medical services to consult with the consumer of medical services about the clinical study; determining by the one or more computers that the provider of medical services is associated with at least one of the one or more qualifications defining the suitable provider of medical services; identifying by the one or more computers the provider of medical services as qualified to consult with the consumer of medical services about the clinical trial; generating a graphical user interface that when rendered on a display device, renders a visual representation of a field that provides an opportunity for the identified consumer to participate in the clinical study; and during the established real-time communication channel between the consumer and the provider of medical services: sending by the one or more computers the graphical user interface to at least one of the consumer and the provider of medical services.