Patent ID: 8843505

Claim:
A computer-implemented health-data-portal aggregator comprising: at least one electronic computer including memory coupled to a CPU, implementing a personal health record website connected to a computer network accessible by a patient using a standard browser, the electronic computer implementing a database for storage of medical records and executing a stored program to: (a) receive medical information from the patient for storage in the database; (b) receive clinical medical records of the patient from an electronic medical record system associated with at least one healthcare institution for storage in the database; (c) display to the patient over the computer network data from at least one of the medical information from the patient and the clinical records of the patient in one or more personal health record web pages including graphical elements and links to features of a personal health record website; and (d) generate a downloaded index file including patient medical data accessible by at least one HTML link, and selected from at least one of: (1) the medical information from the patient and (2) the clinical records of the patient, wherein the index file includes instructions to a browser interpreting HTML for displaying the patient medical data in a consistent presentation independent of whether the browser is connected to a network, wherein the downloaded index file is augmented with at least one of: (i) an HTML element displaying information generated based on the HTML link and derived from the content of the downloaded medical data the referenced by the HTML link; (ii) a graphical element of at least one of the personal health record web pages; (iii) a link to at least one element in the personal health record website; (iv) a stylesheet configured to modify a display of the patient medical data accessible by at least one HTML link to have the same look and feel as the personal health record web page, wherein the index file includes a link to the personal health record web page directing the aggregator to forward to the personal health record web page data associated with the downloaded medical data file necessary to establish whether a more current medical data file is present at the database for storage of medical records associated with the personal health record web page.