Patent ID: 8504291

Claim:
A method of providing medical treatment by clinicians, comprising operations of: a mobile care entity providing a network of predesignated mobile clinicians; the mobile care entity providing the clinicians with use of preprogrammed portable computers, each portable computer coupled to a wireless communications interface and including local storage of patient medical records; determining a current location of the clinicians; receiving at the mobile care entity the current locations of the clinicians; in response to the mobile care entity receiving a request for medical services from at the patient's premises, and selecting one of the clinicians in view of the requested medical services and the current locations of the clinicians, the mobile care entity sending a notification signal to the selected clinician for dispatching the selected clinician to the patient's premises; and the mobile care entity sending at least a portion of the requesting patient's medical record to the selected clinician's portable computer, transporting the selected clinician's portable computer and on-site medical devices to the patient's premises; using the on-site medical devices to obtain patient data; sending the patient data wirelessly to the selected clinician's portable computer; sending the patient data wirelessly from the selected clinician's portable computer to the mobile care entity; displaying at least a portion of the patient's medical record on the selected clinician's portable computer as well as the outputs of the on-site medical devices as well as information from remote medical care devices at the patient's premises; and whereby the requesting patient can receive attention at the patient's premises.