Patent ID: 8352288

Claim:
A method for providing a user with a web-based service to access and collect records associated with the user in a secure and private manner, comprising: assigning through a web site a phone number to the user for private fax and voice communications from service providers: assigning through the web site a user account to the user; associating access information with the user for the user to use to access the user account on the web site on a web server; creating through the web site a document for the user to provide to the service provider requesting the service provider to send the records to the phone number and granting the service provider permission to send the records to the phone number; receiving by the service provider the document from the user to provide the service provider permission to send me records to the phone number: sending by the service provider is private fax communication to the phone number after receiving of the document by the service provider; receiving the private fax communication at a fax server, the private fax communication. comprising a record associated with, the user for which the user has requested and given permission to the service provider to send to the phone number, the record is from the set consisting of a patient chart, a birth certificate, a vaccination record, a medical history, a lab report, a test result, a prescription, an x-ray result or image, a scan, and an EKG result or image; converting the private fax communication into an image file format at the fax server; storing the record encoded in the image file format such the record is accessible only through the user account on the web site on the web server; providing a means of receiving a voice communications message from the service provider and providing the user with access information to access the voice communications message; providing a means of alerting the user of the voice communications message from the service provider; providing the user with access to the user account on the web site on the web server using the access information and providing on the web site an interface to the records of the user for the user to access the record; and wherein the web site interface further provides for organizing and annotating the records by the user into separate file folders with functionality for the user to name the file folders and add file folders; wherein the web site interface further provides for assigning additional password protection to one or more of the folders.