Patent ID: 8745693

Claim:
A computer-readable device having stored thereon computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions for use with dictated medical patient information, the computer executable instructions configured to, when executed by at least one computer, cause the at least one computer to: analyze text transcribed from the dictated medical patient information to identify, from the dictated medical patient information, information to be protected in subsequent handling of the dictated medical patient information; and treat the information to be protected disparately from at least some other information in the dictated medical patient information, wherein the instructions for causing the at least one computer to treat the information to be protected disparately from at least some other information include instructions for causing the at least one computer to transmit the at least some other information without transmitting the information to be protected to a communication network, wherein the information to be protected is associated with at least one first portion of the transcribed text and at least one first portion of the dictated medical patient information where the information to be protected respectively has been identified, wherein other portions are second portions of the transcribed text and second portions of the dictated medical patient information, and wherein the instructions for causing the at least one computer to transmit the at least some other information without transmitting the information to be protected to a communication network include instructions for causing the at least one computer to: transmit at least one second portion of the dictated medical patient information without transmitting the at least one first portion of the dictated medical patient information; and transmit at least one second portion of the transcribed text without transmitting the at least one first portion of the transcribed text.