Patent ID: 8615413

Claim:
An integrated patient care and billing coordination system, the system comprising: a plurality of hand-held computers, the hand-held computers each having a user interface, the user interface enabling activities comprising: facilitating access to patient health care information, inputting new patient health care information, receiving real-time information and alerts about patient health condition; notification of timing of patient prescription medication treatment, inputting of timing of administration of patient treatment and creating an electronic record confirming the timing of the treatment administered; and a computer in wireless communication with the plurality of hand-held computers, the computer having memory comprising a database configured to store and update patient health care information, the computer automatically and in real time receiving patient health care information from one of the plurality of hand-held computers and automatically synchronizing, in real time, the received patient health care information with all others of the plurality of hand-held computers, the computer in communication with an in-system party or an out-of-system party to transmit patient health care information and receive acknowledgment of receipt of the information, the computer monitoring fee-bearing information exchanged with the in-system party and updating the database for an appropriate patient; wherein the patient health care information comprises, for each patient, prescriptions, care-giver notes, care-giver prepared charts, patient medical history, physician orders and patient health insurance information.