Patent ID: 8209194

Claim:
A computing system implemented process for providing a healthcare expense donation network comprising: providing a healthcare management system; providing a healthcare consumer access to data indicating healthcare services expenses associated with the healthcare consumer and a healthcare service provider; the healthcare consumer determining that they desire donations to help with the healthcare services expenses associated with the healthcare consumer and the healthcare service provider; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to provide the healthcare consumer with the capability to provide patient need profile data through the healthcare management system; obtaining patient need profile data from the healthcare consumer through the healthcare management system; verifying at least part of the patient need profile data from the healthcare consumer through the healthcare management system; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to transform at least part of the patient need profile data into a verified patient need profile associated with the healthcare consumer; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to establish a donor payment mechanism whereby a donor can make a donation to the healthcare service provider on behalf of the healthcare service consumer; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to distribute data representing the verified patient need profile associated with the healthcare consumer to one or more potential donors; and at least one of the one or more donors making a donation to the healthcare consumer in the form of a payment to the healthcare service provider made through the patient need profile associated with the healthcare consumer and the donor payment mechanism.