Patent ID: 8751255

Claim:
A system for delivering on-call schedule information for medical specialist health care providers available to treat a patient in need of emergency medical care, comprising: a machine-readable database comprising on-call schedule information for a plurality of non-emergency medicine specialist physician health care providers currently on-call and available to physically treat the patient for an emergent medical condition, and locations of health care facilities with which said health care providers are affiliated; and a server computer system configured to electronically receive a query comprising a health service category and a location of a patient in need of emergency medical care by a non-emergency medicine medical specialist physician, the computer system configured to respond to the query by searching the database to find at least one health care facility having a non-emergency medicine medical specialist physician health care provider who is currently on-call and currently available to physically treat the patient and accept the patient for potential transfer to the health care facility, the health care provider having expertise in said health service category, said health care facility being within a certain distance of said patient location, wherein the computer system is configured to output an identification and location of the health care facility found by searching the database.