Patent ID: 8224669

Claim:
A medical system comprising: a database of information relating to the management of a patient's disease including medical, education, exercise and diet information residing on a server computer; a patient component accessible by a patient and in communication with the database via a client computer comprising software to allow the patient access to their medical, education, diet and exercise information; a clinician component accessible by a clinician and in communication with the database to allow the clinician access to the patient's medical, education, diet and exercise information; and an interactive educational interactive component between the patient and the clinician comprising: a data store of the database comprising medical reading material; a selection of clinician assigned reading material selected from the medial reading material and specific to the patient or an attribute of the patient; a viewer for viewing the assigned reading material by the patient and indicating when such material has been read to the database; and a clinician alerter for providing the clinician with an indication that the patient has finished the reading assignment.