Patent ID: 7941328

Claim:
A method of inputting information submitted by a patient into the patient's electronic medical record, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing the patient with a machine readable card including a questionnaire concerning the patient's medical history, environment, symptoms, or other information for answering by the patient; b) receiving the patient's medical history, environment, symptoms, or other information from the patient in response to the questionnaire provided on the machine readable card; c) interfacing the machine readable card with a scanning type machine to convert the patient's answers to a data stream; d) arranging, with a computer, the data stream into a defined data structure that (i) simulates the protocol structure from a party having authorization to export data to the patient's electronic medical record, and (ii) is verifiable by the patient's electronic medical record; and e) sending, with a computer, the arranged data stream to an assigned location for importing into a patient's patient-specific electronic medical record, wherein the patient's electronic medical record contains patient-specific, clinical information regarding the patient's health.