Patent ID: 8423387

Claim:
A method of delivering medical care, the method comprising: maintaining, in a computer system, patient profiles associated with patients and physician profiles associated with physicians, each of the patient profiles including medical history, voice communication information and text communication information, each of the physician profiles including payee information; receiving, from a first personal mobile computing device, medical symptoms and payer information associated with one of the patient profiles, the system storing the symptoms in the history of the one of the patient profiles, the first device operated by one of the patients, the first device running a software application in a patient mode, the patient mode having a symptom graphical user interface element operative to receive input for the symptoms, the patient mode having a payer graphical user interface element operative to receive input for the payer information; causing the symptoms to be displayed on a second personal mobile computing device, the second device displaying a text field associated with one of the physician profiles, the system authorizing the physician associated with the one of the physician profiles to view the history of the one of the patient profiles, the second device operated by one of the physicians, the second device running the software application in a physician mode operative to display the symptoms and the text field; causing a voice datalink to be established, from the second device via the physician mode, according to the voice information of the one of the patient profiles in order to provide oral consultation regarding the symptoms, the physician mode operative to display a voice datalink graphical user interface element configured to initiate the voice datalink in response to physician activation; and causing a clinical advice, as entered into the text field via the physician mode, to be sent according to the text communication information of the one of the patient profiles, the system storing the advice in the history of the one of the patient profiles, the advice memorializing the consultation, the system billing according to the payer information and the payee information of the one of the physicians, the physician mode operative to display a text field graphical user interface element configured to initiate sending contents of the text field in response to physician activation.