Patent ID: 7085800

Claim:
A computer system to facilitate the management and communications at institutional, regulatory and individual user community continuing education requirements, said system comprising: a general purpose computer; a central processing unit connected to said general purpose computer and having a memory that stores an institutional, regulatory and individual continuing education requirements program and information about an individual's current licensing or certifying status, employment and continuing education programs completed; a computer software program, wherein said program adapts said central processing unit to facilitate and manage communication between said general purpose computer and a plurality of user communities comprising employers, employees and a plurality of sources of institutional, regulatory and continuing education programs and certifications, said communication addressing said communities individualized continuing education requirements such that an individual, a licensing entity, a certifying entity, an employer and a continuing education provider may modify or update data regarding an individual; and, wherein said adapted central processing unit's facilitation and management of communication comprises: (a) identifying and managing employer identified relationships and associated continuing education requirements; (b) identifying and managing continuing education content provider and associated continuing education requirements; (c) identifying and managing continuing education accrediting agency identified relationships and associated continuing education requirements; (d) identifying and managing professional association identified relationships and associated continuing education requirements; (e) identifying and managing individual professional identified relationships and associated continuing education requirements; (f) identifying and managing regulatory agency identified relationships and associated continuing education requirements; (g) identifying and managing business entity identified relationships and associated continuing education requirements; (h) identifying and facilitating administrative support and database maintenance functions; (i) updating said memory to reflect completion of additional continuing education requirements and additional certifications of the individual by means of addition of such information directly from an associated continuing education provider without providing the associated continuing education provider access to the information in the memory, and (j) verifying the additional continuing education requirements and additional certifications of the individual by contacting the associated continuing education provider.