Patent ID: 7992780

Claim:
A memory for use in a computer system in a health care facility to provide access to health care services for a first and a second dependent medical patient by a corresponding first and second guardian through a credit account shared by the first and second guardians, the memory comprising: a patient database including an account data structure associating the shared credit account with the first and second dependent medical patients; a first dependent data structure correlating a first guardian identifier identifying the first guardian with the first dependent medical patient; and a second dependent data structure correlating a second guardian identifier identifying the second guardian with the second dependent medical patient, wherein the computer system is programmed to correlate the first guardian identifier with the first dependent medical patient in the database and to provide the first guardian access to at least a portion of the health care database to process health care services for the first dependent medical patient, while preventing access to the second dependent medical patient when the first guardian provides data identifying the credit account.