Patent Document ID: 10157686
Application ID: 14043165
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of associating attributes with an electronic medical form, the method comprising: receiving, at a computing system including one or more computing devices configured with computer executable instructions, a first patient-specific electronic medical form including one or more fields that are filled with information associated with a first patient, the information including at least a first specific patient identifier; accessing, by the computing system, an electronic data store storing: indications of a plurality of different electronic form types, wherein each of the plurality of different electronic form types identifies a respective class of electronic medical forms and is not specific to any individual form, and for each respective electronic form type of the plurality of different electronic form types: an association between the respective electronic form type and a plurality of attributes, at least one of the plurality of attributes comprising a plurality of values, wherein at least one of the plurality of attributes associated with each respective electronic form type indicates a storage location for patient-specific electronic medical forms of the respective electronic form types, wherein at least one of the plurality of attributes associated with each respective electronic form type indicates a security attribute for patient-specific electronic medical forms of the respective electronic form types, wherein the security attribute associated with each respective electronic form type indicates one of a plurality of security attribute values each corresponding to a different level of access, and wherein at least one of the plurality of attributes associated with each respective electronic form type indicates a link attribute for patient-specific electronic medical forms of the respective electronic form types, wherein the link attribute associated with each respective electronic form type indicates one of a plurality of link attribute values each indicating a respective link to a respective linked to electronic medical form; determining, by the computing system, a first electronic form type of the first patient-specific electronic medical form based on one or more indicia included on the first patient-specific electronic medical form; identifying, by the computing system and by reference to the electronic data store, the first electronic form type from among the plurality of different electronic form types; determining, by the computing system and by reference to the electronic data store, a first plurality of attributes associated with the first electronic form type of the first patient-specific electronic medical form; associating, by the computing system, the first patient-specific electronic medical form with the first plurality of attributes associated with the first electronic form type including a first storage attribute; identifying, by the computing system and by reference to the first storage attribute, a storage location for the first patient-specific electronic medical form; initiating storage, by the computing system, of the first patient-specific electronic medical form at the storage location; receiving, at the computer system, a request to access the first patient-specific electronic medical form; identifying the linked to electronic medical form by reference to the link attribute value of the link attribute of the first plurality of attributes; comparing, at the computer system, a first level of access associated with the request with the security attribute value of the security attribute of the first plurality of attributes; comparing, at the computer system, a second level of access associated with the request with the security attribute value of the security attribute associated with an electronic form type of the linked to electronic medical form; in response to determining that a user has authorization to access the first patient-specific electronic medical form, retrieving, by the computer system, the first patient-specific electronic medical form; in response to determining that the user has authorization to access the linked to electronic medical form, automatically retrieving, by the computer system, the linked to electronic medical form; receiving, at the computing system, a second patient-specific electronic medical form including a second one or more fields that are filled with second information associated with a second patient, the second information including at least a second specific patient identifier; determining, by the computing system, a second electronic form type of the second patient-specific electronic medical form; identifying, by the computing system and by reference to the electronic data store, the second electronic form type from among the plurality of different electronic form types; determining, by the computing system and by reference to the electronic data store, a second plurality of attributes associated with the second electronic form type of the second patient-specific electronic medical form; and associating, by the computing system, the second patient-specific electronic medical form with the second plurality of attributes associated with the second electronic form type, wherein the first electronic form type is the same as the second electronic form type, such that the first plurality of attributes are identical to the second plurality of attributes.