Patent Application Titled “Systematic Patient Information, Records And Appointment Library System” Published Online (USPTO 20190267122)

2019 SEP 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventor Raghuvanshi, Gopesh (New Delhi, In), filed on October 27, 2017, was made available online on August 29, 2019.

No assignee for this patent application has been made.

Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Managing Medical records correctly including pathological tests, diagnosis and prescription handling are essential steps in almost all health services wherein involvement of a health service provider is required. The prescription handling vis-a-vis management thereof becomes a painful job for a patient as well as to health service provider wherein, bulk prescription handling takes place. Further, it is difficult for a patient to manage all the treatment related prescriptions, reports, and invoices together at a same place.

“Furthermore, a treatment procedure requires a mutual relationship of health service providers including doctors, clinics, hospitals, path-labs and pharmacies for easy interaction and creating a hassle-free situation for all the parties involved in a treatment procedure.

“Sometimes, a patient has to move from one health service provider to another to take their services. This creates lots of trouble to patients to carry reports, diagnosis, prescriptions and other documents that needs to be reviewed by a service provider. For example: it is difficult and time consuming job for a patient to visit again to a pathologist to get a clinical report and take it again to the doctor’s place for review purpose. Similarly, taking a prescription to a retail pharmacy store and keep waiting in a queue therein is a hectic job for a patient and their relatives as well.

“There are disclosed various prescription management systems in the prior art. Some state of the art inventions relate to method and system for uploading/downloading patient data including state of health of a patient within a networked computer system. Another prior art teaches cloud based healthcare information exchange.

“Publication US20020059082A1 suggests appointment setting and payment system. Similarly, US20050246200 provides for system, method, and computer program product for healthcare management.

“Publication US20080319784 discloses an online health consultation method.

“U.S. Pat. No. 5911687 describes a wide are medical information system and method of using the same. It provides a plurality of doctor terminals connected to the wide area network, a plurality of patient terminals connected to the wide area network, and at least one management server connected to the wide area network including an electronic case record file for storing at least clinic information for patients and a doctor database for storing data regarding a plurality doctors registered in the wide area medical information system.

“US Pub. 20030018495 describe system and method for medical drug prescription acquisition. scheduling appointments with the doctor electronically through the Internet; filing and paying for a medical prescription online through the Internet; electronic notification of any events related to medical issues, e.g. change in the doctor’s appointments, availability of prescriptions for pickup, etc.; doctor’s online access to the patient’s preferred drug list as specified by the patient’s PBM and Health Insurance plan; the pharmacy’s electronic receipt and confirmation of a patient’s prescription via the Internet; the patient’s electronic notification of the readiness of a filled prescription; and the simplifying the refilling of medical prescriptions.

“All of the above cited art have disadvantages associated with them. For instance, none of the citation covers any system end to end. They need service provider on their network to use and provide services. Most of the citations are handling individual issues as appointment management, Prescription management or Pharma services. Also, the citations are silent on various aspects like providing for data privacy, emergency solutions, way-outs in casualty and/or emergent and urgent situations, pharmacy requirements and limitations, medical insurance liability as well as indemnities.

“Moreover, there is a need of a platform that can assist users to do online monetary transactions for the health services provided in a healthcare system. Similarly, there is a need of a system that can integrate all the health care providers’ including health insurance vendors on a single platform to transform the conventional way of delivering health services.

“There is a need of an open architecture where service providers who are not part of health services network platform can also attend and facilitate patients who are part of such platform. There is required a system that connects all of the services on one platform to provide best services to a user while empowering a user to choose services for them in their desired manner.

“Hence, there is a need of an approach to overcome all these problems by managing all health care services in an efficient manner.”

In addition to obtaining background information on this patent application, NewsRx editors also obtained the inventor’s summary information for this patent application: “The present invention relates to a system and method to manage electronic prescriptions and other health related services including a health service provider appointment, retail pharmacy services, medical claim reimbursement, pathological services, etc.

“The system comprises a server module, a module to register at-least one user and/or a health service provider, a module to search at-least one health service provider, a module to make an appointment with at-least one service provider of interest, a cloud database to store electronic prescriptions and related instructions, a payment gateway, and a module to transmit electronic prescriptions and related instructions to at-least one registered user and/or health service provider.

“In an embodiment of the present invention, a method of managing electronic prescriptions and related information comprises the steps of: registration of a user on the registration portal provided on a server; creating or uploading a prescription(s) and/or treatment related data in an electronic media format on a cloud database by a registered user; transmitting said electronic prescription(s) and/or treatment related data to a health service provider registered on the server; and storing treatment history on the database over said cloud database.

“In another embodiment, the present invention provides a method for managing health services, the method comprising the steps of: exploring a registered medical service provider through a search module provided on a server; selecting the service provider of interest; booking an online appointment with the selected health service provider; visiting the service provider’s location to take health services; uploading the treatment details including electronic prescriptions, laboratory reports, and related instructions on a cloud database provided on the server; transmitting said treatment details to another health related service provider for further actions taken to assist a registered patient user; and storing the overall treatment records for reference purposes.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A method for electronically managing health services comprising the steps of: a) registering at least one user and at least one health service provider; b) exploring and selecting the registered health service provider by the registered user; c) booking an appointment with the selected health service provider by the user with a unique booking code; d) visiting and furnishing the unique booking code to the health service provider; e) generating and uploading the treatment details in encrypted form on a cloud database provided on the server after visit by the health service provider or alternately by the user; f) encrypting and storing all the details; and g) further allowing decryption, transmittal and secured accession of the details; wherein: the unique booking code includes a QR code, generated on booking of an online appointment; the method includes financial tracking of medical transactions by maintaining records of the transactions on services availed; and the registered user and health service providers act as repositories that shall be linked to unique biometric ID for quick information access for any patient in an emergency situations or SOS situations.

“2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of registering a user includes personal, medical, insurance, identity, and allergy related details and wherein the step of registering a health service provider includes personal, identity and license & registration details.

“3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the health service provider includes but not limited to a doctor, a clinic, a health centre, a medical insurer, a retail pharmacy outlet, a pathological laboratory.

“4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein selection of registered health service provider is based on the parameters of price, distance, availability, experience, number of years of experience, star rating of the previous users and parameters alike.

“5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the appointment status is selected from either tentative or confirmed and can be rescheduled.

“6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of transmittals and access includes at least one authentication step selected from but not limited to a PIN, a One Time Password, biometrics, multi-set password and alike.

“7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the payment for the appointment can be made online or on visit.

“8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user can share his data temporarily with an unregistered health service provider using unique QR code for decryption of secured data.

“9. A system for electronically managing health services comprising: a) at least one storage server for storage of: 1) user data including registration details, prescription and/or treatment related data, insurance details, financial and transactional details; and 2) service provider data, including registration details, license data, facility details, financial and transactional details; b) at least one communication server for transmitting the user data to a health service provider, sending notifications to the user and the health service provider, payment acknowledgement, appointment reminders, advice and directions to the user during prognosis, diagnosis, treatment and after treatment; and c) at least one interface for exploring a registered health service provider through a search module provided on the storage server, making selection, booking an online appointment with the selected health service provider and receiving responses; wherein: the storage server is a cloud based server which stores data in encrypted form and is accessible using secure mode authentication including a PIN, a One Time Password, biometrics, multi-set password and alike; the communication server transmits data towards and from the storage server in encrypted and decrypted forms respectively and is accessible using secure mode authentication including a PIN, a One Time Password, biometrics, multi-set password and alike; and the interface for exploring a health service provider is accessible using secure mode authentication including a PIN, a One Time Password, biometrics, multi-set password and alike

“10. The system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the health service provider includes but not limited to a doctor, a clinic, a health centre, a medical insurer, a retail pharmacy outlet, a pathological laboratory.”

For more information, see this patent application: Raghuvanshi, Gopesh. Systematic Patient Information, Records And Appointment Library System. Filed October 27, 2017 and posted August 29, 2019. Patent URL: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220190267122%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20190267122&RS=DN/20190267122

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