Systems and methods for evaluating a healthcare professional
a healthcare professional and system technology, applied in the field of evaluating healthcare professionals, can solve the problems of time-consuming, inefficient, and filled with uncertainty, and the process of choosing a healthcare professional is time-consuming, and the doctor's knowledge quality cannot be measured objectively, and the doctor's knowledge quality cannot be determined objectively
Inactive Publication Date: 2018-05-17
HEALTHTAP
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The present patent is about a method and system for virtual healthcare consultations. The method involves receiving a request from a patient to initiate a virtual consultation, gathering information about the patient's reason for the consultation, and attaching important information from the patient's device. The system then locates a suitable healthcare professional to provide a virtual consultation and connects the patient and healthcare professional through a communications interface for video, audio, or chat conversations. The technical effects of this invention are quick and trustworthy answers to patient questions, as well as more efficient and effective healthcare service delivery.
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Currently, the process of choosing a healthcare professional is time consuming, inefficient, and filled with uncertainty.
When individuals find themselves in need of medical care, they often have difficult time finding a doctor with whom they will be satisfied.
These sources do not provide an objective metric for the quality of the doctor's knowledge as assessed by a broader medical community or based on publicly available information.
However, most Internet rating websites provide collections of comments or ratings from unidentified sources and the veracity of data remains unknown to the community.
These sources do not provide an objective metric for the quality of the doctor's knowledge as assessed by a broader medical community or based on publicly available information.
However, the sources of the answers to such questions provided on the Internet are often not identified and have dubious credibility.
Accordingly, consulting the Internet with such questions, e.g., using a search engine, often leaves people more confused, scared and misinformed than they were before.
However, seeking reliable answers in certain fields can be expensive, inefficient and inconvenient.
Also it is costly to visit the doctor or emergency room.
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[0061]In the following detailed description of the invention, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the invention. However, one skilled in the art may practice the present invention with variation of the following details. In addition, some well-known features have not been described in detail in this description to avoid unnecessarily complicating the description.
[0062]Many embodiments of the disclosure may take the form of computer-executable instructions, including algorithms executed by a programmable computer. However, the disclosure can be practiced with other computer system configurations as well. Certain aspects of the disclosure can be embodied in a special-purpose computer or data processor that is specifically programmed, configured or constructed to perform one or more of the computer-executable algorithms described below. Accordingly, the term “computer” as generally used herein refers to any data processor and inc...
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Systems and methods for evaluating healthcare professionals include providing a software interface hosted at least partially on a server having a processor and computer-readable memory and electronically accessible through at least one network system by at least one user computer device having a processor and computer-readable memory, wherein upon accessing the software interface, a user is presented with categories of topics and practice areas of expertise associated with the healthcare professional which the user can vote on using the at least one user computer device; receiving a plurality of votes for the healthcare professional from credentialed healthcare professional users and patients users; processing the votes from the credentialed healthcare users and patient users separately for each topic and practice area; and presenting the result of the healthcare professional' votes from credentialed healthcare users and from the patient users separately for each topic and practice area.
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a divisional application from co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 320,241, filed Jun. 30, 2014, which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 841,145, filed Jun. 28, 2013, U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 841,151, filed Jun. 28, 2013 and U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 841,174, filed Jun. 28, 2013, the contents of each of which are incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to evaluating healthcare professionals in a social network setting. More particularly, the present invention relates to providing information about healthcare professionals, assisting patients to select healthcare professionals to fit their own needs, providing quick and trustworthy answers to health-related questions, and facilitating virtual consultations between patients and healthcare professionals in a social network setting.BACKGROUND[0003]Currently, the process o...
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IPC IPC(8): G06Q10/06G06Q50/22
CPCG06Q10/06393G06Q50/22G16H40/67G16H70/20G16H70/00G16H40/20G16H80/00G06F16/9024G06F3/0482H04L67/12
Inventor GUTMAN, RON J.RUTLEDGE, GEOFFREY W.
Owner HEALTHTAP