METHOD FOR INTERNET-FACILITATED HEALTH CARE COORDINATION

摘要

A process that leverages technology to facilitate team-based coordinated care. Techniques for allowing a patient to schedule a future or on-demand videoconference appointment with a health care provider (behavioral or physical), check-in for the appointment, and participate in the videoconference. Further, the system allows a first provider to create and modify in real-time a schedule that modifies availability by types of appointments available and selected by patients/colleagues, view a virtual waiting room in which a patient is virtually located after the patient has checked in, initiate the videoconference, check the availability of a second provider, connect the second provider to the videoconference, view the patient's EHR, add indications about the diagnosis/plan and other notes to the EHR, and generate a bill to the patient for services rendered. Also, the system allows the second provider to indicate their availability, be connected to the videoconference, view the patient's EHR, add indications about the diagnosis/plan and other notes to the EHR, and generate a bill to the patient for services rendered.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for coordinating care for a patient, the method comprising:
allowing a patient and a first health care provider to participate in a videoconference with each other in which the first health care provider can access electronic health care records (EHR) related to the patient, and allowing the first health care provider to permit a second health care provider to join in the videoconference and also have access to the patient's EHR; wherein one of the first health care provider and the second health care provider is a behavioral health care provider and the other health care provider is a physical health care provider.