"Meaningful-Use"-Compliant, Single Login, Federated Patient Portal System and Methods

摘要

A system and method for healthcare administration enabling a patient to simply provide a single login through the system as a trigger that permits the system to subsequently login to patient portals from a plurality of participant medical entities such as EMR networks based on the single initial login, among other operations. Specifically, a federated patient portal system assigns a meaningful use credit to a corresponding participant medical entity as the patient interacts with a user device, such as a patient medical records kiosk. The patient provides a biometric input to initiate a login session with the federated patient portal system through the user device. The biometric input enables the patient to quickly authenticate with the federated patient portal system while eliminating the need for initially providing alpha numerical text input for login.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for accessing data on user device by a patient, the method comprising the steps of:
establishing a network communications link between the user device and a cloud-based Federated Patient Portal System, the user device including a login as a service interface, the federated patient portal system including a federated login-as-a-service module and an authentication as a service module communicatively coupled to the federated login as a service module, the authentication as a service module including a biometric authenticator; providing a biometric input, via the patient, to the login-as-a-service interface; authenticating the patient based on the biometric input with the biometric authenticator; logging in to the federated patient portal system with successful authentication by the biometric authenticator; and logging in to each network from a plurality of electronic medical record (EMR) networks with successful authentication by the biometric authenticator, each network is communicatively coupled to the federated login-as-a-service module and a federated patient portal management as a service module each provided by the federated patient portal system.