Integrated emergency medical transportion database and virtual private network system
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1. A secure integrated emergency medical transportation database system for use in a computing environment having a processor and a data storage, the system comprising:
- a medical emergency database stored in the data storage and accessible by the processor, wherein the database comprises at least clinical encounter information, patient demographic data and transport information comprising at least vehicle path tracking information, as electronic protected health information for a plurality of medical emergency incidents requiring transport and a plurality of patients;
a billing module being executable by the processor and configured to access the medical emergency database and generate a bill for each medical emergency requiring transport wherein the bill includes at least portions of each of the patient demographic data, the clinical information, and the transport information; and
a secure communications application being executable by the processor and configured to allow a plurality of authorized users to connect to the system via a public network and further configured to allow secure access to the medical emergency database and/or billing module by the plurality of authorized users via the public network,wherein the secure access comprises technical security measures to protect against unauthorized access to the electronic protected health information during transmission over the public network, for secure storage of data indicative of a medical emergency in the medical emergency database, from a location in the field that is remote from a health service facility.
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Abstract
A system and method for providing secure data communications and user access authorization for an integrated emergency medical transportation database. The secure communications and user authorization is provided by a Virtual Private Network (“VPN”), allowing confidential patient medical records to be transmitted via a public network such as the Internet without compromising the confidentiality of the data.
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1. A secure integrated emergency medical transportation database system for use in a computing environment having a processor and a data storage, the system comprising:
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a medical emergency database stored in the data storage and accessible by the processor, wherein the database comprises at least clinical encounter information, patient demographic data and transport information comprising at least vehicle path tracking information, as electronic protected health information for a plurality of medical emergency incidents requiring transport and a plurality of patients; a billing module being executable by the processor and configured to access the medical emergency database and generate a bill for each medical emergency requiring transport wherein the bill includes at least portions of each of the patient demographic data, the clinical information, and the transport information; and a secure communications application being executable by the processor and configured to allow a plurality of authorized users to connect to the system via a public network and further configured to allow secure access to the medical emergency database and/or billing module by the plurality of authorized users via the public network, wherein the secure access comprises technical security measures to protect against unauthorized access to the electronic protected health information during transmission over the public network, for secure storage of data indicative of a medical emergency in the medical emergency database, from a location in the field that is remote from a health service facility. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A method of providing access to a secure integrated emergency medical transportation database including a computing environment having a processor and a data storage, the method comprising:
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collecting at least clinical encounter information, patient demographic data and transport information comprising at least vehicle tracking path information, as electronic protected health information for each of a plurality of medical emergency incidents requiring transport into a medical emergency database, wherein the medical emergency database comprises electronic data stored in the data storage and wherein the medical emergency incidents are associated with a plurality of patients; accessing the medical emergency database via the processor; generating via the processor a bill for each medical emergency incident accessed wherein the bill includes at least portions of each of the patient demographic data, the clinical information, and the transport information; and securing access to the medical emergency database and/or billing information by a plurality of authorized users via a public network, wherein securing access comprises using technical security measures to protect against unauthorized access to electronic protected health information during transmission over the public network, for secure storage of data indicative of a medical emergency in the medical emergency database from a location in the field that is remote from a health service facility. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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