System for maintaining patient medical records for participating patients

1. A system for maintaining patient medical records for a plurality of participating patients, and in which such records are remotely accessible by patients and by physicians for reading and editing of the respective patient medical records, and permitting entry of patient medical information by authorized persons, the system employing a wide area computer network that permits communication between computer devices connected to said network, with the computer devices including at least one patient accessed computer and at least one physician-accessed computer;

• each said computer being suitably programmed with a web browser; and
  
  a server including a suitably programmed computer including means for connecting with said network, a memory for storing said patient medical records, and software providing software modules to each of said computer devices connected to said server over said global computer network, and providing to said patient access computer a set of patient history screens containing a patient medical record of the respective patient, and providing to the at least one physician access computer a set of screens containing a physician medical record of the at least one patient; and
  
  wherein said server also includes a two-way firewall program that allows both the patient and the physician to access the respective patient medical record for reading and editing, but allows only the physician and not the patient to access the physician medical record.