HEALTHCARE INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY AND PROCESSING SYSTEM

摘要

The present invention is directed to a system for collecting, processing and providing access to healthcare treatment information. A first provider computer is provided for collecting and transmitting claim healthcare treatment information relating to a patient. The healthcare treatment information is communicated to a third party payer computer in communication with the first provider computer. A healthcare treatment information processing computer is provided in communication with the provider computer and the third party payer computer comprising computer software for collecting and processing the healthcare treatment information and adapted to display selected healthcare treatment information to a second provider. A method of collecting, processing and making available healthcare treatment information to providers is also provided. The method includes the steps of: entering healthcare treatment information relating to the treatment of a patient into a provider computer in communication with a claim intake system of a third party payer; communicating the healthcare treatment information to the third party payer; accessing the third party payer computer via a healthcare treatment information processing computer and extracting the healthcare treatment information relating to the treatment of the patient; and, providing access to the healthcare treatment information to a plurality of providers via a computer network.