Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
Patent
1998-01-13
2000-01-11
MacDonald, Allen R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
705 14, 707908, G06F 1760
Patent
active
06014629&
ABSTRACT:
A directory of group physicians for a health care provider service is disclosed in which the directory is tailored to a particular customer of the provider service. Relational databases of physician information, customer information, geographic mapping information, and images and/or advertising information are used to select those physicians, health care providers and health care businesses that are local to a specific customer and are to be printed in a directory for that customer. The selection of physicians from the database may include physicians having specialties that had been used by the customer, or physicians having specialties that correspond to the health care needs of a customer, e.g., customers having young children tend to use pediatricians. In addition, a mapping software program generates a local map for the customer that plots the addresses of the physician to be listed in the directory. The information extracted from databases regarding the customer, physicians, local map and other information is merged with a template directory to print a directory tailored to a particular customer.
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Crecca Michele Stackey
MacDonald Allen R.
Moore U.S.A. Inc.
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