Personalized health care provider directory

Claim 1

A method for printing a group physician directory using a computer system having access to databases for customers of a health care provider service, for group physicians that are members of the health care provider service, for advertisers and corresponding advertisements, and for mapping data, and a printer, where the method comprises the following steps: a. designing a directory template having fields for a customer name, customer address, a listing of group physician names and addresses, an advertisement, and a map; b. selecting a customer name from a listing of customers for which personalized health care provider directories are to be printed; c. for a customer selected in step (b), obtaining from the customer database information regarding an address for the customer; d. determining a geographic region corresponding to the address of the customer; e. accessing the database for group physicians, and selecting group physicians having office addresses within the geographic region determined in step (d); f. if the physicians selected in step (e) exceeds a threshold number of physicians, then restricting the physicians selected to the threshold number; g. accessing the database for advertisers and advertisements to select advertisers having office addresses near the customer and selecting advertisements corresponding to the selected advertisers, h. generating a map of the geographic region determined in step (d) and plotting on the map the addresses of the customers, the physicians selected in steps (e) and (f), and the advertisers selected in step (g); i. importing information into the respective fields of the template of the health care provider directory, the information including the customer name selected in step (b), the customer address obtained in step (c), the group physicians selected in steps (e) and (f), the advertisements selected in step (g), and the map generated in step (h); and j. printing the directory by printing the template of the health care directory with the information imported into the template in step (i).

Claim 2

A method for printing a group physician directory using a computer system having access to databases for customers of a health care provider service, for group physicians that are members of the health care provider service, for advertisers and corresponding advertisements, and for mapping data, and a printer, where the method comprises the following steps: a. designing a directory template having fields for a customer name, customer address, a listing of group physician names and addresses, an advertisement, and a map; b. selecting a customer name from a listing of customers for which personalized health care provider directories are to be printed; c. for a customer selected in step (b), obtaining from the customer database information regarding an address for the customer; d. determining a geographic region corresponding to the address of the customer; e. accessing the database for group physicians, and selecting group physicians having office addresses within the geographic region determined in step (d); f. if the physicians selected in step (e) exceeds a threshold number of physicians, then restricting the physicians selected to the threshold number; g. accessing the database for advertisers and advertisements to select advertisers having office addresses near the customer and selecting advertisements corresponding to the selected advertisers, h. generating a map of the geographic region determined in step (d) and plotting on the map the addresses of the customers, the physicians selected in steps (e) and (f), and the advertisers selected in step (g); i. importing information into the respective fields of the template of the health care provider directory, the information including the customer name selected in step (b), the customer address obtained in step (c), the group physicians selected in steps (e) and (f), the advertisements selected in step (g), and the map generated in step (h); and j. printing the directory by printing the template of the health care directory with the information imported into the template in step (i).