Abstract: A system and method for determining family relationships between related individuals for use on electronic medical records (EMRs) in which a first person may provide identifiers of self and/or family members to be associated with the EMR of the first person and a second person may give permission so that information from the EMR of the second person may be shared with the EMR of the first person based on a family relationship, whereby EMR record systems may communicate with each other and/or with an external database in order to determine the family relationships and to determine what information may be shared based on the determined family relationships and permissions.

Abstract: A system for and method of facilitating collaboration among medical and healthcare professionals that includes presenting a request for initiating an electronic discussion via a communication network, enabling medical or healthcare professionals to participate in the discussion and to view medical record data germane to the discussion, depersonalizing the medical record data made available to the medical and healthcare professionals to remove any patient-identifying data, and categorizing and tagging discrete medical terms contained in the medical record data to enable association of the electronic medical discussion with an area of expertise of the medical or healthcare professionals.