Mobile computing and operating platforms for medical use including handheld devices for wired and wireless voice and data communications, scanning, collecting, receiving, storing, processing, sorting, managing, viewing, transmitting, and forwarding patient and medical data and programs; network servers for medical data and programs, including network access servers and gateways; computer software for mobile computing and operating platforms including personal computers, mobile computers, handheld devices, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, and optical scanning readers for wired and wireless voice and data communications, scanning, collecting, receiving, storing, processing, sorting, managing, viewing, transmitting, and forwarding patient and medical data and programs; computer software for network servers for receiving, processing, storing, and delivering patient and medical data over a global computer network, the software directing servers to handle such patient and medical data and programs; computer software for coding patient and medical data in the form of optically readable symbols and for communicating coded data with a server; and printers and computer software for controlling printers

Providing telecommunications connections to a global computer network server for transmitting and receiving coded patient and medical data; providing communication services, namely, the electronic transmission of data and documents among users of computers for the purpose of maintaining files, data, information, and records concerning patients