Patent ID: 6151581
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: G06Q,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for acquisition, management and processing of patient clinical information and patient satisfaction information received from a plurality of physician practices to provide practice performance information for a physician practice, the system comprising:means for receiving data from a survey form, the data including a physician component to receive the patient clinical information and a patient component to receive the patient satisfaction information, to provide practice-patient data;database processing means for translating the practice-patient data to a predetermined format and for storing the practice-patient data having the predetermined format in a database;data analysis means fora) selectively receiving practice-patient data from the database,b) analyzing the received practice-patient data, andc) summarizing the patient satisfaction information with respect to the clinical information to provide performance results of the physician practice; anddata correlating means for correlating selected portions of the performance results associated with at least one of the plurality of physician practices with portions of the stored practice-patient data to provide a practice measure; andreporting means for generating a report from the performance results and the practice measures,wherein data correlating means correlates selected portions of the performance results to provide the practice measure as a relative measure of practice quality based on a comparison of the patient satisfaction information of the plurality of physician practices.