Patent ID: 8924229
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: G06Q,G16H,G16Z

Abstract:
1. A method of reporting a health quality measure (HQM), the method comprising: providing, for a plurality of healthcare providers, access to an HQM service, comprising at least one computer, that is coupled to a first funding organization and a second funding organization, the HQM service configured to receive, from each of the plurality of healthcare providers, patient data in a proprietary format corresponding to the healthcare provider and convert the received patient data from the proprietary format to a common HQM data format; providing a healthcare provider interface coupled to the HQM service computer; allowing each of the plurality of healthcare providers to use the healthcare provider interface to define a first mathematical expression that uses at least some of the patient data corresponding to the healthcare provider for computing a first HQM according to requirements of the first funding organization; deriving, by the HQM service, the first HQM for each of the plurality of healthcare providers based on the patient data corresponding to the healthcare provider and the first mathematical expression defined by the healthcare provider; upon request by the first funding organization, generating, by the HQM service computer, a first HQM report having the derived first HQM, where the report is automatically formatted according to requirements of the first funding organization; and automatically sending, by the HQM service computer, the generated first HQM report to the first funding organization.