Patent ID: 8280747
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: one or more processors; a display device coupled to the one or more processors; and a memory coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the memory comprises program instructions executable by the one or more processors to implement a network-based service, wherein the network-based service is configured to: collect, from a plurality of types of sources, healthcare information about health conditions, related procedures, and actual costs, the conditions, procedures, medications and costs having been actually received by and thus experienced by a first set of healthcare consumers, wherein the healthcare information comprises a quality rating relating to the consumer assessment of the quality of a procedure that consumer has experienced, further wherein the types of sources comprise a healthcare consumer source and at least one of either a health plan provider source or a healthcare provider source, wherein a healthcare consumer is a patient who received a healthcare procedure performed by one or more healthcare providers, and further wherein a healthcare provider is an individual who performed at least a portion of the procedure received by a patient; analyze the collected healthcare information to determine one or more of types of procedures or medications experienced for a given health condition, average cost of one or more procedures or medications, and a range of costs for procedures or medications; organize the collected healthcare information; and provide at least a portion of the organized healthcare information to a patient user of the network-based service other than a consumer of the plurality of healthcare consumers in response to a search request by the patient user for determining procedures and medications they can expect with certain health conditions, the search request including a request for information associated with a specified health condition, the provided portion of the organized healthcare information including information for one or more procedures associated with the specified health condition, the provided information for the one or more procedures including a cost of a procedure of the one or more procedures, wherein the cost of the procedure of the one or more procedures is a negotiated cost, the provided portion of the organized healthcare information being provided as a comparison of procedures, medications and actual costs associated with a particular health condition previously experienced by two or more healthcare consumers of the first set of healthcare consumers other than the patient user, the provided portion of the organized healthcare information further including a percentage of healthcare consumers that experienced specific procedures or medications associated with the health condition.