Patent ID: 8078480
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer-storage medium storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method in a clinical computing environment for analyzing a return-on-investment for one or more opportunities for improving a current clinical process within one or more clinical facilities, the current clinical process being of a particular type of clinical process, the method comprising: accessing optimized practice process model data defining a plurality of areas of opportunity analysis for analyzing opportunities for clinical process improvement based on an optimal process flow, the optimal process flow having been predefined for the particular type of clinical process and detailing a plurality of activities for the particular type of clinical process, each area of opportunity analysis corresponding with a group of one or more critical levers each critical lever corresponding with an activity within the optimal process flow that has been predetermined to have a greater potential to impact outcomes for the particular type of clinical process as compared to other activities in the optimal process flow that have not been predetermined as critical levers, the optimized practice process model data further defining return-on-investment metrics for quantifying a return-on-investment for adopting changes corresponding with each area of opportunity analysis, the return-on-investment metrics including benefits metrics that facilitate the quantification of financial and non-financial benefits that may be realized by adopting changes corresponding with each area of opportunity analysis, the return-on-investment metrics also including effort metrics that facilitate the quantification of financial and non-financial efforts required to adopt changes corresponding with each area of opportunity analysis, wherein the optimal process flow, the areas of opportunity analysis, critical levers, and return-on-investment metrics have been predefined based at least in part on analysis of one or more selected from the following: medical literature, published medical guidelines, and operational evidence collected from a plurality of clinical facilities; accessing clinically-related data for the current clinical process corresponding with critical levers of each area of opportunity analysis defined by the optimized practice process model data; and determining a return-on-investment for adopting changes within the current clinical process corresponding with each area of opportunity analysis, the return-on-investment for each area of opportunity analysis being determined based on the clinically-related data and return-on-investment metrics defined by the optimized practice process model data, wherein determining the return-on-investment for adopting changes within the current clinical process corresponding with each area of opportunity analysis comprises: