Patent ID: 7149700
Filing Date: 2006-12-12
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of performing costing of tasks including healthcare activities, said method comprising: a) establishing a list of healthcare tasks involved in a work process wherein said healthcare tasks involves execution by a human operator; b) for each task, determining: c) for each task, deciding which one of four available methods of measurement should be used for calculating the duration of the task depending on the determining step, including: d) establishing a first cost component of each healthcare task as a function of the duration of said healthcare task and the cost per unit time for said human operator; e) establishing a second cost component of each healthcare task dependent on non-labor costs of the process, a portion of each non-labor cost being apportioned to said healthcare task as a function of the time of execution of said healthcare task by said human operator, machine operating time or other relative consumption of a resource; f) maintaining the expected time to complete said activities and the cost per unit time of said operator in a memory of a computer; and g) calculating a task cost using a processor of said computer including the step of summing the first and second components for the healthcare task to establish the cost of the healthcare task.