Patent ID: 8751261
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for selecting recipients of a medical device comprising: providing first medical data associated with one patient from a database stored in a memory to a controller communicatively coupled to the memory; identifying with the controller a probability that a medical device provides a medical benefit to the one patient that exceeds a cost associated with providing the medical device to the one patient with reference to the first medical data and a probabilistic model, the probabilistic model having a plurality of model parameters stored in the memory and provided to the controller, each model parameter corresponding to one type of datum in the first medical data; identifying a confidence value corresponding to the identified probability with the controller, the confidence value being identified by: generating with the controller and a user interface device that is communicatively coupled to the controller an output indicating the one patient is eligible to receive the medical device, the output being generated in response to the identified probability exceeding a first predetermined probability threshold value stored in the memory and the confidence value being below a second predetermined threshold stored in the memory.