Patent ID: 8666774
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for analyzing and displaying performance metrics and information of a hospitalist at a health care facility comprising: a computer management system having a computer processor, input/output devices, subprograms for operation of the computer processor, a data buffer, and one or more input/output ports for receipt and transmission of patient data, hospitalist information, and administration messages and information, said computer management system provides real-time demographic, financial, clinical, and patient data for each hospitalist for display to a hospitalist user and a health care facility administrative user; a statistical subprogram operating on the computer management system computer processor, said statistical subprogram coupled to a primary database on the computer management system, said primary database maintaining compiled demographic, financial, clinical, and patient data for each patient admitted to the health care facility and each hospitalist that works at the health care facility in addition to geometric length of stay data, said computer management system provides a visual graphical comparison of the performance of the hospitalists versus the benchmark metric performance including a first graphical representation of average length of stay and a second graphical representation of the geometric length of stay, said computer management system provides the ability to view the visual graphical comparisons of the first and second graphical representations show the performance of one or more hospitalist versus a geometric mean performance and shows a variance factor showing the variation of the performance of one or more hospitalists versus the mean performance through the input/output port of the computer management system, said statistical subprogram archiving and making available to one or more hospitalists or heath care facility administrators data regarding the dosage and type of medication prescribed to one or more patients admitted to the hospital facility and the frequency of a particular diagnosis given to patients by the hospitalists, said hospitalist or said health care facility administrative user receiving a notification if the frequency of a particular diagnosis or frequency of a prescribed medication exceeds a predetermined level, said statistical subprogram providing real-time feedback to hospitalists on their performance as well as health care facility benchmarking, said administration messages and information including diagnosis information for a patient, reports of patient progress, communications and notifications throughout a treatment episode for a patient, and one or more notifications sent to said hospitalist user or said health care facility administrative user.