Patent ID: 7269579
Filing Date: 2007-09-11
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of tracking, managing, and evaluating individual participation and overall performance of multiple programs, agencies, funders, and workers with a server with processor, memory, and storage means, comprising the steps of: a) configuring a server to operate a database to store structured data; b) accessing a user interface to add, edit, or delete data stored in said database; c) maintaining assessment-instrument definition information stored in a first dataset in said database, wherein said assessment-instrument definition information is comprised of questions, question groups composed of multiple said questions, answer lists, answer validation data and assessment instruments comprised of said questions, said question groups, said answer lists and said answer validation data; d) maintaining program information stored in a second dataset in said database, wherein said program information is time-stamped, and said program information is comprised of program attributes, agency information, agency provider information, individual provider information, program offering information, and funds and funder information; e) maintaining participant information stored in a third dataset in said database; f) maintaining participation information stored in a fourth dataset in said database, wherein said participation information is comprised of links to said first dataset, said second dataset, said third dataset, time-stamped information of assessment-events, and time-stamped information regarding major activities and minor activities of an individual, such that said information of assessment events and said time-stamped information regarding major activities and minor activities, collected using said assessment instruments, can be tracked over time; g) creating a program offering comprised of said program information, wherein said program offering is defined by said funds comprising a pool of capital for operating said program offering where said funds are contributed by an agency funder defined by said agency information, an individual provider defined by said individual provider information, and an agency provider defined by said agency provider information which provides said program offering, whereby said agency finder and said agency provider are the same; h) defining a program participation activity comprised of an individual described by said participant information, said program offering that said individual participates in, a program participation time indicating the participation time period during which said individual participated in said program offering, said individual provider who provides services to said individual through said program offering, and said assessment instruments that maintain said time-stamped information of assessment-events, and said information regarding said major activities and said minor activities performed as part of said program participation activity; i) generating reports from said database by the steps of: j) creating a program report by said generating reports whereby said specific information is a set of outcome indicators represented by said outcome instruments and associated dynamic subject attributes across multiple said program offerings, multiple providers, and multiple individual participants over time, whereby said desired output enables said outcome indicators to be correlated to the individual participation in multiple said program offerings over time.