Patent ID: 7353238

Claim:
A digital data processing system for determining clinical outcomes of medical data, the digital data processing system comprising: an input mechanism receiving sets of medical information from at least one user having an associated privilege level, each set of medical information having characteristics relating to a specific medical study and the characteristics of each set having an associated value; a storage mechanism coupled to the input mechanism, the storage mechanism receiving and maintaining the plurality of sets of medical information; a processor coupled to the storage mechanism, the processor receiving a selection of a first characteristic and a second characteristic common to at least two sets of medical information, and processing all values of the first and second characteristic according to a clinical algorithm to determine a clinical outcome of the sets of medical information for the specific medical study based upon a comparison of the selected first and second characteristics, wherein the clinical outcome provides an indication of a performance of the doctor for at least one of a specific drug, a specific patient, a specific treatment technique and a specific ailment in comparison to at least one other doctor, the processor configured to determine a relative privilege level of a user; and an output mechanism coupled to the processor to receive the clinical outcome of the sets of medical information and to conditionally output the clinical outcome to the user of the digital data processing system, the processor determining conditional output of the clinical outcome depending upon the associated relative privilege level of the at least one user, such that the at least one user may depend upon the clinical outcome during the course of the medical study and the processor presenting, on the output mechanism, a first user having a higher privilege level a first portion of the clinical outcome and presenting a second user having a lower privilege level a second portion of the clinical outcome, the second portion of the clinical outcome different from the first portion of the clinical outcome.