Patent ID: 8666771

Claim:
A system for planning at a selected healthcare facility of a plurality of healthcare facilities by a user, operational on a digital computer including a computer readable memory, comprising: (a) a database stored on the computer readable memory, the database configured to store health care facility impacting data for a plurality of healthcare facilities within a defined geographic area, the impacting data including demographic data describing a preselected set of aspects of a population residing within the defined geographic area; (b) a data entry interface configured to receive from the user new input healthcare facility impacting data corresponding to projected assumptions regarding changes in the health care facility impacting data regarding a selected healthcare facility of the plurality of healthcare facilities; (c) a simulator, operable on the digital computer, that is configured to apply a plurality of modeling tools to the health care facility impacting data and the projected assumptions of the selected healthcare facility, the simulator further configured to generate output data indicative of an impact that the projected assumptions for the selected healthcare facility will have on non-selected healthcare facilities of the plurality of healthcare facilities in the defined geographic area and configured to store the output data in a predefined memory location, the plurality of modeling tools including: (i) a protocols of care tool; (ii) a service configuration modeling tool that is configured to model interrelationships among hospitals; (iii) a financial analysis tool; and (iv) a facility modeling tool; and (d) a video monitor, responsive to the digital computer, configured to display an image that includes: (i) a map that includes a visual representation of the geographic area; and (ii) a plurality of dynamically configurable data display objects, superimposed on the map, each of the plurality of display objects configured to display healthcare facility impacting data corresponding to a different one of the plurality of healthcare facilities and each display object disposed adjacent to a location of the healthcare facility to which it corresponds and each display object including a plurality of data fields that are configured to display output data from the simulator that is stored in the predefined memory location, the simulator configured, upon receipt of new input healthcare facility impacting data corresponding to projected assumptions about the selected healthcare facility received from the user, to calculate new output healthcare facility impacting data corresponding to each of the plurality of data display objects to determine an impact of the new healthcare facility impacting data received by the data entry interface on each of the dynamically configurable display objects, the simulator also configured to display results therefrom in each of the data fields included in each of the dynamically configurable display objects.