Patent ID: 8260635

Claim:
A computer system that extracts health care claims data from a plurality of health care payors to identify meaningful relationships or patterns in treatments across multiple payors for improving quality of care and cost, the computer system comprising: a computer configured to communicate with payor computer systems from two or more payors; wherein the payor computer systems are of a type that includes one or more databases storing records of the health care claims data; wherein a normalized format is of a type that displays health care data from one or more sources such that any health care data having the same meaning will be expressed in the same format despite any prior formatting; a staging database in communication with the computer; wherein the staging database is configured to receive the claims data from each of the payor computer systems; wherein the claims data from each of the payor computer systems is configured to be converted into the normalized format by a normalization system comprising: a rules engine that predetermines how each of the claims data is to appear in its respective field, and remodels any claims data not expressed as predetermined by the normalized format into the normalized format becoming normalized data such that all normalized data expressing information having the same meaning now expresses that meaning in the same format; and a data analysis module configured to be in communication with the computer and configured to identify patterns or relationships in data across multiple patients.