Patent ID: 8676597

Claim:
A healthcare services analysis and visualization system, the system comprising: a data store to store data related to healthcare services provided in at least one geographic region; a processor to retrieve and sort data from the data store based on one or more criteria, analyze the sorted data, and transform the sorted data into a geographical map representation of the healthcare services data; and a user interface to display the geographical map representation of the healthcare services data and facilitate user review and interaction with the geographical map representation and the underlying healthcare services data, wherein the healthcare services data is identified on the geographical map representation using one or more indicators, and wherein each of the one or more indicators is selectable by a user via the user interface to retrieve and view healthcare services data and analysis associated with the indicator, wherein the processor is to generate geographic trend information for display and user access via the geographical map representation based on the sorted healthcare services data, the geographic trend information provided in conjunction with radiology business data to create a visual business and planning tool.