Patent ID: 7890342

Claim:
A method of measuring and utilizing efficiency of resources utilized by health care providers in the care of medical conditions, comprising: (a) obtaining at a computing device a minimum medical device usage compliance for a medical device for a predetermined compliance; (b) obtaining at the computing device a quantity of the compliance periods in a measurement cycle; (c) obtaining at the computing device measurements of actual medical device usage of the medical device during the measurement cycle; (d) weighting, within the computing device, the measurements of medical device usage for individual usage sessions during the measurement cycle according to a predetermined weighting scheme; (e) determining, within the computing device, whether a compliance period value for the measurement cycle, is at least equal to the minimum medical device usage compliance value, wherein the compliance period value for the measurement cycle is determined on the computing device as the number of compliance periods in the measurement cycle for which the weighted measurements of medical device usage indicate that the actual medical device usage has satisfied the compliance value, and wherein the weighted measurements of medical device usage indicate actual medical device usage has satisfied the compliance value, for a given compliance period responsive to the sum of the weighted measurements for the usage sessions that occurred during the given compliance period being greater than or equal to the compliance value; (f) obtaining, at the computing device, a medical device usage prescription value; and (g) comparing via the computing device, the compliance period value with the medical device usage prescription value.