Patent ID: 8538773

Claim:
A method for determining a quality of care provided by a healthcare provider to individuals in a population, comprising: receiving data representing a plurality of biomarkers for at least a portion of the individuals in the population; determining a baseline health outcome metric based on baseline treatment information associated with the population; wherein the baseline health outcome metric represents an expected rate of an outcome of interest obtainable if no person in the population had received a treatment; determining a current health outcome metric based on current treatment information associated with the population; determining a current health outcome metric reduction value as a difference between the baseline health outcome metric and the current health outcome metric; determining a quality score value based at least in part on the current health outcome metric reduction value; assigning the baseline health outcome metric to a quality of care scale; mapping the quality score value to the quality of care scale; determining a target health outcome metric representing a desired value of the metric for the population, wherein the target health outcome metric could be zero; determining a potential health outcome metric reduction value as a difference between the baseline health outcome metric and the target health outcome metric; determining the quality score value based at least in part on the potential health outcome metric value; assigning the target health outcome metric to the quality of care scale; wherein the steps are performed by one or more processors.