Patent ID: 8100829

Claim:
A method for generating an indicator of a patient's health comprising: continually receiving, on a computer, disparate medical data relating to a patient at a plurality of time points over a period of time, the data including subjective data determined by a nurse after performing a musculoskeletal nursing assessment including a subjective evaluation by the nurse of the patient's ability to move all extremities independently; transforming, on the computer, for each of the plurality of time points, the disparate medical data into number values so that the disparate medical data can be combined; combining, on the computer, for each of the plurality of time points, the number values to generate a single output value that represents the health of the patient at each of the plurality of time points; and continually plotting and displaying, on the computer, a graph of each of the single output values for each of the plurality of time points, wherein the graph shows the patient's health trajectory over the period of time.