Patent ID: 8924237

Claim:
A system that determines risk profiles of patients for potential for litigiousness against physicians providing or considered for providing service to the patients, comprising: a database configured to store information identifying patients and physicians as well as litigation information relating to the patients and physicians; and a computer configured to execute a risk assessment module that calculates a litigation risk profile for a designated patient of a physician as a function of the information stored in the database relating to the designated patient's past litigation history and values of variables used to predict the likelihood of future litigious activities by the designated patient of the physician based upon past behavior derived using data mining techniques from the information collected about the designated patient of the physician, and an interface that facilitates the input into the database of information identifying patients, physicians, and litigation information relating to the patients and/or physicians, that facilitates the query of the information stored in the database, and that displays the calculated litigation risk profiles.