Patent ID: 7117174

Claim:
A method for analyzing a capital investment in medical resources for a medical facility, the method comprising: providing to a client access to an investment analysis system; providing to the client a form for transmitting client data to the investment analysis system; receiving from the client medical procedure statistics projected to be changed by implementing a desired capital investment in medical resources for a medical facility and receiving at least one of: projected statistics for a new medical procedure generated by the desired capital investment; projected statistics for a lost medical procedure from implementing the desired capital investment; a projected mix of payor types for at least one medical procedure, the payor types comprising inpatients and outpatients at the medical facility; or a combination thereof; analyzing the client data with the investment analysis system, wherein the client data comprises financial data relating to the desired capital investment; generating an investment analysis report of the desired capital investment, wherein the investment analysis report is tailored to the client data; and transmitting the investment analysis report to the client.