Patent ID: 8694441

Claim:
A system for generating a modeled quality score for a medical professional record, the system comprising: an electronic database maintaining medical professional records, each medical professional record including fields for storing: a medical professional identification, a quality score consisting of a single overall quality value, and quality measures specifying at least: distinctions received, and quality of training; a non-transitory memory storing computer-executable instructions; and a controller in communication with the non-transitory memory having a processor configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to perform the steps of: collecting recommendations associated with identified medical professionals; determining, for individual ones of the medical professionals based on the recommendations received for each of the medical professionals, the quality score consisting of the single overall quality value being based on a quantity of recommendations registered for a medical professional corresponding to the medical professional identification, and at least one of the following: (1) a quality of the recommendations received for the medical professional, (2) a professionally recognized professional giving the recommendation and (3) how recent the recommendations were given; collecting at least two quality measures for the medical professional records; assigning an individual value to each one of the at least two quality measures for the medical professional records, the individual value being based on a strength of each one of the at least two quality measures for a particular medical professional; correlating the quality score consisting of the single overall quality value associated with each of the medical professional records with the individual values for the at least two quality measures for each of the corresponding individual medical professional records to render a degree of correlation value for each of the at least two quality measures in relation to the quality score consisting of the single overall quality value; assigning a weight to each of the at least two quality measures based on the degree of correlation value for each of the at least two quality measures; generating a modeled quality score for individual ones of the medical professional records, each modeled quality score for a professional record being based upon a summation, for each individual one of the at least two quality measures for a medical professional record, of product of: a value assigned to the individual one of the at least two quality measures, and a weight assigned to the individual one of the at least two quality measures; and storing the modeled quality score, rendered during the generating, for individual ones of the medical professional records.