Patent ID: 8332466

Claim:
A network based healthcare management system comprising: a plurality of client workstations each operable by at least a healthcare recipient; a plurality of healthspace service processors, each of said healthspace service processors being operable to access at least one database remotely disposed relative to said client workstations, said healthspace service processors providing access to predetermined healthspace resources; a healthspace service interface unit operably coupled to said client workstations and said healthspace service processors to selectively actuate at least one of said healthspace service processors responsive to said client workstations, said healthspace service interface unit including an efficiency module, said efficiency module: (1) maintaining for each said healthcare recipient a plurality of parametric indicia defining an optimum healthspace resource utilization reference personally attainable by said healthcare recipient; (2) automatically monitoring to track for each said healthcare recipient actual utilization by said healthcare recipient of said predetermined healthspace resources to automatically generate a personalized efficiency index indicative of the actual utilization relative to said optimum healthspace resource utilization reference thereof; and, (3) adaptively updating both said optimum healthspace resource utilization reference and said personalized efficiency index to comparatively guide efficient utilization of said healthspace resources with respect to said healthspace resource utilization reference.