Patent ID: 8583450

Claim:
A computer implemented method, comprising: providing a computer user interface configured to allow a user to specify a medical condition or treatment, and one or more scoring domains; providing information about a plurality of medical providers, wherein at least some of the plurality of medical providers have bucket rankings which are statistically valid with respect to the plurality of medical providers according to a pre-selected statistically defined confidence level indicating the reliability of the bucket rankings, and wherein each bucket ranking corresponds to a scoring domain specified by the user; selecting, using a computer apparatus, one or more providers from the plurality of providers in accordance with the condition or treatment and the one or more scoring domains specified by the user; and presenting the selected one or more medical providers, each with their respective bucket rankings, if any, to the user, wherein providing information about a plurality of medical providers further comprises determining bucket rankings for the plurality of medical providers, wherein the information about a plurality of medical providers includes a set of KPI (Key Performance Indicator) values for each of the plurality of medical providers, each KPI value indicating a measure of quality for one of the plurality of medical providers, wherein each scoring domain includes one or more KPIs, and wherein determining the bucket rankings further comprises determining, for each bucket ranking, based on a set of KPI values corresponding to KPIs included in the scoring domain to which the bucket ranking corresponds, and based on a statistically defined confidence level, a ranking of a selected one of the plurality of the medical providers, with respect to the scoring domain to which the bucket ranking corresponds, compared to the remaining medical providers of the plurality of medical providers.