Patent ID: 8032398

Claim:
An interactive computer assisted method of reviewing, analyzing, and compiling patient profile information from a plurality of different sources into a centralized patient profile database, including an interactive survey designed to evaluate the health status of a health care consumer, said method comprising the steps of: (a) storing in a first database interactive questions for the interactive survey of the patient to assess the overall health status wherein the survey questions are interactively modified, priority of questions reordered based on answers to the questions, and questions are automatically selected based on previous answers; (b) storing in the first database at least one answer to the interactive survey of the patient; (c) storing rules for determining if the patient is likely to be a high utilization health care consumer, and storing patient eligibility information; (d) periodically accessing the patient profile information from the centralized patient profile database and determining if at least one core survey was completed during a predetermined time interval; (e) utilizing, by the computer, the patient profile information stored in the centralized patient profile database to update core questions, and querying a predetermined number of the patients using at least one of the core survey and the updated core questions to determine if the patient is at risk responsive to the at least one answer by interactively presenting the questions to the predetermined number of the patients, and at least one of reordering the priority of questions based on answers to the questions received from the predetermined number of the patients and automatically selecting at least one of a plurality of the questions and additional questions based on previous answers; (f) determining if the patient is likely to be the high utilization health care consumer responsive to the patient profile information, the at least one answer and the rules; (g) determining, automatically by the computer, whether at least one intervention program may reduce health care utilization and improve health of the patient using the results from said survey and said patient profile when the patient is determined to likely be a high utilization health care consumer; (h) determining if the patient is eligible for the at least one intervention program responsive to the patient eligibility information; (i) when the patient is eligible for the at least one intervention program, enrolling the patient in the at least one intervention program or other health care program; (j) generating reports on the state of the at least one intervention program including patient drug utilization, patient evaluation, patient health, comparisons with respect to desired patient health, patient satisfaction, and other information; and (k) updating patient profiles, and periodically modifying the rules for determining the risk behaviors for the high utilization health care consumer.