Patent Document ID: 8060381
Application ID: 11278089
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-storage medium storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by a computing device, cause the computing device to generate one or more user interfaces for presentation to facilitate the analysis of a current clinical process within one or more clinical facilities, the current clinical process being of a particular type of clinical process, the one or more user interfaces comprising: an opportunity summary display screen configured to display a plurality of areas of opportunity analysis for analyzing potential opportunities for clinical process improvement defined by an optimized practice process model, wherein the optimized practice process model comprises an optimal process flow that has been predefined for the particular type of clinical process and details end-to-end activities for the particular type of clinical process including interrelationships among the activities, each of the areas of opportunity analysis corresponding with one or more critical levers, each critical lever corresponding with an activity within the optimal process flow that has been predetermined to have greater potential to impact outcomes for the particular type of clinical process as compared to other activities in the optimal process flow that have not been predetermined as critical levers; the opportunity summary display including: an indication display field, wherein an indication is provided for each of the areas of opportunity analysis indicating whether each of the areas of opportunity analysis corresponds with an area within the current clinical process that provides an opportunity for improving the current clinical process within the one or more clinical facilities as determined by comparing clinically-related data from the current clinical process to data from the optimized practice process model for each of the areas of opportunity analysis, wherein a first indication is provided for a first area of opportunity analysis indicating that the first area of opportunity analysis has been determined to be an area of opportunity for improving the current clinical process, a second indication is provided for a second area of opportunity analysis indicating that the second area of opportunity analysis has been determined to be an area of possible opportunity for improving the current clinical process, a third indication is provided for a third area of opportunity analysis indicating that the third area of opportunity analysis has been determined to be an area that does not present an opportunity for improving the current clinical process, and a fourth indication is provided for a fourth area of opportunity analysis indicating that the fourth area of opportunity analysis has been determined to be an area for which information is not available, and wherein the optimal process flow, the areas of opportunity analysis, and critical levers, have been predefined based at least in part on analysis of one or more selected from the following: medical literature, published medical guidelines, and operational evidence collected from a plurality of clinical facilities; a benefit index display field displaying a benefit index for at least one area of opportunity analysis, the benefit index being determined based on the clinically-related data and benefit metrics defined by the optimized practice process model, the benefit metrics facilitating quantification of financial and non-financial benefits that may be realized by adopting changes corresponding with each area of opportunity analysis; an effort index display field displaying an effort index for at least one area of opportunity analysis, the effort index being determined based on the clinically-related data and effort metrics defined by the optimized practice process model, the effort metrics facilitating quantification of financial and non-financial efforts required to adopt changes corresponding with each area of opportunity analysis.