Patent Document ID: 20070083387
Application ID: 11278087
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method in a clinical computing environment for analyzing a return-on-investment for one or more opportunities for improving a current clinical process within one or more clinical facilities, the method comprising: accessing optimized practice process model data defining one or more opportunities for clinical process improvement based on an optimal process flow, the optimized practice process model data further defining return-on-investment metrics for quantifying a return-on-investment for adopting at least one of the one or more opportunities; accessing clinically-related data for the current clinical process based on the one or more opportunities defined by the optimized practice process model data; and determining a return-on-investment for adopting at least one of the one or more opportunities within the current clinical process, the return-on-investment being determined based on the clinically-related data and return-on-investment metrics defined by the optimized practice process model data.