Patent Document ID: 7734477
Application ID: 11023994
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for facilitating management of health care provided by a facility, comprising: computer readable memory storing a database including data relating to patients treated by the facility, data relating to events occurring with respect to patients treated by the facility and data related to health related care provided by the facility to patients; at least one computer which receives data entered by an input device via a user interface displayed on a display device, the at least one computer accessing the memory in response to received data entered by the input device and providing statistical data that is presented on the display device usable for managing health care provided by the facility, the user interface receiving data identifying a cohort including a plurality of patients conforming to user-defined criteria, the criteria including at least one calendar time period, one of inclusion and exclusion of at least one event within a time interval, the at least one event having a user-defined temporal relationship to a start time or to another event, the at least one event being at least one of a treatment, an outcome, a laboratory test, or a user-specified target outcome; and the statistical data provided by the at least one computer being related to at least one elapsed time period beginning with the start time or said other event for each of the patients in the cohort and ending with an occurrence of the at least one event in case of inclusion of the at least one event in the criteria or an end of said time interval in case of exclusion of the at least one event for each of the patients in the cohort, and the statistical data providing an indication of the quality of the health related care provided by the facility which is usable by the facility to manage health care provided by the facility, wherein the quality of the health related care is in accordance with the elapsed time period.