Patent Document ID: 20060229913
Application ID: 11402163
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-based method for providing timely performance evaluations to health care practitioners, which method comprises: (a) providing at least one computer station operable by trained educators for inputting their evaluations of a health care practitioner's performance of a health care or medical procedure and further operable by the health care practitioner, as well as, the trained educators and other educators, for viewing the inputted evaluations; (b) further providing at least one computer and at least one computer database accessible by the computer(s) for storing information including the trained educator evaluations, wherein the computer comprises memory means and one or more computer programs stored therein suitable for the management and manipulation of the information that is directed into or out of the computer database and/or stored therein; (c) arranging for the health care practitioner to perform a health care or medical procedure under a trained educator's direct supervision; (d) evaluating each practitioner's performance and upon completion of each health care or medical procedure, entering the trained educator's evaluation of the practitioner's performance at the computer station and storing the evaluation in the computer database such that the evaluation is accessible by the practitioner; (e) for each such practitioner, generating and displaying reports showing the practitioner's performance trends over time; and optionally, (f) for each group or team of such practitioners, generating and displaying reports showing the practitioner group or team's performance trends over time.