Patent Document ID: 7873525
Application ID: 11232779
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of patient referral, comprising: for each of a plurality of patients each treated by a respective provider, administering questionnaires to each said patient over time, wherein each time a questionnaire is administered, a time-based outcome for each said patient and said respective provider is produced; and wherein each time-based outcome comprises a measure of said patient's change in a medical condition over time; and wherein each time-based outcome further comprises a measure of said respective provider's level of success in treating said medical condition; storing said plurality of time-based outcomes in a computer-implemented database correlated by at least said respective provider; and on a programmed computer, automatically: determining the medical condition for at least one of said plurality of patients based at least on said time-based outcome produced by the questionnaire most recently administered to said one of said plurality of patients; determining the medical specialty of a provider to treat the determined medical condition based at least on said time-based outcome produced by the questionnaire most recently administered to said one of said plurality of patients; querying said computer-implemented database for specific providers having said medical specialty and having a plurality of said time-based outcomes for said medical condition, said querying resulting in a summary table of said specific providers; ranking each of said specific providers in said summary table based on each of said specific providers' plurality of time-based outcomes for said medical condition to form a ranked summary table of specific providers, wherein each of said specific providers' ranking is based on the average of the plurality of said measures of said respective provider's level of success in treating said medical condition; and presenting said ranked summary table of specific providers to the at least one of said plurality of patients.