Electronic task assessment platform

• US 10,026,052 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2017
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Metrics Medicus, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Medical Metrics, Inc.
• Inventors: Brown, Eric A., Andreatta, Pamela
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, Alan S
• Application Number:
  US15/722,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20180096279A1
• Time in Patent Office: 288 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing an electronic task assessment platform are disclosed. The system may include a first computing device, a second computing device and a server communicatively coupled by a network. A first computing device may include a web browser configured with an assessment builder that enables the creation of customizable assessments. A second computing device may include an assessment application for completion of the customized assessment related to task performance evaluations. The completed assessment may be provided to the server that performs objective evaluation of the completed assessment and generates a specialized report including statistical metrics relating to the task performance evaluations. The report is provided to the first computing device and/or the second computing device.

Claims

1. A system for performance assessment of healthcare professionals comprising:

a first device comprising a first user interface and including a web browser;

a second device comprising a second user interface and including an assessment application; and

at least one server communicatively coupled to each of the first device and the second device via a network, the at least one server comprising a non-transitory memory storing computer-readable instructions and at least one processor, execution of the instructions, by the at least one processor, causing the at least one server to;

provide, on the first device, via the web browser, an assessment builder comprising a plurality of customizable assessment components, wherein the customizable assessment components further comprise one or more assessment items defining one or more healthcare related performance evaluation tasks to be conducted by one or more healthcare professionals;

receive at least one constructed assessment from the first device, the at least one constructed assessment being constructed from among the plurality of customizable assessment components of the assessment builder via the first user interface, the at least one constructed assessment further comprising a selection of at least one assessment item from among the customizable assessment components;

present the at least one constructed assessment to the second device via the assessment application of the second device;

receive at least one completed assessment from the second device, the at least one completed assessment including one or more task performance evaluations associated with the presented at least one constructed assessment of the assessment application via the second user interface, wherein the one or more task performance evaluations include evaluations of the one or more healthcare professionals'"'"' execution of the healthcare related performance evaluation tasks;

generate statistical metrics for the received at least one completed assessment and the one or more task performance evaluations by applying statistics comparing the one or more task performance evaluations to at least one of previous task performance evaluations performed by the one or more health care professionals, one or more task performance evaluations performed by other healthcare professionals, and standard values;

generate a report including one or more graphical indicators indicative of the generated statistical metrics related to the one or more task performance evaluations based on the received at least one completed assessment; and

display, via at least one of the first device and the second device, the generated report, wherein the generated report is specially optimized for display on a report viewer of at least one of the first device and the second device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the execution of the instructions further cause the at least one server to:

receive user information associated with one or more users from the first device;

store the received user information on a database communicatively coupled to the at least one server, to register the one or more users; and

validate a user among the one or more users by comparing further user information received from the first device with the stored user information on the database, to permit access by the user to the database.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more statistical metrics are generated by a statistical analytics module of the at least one server, the statistical metrics comprising at least one of a performance metric of an individual user and a performance metric of an individual user in comparison to a group of users.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more statistical metrics involves a comparison between the one or more task performance evaluations and information stored on a database communicatively coupled to the at least one server.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the information stored on the database comprises a past performance of a user of the second device on a corresponding assessment to the received at least one completed assessment.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the information stored on the database comprises a benchmark value.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the information stored on the database comprises performance information of a population of users that have completed one or more assessments corresponding to the received at least one completed assessment.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the generated report displays the one or more statistical metrics using at least one of graphical and numerical indicators.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the generated report displays at least one of a numerical score, a standard score, an indication of cohort progression, an indication of user progression, historical data, an indication of whether credit was awarded for a task, an indication of whether a task is critical, a name for the task, a task value, and documentation.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of customizable assessment components further comprises at least one of a title, an affiliated organization, an author, an assessment type, one or more clinical specialties, one or more clinical performers, an applicability element, one or more assessment items, and an assessment overview.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more assessment items further comprises one or more of a name, a critical item designation and an item scale.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the critical item designation further comprises a designation that an item is required for a user to correctly perform.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the item scale further comprises at least one of a scale type and a scale value, wherein the scale type is at least one of categorical, a checkbox, a milestone, a rating, a data entry, and user generated information, and the scale value is at least one of a numerical value, text information, a binary value and user generated information.

14. A method for performance assessment of healthcare professionals comprising:

providing, via at least one server, to a first device comprising a first user interface and including a web browser, an assessment builder comprising a plurality of customizable assessment components, wherein the customizable assessment components further comprise one or more assessment items defining one or more healthcare related performance evaluation tasks to be conducted by one or more healthcare professionals,

wherein the at least one server is communicatively coupled to each of the first device and a second device via a network and the at least one server further comprises a non-transitory memory storing computer-readable instructions and at least one processor;

receiving, by the at least one server, from the first device, at least one constructed assessment, the at least one constructed assessment being constructed from among the plurality of customizable assessment components of the assessment builder via the first user interface, the at least one constructed assessment further comprising a selection of at least one assessment item from among the customizable assessment components;

presenting, by the at least one server to the second device comprising a second user interface and including an assessment application, the at least one constructed assessment via the assessment application;

receiving, by the at least one server, at least one completed assessment from the second device, the at least one completed assessment including one or more task performance evaluations associated with the presented at least one constructed assessment of the assessment application via the second user interface, wherein the one or more task performance evaluations include evaluations of the one or more healthcare professionals'"'"' execution of the healthcare related performance evaluation tasks, generating, by the at least one server, statistical metrics for the received at least one completed assessment and the one or more task performance evaluations by applying statistics comparing the one or more task performance evaluations to at least one of previous task performance evaluations performed by the one or more health care professionals, one or more task performance evaluations performed by other healthcare professionals, and standard values;

generating, via the at least one server, a report including one or more graphical indicators inactive of the generated statistical metrics related to the one or more task performance evaluations based on the received at least one completed assessment; and

displaying, via at least one of the first device and the second device, the generated report, wherein the generated report is specially optimized for display on a report viewer of at least one of the first device and the second device.

15. The method of claim 14, the method further comprising:

receiving, at the at least one server from the first device, user information associated with one or more users;

storing, the received user information on a database communicatively coupled to the at least one server, to register the one or more users; and

validating a user among the one or more users by comparing further user information received from the first device with the stored user information on the database, to permit access by the user to the database.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the one or more statistical metrics are generated by a statistical analytics module of the at least one server, the statistical metrics comprising at least one of a performance metric of an individual user and a performance metric of an individual user in comparison to a group of users.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the one or more statistical metrics are generated by comparing the one or more task performance evaluations and information stored on a database communicatively coupled to the at least one server.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the information stored on the database comprises a past performance of a user of the second device on a corresponding assessment to the received at least one completed assessment.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the information stored on the database comprises a benchmark value.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the information stored on the database comprises performance information of a population of users that have completed one or more assessments corresponding to the received at least one completed assessment.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein the displaying of the generated report displays the one or more statistical metrics using at least one of graphical and numerical indicators.

22. The method of claim 14, wherein the displaying of the generated report further comprises displaying at least one of a numerical score, a standard score, an indication of cohort progression, an indication of user progression, historical data, an indication of whether credit was awarded for a task, an indication of whether a task is critical, a name for the task, a task value, and documentation.

23. The method of claim 14, wherein the plurality of customizable assessment components further comprises at least one of a title, an affiliated organization, an author, an assessment type, one or more clinical specialties, one or more clinical performers, an applicability element, one or more assessment items, and an assessment overview.

24. The method of claim 14, wherein the one or more assessment items further comprises one or more of a name, a critical item designation and an item scale.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the critical item designation further comprises a designation that an item is required for a user to correctly perform.

26. The method of claim 24, wherein the item scale further comprises at least one of a scale type and a scale value, wherein the scale type is at least one of categorical, a checkbox, a milestone, a rating, a data entry, and user generated information, and the scale value is at least one of a numerical value, text information, a binary value and user generated information.