Health care management method and system
First Claim
1. A method for determining resource consumption information for a subject health care provider using resource consumption information of at least one other health care provider comprising:
- (a) determining based on information obtained from the at least one other health care provider, a relative resource weight for a health care resource for a patient group based on consumption of the health care resource by the patient group relative to consumption of the health care resource by a sample group; and
(b) determining, for the subject health care provider, an estimated consumption of the health care resource for the patient group by adjusting consumption information of the subject health care provider based on the determined relative resource weight.
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Abstract
A method for determining resource consumption information for a subject health care provider using resource consumption information of at least one other health care provider, including (a) determining, based on information obtained from the at least one other health care provider, a relative resource weight for a health care resource for a patient group based on consumption of the health care resource by the patient group relative to consumption of the health care resource by a sample group; and (b) determining, for the subject health care provider, an estimated consumption of the health care resource for the patient group by adjusting consumption information of the subject health care provider based on the determined relative resource weight.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for determining resource consumption information for a subject health care provider using resource consumption information of at least one other health care provider comprising:
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(a) determining based on information obtained from the at least one other health care provider, a relative resource weight for a health care resource for a patient group based on consumption of the health care resource by the patient group relative to consumption of the health care resource by a sample group; and
(b) determining, for the subject health care provider, an estimated consumption of the health care resource for the patient group by adjusting consumption information of the subject health care provider based on the determined relative resource weight. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A health care resource profiling system comprising:
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a subject health care provider database containing information quantifying a total use of a health care resource by a master patient group at a subject health care provider during a predefined time period the master patient group comprising a plurality of case types;
a third party profile database containing information about the use of the health care resource in respect of the case types at a plurality of third party health care providers;
relative weighting means for determining, based on information in the third party profiles database, case type relative resource weights for each of the case types, each case type relative weight being representative of the average consumption of the health care resource by each of the respective case types relative to consumption of the health care resource by a sample group; and
profile generating means for generating a resource use profile for the subject health care provider for the health care resource, the use profile including estimated consumption values of the heath care resource for at least some or the case types, the estimated consumption values being determined by adjusting the information quantifying the total use of the health care resource by the master patient group at the subject health care provider based on the case type relative resource weights. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer program product including a medium carrying program code means for determining resource consumption information for a subject health care provider using resource consumption information of at least one other health care provider, the program code means including:
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program code means for determining, based on information obtained from the at least one other health care provider, a relative resource weight for a health carte resource for a patient group based on consumption of the health care resource b the patient group relative to consumption of the health care resource by a sample group, and program code means for determining for the subject health care provider, an estimated consumption of the health care resource for the patient group by adjusting consumption information of the subject health care provider based on the determined relative resource weight. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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