Doctor performance evaluation tool for consumers

• US 20060161456A1
• Filed: 12/22/2005
• Published: 07/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IQVIA, Inc. (IQVIA Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Global Managed Care Solutions
• Inventors: Baker, Geoffrey, Rollins, Pamela
• Granted Patent: US 8,583,450 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

Presenting information to patients—intuitive, statistically significant bucket rankings in more than one score domain—in response to requests for medical providers associated with their choice of medical conditions or treatments, and other restrictions. Statistically significant intuitive bucket rankings (such as “*” to “****”) from relatively limited data on medical providers, and adjusting those intuitive bucket rankings so that they reflect a valid measure of the domain of interest despite differing numbers of measurements available for distinct medical providers. User interface by which a patient can (1) specify medical conditions or treatments, and other restrictions, (2) search for medical providers appropriate to those conditions, order them by bucket ranking in a choice of score domain, and (3) obtain more information on those medical conditions or treatments, for medical providers the patient selects.

Claims

1. A method, including steps of

receiving a set of KPI values, each associated with a particular medical provider, each indicating a measure of quality for that medical provider, that measure of quality being in one of a plurality of score domains;

wherein, for an individual medical provider, a function of those KPI values associated with that medical provider provides a 1^st rankable measure for that medical provider;

performing a least squares regression analysis on that 1^st rankable measure as a function of the count of KPI values that 1^st rankable measure is comprised of, and generating a set of residual values, wherein each residual value is associated with one medical provider and indicates a 2^nd rankable measure which is substantially not influenced by the effects of the number of KPI values for that medical provider;

generating bucket rankings to groups of doctors which are statistically different from each other at significance levels defined by the user; and

confirming a statistical significance for the bucket rankings of the associated medical providers.

2. A method, including steps of

providing a patient with access to bucket rankings for each one of a set of medical providers

in response to a request from the patient specifying a medical condition or a medical treatment specifying zero or more additional restrictions;

wherein the selected medical providers are associated with the medical condition or medical treatment and satisfy the additional restrictions; and

wherein selection of those medical providers is responsive to dynamic updates of records regarding medical providers.

3. A method, including steps of

receiving a set of KPI values, each associated with a particular medical provider, each indicating a measure of quality for that medical provider, that measure of quality being in one of a plurality of score domains;

in response to a first statistical parameter, determining a function of those KPI values, that function having as its range a first rankable measure, wherein that first rankable measure is not being statistically valid for bucket ranking;

generating a matching function in response to that first rankable measure and in response to a count of KPI values that first rankable measure is responsive to, with the effect of generating a residual value for each medical provider, a second rankable measure being responsive that residual value;

in response to a second statistical parameter, assigning substantially all of those medical providers each to one of a set of bucket rankings;

confirming a statistical significance of a result of those steps of assigning; and

in response to a result of those steps of confirming, altering that first statistical parameter and repeating those steps of determining.