User Interface for Prioritizing Opportunities for Clinical Process Improvement

• US 20070083389A1
• Filed: 03/30/2006
• Published: 04/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Dyer, Barry, Berg, Karen
• Granted Patent: US 8,112,291 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0633 Workflow analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

Methods and user interfaces are provided for prioritizing opportunities for optimizing clinical processes within clinical facilities. An optimized practice process model may be defined for a particular clinical procedure, setting forth an optimal clinical process. In addition, critical levers may be identified within the optimal clinical process, representing the activities that have the greatest impact on outcomes. Clinical facilities may collect current measures for the critical levers, and the current measures may be compared against an optimal, benchmark, and/or target measure. Based on the comparison, opportunities for clinical process optimization may be identified. User interfaces are provided for prioritizing the opportunities, for example, based on benefit indexes and effort indexes determined for each opportunity.

Claims

1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon that provide for the presentation of one or more user interfaces for facilitating the analysis of one or more opportunities for clinical process improvement, the one or more user interfaces comprising:

a chart configured to provide a graphical display of one or more opportunities for clinical process improvement, wherein each of the one or more opportunities is displayed in the chart based on a benefit index and an effort index associated with each of the one or more opportunities.

2. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more opportunities is associated with one or more critical levers defined by an optimal process flow.

3. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the chart comprises two or more value zones, each value zone providing an indication of a value for each opportunity located within the value zone.

4. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the one or more user interfaces further comprise:

an opportunity summary area configured to display a list of opportunities for clinical process improvement, wherein the opportunity summary area provides for selection of the one or more opportunities displayed in the chart.

5. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 4, wherein the opportunity summary area displays a benefit index and an effort index for each opportunity in the list of opportunities.

6. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the benefit index for each opportunity is calculated based on one or more financial factors and one or more non-financial factors.

7. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 6, wherein the one or more user interfaces further comprise a benefit weight field for receiving a weighting to be applied to at least one of the one or more financial factors and the one or more non-financial factors used to calculate the benefit index for each opportunity.

8. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the one or more user interfaces further comprise an assumptions area configured to display one or more assumption values used to calculate at least one of the benefit index and effort index for each opportunity.

9. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 8, wherein the assumptions area comprises one or more input fields for receiving one or more assumption values used to calculate at least one of the benefit index and effort for each opportunity.

10. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the one or more user interfaces further comprise a total financial benefits area configured to display the total financial benefits for the one or more opportunities displayed in the chart.

11. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon that provide for the presentation of one or more user interfaces for facilitating the analysis of one or more opportunities for clinical process improvement, the one or more user interfaces comprising:

an opportunity summary area configured to display one or more opportunities for clinical process improvement, each of the one or more opportunities having an associated benefit index and effort index, wherein the opportunity summary area provides for the selection of at least one of the one or more opportunities; and

a chart configured to display at least one of the one or more opportunities selected from the opportunity summary area, wherein the at least one of the one or more opportunities is displayed in the chart based on the benefit index and effort index associated with the at least one of the one or more opportunities.

12. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 11, wherein each of the one or more opportunities is associated with one or more critical levers defined by an optimal process flow.

13. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 11, wherein the chart comprises two or more value zones, each value zone providing an indication of a value for each opportunity located within the value zone.

14. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 11, wherein the benefit index for each of the one or more opportunities is determined based on one or more financial factors and one or more non-financial factors.

15. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 14, wherein the one or more user interfaces further comprise a benefit weight field for receiving a weighting to be applied to at least one of the one or more financial factors and the one or more non-financial factors used to calculate the benefit index for each opportunity.

16. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 11, wherein the one or more user interfaces further comprise an assumptions area configured to display one or more assumption values used to calculate at least one of the benefit index and effort index for each opportunity.

17. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 16, wherein the assumptions area comprises one or more input fields for receiving one or more assumption values used to calculate at least one of the benefit index and effort index for each opportunity.

18. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 11, wherein the one or more user interfaces further comprise a total financial benefits area configured to display the total financial benefits for the one or more opportunities displayed in the chart.

19. A method in a clinical computing environment for providing an opportunity prioritization chart for facilitating the analysis of a plurality of opportunities for clinical process improvement, the method comprising:

presenting a first user interface component comprising a list of one or more opportunities, at least one of the one or more opportunities having an associated benefit index and effort index, wherein the first interface component provides for selection of at least one opportunity from the list of one or more opportunities; and

presenting a second user interface component configured to display a chart comprising a two-dimensional graph having a benefit index as a first dimension and an effort index as a second dimension, wherein the at least one opportunity selected from the list of one or more opportunities is displayed in the chart based on a benefit index and effort index associated with the at least one opportunity.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein each of the one or more opportunities is associated with one or more critical levers defined by an optimal process flow.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein presenting a first user interface component comprises:

determining a benefit index for at least one of the one or more opportunities; and

determining an effort index for at least one of the one or more opportunities.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein determining a benefit index comprises accessing optimized practice process model data comprising benefit metrics, and wherein determining an effort index comprises accessing optimized practice process model data comprising effort metrics.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the benefit metrics comprises one or more financial factors and one or more non-financial factors.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising presenting a benefit weight field for receiving a weighting to be applied to at least one of the one or more financial factors and the one or more non-financial factors, wherein determining a benefit index comprises applying the weighting to the at least one of the one or more financial factors and the one or more non-financial factors.

25. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for causing a computing device to perform the method of claim 19.