Method for the brokerage of benchmarks in healthcare pathways
First Claim
1. A method for sharing healthcare benchmarks, comprising:
- monitoring event data, status information, and measures from process instances of information systems of a local healthcare institution;
assigning the event data and measures into groups of process types and aggregating key measurements of the process instances into quality or performance indicators for each group of processes of a same type, thereby creating combined process data;
providing the combined process data of the local healthcare institution to a globally accessible benchmark broker;
storing, by the benchmark broker, the combined process data of the local healthcare institution;
storing, by the benchmark broker, similarly processed combined process data of another healthcare institution;
accessing, by the local healthcare institution, the stored combined process data of the other healthcare institution; and
producing a user viewable comparison between the combined process data of the local healthcare institution and the combined process data of the other healthcare institution.
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Abstract
A method is provided for sharing healthcare benchmarks in which event data, status information, and measures from process instances of information systems of a local healthcare institution are monitored. The event data and measures are assigned into groups of process types and key measurements of the process instances into quality or performance indicators for each group of processes of a same type are aggregated, thereby creating combined process data. This combined process data of the local healthcare institution is provided to a globally accessible benchmark broker who stores the combined process data along with similarly processed combined process data other healthcare institutions. This data can be accessed by the local and other healthcare institutions. A user viewable comparison is produced between the combined process data of the local healthcare institution and the combined process data of the other healthcare institution.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for sharing healthcare benchmarks, comprising:
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monitoring event data, status information, and measures from process instances of information systems of a local healthcare institution; assigning the event data and measures into groups of process types and aggregating key measurements of the process instances into quality or performance indicators for each group of processes of a same type, thereby creating combined process data; providing the combined process data of the local healthcare institution to a globally accessible benchmark broker; storing, by the benchmark broker, the combined process data of the local healthcare institution; storing, by the benchmark broker, similarly processed combined process data of another healthcare institution; accessing, by the local healthcare institution, the stored combined process data of the other healthcare institution; and producing a user viewable comparison between the combined process data of the local healthcare institution and the combined process data of the other healthcare institution. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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