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Method for the brokerage of benchmarks in healthcare pathways

  • US 20070299703A1
  • Filed: 06/26/2006
  • Published: 12/27/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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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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