System for and method of collecting and populating a database with physician/patient data for processing to improve practice quality and healthcare delivery
First Claim
1. A system for acquisition, management and processing of patient clinical information and patient satisfaction information received from a plurality of physician practices to provide practice performance information for a physician practice, the system comprising:
- means for receiving data from a survey form, the data including a physician component to receive the patient clinical information and a patient component to receive the patient satisfaction information, to provide practice-patient data;
database processing means for translating the practice-patient data to a predetermined format and for storing the practice-patient data having the predetermined format in a database;
data analysis means fora) selectively receiving practice-patient data from the database,b) analyzing the received practice-patient data, andc) summarizing the patient satisfaction information with respect to the clinical information to provide performance results of the physician practice; and
data correlating means for correlating selected portions of the performance results associated with at least one of the plurality of physician practices with portions of the stored practice-patient data to provide a practice measure; and
reporting means for generating a report from the performance results and the practice measures,wherein data correlating means correlates selected portions of the performance results to provide the practice measure as a relative measure of practice quality based on a comparison of the patient satisfaction information of the plurality of physician practices.
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Abstract
A system and method relates to the field of building and administrating a patient management and health care management database containing data relevant to the clinical care of patients, to the management of the practices to which the patients belong, and to outcomes of that health care and practice management. The disclosed system encompasses (i) designing and administering paper and pen and hand held computer survey instruments; (ii) administering and collecting completed surveys (iii) building and managing a database of information collected from the surveys; (iv) analyzing data collected from the surveys; (v) and providing clinical practices with summary information. Summary information may be used to improve patient care, health outcomes, and the management of physician practices.
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21 Claims
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1. A system for acquisition, management and processing of patient clinical information and patient satisfaction information received from a plurality of physician practices to provide practice performance information for a physician practice, the system comprising:
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means for receiving data from a survey form, the data including a physician component to receive the patient clinical information and a patient component to receive the patient satisfaction information, to provide practice-patient data; database processing means for translating the practice-patient data to a predetermined format and for storing the practice-patient data having the predetermined format in a database; data analysis means for a) selectively receiving practice-patient data from the database, b) analyzing the received practice-patient data, and c) summarizing the patient satisfaction information with respect to the clinical information to provide performance results of the physician practice; and data correlating means for correlating selected portions of the performance results associated with at least one of the plurality of physician practices with portions of the stored practice-patient data to provide a practice measure; and reporting means for generating a report from the performance results and the practice measures, wherein data correlating means correlates selected portions of the performance results to provide the practice measure as a relative measure of practice quality based on a comparison of the patient satisfaction information of the plurality of physician practices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for acquisition, management and processing of patient clinical information and patient satisfaction information received from a plurality of physician practices to provide practice performance information, the system comprising:
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a hand-held computer, the hand-held computer storing at least one survey form, the survey form including at least one of a physician section to receive the patient clinical information and a patient section to receive the patient satisfaction information, wherein the survey form is presented as a plurality of screens on the hand-held computer, each screen including a single survey question, the hand-held computer receiving each response value to the respective question as one portion of the patient clinical information and the patient satisfaction information; a host computer having a communications interface to the hand-held computer, the host computer receiving the patient clinical information and the patient satisfaction information from the hand-held computer through the communications interface to provide practice-patient data; database processing means for translating the practice-patient data to a predetermined format and for storing the practice-patient data having the predetermined format in a database; data analysis means for a) selectively receiving practice-patient data from the database, b) analyzing the received practice patient data, and c) summarizing patient satisfaction information with respect to the clinical information to provide performance results of the physician practice; data correlating means for correlating selected portions of the performance results associated with at least one of the plurality of physician practices with portions of the stored practice-patient data to provide a practice measure; and reporting means for periodically generating a report based on the performance results, wherein data correlating means correlates selected portions of the performance results to provide the practice measure as a relative measure of practice quality based on a comparison of the patient satisfaction information of the plurality of physician practices. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of acquisition, management and processing of patient clinical information and patient satisfaction information received from a plurality of physician practices to provide practice performance information, the method comprising the steps of:
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a) providing, with a survey form, survey questions including a physician section including questions related to the patient clinical information and a patient section including questions related to the patient satisfaction information; b) receiving data representing answers to the questions; c) providing the patient clinical information and the patient satisfaction information as practice-patient data; d) translating the practice-patient data to a predetermined format; e) storing the practice-patient data having the predetermined format in a database; f) selectively receiving practice-patient data from the database; g) analyzing the received practice patient data; h) summarizing patient satisfaction information with respect to the clinical information to provide performance results of the physician practice; i) correlating selected portions of the performance results associated with at least one of the plurality of physician practices with portions of the stored practice-patient data to provide a practice measure; and j) periodically generating a report of the practice measure based upon the provided performance results, the report providing the practice measure as a relative measure of practice quality based on a comparison of the patient satisfaction information of the plurality of physician practices. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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