System and method for facilitating generation and performance of on-line evaluations

• US 7,899,702 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2007
• Issued: 03/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: David P. Melamed, Morris Nejat
• Original Assignee: David P. Melamed, Morris Nejat
• Inventors: Melamed, David P., Nejat, Morris
• Primary Examiner(s): Sterrett; Jonathan G
• Application Number:
  US11/933,979
• Publication Number:
  US 20080126172A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,216 Days
• Field of Search: 705/10
• US Class Current: 705/7.31
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063114 Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1097 Task assignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0202 Market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• 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: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating on-line generation and assignment of evaluations for entities of a particular organization comprising: a web-based server device for generating web-based communications for delivery to web-enabled devices over a communications network, and receiving web-based communications via the network; an evaluation build module for initiating a web-based communication via the server device for receipt by a user device, the communication comprising a first interface for receiving user input to generate a customized evaluation for a particular organization including input for specifying a target audience (evaluator) for the evaluation, specifying a subject (evaluatee) of the evaluation, specifying associated evaluation questions for the target audience, and specifying potential answer choice types to be entered by evaluators when completing the evaluation; and, evaluation assignment module for generating an evaluations assignment interface via a web-based communication for receiving user input to selectively assign and schedule by date and date range the generated evaluations to one or more evaluators for receipt at web-enabled devices, wherein the assigned evaluations are capable of being viewed and completed on-line by the evaluators.

Claims

1. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for a method for facilitating generation and performance of on-line evaluations for one or more individuals to evaluate one or more other individuals of an academic hospital, said method steps comprising:

providing a database accessible by a computer device;

providing to said database information comprising profiles of individuals associated with said hospital, said profiles of individuals including;

a user name, a user type, a start date of that user at said hospital, a department of said hospital within which individual is associated;

an individual'"'"'s rotation schedule organized as predetermined time intervals within which an individuals of certain user types are assigned tasks to perform at said hospital; and

, a minimum number of evaluations to be completed by said individual within a predetermined time interval; and

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assigning evaluations to be completed by one or more individuals selected according to said one or more of;

user name, user type, or start date of that user; and

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scheduling evaluation assignments to said one or more individuals by a date range commensurate with said predetermined time interval of said rotation schedule, an assigned individual accessing, via a computer device, said assigned evaluation on-line for completion thereof; and

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tracking, via a computer device, data comprising a number of pending evaluations assigned to an individual per said date range, and completed by said individual per said date range, and storing said tracked data;

periodically scanning said tracked data computer and obtaining a number of pending evaluations to be completed by an individual within each scheduled date range, said number of pending evaluations comprising overdue evaluations or partially completed evaluations, and,

for each assigned evaluation overdue, automatically calculating a number of days beyond said scheduled date range that said assigned evaluation is overdue and, for each assigned evaluation not yet completed within said date range, automatically calculating a remaining number of days within said date range that said individual can complete said assigned evaluation; and

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automatically generating for an individual a list of said overdue evaluations including, for each, said number of days overdue and a list of said partially completed evaluations per scheduled date range, including, said remaining number of days within per scheduled date range with which to complete an evaluation; and

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automatically notifying said individual with said list of overdue evaluations or partially completed evaluations to ensure increased compliance in performing said evaluations within said academic hospital.

2. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for a method of facilitating generation and performance of on-line evaluations for at least one first individual of an academic hospital to evaluate at least one second individual of an academic hospital, said method steps comprising:

providing a database accessible by a computer device, said database including profile information of said first individual and said second individual, said profile information including at least one of;

a name of said individual,

a department of said hospital with which said individual is associated,

an employment position with which said individual is associated, and

at least one predetermined time interval, and

at least one evaluation having a due date;

assigning said at least one evaluation to said first individual based on said profile information of said first individual and said profile information of said second individual, said assigned evaluation accessible by said first individual, via said computer device, for the on-line completion thereof;

periodically determining whether said assigned evaluation is complete or incomplete, and whether said due date is expired;

when said evaluation is incomplete and said due date is not expired, calculating a remaining number days until said due date;

when said evaluation is incomplete and said due date is expired, calculating a number of days since said due date has expired;

generating a list of incomplete evaluations, said list associating with each of said incomplete evaluations with at least one of;

said remaining number of days until said due date, when said due date has not expired, and said number of days since said due date has expired, when said due date has expired; and

providing said list to said first individual; and

wherein said evaluation is assigned based on the at least one predetermined time interval of said first individual at least partially overlapping the at least one predetermined time interval of said second individual.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said predetermined time interval comprises a time interval during which said first individual is associated with said second individual.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the department of said hospital with which said first individual and said second individual are associated is the same department, and wherein the predetermined time interval comprises a time interval during which said first individual and said second individual are associated with the department.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the employment position with which said first individual and said second individual are associated is the same employment position, and wherein the predetermined time interval comprises a time interval during which said first individual and said second individual are associated with the employment position.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the predetermined time interval comprises a time interval during which said individual is associated with an assignment and wherein said assignment of said first individual is the same assignment of said second individual.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the predetermined time interval comprises a time interval during which the individual is associated with the hospital.

8. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of:

selecting a plurality of evaluation questions, said evaluation generated from said evaluation questions; and

storing said evaluation in said database.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein at least one of said selected evaluation questions is selected from said database.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said evaluation questions are selectable according to said profile information of said first individual and said second individual.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein said evaluation questions are selectable according to at least one of:

an evaluator type, an evaluatee type, and a competency type.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein at least one of said selected evaluation questions is a customized field-entry-type evaluation question.