Systems, devices, and methods for providing healthcare information

• US 8,521,559 B1
• Filed: 04/25/2012
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WebMD LLC (WebMD Health Corporation)
• Original Assignee: WebMD LLC (WebMD Health Corporation)
• Inventors: Horn, Alan, Johnson, Ann Mond, Donlan, Joseph, Heilman, Tracy, Fiacco, John
• Primary Examiner(s): BURGESS, JOSEPH D
• Application Number:
  US13/455,847
• Time in Patent Office: 489 Days
• Field of Search: 705 2- 3
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• 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

Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method that can comprise, for a predetermined user, automatically determining a score for each resource from a plurality of predetermined resources based on the user'"'"'s weighting of predetermined factors associated with the resources and an objective score for each factor for each resource, ranking the scored resources, and/or providing an identity of a best matched resource for the user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

for a predetermined user, for each of a plurality of predetermined healthcare facilities, by using an appropriately programmed computer system automatically determining an absolute score from a plurality of weighted scores for that healthcare facility, each of said plurality of weighted scores determined from an adjusted score for a healthcare facility selection factor from a plurality of healthcare facility selection factors and each of said plurality of weighted scores determined from a healthcare facility selection importance weight for said healthcare facility selection factor, each of said adjusted scores determined from a statistical measure relating a healthcare facility score for the healthcare facility to a group healthcare facility score for that healthcare facility selection factor, said group healthcare facility score for that healthcare facility selection factor derived from healthcare facility scores for all of said plurality of predetermined healthcare facilities.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, automatically obtaining an array of healthcare facility scores, each entry in said array corresponding to one of said plurality of predetermined healthcare facilities and one of said plurality of healthcare facility selection factors.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising, for each of said plurality of predetermined healthcare facilities, for each healthcare facility selection factor, automatically obtaining said healthcare facility score.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising, for each of said plurality of predetermined healthcare facilities, for each of said plurality of healthcare facility selection factor, automatically obtaining said adjusted score.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising, for each of said plurality of healthcare facility selection factors, automatically obtaining said weighted score.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, causing a rendering of healthcare facility information comprising, for each of said plurality of healthcare facilities, an identity of said healthcare facility and said absolute score of said healthcare facility, said healthcare facility information ranked by said absolute scores.

7. Computer executable code tangibly embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium which when executed on a computer system causes the computer system to:

for a predetermined user, for each of a plurality of predetermined healthcare facilities, automatically determining an absolute score from a plurality of weighted scores for that healthcare facility, each of said plurality of weighted scores determined from an adjusted score for a healthcare facility selection factor from a plurality of healthcare facility selection factors and each of said plurality of weighted scores determined from a healthcare facility selection importance weight for said healthcare facility selection factor, each of said adjusted scores determined from a statistical measure relating a healthcare facility score for the healthcare facility to a group healthcare facility score for that healthcare facility selection factor, said group healthcare facility score for that healthcare facility selection factor derived from healthcare facility scores for all of said plurality of predetermined healthcare facilities.