ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20160125148A1
• Filed: 01/13/2016
• Published: 05/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC (UnitedHealth Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Mckesson Technologies Incorporated (UnitedHealth Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Pocklington, William Lee, Moore, Edmund B. Jr., Fraser, Scott Edward, Kuzmak, Beth Anne, Flanagan, Michael Sean
• Granted Patent: US 9,779,210 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• 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 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A health care enterprise management system and method of management are disclosed. The system and method include a routing layer, a plurality of applications in an application layer, wherein the application layer communicates external to the enterprise manager via communicative contact through the routing layer, a business rules layer of a plurality of health care provision business rules, and a core layer.

Claims

1. A method for managing information and transactions of a health care enterprise comprising:

entering a plurality of health care related data in a core layer, said plurality of health care including data selected from the group consisting of health care provider information, patient information, insurer information, transaction information, and any combinations thereof;

allowing access to said plurality of plurality of health care related data by a plurality of users through an application layer via a plurality of applications resident in said application layer; and

defining a set of business rules in a business rules layer, said business rules layer being between said application layer and said core layer, said set of business rules comprising a defined set of allowable interactions between each of said plurality of application and said core layer, wherein said plurality of health care related data is substantially simultaneously accessible by said application layer, said business rules layer, and said core layer.

2. The method as in claim 1, wherein said plurality of users comprises users internal and external to the health care enterprise.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said plurality of applications comprise applications selected from the group consisting of an internet portal, a desktop, a queue, a scheduler, an integrator, an administrator, a reporter, a remote application data collector, and any combinations thereof.