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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2011
David Yung-min Chao, Austin, TX (US);
William Wyeleem Chan, Austin, TX (US);
Mike Vineet Kadyan, Austin, TX (US);
David Yung-Min Chao, Austin, TX (US);
William Wyeleem Chan, Austin, TX (US);
Mike Vineet Kadyan, Austin, TX (US);
The Advisory Board Company, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a comprehensive, automated system and method for evaluating the performance of individuals or entities employed by an organization, particularly useful in peer-profiling physician performance in multi-facility environments. Embodiments of the invention can dynamically compose a virtual peer or group of peers and perform peer-profiling on each individual or group of individuals to be evaluated. For example, a composite physician may be generated from system-wide and/or state-wide healthcare data as a benchmark against which a particular physician is profiled according to industry-standard measurements. The composite physician would have equivalent or similar job function(s) as well as patient population. The composite physician enables a comprehensive 'apple to apple' comparison with the particular physician, giving meaning to and facilitating the usefulness of performance evaluation results.