System and method for determining and indicating value of healthcare

A method executed over a client-server architecture in a local private network, the local private network connecting an electronic medical record (EMR) system and a health value analytics (HVA) system, the EMR system comprising an EMR server and EMR client devices, the HVA system, separate from the EMR system and comprising an HVA server and thin-client HVA applications, the method, comprising:

• creating by the HVA server, value baselines comprising health metric values for approved plans of care;
• receiving by the HVA server, detected and provided by execution of a thin-client HVA application instantiated on an EMR client device, a detected first activity related to medical care for a patient having an associated diagnosis during a visit of the patient;
• and
• the HVA server:
• generating a health value continuum corresponding to the diagnosis,
• generating a comparison of the health value continuum to the value baseline, and
• providing data and instructions to display and maintain displayed a representation of the health value continuum to value baseline comparison on an HVA display page in a position adjacent to an EMR display page displayed on the EMR client device, the EMR display page including an EMR display for the patient, comprising:
• receiving a physical location of the EMR display page determined by execution of the thin-client HVA application,
• placing the representation of the health value continuum to the value baseline adjacent to the EMR display for the patient, and
• terminating the display of the health value continuum to the value baseline upon the thin-client HVA client application detecting a second activity comprising termination of the display of the electronic medical record of the patient and display of a second electronic medical record for a second patient.

A method executed by a processor of a health value analytics (HVA) system in communication an electronic medical record (EMR) device external to the HVA system for improving physicians' workflows, the method, comprising:

• an HVA server receiving, by execution of a thin-client HVA application instantiated on the EMR device, an indication of a patient-related event, the patient-related event referencing a visit of a patient;
• and
• based on a visit reference, the processor:
• generating of a comparison of the health value continuum to a value baseline for an approved plan of care for the patient, and
• providing the comparison and instructions to display on a display of the EMR device, the display including an EMR for the patient, a representation of the health value continuum to value baseline comparison, comprising:
• receiving a detection, sent by the thin-client HVA application, a physical location of the EMR for the patient on the EMR display,
• providing instructions to place the representation of the health value continuum to the value baseline adjacent to the EMR for the patient, and
• terminating the display of the health value continuum to the value baseline upon the thin-client HVA client application detecting a second activity comprising termination of the display of the EMR for the patient and display of a second EMR for a second patient.

An improved physician's workflow method implemented on a client-server architecture comprising client devices and central servers in a local private network, the method, comprising:

• receiving, in an electronic medical record (EMR) system comprising an EMR server and associated EMR processor, the EMR system accessible by a physician using a physician's computing device, a log in and an identification of a patient sent from the physician's computing device;
• authenticating the log in;
• providing electronic medical records for the patient for display on an EMR page on the physician's computing device;
• installing, on the physician's computing device, a thin-client Health Value Analytics (HVA) application received from an HVA server of an HVA system, the HVA server coupled to the local private network;
• executing the thin-client HVA application to:
• detect the log in and a receipt of the electronic medical records for display on the physician's computing device,
• determine a location of the displayed electronic medical record on a display screen of the physician's computing device,
• notify the HVA server of the log in, the receipt and the location, and
• the thin-client HVA application further executed to detect and report to the HVA server, a first activity related to a medical condition of the patient;
• receiving at the physician's computing device, from the HVA server in response to the detection of the first activity, a first comparison of a health value continuum and a value baseline based on the medical condition of the patient and instructions to display the first comparison adjacent to the EMR display page;
• displaying and maintaining displayed the first comparison adjacent to the EMR display page until detection, by the thin-client HVA application, of termination of display of the electronic medical record on the patient on the EMR page;
• and
• terminating the display of the health value continuum to the value baseline upon the thin-client HVA client application detecting a second activity comprising termination of the display of the electronic medical record of the patient and display of a second electronic medical record for a second patient.