Characteristic-based health care resource scheduling method and apparatus

A method for scheduling health care resources comprising:

• accessing historical performance data for a plurality of resources for a plurality of health care procedures;
• analyzing the performance data to determine at least a scheduling duration required for each of the resources and for each of the health care procedures;
• and
• storing the scheduling durations in association with the respective resources and the health care procedures.

A method for scheduling health care resources comprising:

• accessing performance data for a plurality of resources for a desired health care procedure;
• analyzing the performance data to determine a time-based parameter for each of the resources for the health care procedure;
• accessing a schedule for at least one of the resources;
• and
• creating, deleting, modifying or recommending the schedule based upon the stored parameters and a requested health care procedure.

A method for scheduling health care resources comprising:

• accessing a knowledge base including time-based parameters for a plurality of resources for predetermined health care procedures;
• accessing a schedule for at least one of the resources;
• and
• creating, deleting, modifying or recommending the schedule based upon the time-based parameters and a requested health care procedure.

A method for scheduling health care resources comprising:

• accessing a knowledge base including time-based parameters for a plurality of resources for predetermined health care procedures;
• accessing schedules for a plurality of the resources;
• and
• creating, deleting, modifying or recommending the schedules based upon the time-based parameters and a plurality of requested health care procedures.

A method for resources comprising:

• accessing performance data for a plurality of resources for a predetermined procedure;
• analyzing the performance data to determine a time-based parameter for each of the resources for the procedure;
• and
• storing the time-based parameters in association with the respective resources and the procedure.