Automated protocol for determining psychiatric disability

A method for determining a psychiatric status of a person, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a processor, first data indicative of the person's activities of daily living;
• receiving, by a processor, second data indicative of the person's social functioning in a work-like setting;
• receiving, by a processor, third data indicative of the person's concentration persistence;
• receiving, by a processor, and fourth data indicative of the person's ability to tolerate stress;
• processing, by a processor, the first, second, third and fourth data so as to generate a psychiatric disability determination, the psychiatric disability determination comprising a degree of psychiatric disability relative to each of the corresponding first data, second data, third data, and fourth data;
• and
• determining, by a processor and based on the psychiatric disability determination, the person's job, and the person's workplace, whether the person can perform the person's job in the person's workplace.

A system for determining, using a computer, a psychiatric status of a person, the systemi comprising:

• a processing module programmed to output, by a processor, data indicative of a psychiatric disability determination, the psychiatric disability determination (1) being based on first data indicative of the person's activities of daily living, second data indicative of the person's social functioning in a work-like setting, third data indicative of the person's concentration persistence, and fourth data indicative of the person's ability to tolerate stress, and (2) comprising a degree of psychiatric disability relative to each of the corresponding first data, second data, third data, and fourth data;
• and
• a recommendation module programmed (i) to determine, by a processor and based on the psychiatric disability determination, whether the person can perform the person's job in the person's workplace;
• and (ii) to provide a recommendation that the person return to his job or a recommendation that the person not return to his job.