Method of establishing a decision support engine for medical equipment
AssigneeEquipX, LLC
InventorIlan Mintz
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Abstract
A decision support engine provides a table of actual and predicted financial results particular to a selected medical equipment. A database stores parameter data of various medical equipment belonging to the organization. The stored parameters may include purchase date and price. An appraisal module uses the parameter data to generate an appraised value of each of the medical equipment. Upon selection by a user of a specific equipment, the decision support module provides past period financial results attributable to the selected equipment, and predicted financial results that may be achieved upon upgrade or replacement of the equipment by newly purchased or leased equipment. The entire system may reside in the cloud.
Claims17
A computerized method for providing decision support engine for a user in medical equipment maintenance, comprising:
- forming a decision support engine with a plurality of modules, including an appraisal module generating individualized market value for registered medical equipment, an impact analysis module determining profitability of each of the registered medical equipment, and a marketplace module enabling listing of the registered medical equipment;
- generating a dashboard and presenting the dashboard on a computer monitor, the dashboard enabling the user to activate and interact with the various modules of the decision support engine;
- forming an integration layer enabling data exchange between the decision support engine and the registered medical equipment;
- storing in medical equipment database parameters data corresponding to the registered medical equipment, the parameters data including at least purchase price and purchase date;
- using the dashboard to enter operational data corresponding to the registered medical equipment and using the operational data to generate the individualized market value for registered medical equipment by the appraisal module;
- fetching by a decision support engine the parameter data and the appraised value of selected medical equipment, and fetching via a network billing information and expense information attributable to the selected medical equipment, and generating a decision table including operating results for a past period and estimated operating results predicted in view of upgrading the selected medical equipment and replacing the selected medical equipment with a new purchase or a lease.
A method for forming and operating a decision support engine regarding medical equipment, the method comprising the steps of:
- form a medical equipment database storing parameters data relating to medical equipment registered to the system;
- form an appraisal module, the appraisal module returning an appraised value of a selected medical equipment from the medical equipment database in response to data input of the medical equipment;
- form a decision support module receiving parameters data corresponding to the selected medical equipment from the medical equipment database and receiving the appraised value from the appraisal module and fetching via a network connection billing data and cost data and generating a decision table corresponding to the selected equipment, the decision table comprising entry of the appraised value, entry of utilization calculated based on operating time of the selected medical equipment, entry of billing attributable to the selected medical equipment calculated from the billing data, and entry of operating cost attributable to the selected medical equipment calculated from the cost data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.