Method for the analysis and standardization of bills of resources

A method for the analysis of bills of resources, which include a list of resources to be utilized in performing a procedure, comprising the computer-implemented steps of:

• selecting a plurality of bills of resources from a known universe of bills of resources;
• developing a model for each of the selected bills of resources, each of said models including values which correspond to the number of units of given resources from the selected bills of resources;
• manipulating said models mathematically to highlight similarities and dissimilarities of defined characteristics in said models;
• expressing the mathematically manipulated models in a format in which a relative position of each of said manipulated models may be determined, the relative position of each of the manipulated models reflecting the degree of similarity or dissimilarity to the other manipulated models, and plotting the position of each manipulated model on a graph;
• analyzing said bills of resources based upon the expression of the manipulated models, and analyzing said graph to locate manipulated models which are located relatively close together to identify similar manipulated models, thereby identifying similar bills of resources;
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• producing the at least one standard bill of resources based on the analysis of the bills of resources.

A computer implemented method for the production of at least one standardized bill of resources, from bills of resources including lists of resources for use in the performance of a procedure comprising the following steps:

• defining a set of bills of resources for analysis;
• providing the defined set of bills of resources to a computer to develop a set of electronic bills of resources corresponding to the defined set of bills of resources, including;
• generating a computer model of each of the bills of resources from the defined set of bills of resources;
• organizing each of the models in a database program;
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• constructing a computer generated matrix from said models wherein one dimension of the matrix is determined by the number of models in the set and the other dimension of the matrix is determined by the total number of different resources across all of the selected bills of resources;
• mathematically manipulating the electronic bills of resources according to an algorithm selected to characterize the electronic bills of resource according to their degree of similarity relative to each other;
• expressing said manipulated bills of resources in a human or machine perceptible from such that the relative similarity or dissimilarity of the bills of resources is apparent;
• analyzing said expressed bills of resources in order to enhance or optimize resource utilization;
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• producing the at least one standardized bill of resources based on the analysis of the bills of resources.

A computer implemented method for the production of at least one standardized bill of resources, from bills of resources including lists of resources for use in the performance of a procedure comprising the following steps:

• defining a set of bills of resources for analysis;
• providing the defined set of bills of resources to a computer to develop a set of electronic bills of resources corresponding to the defined set of bills of resources;
• mathematically manipulating the electronic bills of resources according to an algorithm selected to characterize the electronic bills of resource according to their degree of similarity relative to each other;
• expressing said manipulated bills of resources in a human or machine perceptible form such that the relative similarity or dissimilarity of the bills of resources is apparent;
• analyzing said expressed bills of resources in order to enhance or optimize resource utilization;
• and
• producing the at least one standardized bill of resources based on the analysis of the bills of resources.