System and method for optimizing behaviorial health care collection

United States Patent

[19]

Bair et al.

US006108665A [ii] Patent Number: 6,108,665 [45] Date of Patent: *Aug. 22,2000

[54] SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING BEHAVIORIAL HEALTH CARE COLLECTION

[75] Inventors: Steven L. Bair; Ronald L. Meredith, both of Birmingham, Ala.; Danny R. Tillotson, Alamonte Springs; Philip Inglis, Winter Park, both of Fla.

[73] Assignee: The Psychological Corporation, San

Antonio, Tex.

[ * ] Notice: This patent issued on a continued prosecution application filed under 37 CFR 1.53(d), and is subject to the twenty year patent term provisions of 35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2).

[21] Appl. No.: 08/887,799 [22] Filed: Jul. 3, 1997

[51] Int. CI.7 G06F 17/30

[52] U.S. CI 707/104; 707/2; 707/10

[58] Field of Search 707/104, 10, 2

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Primary Examiner—-Thomas G. Black
Assistant Examiner—Frantz Coby

Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath &
Gilchrist, PA.

[57] ABSTRACT

A system and method for collecting behavioral health care data for a patient include a mechanism for creating an evaluation instrument from a database of questions having linked answers thereto. New questions can also be entered into the database, along with a user-defined branching logic dependent upon the patient's answer to the question. Patient answers that are numerically scaleable can be displayed graphically against time over a plurality of sessions and also against indicia labeled for values representing a predetermined goal and a value determined upon an initial evaluation, for tracking patient progress.

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