PERSONALIZED MULTI-DIMENSIONAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDER-PATIENT MATCHING

摘要

A personalized health care provider matching service is provided to rank and select the best matched health care providers for a patient across multiple dimensions according to the patient's medical conditions, non-medical factors and treatment preferences. Each medical condition of the patient represents a dimension. The service measures a provider's level of competency for treating a medical condition, e.g., based on the provider's drug prescription patterns in treating the medical condition measured against a reference practice standard. The provider matching service ranks the providers across the multiple medical conditions/treatment needs of a patient, where the rankings of the providers represent the providers' competency across multiple dimensions. The provider matching service assesses a patient's needs across different medical conditions and applies different weights to different corresponding dimensions in ranking the providers. The provider matching service selects one or more the best matched providers to the patient based on the providers' rankings.