Database for pre-screening potentially litigious patients

摘要

A database system stores information about potential patients that allows medical professionals to gauge the legal risk presented by the potential patients, giving the medical professionals the opportunity to avoid medical involvement with those individuals most prone to engaging in unwarranted legal actions. The database may also be used by insurance companies, legal services and other professional service providers to screen for potentially litigious customers. Information in the database is processed to provide a risk assessment score for each patient that is used for screening purposes.

主权项

1. A system that determines risk profiles of patients for potential for litigiousness against physicians providing or considered for providing service to the patients, comprising:
a database configured to store information identifying patients and physicians as well as litigation information relating to the patients and physicians; and a computer configured to execute a risk assessment module that calculates a litigation risk profile for a designated patient of a physician as a function of the information stored in the database relating to the designated patient's past litigation history and values of variables used to predict the likelihood of future litigious activities by the designated patient of the physician based upon past behavior derived using data mining techniques from the information collected about the designated patient of the physician, and an interface that facilitates the input into the database of information identifying patients, physicians, and litigation information relating to the patients and/or physicians, that facilitates the query of the information stored in the database, and that displays the calculated litigation risk profiles.