Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
Reexamination Certificate
2004-12-28
2010-10-26
O'Connor, Gerald J. (Department: 3686)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
C705S003000, C705S004000, C705S002000, C705S040000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07822623
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed to a method and system for generating cost accounting data. The method may include retrieving information including descriptive attributes that represent content captured during patient care. The method may additionally include associating each descriptive attribute with a cost. A system may be provided for generating cost accounting information in a healthcare environment. The system may include automated information capture equipment and a retrieval component for retrieving content captured by the automated information capture equipment. The system may additionally include an association component for associating captured content with a cost and an implementation component for generating cost accounting information based on created associations.
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Gragg John H.
Lancaster Brian J.
Parkins Kent D.
Yarbrough Michael E.
Cerner Innovation, Inc.
Le Linh-Giang Michelle
O'Connor Gerald J.
Shook Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
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