Abstract: A method and apparatus that assists healthcare workers in managing each patient's “plan of care” (PoC). It consists of automated and semi-automated software modules integrated into a single system that perform processes for streamlining care planning, delivery and continuous quality improvement. These processes include establishing patients' PoCs, evaluating required POCs against available resource, notifying staff when resource shortages exist or are projected, adjusting PoCs to account for resource shortages, tracking the execution of PoC Orders, altering the Orders when they are not executed in a timely manner, adjusting PoCs to account for problems with Order execution, and presenting analytic reports of healthcare delivery performance.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for compiling(acquiring and storing), processing (analyzing, integrating, and organizing), transmitting, and reporting data and information, which is comprised of a flexible, modular system that overcomes major limitations of conventional and multidimensional databases. The method and apparatus utilizes computer programming code modules and modules of logically arranged digital signal function and formula formations to :(a) acquire data/information units using modules of query instruction items and response instruction items, which can be presented via a branching-logic process, (b))store the responses to the items in independent record files and internal database files, (c)integrate them with digital signals stored in other sources via an integration file, (d)process the digital signals in the digital signal processing files, (e) produce portable report files, and (f)generate reports utilizing report format tiles.