Abstract: Techniques are provided for evaluating and optimizing costs associated with medical procedures. In one embodiment, a system comprises an importer component that extracts historical performance information from one or more healthcare information systems regarding past performance of a medical procedure by clinicians, and an indexing component that indexes the historical performance information as a function of costs associated with the past performance of the medical procedure by respective clinicians of the clinicians.

Abstract: Certain examples provide systems and methods for analytics and gamification of healthcare workflows. Certain examples provide an apparatus including a game engine to at least: process a healthcare workflow to form a processed workflow organized according to task, each task electronically represented in the processed workflow; apply game rules to the processed workflow to form a gamified workflow, the game rules associating a value with each task in the processed workflow, the value electronically represented with the corresponding task in the gamified workflow; and define a goal and a reward based on the gamified workflow. The example apparatus also includes a process tracker to at least: track progress with respect to the goal during execution of the gamified workflow; generate a score based on the monitored progress of the execution of the gamified workflow; and provide feedback and reward based on a comparison of the score to the goal.