Patents by Inventor Rebecca S. Lipner

Rebecca S. Lipner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for determining a fair benchmark for physicians' quality of patient care
    Patent number: 8452610
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods and computer-program products for application of both the Angoff standard-setting procedure with the Dunn-Rankin scaling method to determine standards (or cutscores) for practice-based performance assessments. In addition, reliability of measures and overall performance scores, and estimates of the decision consistency of the resulting performance standard can be calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: American Board of Internal Medicine
    Inventors: Rebecca S. Lipner, Brian J. Hess, Weifeng Weng, Gerald K. Arnold
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A FAIR BENCHMARK FOR PHYSICIANS' QUALITY OF PATIENT CARE
    Publication number: 20110119072
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods and computer-program products for application of both the Angoff standard-setting procedure with the Dunn-Rankin scaling method to determine standards (or cutscores) for practice-based performance assessments. In addition, reliability of measures and overall performance scores, and estimates of the decision consistency of the resulting performance standard can be calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Rebecca S. Lipner, Brian J. Hess, Weifeng Weng, Gerald K. Arnold