Patents by Inventor Richard Francis Averill

Richard Francis Averill 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 of grouping and analyzing clinical risks
    Patent number: 8571892
    Abstract: A method of creating a classification system for rating the nature and severity of health care requirements, including obtaining a set of medical disease codes, categorizing the medical disease codes into major disease categories, and categorizing the medical disease codes in each major disease category into episode disease categories based on severity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Richard Francis Averill, Jon Eisenhandler, Norbert Israel Goldfield
  • Method of grouping and analyzing clinical risks, and system therefor
    Patent number: 7127407
    Abstract: A comprehensive set of risk groups explicitly identifies groups of individuals with multiple interacting co-morbid conditions, and which explicitly identifies the severity of illness level. This allows accurate prediction of future health care resource needs of an entire population, while simultaneously helping the health care provider isolate problems to identify changes in care to reduce costs and improve quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Richard Francis Averill, Jon Eisenhandler, Norbert Israel Goldfield