US Patent Issued to Cerner Innovation on Nov. 18 for "Decision support systems for determining conformity with medical care quality standards" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,995, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Decision support systems for determining conformity with medical care quality standards" was invented by Douglas S. McNair (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for determining conformity to performance of meaningful use measures in human health care delivery. A Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo statistical process is utilized to achieve reliable estimates for such measures despite the small subgroup sample sizes accruing during each measurement period. One embodiment utilizes zero- and one-i...