System and method of ongoing evaluation reporting and analysis

Abstract

A research and development system that gathers feedback from patients and healthcare providers with respect to the their experience with various aspects of a supplier's products in order to tabulate, consolidate, compare and analyze the data received rapidly and efficiently, and which can be used on successive iterations to determine future products and services.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for a product supplier to gather feedback from healthcare providers and patients, comprising:
 providing on-line surveys to the healthcare providers and patients;   obtaining responses to the on-line surveys from the healthcare providers and patients;   and providing the ability for healthcare providers and patients to qualify for an honorarium linked to the submission of one or more responses to the on-line survey.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising the steps of providing a registration link to patients to link patients to respective healthcare providers. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the step of providing a registration link is providing a toll free telephone number and a link on a webpage. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the step of providing on-line surveys is customizable by the product supplier. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the step of providing on-line surveys is only taken for patients having preselected demographics. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein text in questions in the on-line survey are fully customizable. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein questions in the on-line survey are given weighted values. 
     
     
         8 . A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for gathering feedback from healthcare providers and patients, comprising:
 computer usable program code for providing on-line surveys to the healthcare providers and patients;   computer usable program code for obtaining responses to the on-line surveys from the healthcare providers and patients; and   computer usable program code for providing the ability for healthcare providers and patients to qualify for an honorarium to linked to the submission of one or more responses to the on-line survey.   
     
     
         9 . The computer program product of  claim 8 , further comprising computer usable program code for providing a registration link to patients to link patients to respective healthcare providers. 
     
     
         10 . The computer program product of  claim 9 , wherein the computer usable program code for providing on-line surveys further comprises computer usable program code for customization of the on-line survey by the product supplier. 
     
     
         11 . The computer program product of  claim 10 , wherein the computer usable program code for providing on-line surveys further comprises computer usable program code whereby on-line surveys are only provided to patients having preselected demographics. 
     
     
         12 . The computer program product of  claim 10 , wherein the computer usable program code for customization of the on-line survey further comprises computer usable program code for fully customizing text in questions in the on-line survey. 
     
     
         13 . The computer program product of  claim 10 , wherein the computer usable program code for customization of the on-line survey further comprises computer usable program code for giving questions in the on-line survey weighted values. 
     
     
         14 . A research and development data processing system for product suppliers comprising: a survey creation application executing in a host server;
 a survey login element for patients;   a survey customization element for product suppliers;   an honorarium qualification element; and   a data store of survey responses.   
     
     
         15 . The research and development data processing system of  claim 14 , further comprising a demographic preselection element. 
     
     
         16 . The research and development data processing system of  claim 14 , wherein the survey customization element further comprises a full text customization element. 
     
     
         17 . The research and development data processing system of  claim 16 , wherein the survey creation application further comprises a question weighting element for each survey. 
     
     
         18 . The research and development data processing system of  claim 14 , further comprising a tracking element for each survey created.