Automated informed consent and surgical outcome tracking system and method therefor

An improved informed consent and surgical outcome tracking system and method is disclosed. The informed consent portion of the system comprises a visual component, an auditory component, and a textual component. The visual component consists of a visual representation of the surgery, preferably in three-dimensional form. The auditory component consists of a narration integral with the visual component that explains the visual representation of the surgery. The textual component consists of a summary of each complication associated with the surgery. The system includes an input device for inputting an acknowledgment of each complication, and a storage device for storing the patient's acknowledgment of each complication. For the purposes of surgical outcome tracking, the input device further allows a user to input outcome information, the outcome information comprising at least one of the presence or absence of each complication, the presence or absence of a plurality of pre-operative risk factors, and the presence or absence of a plurality of outcome factors associated with each surgery, and surgery information, the surgery information comprising surgeon information, surgery type information, hospital information and geographic information. The outcome and surgery information is stored in the storage device. The system includes a processor configured to aggregate the outcome and surgery information to determine an outcome based thereon. The processor is further adapted to predict the outcome of a surgery for a patient based on a comparison of the presence or absence of pre-operative risk factors for the patient at issue and the outcome information for other patients stored in the storage device.