Data automation and collection service using proprietary software to collect, evaluate, analyze, and report clinical, financial, operational and disease management data for post-acute healthcare providers, healthcare payers and other entities in the healthcare continuum via the Internet, specifically relating to clinical, financial and operational information about patient status, claims and financial data about reimbursement as collected by post-acute healthcare providers, information on federal and state regulatory requirements pertaining to the collection, payment, transmission and reporting of patient status, information on comparing individual and groups of patient clinical outcomes against other compiled data, and information on business cost and reimbursement of delivery of healthcare services, to assist providers, payers and other healthcare entities in managing risk associated with patient safety, quality of life, governmental regulations and managed care contracts