Some people in management would like to have a counter on defects that calculates how long a defect has taken to go from "Open" to "Closed" in minutes, is this something that we could accomplish?

I have over 1,000 defects in ALM, and I need to change the status of all of them from New to Closed. This would not be a problem however every time I close a defect there are five required fields that have to be entered before the defect can be closed. I have tried to re-import the defects with a st...