System and method for clinical strategy for therapeutic pharmacies
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1. A method for integrated management of stratification and clinical scoring of patients with a three tiered architecture to route a prescription for a tangible prescription drug to an appropriate pharmacy, comprising:
- receiving, at a first processor of an analytic engine, a pharmaceutical prescription associated with a patient remote from a prescriber device and a pharmacy device;
converting the received pharmaceutical prescription to a warehouse server request using an intermediate server;
downloading, on a second processor remote from the pharmacy device using the warehouse server request, a first set of rules, a second set of rules, a medical record and a plurality of prescription claims for the patient, wherein downloading includes accessing a central fact table that links to a plurality of physical claim tables, the central fact table storing having a reduced data set related to plurality of prescription claims for the patient and reference pointers, the plurality of physical claim tables including a client subject table storing client reference data, a drug table storing drug reference data, a patient table storing patient reference data, and a provider table storing practitioner reference data, wherein the reference pointers point to the client subject table, the drug table, the patient table, and the provider table;
analyzing with the first set of rules, on the second processor remote from the pharmacy device, the medical record and the plurality of prescription claims accessed through the central fact table from at least the drug table and the patient table to stratify the patient into a disease category, wherein the first set of rules to have the central fact table to access at least one of the reference pointers point to the client subject table, the drug table, the patient table, the provider table or combinations thereof to display dynamically at least one of a plurality of service type selections and routing a prescription;
dynamically scoring, on the second processor using the second set of rules, a patient clinical score based on the plurality of prescription claims, the medical record, formulary information, and patient health insurance information from the drug table and the patient table, along with an indication of risk for the patient taking a medication associated with the pharmaceutical prescription;
storing the patient clinical score remote from the pharmacy device in a warehouse server;
routing, from a third processor using a third set of rules, the pharmaceutical prescription to a therapeutic pharmacy among a network of therapeutic pharmacies based on the disease category and the patient clinical score, each therapeutic pharmacy within the network of therapeutic pharmacies being established in accordance with a particular disease category for the therapeutic pharmacy that received the routed, pharmaceutical prescription to fill and dispense a drug for the pharmaceutical prescription, wherein routing includes;
dynamically monitoring a workload of each therapeutic pharmacy in the network of therapeutic pharmacies and each worker in the therapeutic pharmacy,computing a utility score of the therapeutic pharmacy based on the dynamically monitored workload, wherein the utility score represents a current work load, time to complete a candidate schedule, and value of filling prescription at the therapeutic pharmacy, wherein the value of filling prescription represents a productivity rate to perform operations of filling pharmaceutical prescription under the current work load, and the candidate schedule, anddynamically optimizing a prescription fulfillment using the utility score and the clinical score to assign the pharmaceutical prescription to the therapeutic pharmacy; and
filling and dispensing a tangible drug for the pharmaceutical prescription at the therapeutic pharmacy that received the routed, pharmaceutical prescription using a protocol for the particular disease category and a prescribed drug in which the therapeutic pharmacy has established the protocol.
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Abstract
A system and method of distributing pharmaceutical prescriptions within a network of pharmacies based on the review of prescription claim data and patient medical state to enable stratification of patients, wherein each pharmacy within the network has been established to handle one or more particular patient medical states.
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1. A method for integrated management of stratification and clinical scoring of patients with a three tiered architecture to route a prescription for a tangible prescription drug to an appropriate pharmacy, comprising:
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receiving, at a first processor of an analytic engine, a pharmaceutical prescription associated with a patient remote from a prescriber device and a pharmacy device; converting the received pharmaceutical prescription to a warehouse server request using an intermediate server; downloading, on a second processor remote from the pharmacy device using the warehouse server request, a first set of rules, a second set of rules, a medical record and a plurality of prescription claims for the patient, wherein downloading includes accessing a central fact table that links to a plurality of physical claim tables, the central fact table storing having a reduced data set related to plurality of prescription claims for the patient and reference pointers, the plurality of physical claim tables including a client subject table storing client reference data, a drug table storing drug reference data, a patient table storing patient reference data, and a provider table storing practitioner reference data, wherein the reference pointers point to the client subject table, the drug table, the patient table, and the provider table; analyzing with the first set of rules, on the second processor remote from the pharmacy device, the medical record and the plurality of prescription claims accessed through the central fact table from at least the drug table and the patient table to stratify the patient into a disease category, wherein the first set of rules to have the central fact table to access at least one of the reference pointers point to the client subject table, the drug table, the patient table, the provider table or combinations thereof to display dynamically at least one of a plurality of service type selections and routing a prescription; dynamically scoring, on the second processor using the second set of rules, a patient clinical score based on the plurality of prescription claims, the medical record, formulary information, and patient health insurance information from the drug table and the patient table, along with an indication of risk for the patient taking a medication associated with the pharmaceutical prescription; storing the patient clinical score remote from the pharmacy device in a warehouse server; routing, from a third processor using a third set of rules, the pharmaceutical prescription to a therapeutic pharmacy among a network of therapeutic pharmacies based on the disease category and the patient clinical score, each therapeutic pharmacy within the network of therapeutic pharmacies being established in accordance with a particular disease category for the therapeutic pharmacy that received the routed, pharmaceutical prescription to fill and dispense a drug for the pharmaceutical prescription, wherein routing includes; dynamically monitoring a workload of each therapeutic pharmacy in the network of therapeutic pharmacies and each worker in the therapeutic pharmacy, computing a utility score of the therapeutic pharmacy based on the dynamically monitored workload, wherein the utility score represents a current work load, time to complete a candidate schedule, and value of filling prescription at the therapeutic pharmacy, wherein the value of filling prescription represents a productivity rate to perform operations of filling pharmaceutical prescription under the current work load, and the candidate schedule, and dynamically optimizing a prescription fulfillment using the utility score and the clinical score to assign the pharmaceutical prescription to the therapeutic pharmacy; and filling and dispensing a tangible drug for the pharmaceutical prescription at the therapeutic pharmacy that received the routed, pharmaceutical prescription using a protocol for the particular disease category and a prescribed drug in which the therapeutic pharmacy has established the protocol. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the following operations:
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displaying a graphical user interface including a first sub-display and a second sub- display to configure a first set of rules and a second set of rules; receive at an analytic engine a pharmaceutical prescription associated with a patient from a remote device; access a medical record, the first set of rules, the second set of rules, and a plurality of prescription claims for the patient, wherein accessing includes accessing a central fact table that links to a plurality of physical claim tables, the central fact table storing having a reduced data set related to plurality of prescription claims for the patient and reference pointers, the plurality of physical claim tables including a client subject table storing client reference data, a drug table storing drug reference data, a patient table storing patient reference data, and a provider table storing practitioner reference data, wherein the reference pointers point to the client subject table, the drug table, the patient table, and the provider table; analyze using the first set of rules the medical record and the plurality of prescription claims with prescription claim data from at least two of the plurality of physical claim tables to stratify the patient into a disease category by the one or more processor remote from the pharmacy; score a patient clinical score using the second set of rules based on the plurality of prescription claims, the medical record, formulary information, patient health insurance information, and an indication of risk for the patient taking a medication associated with the pharmaceutical prescription; store the patient clinical score remote from the remote device; route the pharmaceutical prescription to a therapeutic pharmacy among a network of therapeutic pharmacies based on the disease category and the patient clinical score, each therapeutic pharmacy within the network of therapeutic pharmacies being established in accordance with a particular disease category for the therapeutic pharmacy that received the routed, pharmaceutical prescription to fill and dispense a drug for the pharmaceutical prescription, wherein the route operation includes; dynamically monitoring a workload of each therapeutic pharmacy in the network of therapeutic pharmacies and each worker in the therapeutic pharmacy, computing a utility score of the therapeutic pharmacy based on the dynamically monitored workload, wherein the utility score represents a current work load, time to complete a candidate schedule, and value of filling prescription at -a the therapeutic pharmacy wherein the value of filling prescription represents a productivity rate to perform operations of filling pharmaceutical prescription under the current work load, and the candidate schedule, and dynamically optimizing a prescription fulfillment using the utility score and the clinical score to assign the pharmaceutical prescription to the therapeutic pharmacy; and filling and dispensing a drug for the pharmaceutical prescription at the therapeutic pharmacy that received the routed, pharmaceutical prescription using a protocol for the particular disease category and a prescribed drug in which the therapeutic pharmacy has established the protocol. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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24. A method for distributing a tangible prescription drug, comprising:
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receiving, at an analytic engine from a remote device, a pharmaceutical prescription for a tangible prescription drug associated with a patient; accessing, on a processor of the analytic engine remote from a pharmacy device using the received pharmaceutical prescription, a first set of rules, a second set of rules, a medical record and a plurality of prescription claims for the patient, wherein the pharmacy device includes a central fact table that links to a plurality of physical claim tables, the central fact table storing having a reduced data set related to plurality of prescription claims for the patient and reference pointers, the plurality of physical claim tables including a client subject table storing client reference data, a drug table storing drug reference data, a patient table storing patient reference data, and a provider table storing practitioner reference data, wherein the reference pointers point to the client subject table, the drug table, the patient table, and the provider table; analyzing, on the processor with the first set of rules, the medical record and the plurality of prescription claims to stratify the patient into a disease category, wherein analysis of the medical record and the plurality of prescription claims includes identifying a concurrent drug utilization review alert protocol that have a resolution code; generating, on the processor using the second set of rules, a patient clinical score based on the identified concurrent drug utilization review alert protocol to determine the patient clinical score and the plurality of prescription claims, the medical record, formulary information, patient health insurance information, and an indication of risk for the patient taking a medication associated with the pharmaceutical prescription; routing, on the processor using a third set of rules, the pharmaceutical prescription to a mail-order, therapeutic pharmacy among a network of therapeutic pharmacies based on the disease category and the patient clinical score, each mail-order therapeutic pharmacy within the network of therapeutic pharmacies being established in accordance with a particular disease category for the mail-order therapeutic pharmacy to dispense the tangible prescription drug, wherein the network of therapeutic pharmacies includes individual pharmacies for neurology, psychiatry, pulmonary, cardiovascular, diabetes, gastroenterology, oncology, hematology, rare diseases, and combinations thereof, wherein routing includes; dynamically monitoring a workload of each therapeutic pharmacy in the network of therapeutic pharmacies and each worker in the therapeutic pharmacy, computing a utility score of the therapeutic pharmacy based on the dynamically monitored workload, wherein the utility score represents a current work load, time to complete the candidate schedule and value of filling prescription at the therapeutic pharmacy, wherein the value of filling prescription represents a productivity rate to perform operations of filling pharmaceutical prescription under the current work load, and the candidate schedule, and dynamically optimizing a prescription fulfillment using the utility score and the clinical score to assign the pharmaceutical prescription to the therapeutic pharmacy; wherein dispensing the tangible prescription drug includes filling and dispensing the pharmaceutical prescription at the therapeutic pharmacy by picking and packing the tangible prescription drug; and wherein the pharmaceutical prescription is received at a pharmacy intake center and the plurality of prescription claims are accessed from an information warehouse, wherein routing the pharmaceutical prescription to the therapeutic pharmacy is based on the disease category, the patient clinical score, and load balancing, the load balancing being based on current work load, schedule, and productivity rate, wherein the pharmaceutical prescription is received over a computer network, wherein the mail-order therapeutic pharmacy is to formulate and fill the pharmaceutical prescription for the patient, and wherein the processor is deployed with a computing device, the computing device configured to resolve protocol and perform drug utilization review for the subsequent filling and dispensing prescriptions for one or more diseases.
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