Method and apparatus for personalized medical prescription services
First Claim
1. A method of providing medical prescription service, the method comprising:
- receiving a formulary for a physician wherein said formulary is stored in a data store;
generating a personalized physician-specific prescription pad using said received formulary.
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Abstract
A formulary for a physician is placed in a data store and a personalized, physician-specific prescription pad is generated using the stored formulary, thereby enabling physicians to comply with formularies, for example, set by their medical group (MG) or indirectly by their insurance group (IG). The prescription pads may be created taking into account several factors, such as the formulary established by the physician'"'"'s MG or indirectly by the insurance groups of patients seen by the physician (or based on the physician'"'"'s patient panel) or by the MG in general, the physician'"'"'s practice area, the efficacy of drugs, rebates from pharmaceutical companies, the drugs most likely to be approved by the insurance groups of the physician'"'"'s or MG'"'"'s patient base or panel, prescribing habit of the physician, drugs most frequently prescribed, and the like. From such factors a physician-specific formulary or list of drugs is determined, from which the system creates the physician-specific prescription pads. The prescription pads are typically contained in a prescription services system that optionally includes other features such as a web site portal enabling users of the prescription services system to enter and view information, a service that alerts the appropriate user that previously generated prescription pads should be updated and alerts the physician regarding information about drugs listed in their prescription pads, a database repository as well as a system that merges, collects, and stores information, and an analyzer that performs prescription service analyses and generates reports accordingly.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of providing medical prescription service, the method comprising:
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receiving a formulary for a physician wherein said formulary is stored in a data store;
generating a personalized physician-specific prescription pad using said received formulary. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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18. A computer system that provides medical prescription services to physicians, the system comprising:
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an RxIQ Datamart that stores, processes, collects, and combines formulary information, including formulary for physicians, medical groups, and managed care organizations, and user information. a Prescriber Portal that enables users to provide formularies and physician-specific information, including prescribing habits, that are then stored in said RxIQ Datamart; and
an eScriptPad Configurator that creates personalized physician-specific prescription pad called eScriptPad based on formularies and physician-specific information available.
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26. A computer system that provides medical prescription services to physicians, the system comprising:
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a computing means that receives input from network nodes;
a store and processing means that stores, processes, collects, and combines formulary information, including formulary for physicians, medical groups, and managed care organizations, and user information. an input receiving means that enables users to provide formularies and physician-specific information, including prescribing habits, that are then stored in said RxIQ Datamart; and
a pad configuration means that creates personalized physician-specific prescription pad called eScriptPad based on formularies and physician-specific information available.
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27. A physician-specific prescription pad based from a process in which a formulary for a physician is received and wherein said formulary takes into account the physician'"'"'s prescribing habits, the formularies of managed care organizations (MCOs) across the physician'"'"'s patient base, the drugs within the MCO formulary which are likely to be approved by the MCO, and the formulary of the medical groups to which the physician belongs.
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