Permission based marketing for use with medical prescriptions
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1. A method for marketing medical products or services, the method comprising:
- loading a medical profile for a patient into a selection module;
loading a set of available marketing offers into the selection module, each of the set of marketing offers comprising a product or service which may be made available to a patient and a target profile;
comparing the target profile of at least one of the set of marketing offers to the medical profile;
selecting one or more of the marketing offers whose target profile matches the medical profile of the patient; and
presenting the selected marketing offers for approval.
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Abstract
An application reviews a patient'"'"'s medical profile, and selects medical products or services to be presented to the patient based on the patient'"'"'s medical profile such as medical history, diagnosis, prescription, and so forth. An advertisement or price discount for the selected medical products or service is printed and given to the patient. The application preferably resides in a computing device 116 at the doctor'"'"'s office, and the advertisement or discount is also preferably printed on a printer 118 at the doctor'"'"'s office and given to the patient at the doctor'"'"'s office.
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36 Claims
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1. A method for marketing medical products or services, the method comprising:
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loading a medical profile for a patient into a selection module;
loading a set of available marketing offers into the selection module, each of the set of marketing offers comprising a product or service which may be made available to a patient and a target profile;
comparing the target profile of at least one of the set of marketing offers to the medical profile;
selecting one or more of the marketing offers whose target profile matches the medical profile of the patient; and
presenting the selected marketing offers for approval. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for facilitating marketing of medical products or services for patients, the method comprising:
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reviewing medical data of a patient;
selecting one or more marketing offers for the patient based on the review; and
presenting the selected one or more marketing offers for approval. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for providing marketing offers for patients of a doctor, the system comprising:
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a patient profile module configured to store at least one profile describing a patient, the profile including at least one set of prescription data related to a treatment prescribed for the patient by a doctor;
a marketing storage module configured to store at least one marketing offer which may be made to a patient, each of the at least one marketing offers comprising a target profile and a benefit to be provided to the patient;
a selection module configured to choose one or more of the marketing offers to associate with the patient based upon the profile of the patient and the target profile of the one or more marketing offers; and
a display module for presenting the one or more selected offers. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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20. A computing device for facilitating marketing of medical products or services for patients, the computing device comprising:
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at least one medical profile of a patient;
at least one marketing offer for medical products, medical services or both; and
a selection module configured to select one or more marketing offers from the at least one marketing offer based on the at least one medical profile. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A prescription with a marketing offer related to a patient, the prescription comprising:
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a form printed at a doctor'"'"'s office;
prescription data related to a patient printed on the form; and
at least one marketing offer printed on the form, wherein the marketing offer is selected based upon a profile related to the patient. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35)
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36. A system for printing an advertisement on a prescription, the system comprising:
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prescription data representing a particular prescribed treatment recommended by a doctor for a patient;
patient profile means for storing data associated with the patient;
marketing offer means for storing data associated with one or more marketing offers which may be made to the patient;
selection means for choosing one or more of the one or more marketing offers to be made to the patient; and
printing means for printing a prescription for the patient, the prescription comprising the prescription data and the one or more chosen marketing offers.
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