Digitized prescription system
First Claim
1. Apparatus comprising an electronic database containing a plurality of transaction records for transactions in which a prescription medicinal substance is dispensed to a patient, each transaction record containing a plurality of electronically associated data items including a medicinal substance data item and a patient data item, computer means for searching said electronic database by at least one data item and identifying the transaction records containing such at least one data item, and performing at least one predetermined data processing function on the identified transaction records and generating a processed data packet, and communication means operably associated with the computer means for communicating the processed data packet to a user.
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Abstract
An electronic database is provided which contains a plurality of transaction records for transactions in which a prescription medicinal substance is dispensed to a patient. Preferably the database is of nation-wide scope. Each transaction record contains a plurality of electronically associated data items including a medicinal substance data item and a patient data item. The database is operably associated with a computer means for searching the electronic database by at least one data item and identifying the transaction records containing such at least one data item, and performing at least one predetermined data processing function on the identified transaction records and generating a processed data packet. A communication means is operably associated with the computer means for communicating the processed data packet to a user. The database can be used to identify prescription fraud, medication overuse and abuse, and to provide an early warning for bioterror attacks.
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1. Apparatus comprising
an electronic database containing a plurality of transaction records for transactions in which a prescription medicinal substance is dispensed to a patient, each transaction record containing a plurality of electronically associated data items including a medicinal substance data item and a patient data item, computer means for searching said electronic database by at least one data item and identifying the transaction records containing such at least one data item, and performing at least one predetermined data processing function on the identified transaction records and generating a processed data packet, and communication means operably associated with the computer means for communicating the processed data packet to a user.
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