Pharmaceutical treatment effectiveness analysis computer system and methods
First Claim
1. A method for computerized monitoring of effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments in patients in conjunction with computerized electronic medical records stored in a computer memory, the electronic medical records containing information about a patient to receive a pharmaceutical treatment, information about the patient'"'"'s medical history, and a prescription compliance record containing information about a frequency in which the patient complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a data entry in the prescription compliance record indicating whether the patient took the pharmaceutical treatment as prescribed;
storing the data entry in the prescription compliance record; and
presenting the electronic medical record of the patient to a provider to enable the provider to identify trends related to a target medical parameter.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method analyzes the effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments for medical conditions utilizing real time prescription compliance records. Information related to medical history of a patient can be reviewed while simultaneously reviewing prescription compliance records for the same patient. Trends in a target or non-target medical parameter can be identified and correlated with the prescription compliance records to determine the effectiveness of a pharmaceutical treatment on the target and non-target medical parameter. Correlations can be identified for a group of patients having the same medical condition.
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51 Claims
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1. A method for computerized monitoring of effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments in patients in conjunction with computerized electronic medical records stored in a computer memory, the electronic medical records containing information about a patient to receive a pharmaceutical treatment, information about the patient'"'"'s medical history, and a prescription compliance record containing information about a frequency in which the patient complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving a data entry in the prescription compliance record indicating whether the patient took the pharmaceutical treatment as prescribed;
storing the data entry in the prescription compliance record; and
presenting the electronic medical record of the patient to a provider to enable the provider to identify trends related to a target medical parameter. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a computer-readable code of program instructions executable by the computer to perform method steps of computerized monitoring of effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments in patients in conjunction with computerized electronic medical records stored in a computer memory, the electronic medical records containing information about a patient to receive a pharmaceutical treatment, the patient'"'"'s medical history, and a prescription compliance record containing information about a frequency in which the patient complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment, the method steps of the program instructions in the computer-readable code in the program storage device comprising the method steps of:
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receiving a data entry in the prescription compliance record to indicate whether the patient took the pharmaceutical treatment as prescribed;
storing the data entry in the prescription compliance record; and
presenting the electronic medical record of the patient to a provider to enable the provider to identify trends related to a target medical parameter. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A computerized system for monitoring effectiveness of a prescribed pharmaceutical treatment on a patient comprising:
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a computer having a computer memory containing an electronic medical record and a prescription compliance record, the electronic medication record containing information about the patient to receive prescribed pharmaceutical treatment and the patient'"'"'s medical history, the prescription compliance record containing information about the frequency the patient complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment;
a medication dispensation workstation having a dispensation area for the pharmaceutical treatment to be dispensed and a data entry mechanism for prescription compliance record entries to be formed in the computer memory to indicate whether a patient took a pharmaceutical treatment as prescribed;
a provider analysis computer workstation to enable a provider to correlate any trends identified in the target medical parameter with the prescription compliance record to determine potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment on the target medical parameter; and
a communications network electronically interconnecting the computer, the medication dispensation workstation and the provider analysis workstation to communicate with each other. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A computer memory element stored in a computer memory containing a database containing the following data in computer readable format:
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data indicating a medical history of a patient; and
data indicating whether the patient took a pharmaceutical treatment as prescribed. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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