Medication therapy management process

• US 20070179806A1
• Filed: 02/01/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: excelleRx, Inc. (Enclara Health LLC)
• Original Assignee: excelleRx, Inc. (Enclara Health LLC)
• Inventors: Wilson, Thomas, Bain, Kevin, Knowlton, Calvin, Weschules, Douglas, Groh, Michael, Esterly, Brian
• Application Number:
  US11/344,211
• Publication Number:
  US 20070179806A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage

Abstract

A medication therapy management process. The system receives input data relating to a patient profile including, but not limited to, a patients age, gender, and race; medical history; medication history; and problems such as allergies. The patient data is then compared to one or more databases according to a set of rules to produce a list of alerts that reduce the likelihood of medication misadventures.

Claims

1. A method for optimizing pharmacotherapy for a patient, comprising:

receiving data relating to a patient;

identifying potential medication-related problems;

assessing and indicating the status of each identified medication related problem;

contacting a medication prescriber with recommendations; and

documenting the medication prescriber'"'"'s response;

wherein potential medication-related problems are identified by comparing the data relating to the patient to an iterative database comprising medical reference data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data relating to a patient includes at least one of the following:

demographic information;

medical history;

medication history; and

risk factors.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising prioritization of a queue of potential medication-related problems.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising stratification of the patient into a risk group.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein recommendations to medication prescribers comprise one of the following:

medication alerts;

problem alerts;

general alerts;

customer alerts; and

messages.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein rules are developed specific to a medication or medication class present in the data relating to a patient.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein medications are divided into targeted medication categories comprising:

narrow therapeutic index medications;

potentially inappropriate medications;

medications with a defined therapeutic range associated with optimal outcomes;

medications with a large number of potential drug-drug interactions;

medications requiring therapeutic drug monitoring; and

medications with drug-disease interactions.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the recommendations to a medication prescriber include problem alerts.

9. A computer system for optimizing pharmacotherapy, comprising:

a database containing patient records;

an iterative database containing potential medication-related problems; and

a processor that uses algorithms specific to a medication or medication class to review potential medication-related problems against patient records to prepare recommendations for a medication prescriber.

10. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the patient records include at least one of the following:

demographic information;

medical history;

medication history; and

risk factors.

11. The computer system of claim 9, wherein an output is a prioritized queue of potential medication-related problems.

12. The computer system of claim 9, wherein an output is a list of patients stratified into risk groups.

13. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the recommendations comprise one of the following:

medication alerts;

problem alerts;

general alerts;

customer alerts; and

messages.

14. The computer system of claim 9, wherein rules are developed specific to a medication or medication class present in the data relating to a patient.

15. The computer system of claim 9, wherein medications are divided into targeted medication categories comprising:

narrow therapeutic index medications;

potentially inappropriate medications;

medications with a defined therapeutic range associated with optimal outcomes;

medications with a large number of potential drug-drug interactions;

medications requiring therapeutic drug monitoring; and

medications with drug-disease interactions.

16. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the recommendations to a medication prescriber include problem alerts.