Drug life cycle management system

• US 20070185751A1
• Filed: 01/11/2007
• Published: 08/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ICM Acquisition, LLC
• Original Assignee: ICM Acquisition, LLC
• Inventors: Dempers, Ramon
• Application Number:
  US11/652,849
• Publication Number:
  US 20070185751A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage

Abstract

A system and method are provided for collecting all data relevant to a drug product throughout the life cycle of the drug product(life cycle data), applying a common rules set to determine and initiate responsive action and storing the collected data into a centralized data repository. The system and method allows for the monitoring of collected data to identify trigger events and to initiate predetermine actions based upon predetermined rules. The system is configured to collect data and assemble it in a centralized data repository. Further, the system is configured to analyze data in accordance with predefined rules and determine current status of one or more factors.

Claims

1. A Drug life cycle management system comprising a central data repository for storing data related to a drug product.

2. The Drug life cycle management system of claim 1, further comprising control module configured to analyze the data in accordance with a common set of predetermined rules.

3. The Drug life cycle management system of claim 1 wherein the data comprises all data generated by business entities involved in the life cycle of the drug product.

4. The Drug life cycle management system of claim 2 wherein the control module is further configured to invoke the issuance of a notification in accordance with the common set of predetermined rules.

5. The Drug life cycle management system of claim 4 wherein the control module is further configured to issue a response action plan in accordance with the common set of predetermined rules.

6. The Drug life cycle management system of claim 1 further comprising a summary dashboard configured to provide a monitor indicative of a current status of a predetermined factor related to the drug product.

7. A drug life cycle management system configured to carry out the steps of:

Receiving data related to a drug product from a business entity involved in the life cycle of a drug product; and

Storing the data into a central data repository.

8. The drug life cycle management system of claim 7 further configured to apply a common set of business rules to the data.

9. The drug life cycle management system of claim 8 further configured to carry out the step of invoking issuance of a notification based upon the predetermined set of common business rules.

10. The drug life cycle management system of claim 7 further configured to carry out the step of issuing a response action plan based upon the predetermined set of common business rules.

11. The drug life cycle management system of claim 7 further configured to carry out the step of publishing a summary dash board indicative of a current status of a predetermined factor related to the drug product.