ELECTRONIC FOLLOW-UP SYSTEM FOR MEDICINES SOLD TO CONSUMERS, ARRANGEMENT AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20080015901A1
• Filed: 07/06/2007
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Coronaria Feedback Oy AB
• Original Assignee: Coronaria Feedback Oy AB
• Inventors: Koivu, Tuomo, Junttila, Markus
• Application Number:
  US11/774,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20080015901A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

An electronic follow-up system for medicines sold to consumers is disclosed. The system includes: a registration module configured to register a therapist or another operator as users into a database; an input interface configured to store a patient'"'"'s reply to an inquiry into the database, including therapist identifier data, patient identifier data and events relating the use of the medicine; an analysis module configured to generate anonymous summary data about patients'"'"' replies to the inquiry; a therapist'"'"'s analysis user interface configured to study replies of patients treated to the inquiry, and anonymous summary data; and another operator'"'"'s analysis user interface configured to study the anonymous summary data.

Claims

1. Electronic follow-up system for medicines sold to consumers, the system comprising:

a registration module configured to register a therapist or another operator as users into a database;

an input interface configured to store a patient'"'"'s reply to an inquiry into the database, including therapist identifier data, patient identifier data and events relating the use of the medicine;

an analysis module configured to generate anonymous summary data about patients'"'"' replies to the inquiry;

a therapist'"'"'s analysis user interface configured to study replies of patients treated to the inquiry, and anonymous summary data; and

another operator'"'"'s analysis user interface configured to study the anonymous summary data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the input interface is further configured to store information about the substitution of a medicine with another medicine into the database and free-form comments included in a patient'"'"'s reply to the inquiry.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the therapist'"'"'s analysis user interface is further configured to compare the replies of a patient treated with the anonymous summary data.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the therapist'"'"'s analysis user interface is further configured to study the total number of patients that received the inquiry and/or the total number of patients that replied to the inquiry.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the other operator'"'"'s analysis user interface is further configured to study the total amounts of medicines prescribed, information about if the prescriptions are old, new or substituted, information about which medicine was substituted for which medicine.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the therapist comprises a physician.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the other operator comprises a pharmaceutical representative, and a given pharmaceutical representative is associated with a physician in the database.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the therapist'"'"'s analysis user interface is further configured to study the information about the given pharmaceutical representative.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the other operator'"'"'s analysis user interface is further configured to study the information about the physicians recruited by a pharmaceutical representative and their total number.

10. Electronic arrangement for the follow-up of medicines sold to consumers, the arrangement comprising:

means for registering a therapist or another operator as users;

means for storing a patient'"'"'s reply to an inquiry, including therapist identifier data, patient identifier data and events relating the use of the medicine;

means for generating anonymous summary data about patients'"'"' replies to the inquiry;

means for studying replies of patients treated to the inquiry, and anonymous summary data; and

means for studying the anonymous summary data.

11. A computer program embodied on a computer program distribution means and comprising program instructions which, when loaded into an apparatus, constitute the following:

a registration module configured to register a therapist or another operator as users into a database;

an input interface configured to store a patient'"'"'s reply to an inquiry into the database, including therapist identifier data, patient identifier data and events relating the use of the medicine;

an analysis module configured to generate anonymous summary data about patients'"'"' replies to the inquiry;

a therapist'"'"'s analysis user interface configured to study replies of patients treated to the inquiry, and anonymous summary data; and

another operator'"'"'s analysis user interface configured to study the anonymous summary data.