METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DRUG DIVERSION TRACKING

• US 20140149131A1
• Filed: 03/01/2013
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Covectra, Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Covectra, Incorporated
• Inventors: Bear, David, Wood, Stephen M., Kechter, George, Smith, Richard, O'Neill, Terrence P.
• Application Number:
  US13/782,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20140149131A1
• 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

Abstract

Methods and systems of patient compliance monitoring. Patient compliance monitoring includes receiving, from a user, a specification of a patient and retrieving prescription data associated with the specification. Compliance monitoring further includes receiving one or more codes associated with a dispensed prescription and determining whether the patient is compliant with the prescription data as a function of the prescription data and the one or more codes. Compliance monitoring also includes communicating an indication of whether the patient is compliant to the user.

Claims

2-1. The method of claim 1, wherein the specification includes at least one of a patient identifier of the patient, a name of the patient, an age of the patient, a gender of the patient, a daily dosage for the patient, a social security number of the patient, a driver license number of the patient, or a provider number.

17. A method of prescription drug tracking, comprising:

receiving one or more codes associated with a dispensed prescription;

retrieving prescription data associated with at least one code from the one or more codes;

retrieving a specification of a patient associated with the prescription data;

determining whether the dispensed prescription was diverted as a function of the specification of the patient; and

communicating an indication of whether the dispensed prescription was diverted to a user.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the retrieving the patient specification is based on a regulatory standard.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the patient specification includes at least one of a patient identifier, a name of the patient, an age of the patient, a gender of the patient, a daily dosage for the patient, a social security number of the patient, a driver license number of the patient, or an insurance unit number of the patient.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the prescription data includes at least one of a prescription number, a prescription date, an identifier of a prescription drug of the dispensed prescription, a dispense date, a box code uniquely associated with the dispensed prescription, or one or more codes associated uniquely with the box code.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein said determining whether the dispensed prescription was diverted includes_.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein said retrieving the specification of the patient includes accessing a database that associates the specification with the prescription data.

23. The method of claim 17, wherein each code from the one or more codes is associated with unit doses of a prescription drug of the dispensed prescription.

24. A compliance monitoring apparatus, comprising:

a patient registration module implemented in at least one of a memory or a processing device, the patient registration module configured to receive an identification of a patient;

a drug dispenser module configured to;

receive prescription data; and

link the prescription data with the identification of the patient;

a compliance module configured to;

receive a specification of the patient;

retrieve the prescription data associated with the patient;

receive one or more unique codes associated with a dispensed prescription; and

determine whether the patient is compliant as a function of the prescription data and the one or more codes; and

a communication module configured to communicate an indication of whether the patient is compliant.

25. A diversion tracking apparatus, comprising:

a patient registration module implemented in at least one of a memory or a processing device, the patient registration module configured to receive an identification of a patient;

a drug dispenser module configured to;

receive prescription data; and

link the prescription data with the patient;

a compliance module configured to;

receive one or more codes associated with a dispensed prescription;

retrieve prescription data associated with at least one code from the one or more codes;

retrieve a specification of a patient associated with the prescription data;

and

determine whether the dispensed prescription was diverted as a function of the specification of the patient; and

a communication module configured to communicate whether the prescription was diverted.