Computerized prescription system for gathering and presenting information relating to pharmaceuticals
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1. A computerized prescription system, comprising:
- at least one user computer, said user computer having a graphical user interface displaying and providing access to;
(1) a plurality of patient records for separate patients, each patient record including information about a patient'"'"'s prescription history; and
(2) information about prescribed pharmaceuticals from said separate patient records correlated with medical conditions for which the pharmaceuticals are suitable for treating, said information derived from at least two of said plurality of separate patient records;
in which information about prescribed pharmaceuticals is selectively arranged by;
a) the order of frequency with which said prescribed pharmaceuticals are prescribed by a user;
b) in alphabetical order;
c) in order of condition treated; and
d) in order of pharmaceuticals prescribed for particular patients.
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Abstract
A wirelessly deployable, electronic prescription creation system for physician use captures into a prescription a patient condition-objective of the prescribed treatment and provides for patient record assembly from source elements, with privacy controls for patient and doctor, adverse indication review and online access to comprehensive drug information including scientific literature. Extensions to novel multi-drug packages and dispensing devices, and an “intelligent network” remote data retrieval architecture as well as onscreen physician-to-pharmacy and physician-to-physician e-mail are also provided.
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1. A computerized prescription system, comprising:
at least one user computer, said user computer having a graphical user interface displaying and providing access to; (1) a plurality of patient records for separate patients, each patient record including information about a patient'"'"'s prescription history; and (2) information about prescribed pharmaceuticals from said separate patient records correlated with medical conditions for which the pharmaceuticals are suitable for treating, said information derived from at least two of said plurality of separate patient records;
in which information about prescribed pharmaceuticals is selectively arranged by;a) the order of frequency with which said prescribed pharmaceuticals are prescribed by a user; b) in alphabetical order; c) in order of condition treated; and d) in order of pharmaceuticals prescribed for particular patients. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer implemented method of formatting an electronic prescription, comprising the steps of:
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a. assembling a plurality of patient records from separate patients, each including prescription information, using a computer interface, the prescription information including a patient condition associated with a prescription; b the prescription information having been formatted for communications; c. receiving said prescription information over a communications device; and d. sorting the received prescription information from at least two separate patient records to create a list of pharmaceuticals correlated with the medical conditions for which the pharmaceuticals were prescribed;
said list is arranged by (1) in order of frequency of option for a specified condition to be treated;
(2) in order of cost;
(3) in order of therapeutic preference according to drug formulary guidelines ande. outputting the list.
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