Pharmaceutical treatment effectiveness analysis computer system and methods
First Claim
1. A method for computerized monitoring of effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments under evaluation in patients in conjunction with computerized electronic medical records stored in a computer memory of a computer, each electronic medical record containing information about a different one of a plurality of patients each having a same target medical condition and receiving a pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, information about the respective patient'"'"'s medical history, and a prescription compliance record containing cumulative information about a frequency in which the respective patient actually complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving by the computer for each medication administration event for each of the plurality of patients, a separate data entry comprising an indication of whether the respective patient self-administered the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed to thereby document in the respective prescription compliance record of the respective patient, information about a frequency with which the respective patient actually complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation to define compliance frequency data, the indication of whether the respective patient self-administered the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed comprising an indication of an actual physical verification by a human observer that the patient consumed the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed;
storing by the computer, each data entry in the respective prescription compliance record of the respective patient;
presenting by the computer, the respective electronic medical record of each of plurality of patients to a provider to enable the provider to identify trends related to a target medical parameter;
analyzing a trend related to the target medical parameter at a plurality of different compliance levels at a constant prescription level for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation for the plurality of patients; and
determining a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on the target medical parameter based upon results of the analysis at the plurality of different compliance levels for the plurality of patients, the step of determining a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on the target medical parameter including the following steps;
determining a minimum level of compliance necessary to have a positive effect on the target medical parameter exceeding that of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, anddetermining a threshold level of compliance below which receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation results in an effect on the target medical parameter that is less desirable than an effect of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method analyzes the effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments for medical conditions utilizing real time prescription compliance records. Information related to medical history of a patient can be reviewed while simultaneously reviewing prescription compliance records for the same patient. Trends in a target or non-target medical parameter can be identified and correlated with the prescription compliance records to determine the effectiveness of a pharmaceutical treatment on the target and non-target medical parameter. Correlations can be identified for a group of patients having the same medical condition.
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51 Claims
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1. A method for computerized monitoring of effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments under evaluation in patients in conjunction with computerized electronic medical records stored in a computer memory of a computer, each electronic medical record containing information about a different one of a plurality of patients each having a same target medical condition and receiving a pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, information about the respective patient'"'"'s medical history, and a prescription compliance record containing cumulative information about a frequency in which the respective patient actually complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving by the computer for each medication administration event for each of the plurality of patients, a separate data entry comprising an indication of whether the respective patient self-administered the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed to thereby document in the respective prescription compliance record of the respective patient, information about a frequency with which the respective patient actually complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation to define compliance frequency data, the indication of whether the respective patient self-administered the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed comprising an indication of an actual physical verification by a human observer that the patient consumed the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed; storing by the computer, each data entry in the respective prescription compliance record of the respective patient; presenting by the computer, the respective electronic medical record of each of plurality of patients to a provider to enable the provider to identify trends related to a target medical parameter; analyzing a trend related to the target medical parameter at a plurality of different compliance levels at a constant prescription level for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation for the plurality of patients; and determining a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on the target medical parameter based upon results of the analysis at the plurality of different compliance levels for the plurality of patients, the step of determining a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on the target medical parameter including the following steps; determining a minimum level of compliance necessary to have a positive effect on the target medical parameter exceeding that of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, and determining a threshold level of compliance below which receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation results in an effect on the target medical parameter that is less desirable than an effect of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a computer-readable code of program instructions stored thereon and executable by the computer to perform method steps of computerized monitoring of effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments under evaluation in patients in conjunction with computerized electronic medical records stored in a computer memory, the electronic medical records containing information about a patient to receive a pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, the patient'"'"'s medical history, and a prescription compliance record containing cumulative information about a frequency in which the patient complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, the method steps of the program instructions in the computer-readable code in the program storage device comprising the steps of:
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receiving a data entry in the prescription compliance record comprising an indication of whether the patient self-administered the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed for each medication administration event for each separate one of a plurality of patients to thereby document in the prescription compliance record of each specific patient, information about a frequency in which the patient complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation to define compliance frequency data, the indication of whether the patient self-administered the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed comprising an actual visual verification by a human observer that the patient consumed the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed; storing the compliance frequency data in the prescription compliance record of the respective patient; presenting the electronic medical record of the patient to a provider to enable the provider to identify trends related to a target medical parameter; presenting a presently identified correlation between a trend related to the target medical parameter and compliance frequency for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation for each of the plurality of patients to thereby aid a provider to determine a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on the target medical parameter responsive to analyzing the presently identified correlation; and storing an indication of the following responsive to the provider analysis of the presently identified correlation; a determined minimum level of compliance necessary to have a positive effect on the target medical parameter exceeding that of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, and a determined threshold level of compliance below which receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation results in an effect on the target medical parameter that is less desirable than an effect of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A computerized system for monitoring effectiveness of a prescribed pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on a patient, the system comprising:
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a computer having a computer memory containing an electronic medical record and a prescription compliance record, the electronic medication record containing information about a patient receiving prescribed pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation directed to a target medical parameter and the patient'"'"'s medical history, the prescription compliance record containing information about a frequency the patient complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation; a medication dispensation workstation having a dispensation area for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation to be dispensed and a data entry mechanism for prescription compliance record entries to be formed in the computer memory to provide an indication of whether the patient self-administered the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed, the indication of whether the patient self-administered the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed comprising an actual visual verification by a human observer that the patient consumed the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed; a provider analysis computer workstation configured to enable a provider to correlate any trends identified in the target medical parameter with the prescription compliance record, configured to graphically display the correlations determined between the identified trends and the frequency the patient complied with prescription instructions documented in the prescription compliance record, and configured to assist the provider in determining a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on the target medical parameter to include assisting the provider to determine the following responsive to the provider analyzing the correlated trends identified in the target medical parameter with the prescription compliance record; a minimum level of compliance necessary to have a positive effect on the target medical parameter exceeding that of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, and a threshold level of compliance below which receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation results in an effect on the target medical parameter that is less desirable than an effect of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation; and a communications network electronically interconnecting the computer, the medication dispensation workstation and the provider analysis workstation to communicate with each other. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38)
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39. A system for monitoring of effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments under evaluation in patients, the system comprising:
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a computer memory element containing a database, the database containing data in computer readable format, the respective data stored in the database by the computer, the computer including; a computer having memory; and a computer-readable code of program instructions defining a computer program stored in the memory, the computer program comprising instructions, which when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform the following operations; storing data indicating a medical history of a plurality of patients; storing data providing an indication of whether each of the plurality of patients self-administered a pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed to define pharmaceutical compliance data, the indication of whether the respective patient self-administered the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed comprising an actual physical verification by a human observer that the respective patient consumed the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed, the pharmaceutical compliance data stored in the database by the computer responsive to receiving indicia that the patient actually consumed the pharmaceutical as prescribed; storing data indicating at least one identified trend related to a target medical parameter to define target medical parameter trend data indicating effects of the target medical parameter with respect to one or more of the following;
variations in compliance level at a constant prescription level and variations in prescription level at a constant compliance level, the target medical parameter trend data stored in the database by the computer responsive to receiving a plurality of target medical parameter values over time for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation for each of the plurality of patients;displaying to a provider the target medical parameter trend data with respect to the pharmaceutical compliance data for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation for a plurality of administrations of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation for each of the plurality of patients; storing data indicating noted correlations in the identified trends related to the target medical parameter to define target medical parameter correlation data, the target medical parameter correlation data stored in the database by the computer responsive to the provider entering an analysis of the target medical parameter trend data with respect to the pharmaceutical compliance data for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation for the plurality of administrations of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation for each of the plurality of patients; and storing data indicating a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on the target medical parameter, the potential effectiveness determined responsive to the provider analyzing the correlations in the identified trends related to the target medical parameter, the stored data indicating a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on the target medical parameter including the following; a determined minimum level of compliance necessary to have a positive effect on the target medical parameter exceeding that of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, and a determined threshold level of compliance below which receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation results in an effect on the target medical parameter that is less desirable than an effect of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A method for computerized monitoring of effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments under evaluation in a plurality of patients each having a same target medical condition and receiving a pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, the method comprising the steps of:
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storing by a computer, target medical parameter data and compliance frequency data for each of a plurality of patients each having a same target medical condition and receiving a pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation directed to the target medical parameter, the respective target medical parameter data indicating a level of the target medical parameter, the respective compliance frequency data indicating whether the respective patient actually complied with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation directed to the target medical parameter and comprising an indication of an actual physical verification by a human observer that the respective patient consumed the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed; presenting by the computer, trend data related to the target medical parameter in relation to the compliance frequency, the trend data presented to a provider for analysis to note correlations in an identified trend in the target medical parameter in relation to compliance frequency; analyzing one or more correlations between the identified trend in the target medical parameter in relation to the compliance frequency for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation; and determining a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on the target medical parameter based upon results of the analysis, the step of determining a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on the target medical parameter including the following steps; determining a minimum level of compliance necessary to have a positive effect on the target medical parameter exceeding that of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, and determining a threshold level of compliance below which receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation results in an effect on the target medical parameter that is less desirable than an effect of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51)
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