Systems and methods for patient communications in conjunction with prescription medications

• US 8,533,004 B1
• Filed: 11/16/2005
• Issued: 09/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LDM Group LLC (PSKW LLC)
• Original Assignee: LDM Group LLC (PSKW LLC)
• Inventors: Grady, James, Christenson, David, Uecker, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Hunter, Sean K
• Application Number:
  US11/280,438
• Time in Patent Office: 2,855 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 705/3, 705/4
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing targeted content to a patient who has received a prescription for medication. The systems and methods generally provide the content prior to the Point of Sale (POS) of the actual prescription allow patients to review the content and possibly act on it prior to actually obtaining the medication. Depending on embodiment, the content may be provided by a pharmacy at or around the time of dispensing or by a physician at or around the time of prescribing.

Claims

1. A system for generating information for a patient at a physician'"'"'s office the system comprising:

a physician'"'"'s device, said physician'"'"'s device being in communication with a physician'"'"'s server forming a physician'"'"'s network, said physician'"'"'s network being attached to a network;

an electronic prescribing provider computer also attached to said network and capable of receiving information from said physician'"'"'s network;

content requesting software running on at least one of said physician'"'"'s server or said electronic prescribing provider; and

an auxiliary computer located at a position remote from said physician'"'"'s network and said electronic prescribing computer and connected to said physician'"'"'s network and said electronic prescribing computer by said network, said auxiliary computer including selection software running thereon;

wherein information about said prescription and said patient is entered into said physician'"'"'s device to generate a prescription for said patient;

wherein said physician'"'"'s device transfers said prescription and patient information to at least one of said physician'"'"'s server or said electronic prescribing provider with content requesting software running thereon;

wherein said content requesting software forms a first data structure including at least a portion of said patient and prescription information and transmits said first data structure to said auxiliary computer via said network;

wherein said selection software receives said first data structure and from at least a portion of said first data structure selects content for said patient;

wherein said selection software sends a second data structure to a least one of said electronic prescribing provider computer, said physician'"'"'s server, or said physician'"'"'s device, said second data structure being indicative of said content;

wherein said content is received by at least one of said physician or said patient prior to said patient receiving said prescription.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said information about said prescription and said patient includes at least one of the following types of information:

National Drug Code (NDC);

patient'"'"'s age, patient'"'"'s gender, patient ID, patient contact information, diagnostic code, physician identifier, or prior patient behavioral data.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said second data structure indicative of said content is also electronically transmitted to a patient access computer.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said content is provided to a patient in conjunction with said prescription.

5. A system for providing patient communication comprising:

a physician'"'"'s device, said physician'"'"'s device being in communication with a physician'"'"'s server, forming a physician'"'"'s network, said physician'"'"'s network being attached to a network;

an electronic prescribing provider computer also attached to said network and capable of receiving information from said physician'"'"'s network;

a patient access computer whereby a patient can obtain information, said patient access computer also attached to said network;

a pharmacy computer also attached to said network;

content requesting software running on at least one of said physician'"'"'s server, said electronic prescribing provider, or said pharmacy computer; and

an auxiliary computer located at a position remote from said physician'"'"'s network, said electronic prescribing computer, said patient access computer and said pharmacy computer and connected to physician'"'"'s network, said electronic prescribing computer, said patient access computer and said pharmacy computer by said network, said auxiliary computer including selection software running thereon;

wherein said content requesting software forms a first data structure and transmits said first data structure to said auxiliary computer via said network;

wherein said selection software on said auxiliary computer receives said first data structure from said content requesting software and selects content for said patient from at least a portion of said first data structure; and

wherein said auxiliary computer supplies a second data structure being indicative of said content to at least one of said physician'"'"'s device, said physician'"'"'s server, said electronic prescribing provider computer, said patient access computer, or said pharmacy computer.