Patent ID: 9536053
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06N,G16H

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing a patient's medical adherence, the method comprising: receiving, using a processor, data related to the patient, the data including information related to a prescribed medication regimen having one or more medications, patient behavior data, a respective literacy level associated with each of the one or more medications; calculating a compliance to dosage and a compliance to time for each of the one or more medications based on the received data; calculating a drug adherence count associated with each of the one or more medications by summing at least two of the compliance to dosage, the compliance to time, and the respective literacy level associated with each of the one or more medications; determining a daily medication adherence for each of the one or more medications; calculating a daily regimen adherence value by summing the daily medication adherence of all of the one or more medications in the medication regimen; calculating a daily regimen baseline value by re-calculating the daily regimen adherence value by utilizing a maximum potential value for the drug adherence count for each of the respective medications in the regimen associated with the patient; determining a medical adherence value based on the daily regimen adherence value and the daily regimen baseline value; and comparing the medical adherence with a threshold value.