Patent ID: 8433587
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: G06Q,G16H,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating a medical prescription from a mobile processing system, the method comprising: receiving a first request to fulfill the medical prescription from the mobile processing system, the first request being formatted in an instant messaging protocol and including a mobile processing system identifier and a transaction identifier, the mobile processing system identifier being a phone number of the mobile processing system and the transaction identifier being in Common Short Code in the instant messaging protocol; identifying a patient identifier that is associated with the mobile processing system identifier, the patient identifier being a patient name; accessing a data structure that comprises a plurality of patient identifiers, a plurality of transactions associated with the plurality the patient identifiers, a plurality of transaction identifiers that are associated with the plurality of transactions, and a plurality of associations between each of the plurality of transactions and each of the plurality of transaction identifiers, each transaction being an interaction associated with a fulfillment of the medical prescription, each transaction identifier in the data structure being in the Common Short Code; identifying, from the data structure, one or more transactions in the plurality of transactions that are associated with the transaction identifier included in the first request; determining, based on the data structure, a patient-specific transaction from among the identified transactions, the patient-specific transaction being associated with the patient identifier corresponding to the mobile processing system identifier included in the first request; and transmitting the patient-specific transaction in a second request to a pharmacy system, the pharmacy system configured to fulfill the medical prescription.