Patent ID: 8788282
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. An Internet-based health care needs fulfillment system, comprising: a computing sub-system for a prescription benefit manager to solicit a plurality of pharmacies to participate in a bidding process; a computing sub-system for the prescription benefit manager to receive a plurality of bid submissions from the plurality of pharmacies, wherein each bid submission comprises a bid to fulfill a bulk quantity of future prescriptions for a drug, each bid comprising pricing information for fulfilling the future prescriptions for the drug; a computing sub-system for receiving at least one prescription from a patient; a computing sub-system for the prescription benefit manager to select a first pharmacy from the plurality of pharmacies that submitted a bid to fulfill the at least one prescription, wherein the first pharmacy is selected by the prescription benefit manager and not the patient based on a comparison of the plurality of pharmacies to one another, wherein the comparison is based at least in part on the bid submissions and at least one of: a fulfillment price for the at least one prescription of each of the plurality of pharmacies, a location of each of the plurality of pharmacies, and an expertise level with regard to the at least one prescription of each of the plurality of pharmacies; a sub-system for contacting the selected first pharmacy to send the at least one prescription to the selected first pharmacy for fulfillment; and a computing sub-system for collecting data on the selected first pharmacy fulfilling the at least one prescription.