Patent ID: 6587829
Filing Date: 2003-07-01
Classification: B82Y,G06N,G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
A method of improving patient compliance with prescriptions, comprising the steps of:a) collecting prescription data in electronic form on a population of patients, said prescription data including at least an identification of the patient and the prescription; b) forming electronic patient records in a database, said patient records including said prescription data for each patient; c) providing intervention data in electronic form which at least generally indicates prescription compliance response in the form of the response of various patients to various predetermined interventions, said interventions being intended to get patients to comply with their prescription; d) appending said intervention data to said patient records; and e) automatically creating an intervention model using the data in said patient records, said intervention model segregating the patient records into clusters based on data in said patient records and associating each cluster with a champion intervention which is the predetermined intervention which is most effective in causing patients in that cluster to behave so as to create a general indication of compliance, said intervention model being created at least in part by regression analysis of the data in the patient records.