Patent ID: 8311853
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for enrolling a customer in a medication compliance packaging program, the method comprising: causing a processor to retrieve from a database a customer record indicating a plurality of prescriptions associated with the customer record, each prescription for a medication; receiving, via a user interface operating on a workstation, a selection of a set of prescriptions associated with the customer record; causing the processor to automatically select one or more dose times for each medication for which the corresponding prescription specifically indicates a prescribed dose time for the medication; receiving, via the user interface, at least one customizable parameter of a medication compliance package, the at least one customizable parameter comprising a dose time for at least one medication for which the prescription corresponding to the medication does not specifically indicate the prescribed dose time for the medication; causing the processor to associate the received at least one customizable parameter and the automatically selected dose times with the customer record; calculating in the processor a program start date associated with the alignment of the refill dates for each of the prescriptions; and creating a compliance packaging order including at least the selected prescriptions, the at least one customizable parameter, and the program start date; storing the created compliance packaging order in a memory coupled to the processor; sorting into the medication compliance package the medications associated with each of the selected prescriptions according to the stored compliance packaging order; and providing to the customer, on or before the program start date, a medication compliance package containing at least two medications having aligned refill dates.