Patent ID: 9015054
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: G06Q,G09B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for improving patient compliance with a prescription drug regimen, comprising: a computer including a central processing unit; a communications network for transmitting messages; a patient database for storing information about a plurality of patients registered with a prescription reminder service, said information including contact information for a single portable communications device associated with each of the respective plurality of patients, said contact information including a method for sending messages to the communications device; an alert database for storing a plurality of prescription reminder alerts, wherein each of said plurality of prescription reminder alerts is associated with a patient and wherein each of said prescription reminder alerts includes information to determine a specific time to transmit each of said prescription reminder alerts; and a send program running on said computer, said send program configured to retrieve information about each of said prescription reminder alerts from the alert database and to transmit each of said prescription reminder alerts over the communications network directly to a single portable electronic communications device associated with each of the respective plurality of patients; and an incentive definition database for storing a plurality of incentive definitions, wherein each of the plurality of incentive definitions includes an incentive event description and information about an incentive verification and wherein said incentive verification is to be sent upon receipt of an event notification matching said incentive event description; and an incentive program running on said computer configured to receive an event notification, compare said event notification with the incentive event description in each of the plurality of incentive definitions in the incentive database, and to send the incentive verification from each incentive definition that contains an incentive event description that matches the event notification, wherein at least one incentive definition in the incentive database contains an incentive event description that matches an event notification generated when the patient refills a prescription; and wherein the single portable electronic communication device provides notice of the reminder alert directly to the patient.