Patent ID: 8694329
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processor, a selection of a first medication identifier, the first medication identifier corresponding to a first medication; determining, by the processor and based on one or more associations between the first medication identifier and one or more identifiers corresponding to one or more other medications, at least one of the one or more other medications that are alternative medications to the first medication; identifying, by the processor and among the at least one of the one or more other medications that are determined to be alternative medications to the first medication, one or more medications that are restricted with respect to at least one of (a) a gender of a patient, (b) an age of a patient, or (c) a geographic region of at least one of a prescriber or a patient; excluding, by the processor, the one or more restricted medications from the at least one of the one or more other medications that are determined to be alternative medications to the first medication; and providing, by the processor and in relation to the first medication, information of one or more remaining medications from the at least one of the one or more other medications that are determined to be alternative medications to the first medication.