Patent ID: 6694298
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: G06Q,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
An interactive computer assisted method of reviewing, analyzing, and prescribing a patient one or more medications using a computer and a user associated therewith, the user coordinating said interactive computer assisted method with at least one physician and at least one pharmacist, prior to the prescribing the patient of the one or more medications, said method comprising the steps of:(a) selecting by the user via a computer or by the computer, at least one patient eligible for said interactive computer assisted method responsive to predetermined criteria; (b) communicating, via a computer by the user, with the at least one patient to obtain information to assist the user in determining whether at least one of therapy and medication changes are appropriate; (c) preliminarily evaluating, by the user via a computer, whether the at least one of therapy and medication changes are appropriate responsive to the information; (d) communicating, by the user via a computer, to a physician, the at least one of therapy and medication changes and the information; (e) determining, by the physician, via a computer whether the at least one of therapy and medication changes are appropriate responsive to the information, and prescribing at least one of the at least one of therapy and medication changes, at least one of other therapy and medication changes, and no therapy and medication changes for the at least one patient; (f) confirming, by the user via a computer, the prescribing by the physician with the pharmacist for the at least one of the at least one of therapy and medication changes, at least one of other therapy and medication changes, and no therapy and medication changes for the at least one patient, and receiving comments from the pharmacist relating thereto when the pharmacist has the comments; and (g) communicating, by the user, via a computer, to the physician, the comments received from the pharmacist when present at least when the comments include a pharmacist opinion with respect to the at least one of therapy and medication changes and the information determined by the physician.