Patent ID: 6356873
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
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) pre-selecting patients to obtain a preliminary set of patients eligible for said interactive computer assisted method responsive to first predetermined criteria; (b) filtering the preliminary set of patients to identify and form a secondary set of patients from the preliminary set of patients having a greater likelihood of benefiting from said interactive computer assisted method responsive to second predetermined criteria; (c) enrolling at least one patient from the secondary set of patients; (d) communicating, 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; (e) preliminarily evaluating, by the user, whether the at least one of therapy and medication changes are appropriate responsive to the information; (f) communicating, by the user, to a physician, the at least one of therapy and medication changes and the information; (g) determining, by the physician, 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; (h) confirming, by the user, 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; and (i) communicating, by the user, to the physician, the comments received from the pharmacist 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.