Patent ID: 8055511
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. One or more non-transitory computer storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed, facilitate a method of guiding medication selection for a prescribing event, the method comprising: receiving a selection of a first medication to be prescribed to a selected patient, wherein the selected patient belongs to a patient class; identifying a second medication that is a therapeutic equivalent of the first medication; determining a first-medication compliance-complexity score, which quantifies a difficulty of complying with administration of the first medication; determining that the first-medication compliance-complexity score is greater than a compliance-complexity-score threshold associated with the patient class, wherein the compliance-complexity-score threshold defines a maximum compliance-complexity score that a medication is allowed to have when prescribed to members of the patient class; and presenting the second medication as a medication option to be prescribed to the selected patient, wherein the first medication is not presented because the first-medication compliance-complexity score is greater than the compliance-complexity-score threshold.