Patent ID: 8538777

Claim:
A method for providing medication history information of a patient, the method comprising the following steps implemented by one or more computers: receiving, from a plurality of pharmacies by a switch provider system comprising the one or more computers, a plurality of respective pharmacy claim transactions for a patient; processing, by the switch system, the plurality of claim transactions to facilitate routing of the claim transactions to a plurality of claims adjudicators and routing of responses to the claim transactions from the plurality of claims adjudicators to the plurality of pharmacies; storing, by the switch system as the claims are processed by the switch system, information associated with at least one of (i) the claim transactions or (ii) the responses to the claims transactions as medication history information for the patient; receiving, by a switch provider system from a healthcare service provider or from a healthcare service provider aggregator associated with the healthcare service provider, a request for medication history of the patient, the request comprising identification information for the patient; accessing, by the switch provider system utilizing at least a portion of the patient identification information, at least a portion of the stored medication history information; and aggregating, by the switch provider system, at least a portion of the accessed medication history information with patient medication history information received from one or more third party data sources corresponding to respective queries to the one or more third party data sources, communicating, by the switch provider system, the aggregated information in response to the received request.