Patent ID: 8700430

Claim:
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored in a memory device for implementing a method of optimizing a person's medication therapy regimen, the computer executable instructions comprising instructions for: receiving medication data relating to one or more medications for a person from a first data source; receiving medical condition data relating to a one or more medical conditions associated with the person from a second data source physically, logically and institutionally disparate from the first data source; receiving medical provider data relating to one or more medical providers associated with the person from a third data source disparate from the first and second data sources; causing the received medication data, the received medical condition data and the received medical provider data to be concurrently available at a medication provider workstation to perform a further determination pertaining to the person's medication therapy regimen; determining a more efficient medication therapy regimen for the person based on two or more of the medication data, the medical condition data and the medical provider data; evaluating the more efficient medication therapy regimen to determine an intervention severity index representative of the urgency involved in intervening in the medication therapy regimen of the person; and intervening in a medical treatment of the person in accordance with the intervention severity index, wherein a more efficient medication therapy regimen having an intervention severity index greater than a predetermined threshold receives a different type of intervention than a more efficient medication therapy regimen having an intervention severity index less than the predetermined threshold; wherein intervening in a medical treatment of the person also comprises: determining the particular method of contact, based on the particular type of intervention involved or reasons for the intervention, to provide the intervention to the person, wherein the particular method of contact includes one of contacting the person directly or indirectly through another party; and receiving and recording data concerning the results of contacting the person through the method of contact.