Patent ID: 7346521

Claim:
A method for generating a profile concerning prescription therapy practices of at least one physician in a therapeutic area of interest, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a plurality of historical de-identified patient prescription records corresponding to prescriptions issued to at least one de-identified patient by at least one physician, each record including de-identified patient identification number, dosage, and prescription product information; (b) receiving user-specified information defining a subset of the historical de-identified patient prescription records; (c) extracting at least one relevant historical de-identified patient prescription record from the received historical de-identified patient prescription records based on the subset; (d) for each de-identified patient, comparing dosage and prescription product information contained in a first extracted historical de-identified patient record with dosage and prescription product information contained in a second extracted historical de-identified patient record; and (e) for each comparison made in step (d), categorizing a prescription based on a change in dosage or prescription product.