Patent ID: 8150713

Claim:
A method for computerized monitoring of effectiveness of pharmaceutical treatments under evaluation in patients, the method comprising the steps of: receiving by a computer, data for each of a plurality of patients indicating whether the respective patient self-administered a pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation as prescribed to thereby document patient compliance with prescription instructions for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation; and responsive to the received data, determining a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on a target medical parameter, the step of determining a potential effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation on the target medical parameter including the steps of: analyzing a trend related to the target medical parameter indicating effects of consumption of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation by the plurality of patients at a plurality of different pharmaceutical treatment compliance levels at each of one or more constant prescription levels to thereby determine a correlation, when existing, between the trend related to the target medical parameter and compliance level associated with the respective one or more constant prescription levels for the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation, responsive to the step of analyzing, determining an effect of compliance level on effectiveness of the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation at each of the one or more constant prescription levels, and responsive to the step of determining an effect of compliance level, determining a threshold level of compliance for each of the one or more constant prescription levels below which receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation at the respective prescription level results in an effect that is less desirable than an effect of not receiving the pharmaceutical treatment under evaluation.