Patent ID: 8126740

Claim:
A system for identifying and addressing anomalies in a customer's health records comprising a device encoded with logic; a display; an input device; a data storage device; and one or more processors adapted to execute the logic to: collect fragmented health data pertaining to the customer from a plurality of data sources including patients, health benefit program sponsors, healthcare payers, healthcare providers, and healthcare vendors; convert the fragmented data to a unified electronic format; merge the converted data into a data library in the data storage device; apply an algorithm to the unified and merged data to identify data indicating an anomaly; route the anomalous data to an appropriate one of a plurality of decision matrices and anomaly engines stored in the system to be executed by the processor, the appropriate decision matrix or anomaly engine corresponding to a type of anomaly identified and to a list of a plurality of options for addressing the type of anomaly; output a message to a user indicating the type of anomaly and listing the plurality of options for addressing the type of anomaly on the display; receive a decision selected by the user operating the input device; and store the decision selected by the user in the data library, further comprising an alert component configured to access public health data indicating that a medication type has been stolen from a pharmaceutical inventory or counterfeited and to display an alert on the display if the customer's health data indicates use of the medication type by the customer in the past, present or future.