Patent ID: 8126741

Claim:
A prescription data management system comprising: a switch system embodied on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the switch system configured to: receive a plurality of prescription submissions sent from a plurality of pharmacy systems, each of the plurality of prescription submissions identifying a prescription item; submit the plurality of prescription submissions to one or more approval systems; receive a plurality of responses to the first prescription submissions from the one or more approval systems, each of the plurality of responses associated with a prescription submission and identifying an approved price or a denial for the associated prescription submission; transmit the plurality of responses to the plurality of pharmacy systems, each pharmacy system receiving a response associated with a prescription submission sent by that pharmacy system; receive treatment classification data, the treatment classification data comprising: one or more pathogen groups, each pathogen group comprising one or more pathogens; and pharmaceutical data associated with each pathogen group, the pharmaceutical data comprising pharmaceuticals prescribed to treat symptoms occurring from exposure to the associated pathogen group; determine normal variations of the plurality of prescription submissions identifying prescription items in the pharmaceutical data associated with each pathogen group; detect anomalous variations of the plurality of prescription submissions identifying prescription items in the pharmaceutical data associated with each pathogen group; generate a notification in response to a detection of an anomalous variation of prescription submissions in the pharmaceutical data associated with a pathogen group.