Patent ID: 8010379

Claim:
A patient care management system for assisting physicians in their treatment of patients, comprising: a computer server having access to program instructions for allowing the computer server to implement: an input device, said input device being adapted to receive drug dispensation data for at least one drug from different drug prescribing or dispensation entities; a control device adapted to, for each drug of the at least one drug: a) encode said drug dispensation data received from the different drug prescribing or dispensation entities in a drug supply matrix; said drug supply matrix comprising multiple entries of the same drug for each calendar day within a calendar period extending at least between a start date and an end date, each entry being received from a different drug prescribing or dispensation entity and being indicative of one of an availability and an unavailability of the drug on a given calendar day; and b) for each calendar day of the calendar period, consolidate said multiple entries of the drug supply matrix into a single entry, each single entry being indicative of a degree of supply availability for the drug, said degree of supply availability being one of a non-duplicated supply, an oversupply, and an insufficient supply of the drug on the given calendar day; and c) encode each of said single entries into a drug supply timeline matrix for each calendar day within the calendar period; and an output adapted to release the drug supply timeline matrix for each drug of the at least one drug for display to a physician, wherein drug supply timeline matrices for more than one drug are combinedly displayed in a drug profiler matrix including multiple lines, each line corresponding to a particular drug and including a visual indication of the degree of supply availability for the particular drug.