Patent ID: 8548824

Claim:
A method for processing prescriptions, comprising: receiving, by a service provider computer, a healthcare transaction that identifies a current prescribed product, a patient, and a current prescriber who prescribed the current prescribed product; retrieving, by the service provider computer, patient history for the patient; determining, by the service provider computer, based at least in part on the patient history: that the patient has previously received a previous equivalent product that is equivalent to the current prescribed product identified in the healthcare transaction, and an identity of a previous prescriber of the previous equivalent product; determining that the previous prescriber is different from the current prescriber and that the previous prescriber and the current prescriber are not professionally associated; transmitting a notification to at least one of: (a) the previous prescriber; (b) the current prescriber; (c) a pharmacy; or (d) the patient, wherein the notification identifies potential duplicate products; and prior to transmitting the notification, analyzing the patient history for the patient to identify that the previous equivalent product was dispensed to the patient less than a predetermined period of time prior to a date associated with the healthcare transaction request.