Patent ID: 7577580

Claim:
A data analysis system for evaluating the performance of a first at-least one of a plurality of pharmacy outlet(s) in a pharmacy chain, there being several such pharmacy chains in the marketplace, the system comprising: a computer system coupled to a centralized database common to all the pharmacy chains in the marketplace, wherein the database houses: (1) confidential pharmaceutical information related to all the pharmacy chains, wherein the confidential information related to a particular pharmacy chain includes market measures of its plurality of pharmacy outlets, and (2) reference files including industry-standard market measures; (3) a plurality of data records, wherein each of the data records includes an outlet name, an organization name, and a parent name; and a data access application providing user/outlet-access to the database from a second one of the plurality of pharmacy outlets, wherein the data access application is configured to provide user/outlet access to (a) reference files including the industry-standard market measures, and (b) only to data associated with the second one of the plurality of pharmacy outlets' pharmacy chain while keeping the confidential information related to other pharmacy chains inaccessible.