Patent Document ID: 8234154
Application ID: 12117132
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions operable to configure a computer to perform a set steps comprising: a) applying an analytic technique to a plurality of measurements for a plurality of districts, said analytic technique providing a measurement of influence on performance for a pharmaceutical product for each of a plurality of predictors, wherein said plurality of predictors comprises at least 40 predictors, wherein the at least 40 predictors comprises: number of specialists, wherein number of specialists means the number of specialists that contribute to revenue for the pharmaceutical product during a fixed amount of time, and wherein specialist means a doctor who is devoted to a particular branch of medicine or surgery; prescriptions per specialist, wherein prescriptions per specialist means the number of prescriptions each specialist is writing in the fixed amount of time in a fixed area; doctors per population, wherein doctors per population means the number of doctors in the population for the fixed area; specialists per population, wherein specialists per population means the number of specialists in the population for the fixed area; primary care physicians per population, wherein primary care physicians per population means the number of primary care physicians in the population of the fixed area; prescriptions per primary care physician, wherein prescriptions per primary care physician means the number of prescriptions written by primary care physicians divided up by the number of primary care physicians in the fixed area; prescriptions per total doctors wherein prescriptions per total doctors means the number of prescriptions written by doctors divided by the number of doctors in the fixed area; medicare category size, wherein medicare category size means the total number of medicare prescriptions in the fixed area; medicaid category size, wherein medicaid category size means the number of prescriptions in the fixed area that fall into a particular Medicaid category; category size for total new prescriptions, wherein category size for total new prescriptions means the total number of new prescriptions for a particular drug category including all branded and generic; category size for total prescriptions, wherein category size for total prescriptions means the total number of new and refill prescriptions written for the particular drug category including all branded and generic; DDD category total prescriptions, wherein DDD category total prescriptions means the total number of new and refill prescriptions for a particular brand filled by hospitals in the fixed area; number of hospitals, wherein number of hospitals means the number of hospitals in the fixed areas contributing to the revenue of the pharmaceutical product; percent over 65 wherein percent over 65 means the percentage of adults over the age of 65 in the fixed area; percent African American, wherein percent African American means the percentage of adults that are African American in the fixed area; percent Hispanic, wherein percent Hispanic means the percentage of adults that are Hispanic in the fixed area; percent poverty, wherein percent poverty means the percentage of adults that are below the poverty level in the fixed area; percent obese, wherein percent obese means the percentage of adults that are obese in the fixed area; category diagnosis rate, wherein category diagnosis rate means the percentage of adults diagnosed with a particular disease in a fixed time frame, in the fixed area; category treatment rate, wherein category treatment rate means the percentage of adults who receive treatment for the particular disease in the fixed time frame, in the fixed area; and category death rate per one hundred thousand, wherein category death rate per one hundred thousand means the death rate of adults, in the fixed area, per every one hundred thousand adults that die of the particular disease; b) for each predictor, assigning each district from said plurality of districts an incidence class; and c) based at least in part on the plurality of incidence classes assigned for each district and the measurements of influence for the plurality of predictors, organizing the plurality of districts into 3-5 segments.