Method of providing enhanced health care and prescription information via customized prescription manager and portable medical/prescription statements

A method of providing prescription information to a health care plan member, the method comprising the following steps:

• a. maintaining prescription claim data on at least one plan member;
• b. extracting from said prescription claim data maintained information needed to produce a personal prescription statement for at least one plan member;
• c. utilizing one of at least one statement templates to complete a personal prescription statement for each of said at least one plan member for which information was extracted:
• (1.) inserting said extracted information appropriately into said statement template to identify that said at least one plan member and to reflect to that said at least one plan member that member's regular prescription information and occasional prescription information;
• (a.) where said personal prescription statement includes prescription information for a previous period of time;
• (b.) where said extracted information relevant to that said at least one plan member inserted into said statement template also reflects for said regular prescriptions refill dates during said previous period of time;
• (c.) where said statement template also reflects for said regular prescriptions quantity, dosage, drug category, days supply, pharmacy, and doctor information and where a representation of each prescription drug listed is provided to assist that member in drug identification;
• (d.) where said statement template also reflects for said occasional prescriptions quantity, dosage, days supply, drug category, pharmacy, doctor, and date prescription filled information and where a representation of each prescription drug listed is provided to assist that member in drug identification;
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• (e.) where said statement template includes a location for that member to annotate other drugs that member takes and to annotate drug reactions and allergies;
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• (2.) inserting into said statement template at least one marker with associated information related to said inserted extracted information to highlight that associated information to that said at least one plan member, where said at least one marker includes at least one of a savings alert marker, a health alerts marker, a plan alert marker, a personalization marker, an online resources marker, and a phone resources marker;
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• d. providing that said at least one plan member with their completed statement.