Centralized pharmacy for validating prescription drugs

A method for providing a prescription drug to a patient, the method comprising:

• receiving a prescription identifying a prescribed drug for a patient;
• accessing patient information from a patient profile of the patient, the patient profile including a medical history of the patient;
• accessing drug information for the prescribed drug from a drug data store describing at least drug interactions related to the prescribed drug;
• performing a safety validation of the prescribed drug for the patient based on the patient information accessed from the patient profile of the patient and drug information accessed from the drug data store;
• accessing an insurance plan of the patient from an insurance data store, the insurance plan including at least an indication as to whether the prescribed drug is covered by the insurance plan;
• performing a cost validation of the prescribed drug for the patient based on the insurance plan accessed from the insurance data store;
• and
• based on the safety validation and cost second validation, providing an instruction indicating that the prescribed drug is to be dispatched to the patient.

A method for providing a prescription drug to a patient, the method comprising:

• receiving a prescription identifying a prescribed drug for a patient;
• accessing patient information from a patient profile of the patient, the patient profile including a medical history of the patient;
• accessing drug information for the prescribed drug from a drug data store describing at least drug interactions related to the prescribed drug;
• performing a safety validation of the prescribed drug for the patient based on the patient information accessed from the patient profile of the patient and drug information accessed from the drug data store;
• responsive to a failure of the validation of the prescribed drug, modifying the prescription by replacing the prescribed drug with an alternate drug representing an alternative to the prescribed drug;
• accessing an insurance plan of the patient from an insurance data store, the insurance plan including at least an indication as to whether the alternate drug is covered by the insurance plan;
• performing a cost validation of the alternate drug for the patient based on the insurance plan accessed from the insurance data store;
• and
• based on the safety validation and the cost validation, providing an instruction indicating that the prescribed drug is to be dispatched to the patient.