US 6,305,377 B1Granted

System and method for improving compliance of a medical regimen

OwnerMichael T. Portwood, John W. Portwoodinventors

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Abstract

A system and method for improving compliance by a patient with a medical regimen that has been prescribed to the patient wherein utilizing computer and electronic communication systems, patient data is compared to pharmaceutical data to verify prescribed drug dosage and prescribed medication duration are within acceptable limits, any abnormalities found by the comparisons are reported to the treating physician who may then alter the medical regimen before authorizing dispensing of the prescribed drugs and providing drug taking information to the patient, and upon authorization being issued, the patient is scheduled to receive reminder notifications prior to the prescribed time for the prescribed drugs to be administered, as well as automatically notifying the prescription distribution service to deliver the prescribed drugs to the patient, and notifying the payor service to pay for the prescribed drugs.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system to facilitate compliance with a prescribed medical regimen comprising:

(a) a computer system having a data storage unit capable of storing patient data and patient prescription data;
(b) a central processing unit programmed and operatively connected to said data storage unit to store said patient data and said patient prescription data in said data storage unit;
(c) wherein said system includes a program to generate and transmit from a patient prescription a patient message, wherein said patient message includes a drug to be administered by a patient at a time of receiving said patient message in order that said patient complies with said patient prescription;
(d) a message transmitting unit operatively connected to said central processing unit and transmitting said patient message at a time proximate to when said patient is scheduled to administer a unit dosage;
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(e) an addressable communication device allowing said patient to receive said patient message transmitted from said transmitting unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/395,819Filed 14 Sep 1999 · continuation in part
Priority: 12 Dec 1996
Granted: 23 Oct 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G16H 20/10
ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient…:…
Y10S 128/904
Surgery: telephone telemetry
Y10S 128/906
Surgery: multiphasic diagnostic clinic
G16H
Healthcare informatics, i.e. information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for the