System and Method for Determining Drug Usage by Indication

摘要

A computer-assisted method that includes: identifying practitioners affiliated with a non-retail facility; gathering longitudinal prescription scripts by the identified prescribing practitioners as well as medical claims submitted by the identified prescribing practitioners to insurance carriers; linking the medical claims submitted by the identified practitioners to the longitudinal prescription scripts; based on each linked medical claim and longitudinal prescription script, generating a record of using the prescription drug for the corresponding one or more indication; generating a distribution factor of using the prescription drug for each of the one or more indications by the identified practitioners outside the non-retail facility; receiving information showing a volume of the prescription drug sold to the non-retail facility; and generating usage data by indications of the prescription drug for the non-retail facility by applying the generated distribution factor to the received information showing the volume of the prescription drug sold to the non-retail facility.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for generating usage data of a prescription drug for one or more indications, the method comprising:
identifying practitioners affiliated with a non-retail facility; gathering longitudinal prescription scripts by the identified practitioners as well as medical claims submitted by the identified practitioners to insurance carriers,
wherein each prescription script includes information representing a unique patient identifier that does not reveal a patient's identity, and a prescribed drug;wherein each medical claim includes information representing a unique patient identifier that does not reveal the patient's identity, and at least one indication; linking the medical claims submitted by the identified practitioners to the longitudinal prescription scripts at least in part based on a matching unique patient identifier that does not reveal the patient's identity; based on each linked medical claim and longitudinal prescription script, generating a record of using the prescription drug for the corresponding one or more indication by the matching practitioner outside the non-retail facility; generating a distribution factor of using the prescription drug for each of the one or more indications by the identified practitioners outside the non-retail facility; receiving information showing a volume of the prescription drug sold to the non-retail facility; and generating usage data for each of the one or more indications of the prescription drug for the non-retail facility by applying the generated distribution factor of using the prescription drug for each of the indications by the identified physicians outside the non-retail facility to the received information showing the volume of the prescription drug sold to the non-retail facility.